Valentine Summer Squash, Tomato and Pepper from My Backyard Garden.
Environmental Action volunteers demonstrated at the JM Smucker
headquarters in Orville Ohio this month. Smucker’s apparently knew of the plan
beforehand and met the team at the door, delivering their petition signatures telling the food manufacturer to
lable the GMOs in their products, and to stop blocking GMO labeling laws. At
the same time, Environmental Action members showed up at their local
supermarkets and told the managers to relay our demand to Smucker's that
they label GMOs in their products.
Within seconds of showing up at
Smucker's headquarters, six security guards asked that volunteers hand over the
petition signatures at the entrance and not enter the premises. But the activists
saw this as good news because, those security guards knew they were coming,
which means they know about the campaign - and were worried enough about what
we might say and do to send a detail of security to deal with us.
Protestors were too concerned about
Smucker's concealing GMOs in their products to
be thwarted.
The following quotation was published by the Environmental Action Team, a group protesting GMOs. “GMOs put our entire planet's future at risk and every single student at Wooster College (or anywhere) who eats Smucker's products is unwittingly supporting an enormous threat posed by GMO foods.” Rita Frost and the rest of the Environmental Action team were planning additional actions at Smucker’s in the coming weeks.
The following quotation was published by the Environmental Action Team, a group protesting GMOs. “GMOs put our entire planet's future at risk and every single student at Wooster College (or anywhere) who eats Smucker's products is unwittingly supporting an enormous threat posed by GMO foods.” Rita Frost and the rest of the Environmental Action team were planning additional actions at Smucker’s in the coming weeks.
Reasons to genetically modify foods is to increase yields,
to alter foods to taste more pleasant and to make some kinds of foods more
resistant to cold or other weather conditions. Tomatoes for instance might be
more immune to cold if genes from other organisms are put into the reproduction
cells, such as genes from, a strain of fish that is cold resistant.
Dr.Oz also said on Thursday that crops are altered so they
will be able to tolerate stronger insecticides. Then the spray volume can be
increased. Pesticide use has escalated to millions of pounds per year, and the
side effect is that pesticides may affect our food as well as the animals we
also end up eating as meat. We just don’t know the full effects of insecticide
use, of genetic modification on human or animal digestion. And ironically, a
side effect of this practice has resulted in more resistant bugs and insects.
© by Ruth Zachary
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