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Minion Bank Facebook Auction

You can find this event on Facebook at Templeton Drama! (I'm a proud Drama parent. That's different from Drama Mama!) This Minion Bank stands about 2 feet tall. It's amazing! Facebook Auction Rules and Instructions 1. This is a fundraiser for the Templeton High School Drama Boosters. 2. When the auction begins, the Event Photo will change from the announcement banner to an actual photo of the item. Place ALL bids on the Event Photo (located at the top of the Event Page). Bids placed on other pictures will not count. Bids placed on the announcement banner will be deleted when we replace it with the actual photo of the item. We will be monitoring all the photos on our event and remind errant bidders to bid on the correct picture. 3. To bid, make a comment on the Event Photo with the caption, “Bid Here!!”. Your bid must be higher than the previous bid. The winning bid is the highest bid by 11:59 pm on the date the auction closes (April 15, 2016). 4. Any shipping costs will be paid by the winner. We can arrange delivery within a 50 mile radius of Templeton, CA. 5. Payment must be received before item(s) will be shipped or delivered. 6. The winning bidder will be notified by personal Facebook message. 7. All transactions are final. 8. Thank you!

5 Million Nigerians Oppose Monsanto's Plans to Introduce GMO Cotton and Maize

http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/29/monsantos-gmo-cotton-corn-nigeria/

How to Find Us | SLO Natural Foods Co-Op

Oh my! The health fair at SLO Natural Foods yesterday was amazing! There were times when the whole store was packed with people wanting to see what was up there....it made it so much fun for me. The people who run SLO Natural Foods sure know how to put on a good health fair. The amount of food they put out for people to sample was AMAZING! People were stuffed by the time they left. If you haven't made it to the SLO Natural Foods Coop, consider checking them out. They offer local, organic foods and a million different sustainably created products. Thank you SLO Natural Foods for being such caring, ethically minded, generous people! They are at 2494 Victoria in SLO. http://slonaturalfoods.com/main-page/how-to-find-us/

Doughkie's Gluten-Free Goodies

SLO Natural Foods (in SLO!) is having a health fair today with all kinds of interesting local and non-local businesses displaying and sharing their products. Saturday, Feb. 20, 11-3:00. Doughkie's Gluten-Free Goodies will be there. I always love the SLO Natural Foods health fairs because so many interesting people come to them. I end up in the most fascinating conversations with people which makes the whole experience all that much better. I hope to see you there. http://slonaturalfoods.com

Timeline Photos

Thank you to each of you who have LIKED my Doughkie's Gluten-Free Goodies FB page. Each like always has the effect of giving me a lift in my day. It's like someone out there is thinking of me....and in return I find myself thinking about them. I like that exchange.

Why we support mandatory national GMO labeling - Campbell Soup Company

Incredible! Campbell's Soup Company announced they are going to now support mandatory national labeling of all products that contain GMO's. Their reason? Because "it is the right thing to do for business and our customers." As they say in this article on their website, their move away from the GMA's (Grocery Manufacturer's of America) stance on no labeling sets a new bar for transparency. This is AWESOME! They do say in this article that they are not disputing GMO science and that all research shows that GMO crops are nutritionally equal to other non-GMO crops. Well, nutrition is not the issue with GMO's! The real issue is we are now feeding our bodies proteins they have never seen before! All food allergies and sensitivities are a result of the body reacting to the protein portion of the food. GMO technology directly messes with the protein portion of the food (represented in the coding information in the DNA). GMO technology is not a perfect science. When they inject the DNA of one food/bacteria, etc. into the DNA strand of a seed in the process of creating a new 'pest resilient' seed/plant, they are unable to control the additional creation of errant, unintended effects on the DNA strand that then go on to tell the body what proteins to make. Hence, our body is now having to deal with new proteins it has never seen before. Problem. It's immunology and genetics that are the issue here.....not nutrition. Good job, Campbell's. I'll bet Monsanto is soooooo irate about this. http://www.campbellsoupcompany.com/newsroom/news/2016/01/07/labeling/

Doughkie's Gluten-Free Goodies

This is stunning news. To realize that all our shared work in getting corporations to realize that the majority of us don't want GMO's in our food is coming to some fruition.....well, it's stunning. The eyebrow raise here though is that Hershey's and Coca Cola have been using non-GMO sugar in their candies in other countries for a long time now. Why did it take so long here? (Feed the sheeples?) And is the soy lecithin used in their candies also now non-GMO? No mention of that. I applaud the awesomeness of this move, yet know there is still much work to be done. http://www.startribune.com/hershey-dumps-sugar-beets-because-of-gm-concerns/363498311/