PETITION: Grocery store CEOs: Refuse Monsanto's GMO sweet corn!

[L. Coyote]

http://www.credoaction.com/campaign/monsanto_sweet_corn/

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.

Tell U.S. food companies: Americans don't want Monsanto's GMO sweet corn in our grocery stores!

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 .....

[emcguffie]

1. I signed the petition.

Thanks.

Monsanto corn killed hamsters or rats or mice or whatever they tested it on some years ago. Why should it be any better for us?

[no_hypocrisy]

2. I thought that GMO corn was already on the store shelves.

That's why I look for "organic" and/or "non-GM" on products like corn chips or soy beans.

I remembering posting a response from Kellogg's Cereals where the spokesperson couldn't comment whether their corn flakes and sugar-frosted flakes were GM-free.

[dmallind]

3. Well let's be consistent then!

Let's strip from the shelves:

93% of all soybean based products (Lactose intolerant? Fuck you!)
86% of all corn-based products (Tortillas? Who needs 'em? Cereal? Pah!)
93% of everything using canola oil (find your healthier low saturated fat high monunsaturated fat cooking oils from boutique sources costing much more, peasants! No GMO for you!)

[AsahinaKimi]

4. self delete

[SpiralHawk]

5. Let's Parrot the CorporOmutant party line !!!

"Industrial Mutation is good for you. Smirk. Sneer."

- RepuliCorp, Inc. (R)

[saras]

8. No problem. Been there, done that. 80% of it is not eating crappy junk food.

Without that 80 or 80 percent, the rest is easy.

[arikara]

14. Good idea

none of that stuff is healthy. Soy is very difficult to digest, there are better options for the lactose intolerant. Almond milk, coconut milk, goats milk. Canola aka rapeseed oil likewise is not healthy, even before it went GMO and now it is even less healthy because of the additional chemicals sprayed onto the crops. Corn... its still possible to get some corn products grown organically and thus not laden with pesticides but it is getting more difficult to find.

It certainly is getting harder to eat these days what with trying to avoid the crap being put in and on the food.

[blkmusclmachine]

6. Between "fracking" & mutant food, I wonder if someone is out to do everybody in:

Let me grab my hat: :tinfoilhat:

[beac]

7. Signed it earlier this morning and forwarded it widely.

(I'm a CREDO cell customer and more DUers should be too: https://www.credomobile.com) :hi:

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. kick

[truebrit71]

10. Signed and shared...

I despise Monsanto...

[veganlush]

11. If we switch to a plant based diet

..or at least mostly plants, and buy local as much as possible we can avoid a lot of this stuff. Avoid foods with a lot of processing, the more words on the ingredients label the more the processing. Eat low on the food chain, buy local, avoid processing. You'll spare more animals from needless torture, you'll be more effective in the fight against GMO's you'll be helping to keep the money jingling around in the local economy, and you'll be healthier!

[L. Coyote]

12. I want to REC this post!!!! [phone]

How food is grown means more than most people realize.
Know your diet's source, when possible, and help inject
more consumer source oversight in our nutrition economy.

Organic agriculture is sustainable and healthful!

[proverbialwisdom]

13. Over 97,000 signatures! Thank you for the link.