The Great Boycott: Monsanto and the GMA - can a family really do it?

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_30039.cfm

7 ways they say -

(1)    Stop buying all non-organic processed foods. Even if they are certified organic, don’t buy any Traitor Brand processed foods or beverages. Ninety percent of the foods Americans buy or consume are heavily processed, deliberately laced with sugar, salt and unhealthy fats, contaminated with dyes, preservatives, pesticides, GMOs, and drug residues. If you want to be healthy, if you want to avoid cancer, heart attacks, or obesity, build your diet around whole foods, especially raw fruits and vegetables, healthy fats, (coconut oil, avocadoes, pastured meat, dairy, and eggs, nuts, and whole grains) and nuts.

(2)    Patronize grocers, coops and community restaurants that serve organic, cooked-from-scratch, local food.
Many restaurants, especially chain restaurants (Chipotlé is a rare exception), sell many of the brands owned by GMA members.

(3)    Cook at home with healthy organic ingredients.

(4)    Buy only heirloom, open-pollinated, and/or organic seeds.

(5)    Boycott all lawn and garden inputs (chemicals, fertilizers, etc.) unless they are “OMRI Approved,” which means they are allowed in organic production.

(6)    Read the labels on everything you buy. If a GMA member company owns the product, don’t buy it. Given the greed and reckless disregard for public health and the environment typical of GMA corporations, chances are these products aren’t good for you and the environment anyway.

(7)    Download the Buycott app for your smartphone and join OCA's new campaign, "Buy Organic Brands that Support Your Right to Know" so you can scan products before you buy them.


Easier said than done though. I mean seriously - how are families barely holding on - living paycheck-to-paycheck each month like mine - able to make this happen? The real challenges I see are twofold -

1. Most families often do not realize that they are buying a food product that can be traced back to Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Kraft/Mondelez, General Mills, ConAgra, Kelloggs, Campbells, Smuckers, or McCormicks.
2. Most families do not know of viable alternate choices they can make, and even if they do, could afford it on a monthly basis.