Not in MY store! (or my body!!)

wiglet23
wiglet23 Posts: 887 Member
edited October 2 in Food and Nutrition
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

Replies

  • bjenny12345
    bjenny12345 Posts: 118 Member
    Glad I only eat Iowa sweet corn!
  • wiglet23
    wiglet23 Posts: 887 Member
    Glad I only eat Iowa sweet corn!

    they get their seeds somewhere....
  • bjenny12345
    bjenny12345 Posts: 118 Member
    Probably from their own supply, wouldn't you think?
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    Corn is great!
  • HMonsterX
    HMonsterX Posts: 3,000 Member
    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...

    facepalm.gif
  • theba2il
    theba2il Posts: 548 Member
    Deconstructing Supper is a great documentary regarding GMO.
  • FearAnLoathing
    FearAnLoathing Posts: 4,852 Member
    onoes.gif
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    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...

    facepalm.gif

    Don't eat grass. Pesticides GALORE!
  • HMonsterX
    HMonsterX Posts: 3,000 Member
    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...

    facepalm.gif

    Don't eat grass. Pesticides GALORE!

    Omg..you're right.


    Errr...

    Hmm...

    I'm at a loss...and getting hungry...

    EDIT:
    onoes.gif

    Win, tbh :D
  • Grokette
    Grokette Posts: 3,330 Member
    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.
  • Grokette
    Grokette Posts: 3,330 Member
    Deconstructing Supper is a great documentary regarding GMO.


    Amen!!! :drinker: :flowerforyou:
  • bjenny12345
    bjenny12345 Posts: 118 Member
    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.
    Interesting, I am going to have to ask when I buy it, I usually stop at one of the sweet corn stands.
  • Grokette
    Grokette Posts: 3,330 Member
    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.
    Interesting, I am going to have to ask when I buy it, I usually stop at one of the sweet corn stands.

    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.
  • 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...

    facepalm.gif

    Don't eat grass. Pesticides GALORE!

    Omg..you're right.


    Errr...

    Hmm...

    I'm at a loss...and getting hungry...

    EDIT:
    onoes.gif

    Win, tbh :D

    Well I guess your only option is cannibalism. Humans are not GMO or messed with right ;) jk
This discussion has been closed.