ACTION ALERT
TAKE ACTION: Tell the USDA: No More Field Trials of Unapproved GMO Crops!
For years, Monsanto has said ‘Don’t worry’ about their open-air field tests of unapproved genetically engineered (GE) crops. PR flacks and Monsanto-funded scientists all but guaranteed us that the biotech giant’s frankenseeds wouldn’t escape. But they did escape. And now the company’s Roundup-resistant wheat ‘ never approved for planting in the U.S. or anywhere else in the world ‘ has turned up on an Oregon farm. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s predictable response? ‘Don’t worry.’ The (illegal, untested) GE wheat is ‘safe to eat.’
You gotta ask: If GMO wheat is supposedly safe to eat, what are the so-called "safe" residue levels of Monsanto’s toxic pesticide, Roundup, that the EPA will allow on this wheat, if it were to be approved to market? And why is it banned in every single country in the world?
Hoping to downplay the discovery that its GE wheat is growing in places it shouldn’t, Monsanto initially told reporters that the company had ended field tests of the unapproved crop in 2005. Not so, said Bloomberg, which reported that Monsanto continues to conduct open-air field tests of GM wheat in North Dakota and Hawaii. That’s on top of the hundreds of tests conducted before 2005, in 16 states, including Oregon. And the hundreds of tests still being conducted on other crops, in other states.
The discovery of Roundup-resistant wheat in Oregon is troubling. But what’s a whole lot more troubling is that it may just be the tip of the iceberg. That’s why we’re calling on consumers to tell the USDA: No more open-air field testing of unapproved GMO crops!
TAKE ACTION: Tell the USDA: No More Field Trials of Unapproved GMO Crops!