Stoppa Monsanto:s genmanipulerade MAJS

Monsanto is aiming to grow its GE Sweet Corn on 250,000 acres next year, which is roughly 40 percent of the sweet corn market. They believe the corn will be used primarily in frozen and canned corn products, but could also be sold as fresh corn on the cob through retailers.


“Consumers deserve to know what’s in their food, especially when there is a pesticide in every bite,” said Charles Margulis of the Center for Environmental Health. “This whole, unprocessed corn has been spliced with genes that produce a risky, untested insecticide. Parents should be informed when food on supermarket shelves has been genetically altered.”


The potential health and environmental risks associated with GE crops include increased food allergies and unknown long term health effects in humans; the rise of superweeds that have become resistant to GE-affiliated herbicides; the ethical and economic concerns involved with the patenting of life and corporate consolidation of the seed supply; and the contamination of organic and non-GE crops and through cross-pollination and seed dispersal.


A sample of the cover letter sent to the food companies can be found at http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/sweet-corn-cover-letter.pdf


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http://truefoodnow.org/2011/10/27/enough-tricks-consumers-speak-up-against-monsanto%e2%80%99s-ge-sweet-corn/


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