No time to make a sign. No time to be a bee! 
But I still marched. I made a difference. One voice among thousands. We shouted
“HEY, HEY! HO, HO! GMOS HAVE GOT TO GO!”
We let our city know what we want:
“SEED FREEDOM”
& when we wanted it
“NOW!”
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It was my first time going to MAMTO, yet it felt so natural to me.
All morning I stared at my breakfast, mulling over my food choices. Where they organic? No. Where did they come from? I don’t even want to think about it.
How many GMOs are snuck into the food I eat everyday?
Denial.
I’ll admit it, I know about all the awful pesticides killing our lovely pollinators.
I try to buy local, farm-friendly and organic when I can, but I am unemployed and trying to get to university.
It’s hard to vote with your money when you don’t have any!
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Attending events like March Against Monsanto, going to local farmers markets and supporting programs such as Food Share, FarmTOFork, or the Toronto GMO Coalition can still make a difference — even if you can’t afford to buy 100% organic and fair trade products.
Volunteering is a free way to show your support.
*PRO TIP* sometimes you get free stuff!
At the end of the march, I got to hear a few bands play in Christie Pits along with many speakers. I wish I remembered their names. These are real people making change! Some sacrificed their jobs standing up for what they believe in.
It blew me away that one girl (16) started advocating for labeling GMOs when she was just 11 years old!
If she can do it, we all can.
Step up and fight for a world we are proud to be a part of.
♥ A.R.T.T. xx
ARISETOTRASH 
Great article. I’m so confused by GMO, I don’t know where to look for honest facts about the harmful effects
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http://www.factorgmo.com is a really great resource. It is the world’s largest study on GMO.
It isn’t funded by companies and the information discovered by (unbiased) scientists is shared publicly.
There is also a documentary called “GMO OMG” that I have been meaning to watch. There’s a lot of info out there so it is hard to know where you stand on situations like this.
One thing is for certain, there should be a federal law in Canada that requires all GMO products to be labelled. Its in other countries, why not ours? We have the right to know what our food is.
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Yes I TOTALLY agree that it should be labeled!!! if that’s what I’m living off and outing in my body, I deserve to know what it is
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If you are in Toronto at the end of August, and you want to advocate for GMOs or hear more, you can go to the second March Against Monsanto :https://www.facebook.com/events/419467758244435/
Feels great to get involved!
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