{Political_Views} Monsanto vs. Wal-Mart

Friend,

The millions of Americans who buy food at Wal-Mart could soon be eating Monsanto GMO corn -- unmarked, unlabeled, and untested on humans -- with toxins built right into the plant's DNA.

Sign our urgent petition to Wal-Mart's CEO demanding that Wal-Mart refuse to sell Monsanto's new toxic GMO corn -- and make sure all your friends know about it too.

Monsanto has released their first direct-to-consumer product, a genetically-modified (GM) sweet corn containing Bt toxin, designed to protect the plant by rupturing the stomach of any insect that feeds on it. Monsanto claims the toxin will break down before the corn makes it to your dinner table, but rats fed with the GM corn showed organ failure, and the toxin has been detected in the bodies of pregnant women.

Want to avoid this toxic product? Too bad – it will arrive on shelves unlabeled and untested on humans, starting with this year's corn crop.

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.

Tell Wal-Mart to make a stand for consumer safety and turn down Monsanto's GMO corn.

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.

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 listens to our collective voice and shuts out Monsanto corn like Whole Foods and General Mills already have done, farmers will be much less likely to plant the toxic crop.

Shut down Monsanto's GMO corn today -- sign the petition and make sure all your friends know what they could be buying at Wal-Mart.

Thanks for helping keep our food safe,

Claiborne, Taren, Kaytee and the rest of us

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