Wal-Mart: Don’t sell Monsanto’s toxic corn!

 

Mom and Tayte began researching this topic only a few weeks ago. You do not want GMO seed in your garden. Over the next month or so Tayte will be working on a report to share about this alarming topic. I will post as the articles are published on our farm site. In the mean time, if you know anything about GMO please click on the link below and sign the petition to keep it out of Walmart!
http://sumofus.org/campaigns/monsanto-walmart/ 

The below is taken from sumofus.org

This is where it begins. In a few weeks, farmers will begin planting the largest Monsanto-modified corn crop in history, and for the first time, they will be marketing it directly to consumers. If this works, expect plenty more.
Monsanto, which already controls 60% of the US corn market, is testing the waters with a new variety of genetically-modified sweet corn marketed directly to consumers. This corn will appear in supermarkets unlabeled, untested for human consumption and impossible to distinguish from natural crops.
Consumers are fighting back. Thanks to consumer pressure, Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s and General Mills have all agreed to not use Monsanto’s GM sweet corn in any of their products. But Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest organic retailer, is holding out.
Biotech companies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the past decade preventing the labelling of their products, and now Monsanto has decided to take advantage of that loophole to produce its first-ever consumer product which will crop up, unlabeled, in your local supermarket bin.
Monsanto sweet corn is modified to contain Bt toxin, designed to protect the plant by rupturing the stomach of any insect which feeds on it. Monsanto claims that the toxin will break down before reaching human beings, but doctors are already seeing Bt toxin in the blood of pregnant women.
With more genetically-modified corn on the market and in the fields, the likelihood of cross-pollination is increased, making it even more difficult for consumers to find organic products. If Wal-Mart caves to consumer pressure, like Whole Foods and General Mills already have done, Monsanto’s growers will be shut out of the nation’s largest retailer and be much less inclined to plant the corn.