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  • From: Etienne Goyer <etienne.goyer AT outlands.ca>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn
  • Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:32:42 -0400

Wasn't there already a number of Bt sweet corn on the market? If that's
correct, then this Roundup-resistant one is not a first.

Does not make it more acceptable, just saying.


On 11-09-19 03:26 PM, Mike Rock wrote:
> Here is a warning bulletin I just received.
> Mike
>
> Dear Mike,
>
> Two weeks ago Food Democracy Now! called for the resignation of former
> Monsanto super lobbyist and current Food Safety Czar Michael Taylor and
> our friends at CREDO Action joined in. Together, more than 150,000
> farmers, citizens and food activists in all 50 states joined the
> call for
> Taylor's resignation.
>
> Now we're joining forces to call on the CEOs of major grocery store
> chains
> like Safeway, Kroger, Walmart and Supervalue to refuse to carry
> Monsanto's
> new GMO sweet corn on their shelves or sell it to their customers.
>
> In our democracy we need every voice to be heard in the battle to regain
> our food supply from the abuse of corporate power.
>
> [1]Please take a moment to join Food Democracy Now! and our friends at
> CREDO Action in the call to protest Monsanto's GMO sweet corn from being
> sold major grocery retailers in the U.S. We can only win if we stand up
> and now is the time!
>
> David Murphy, Food Democracy Now!
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> [2]CREDO Action | more than a network. a movement.
>
> [3]Grocery store CEOs: Refuse Monsanto's GMO sweet corn!
>
> [4]No Monsanto GMO sweet corn!
> Clicking here to add your name to this petition to major US
> grocery stores:
>
> [5]"As a consumer, I refuse to purchase Monsanto's new
> genetically-modified sweet corn and urge you to avoid this
> potentially toxic product. Please protect your customers and
> reject this new GMO corn."
> [6]Add your name:
> [7]Take action now!
> [8]Learn more about this campaign
>
> [9]Tell U.S. food companies: Americans don't want Monsanto's GMO
> sweet corn in our grocery stores!
>
> Dear David,
>
> As early as this fall, Monsanto, the corporation responsible for
> producing roughly 90% of genetically modified seeds around the
> globe, will try to bring their new, GMO sweet corn to a grocery
> store aisle or farmer's market near you.^1
>
> [10]Tell U.S. food companies: Americans don't want Monsanto's GMO
> sweet corn in our grocery stores!
>
> 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.
>
> [11]Tell U.S. food companies: Americans don't want Monsanto's GMO
> sweet corn in our grocery stores!
>
> 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.
>
> A past study released by the International Journal of Biological
> Sciences found that Monsanto's GMO corn, which is engineered to
> release pesticide and tolerate the herbicide Roundup, led to
> potential organ failure in mammals.^2 Now Monsanto wants to sell
> GMO sweet corn in grocery stores across the country, putting
> potentially dangerous genetically modified food on the plates of
> unsuspecting consumers.
>
> Even worse, since Monsanto's new sweet corn is genetically
> modified to tolerate Roundup, this new GMO sweet corn could pass
> the same health and infertility problems that Food Democracy Now!
> previously documented in our video interview of Dr. Don Huber, a
> retired plant pathologist who discovered a link between Roundup to
> crop disease and livestock infertility, on to humans who consume
> Monsanto's GMO sweet corn.^3
>
> This time, the USDA will not be able to say they hadn't been
> warned about possible serious negative health impacts caused by
> GMOs.
>
> [12]Tell U.S. grocery stores: Americans don't want Monsanto's GMO
> sweet corn! Click here to automatically sign the petition.
>
> If it couldn't get any worse, Monsanto is including traits in its
> new sweet corn to make it immune to Roundup herbicide and to
> produce the Bt toxin that kills insects. 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 women.^4
>
> Now they plan to feed us this stuff? I don't think so!
>
> While the problems with crop disease and livestock infertility and
> the GMO toxins found in mother's blood come from processed grains
> and highly process food products, this new GMO sweet corn will
> contain both those toxic genes fed directly to consumers without
> any processing. This means Americans could face direct harm from
> these products, whose safety is now highly suspect.
>
> Please join fellow food activists and concerned consumers alike in
> publicly rejecting Monsanto's potentially dangerous new product.
>
> [13]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.
>
> Mark Anthony Dingbaum, Campaign Manager
> [14]CREDO Action
>
> Sources:
>
> 1. [15]Monsanto Plans To Sell Sweet Corn In Your Local Supermarket
> August 8, 2011.
>
> 2. [16]Monsanto's GMO Corn Linked To Organ Failure, Study Reveals
> March 18, 2011.
>
> 3. [17]Dr. Huber's Warning: How GMOs Are Linked to Disease and
> Infertility May 4, 2011.
>
> 4. [18]GM Food Toxins Found In The Blood of 93% of Unborn Babies
> May 20, 2011.
>
> References
>
> Visible links
> 1. http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/429?akid=377.128592.EWqixj&t=1
> 3. http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/429?akid=377.128592.EWqixj&t=2
> 4. http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/429?akid=377.128592.EWqixj&t=3
> 5. http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/430?akid=377.128592.EWqixj&t=4
> 6. http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/430?akid=377.128592.EWqixj&t=5
> 7. http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/430?akid=377.128592.EWqixj&t=6
> 8. http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/429?akid=377.128592.EWqixj&t=7
> 9. http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/429?akid=377.128592.EWqixj&t=8
> 10. http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/429?akid=377.128592.EWqixj&t=9
> 11. http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/429?akid=377.128592.EWqixj&t=10
> 12. http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/430?akid=377.128592.EWqixj&t=11
> 13. http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/430?akid=377.128592.EWqixj&t=12
> 14. http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/431?akid=377.128592.EWqixj&t=13
> 15. http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/432?akid=377.128592.EWqixj&t=14
> 16. http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/433?akid=377.128592.EWqixj&t=15
> 17. http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/364?akid=377.128592.EWqixj&t=16
> 18. http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/402?akid=377.128592.EWqixj&t=17
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