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Monsanto Wants to Serve You Genetically Engineered Sweet Corn

Since 1994, Monsanto has been contaminating our food supply with genetically engineered crops (also commonly referred to as genetically modified organisms, or GMOs) primarily used to produce animal feed and ingredients used in processed foods like corn syrup and soybean oil. But now Monsanto has developed a GE sweet corn for direct consumer consumption.

Not Tested for Safety AND No Labeling Required

Monsanto’s sweet corn variety flew through the approval process, because it combines two genetically engineered traits that were approved in 2005 and 2008. The USDA does no independent testing of GE crops, and the “stacked” combination of these traits for herbicide resistance, and pesticide production has never been through a safety evaluation of any kind.

These traits have never been engineered into a food that will be consumed directly by people, but Monsanto hopes that farmers will grow their GE Sweet Corn on 250,000 acres next year, which is roughly 40 percent of the sweet corn market. This means GE sweet corn could hit your grocery store by the end of 2012 and it won’t be labeled, so we will have no way of knowing if the corn we’re eating is genetically engineered or not.

Danger to Organic and Non-GE Conventional Foods

Genetically engineered foods have not been tested for long term impacts on human and environmental health safety. GE crops usually require more pesticides and herbicides than non GE crops, and they can easily contaminate organic and non-GE conventional fields. In addition, Roundup Ready crops are known to increase Roundup (glyphosate) use.

Since Obama took office, approvals of GE foods has accelerated and soon, the first transgenic animal for human consumption — GE salmon — could be approved despite documented concerns for human health, the environment and the traditional fishing industry.

Learn more about the dangers of GE foods or act now.