Not in MY store! (or my body!!)
wiglet23
Posts: 887 Member
As sent to a friend of mine who learned of these scary crops during a mock trial regarding a lawsuit against this company:
Right now, Monsanto, the corporation responsible for producing roughly 90% of genetically modified seeds around the globe, is working to bring their new, GMO sweet corn to a grocery store aisle or farmer's market near you.1
Unlike Monsanto's other GMO crops — which are primarily fed to animals — this sweet corn is intended for direct human consumption.
This is the first time Monsanto has engineered a vegetable that could be served straight to your dinner table. And if this unlabeled, and potentially toxic crop succeeds, Monsanto is sure to bring us even more.
As an activist and consumer, you are in a powerful position to pressure leading U.S. grocery stores to reject Monsanto's new GMO corn.
ell U.S. food companies: Americans don't want Monsanto's GMO sweet corn in our grocery stores! Click here to automatically sign the petition.
Monsanto's GMO sweet corn is engineered to tolerate the herbicide Roundup, and to produce the insect-killing pesticide Bt.
If that sounds dangerous to eat, there's good reason.
A past study released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences found that Monsanto's GMO corn led to organ failure in mammals.2 This GMO corn has also recently been linked to a new pathogen causing crop failure and a sharp spike in livestock infertility — as high as 20% — which could potentially pose a health threat to humans as well.3
But shockingly, just as other GMO foods are not required to have special labeling, consumers will have no way of knowing if they're purchasing Monsanto's new genetically modified sweet corn.
Tell U.S. grocery stores: Americans don't want Monsanto's GMO sweet corn! Click here to automatically sign the petition.
Some of Monsanto's GMO corn is already in human food — used to make additives in processed food products — and even in small quantities it's having scary effects.
This past spring a Canadian study found that the GMO toxin inserted in Bt corn was found in the bloodstreams of 93 percent of pregnant women4 — just from its presence in processed grains and highly processed food products.
Now, grocery stores could be on the verge of delivering up this toxic corn, and its toxic effects, in much higher doses and without processing, and we wouldn't even know what we were eating.
We must raise our voice as consumers and urge grocery stores to reject Monsanto's potentially dangerous new product, and stop this dangerous trend of Monsanto-made, straight to table products.
Tell U.S. food companies: Americans don't want Monsanto's GMO sweet corn in our grocery stores! Click here to automatically sign the petition.
Thank you for standing up to Monsanto and its dangerous GMO products.
Elijah Zarlin, Campaign Manager
go here to sign:
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/monsanto_sweet_corn/index2.html?r=231328&id=27574-3563079-=nEs3rx
Right now, Monsanto, the corporation responsible for producing roughly 90% of genetically modified seeds around the globe, is working to bring their new, GMO sweet corn to a grocery store aisle or farmer's market near you.1
Unlike Monsanto's other GMO crops — which are primarily fed to animals — this sweet corn is intended for direct human consumption.
This is the first time Monsanto has engineered a vegetable that could be served straight to your dinner table. And if this unlabeled, and potentially toxic crop succeeds, Monsanto is sure to bring us even more.
As an activist and consumer, you are in a powerful position to pressure leading U.S. grocery stores to reject Monsanto's new GMO corn.
ell U.S. food companies: Americans don't want Monsanto's GMO sweet corn in our grocery stores! Click here to automatically sign the petition.
Monsanto's GMO sweet corn is engineered to tolerate the herbicide Roundup, and to produce the insect-killing pesticide Bt.
If that sounds dangerous to eat, there's good reason.
A past study released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences found that Monsanto's GMO corn led to organ failure in mammals.2 This GMO corn has also recently been linked to a new pathogen causing crop failure and a sharp spike in livestock infertility — as high as 20% — which could potentially pose a health threat to humans as well.3
But shockingly, just as other GMO foods are not required to have special labeling, consumers will have no way of knowing if they're purchasing Monsanto's new genetically modified sweet corn.
Tell U.S. grocery stores: Americans don't want Monsanto's GMO sweet corn! Click here to automatically sign the petition.
Some of Monsanto's GMO corn is already in human food — used to make additives in processed food products — and even in small quantities it's having scary effects.
This past spring a Canadian study found that the GMO toxin inserted in Bt corn was found in the bloodstreams of 93 percent of pregnant women4 — just from its presence in processed grains and highly processed food products.
Now, grocery stores could be on the verge of delivering up this toxic corn, and its toxic effects, in much higher doses and without processing, and we wouldn't even know what we were eating.
We must raise our voice as consumers and urge grocery stores to reject Monsanto's potentially dangerous new product, and stop this dangerous trend of Monsanto-made, straight to table products.
Tell U.S. food companies: Americans don't want Monsanto's GMO sweet corn in our grocery stores! Click here to automatically sign the petition.
Thank you for standing up to Monsanto and its dangerous GMO products.
Elijah Zarlin, Campaign Manager
go here to sign:
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/monsanto_sweet_corn/index2.html?r=231328&id=27574-3563079-=nEs3rx
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Glad I only eat Iowa sweet corn!0
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Glad I only eat Iowa sweet corn!
they get their seeds somewhere....0 -
Probably from their own supply, wouldn't you think?0
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Corn is great!0
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Ok.
Sweetcorn.
Added to list.
I think i'll just graze on grass, everything else is deadly! How the hell we are still alive is beyond me tbh...
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Deconstructing Supper is a great documentary regarding GMO.0
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Ok.
Sweetcorn.
Added to list.
I think i'll just graze on grass, everything else is deadly! How the hell we are still alive is beyond me tbh...
Don't eat grass. Pesticides GALORE!0 -
Ok.
Sweetcorn.
Added to list.
I think i'll just graze on grass, everything else is deadly! How the hell we are still alive is beyond me tbh...
Don't eat grass. Pesticides GALORE!
Omg..you're right.
Errr...
Hmm...
I'm at a loss...and getting hungry...
EDIT:
Win, tbh0 -
Probably from their own supply, wouldn't you think?
Not since 90% of the corn in the United States is GMO and Monsanto is the leader in this crap.0 -
Deconstructing Supper is a great documentary regarding GMO.
Amen!!! :drinker: :flowerforyou:0 -
Probably from their own supply, wouldn't you think?
Not since 90% of the corn in the United States is GMO and Monsanto is the leader in this crap.0 -
Probably from their own supply, wouldn't you think?
Not since 90% of the corn in the United States is GMO and Monsanto is the leader in this crap.
Yes, I am in Illinois.........
About 90% of the corn, wheat and soy is GMO in the U.S. Most of the rice grown in Missouri is also GMO.0 -
Ok.
Sweetcorn.
Added to list.
I think i'll just graze on grass, everything else is deadly! How the hell we are still alive is beyond me tbh...
Don't eat grass. Pesticides GALORE!
Omg..you're right.
Errr...
Hmm...
I'm at a loss...and getting hungry...
EDIT:
Win, tbh
Well I guess your only option is cannibalism. Humans are not GMO or messed with right jk0
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