Thursday, January 10, 2013

Organic Consumers Association

Organic Consumers Association   SHAME ON YOU!!!!   Do you employ the p.r. strategy of Karl Rove and Dick Cheney?  Keep telling the lie long enough and frequently enough we will just roll over and be o.k.?  Perhaps you have forgotten about social media. It may be that you assume that regular folks won't bother to research and pass the research along.  SHAME ON YOU! Do you honestly thing people just like me won't compile the most complete list of products that Kellogg's produces so that we can boycott all of them?  If you mismanage your consumers by underestimating them, then you mismanage your corporation.  Your board of directors should realize this.
I am boycotting all Kellogg's products, including non-organic, so-called "natural" products from Kellogg subsidiary Kashi, until Kellogg's commits to using non-genetically engineered ingredients and stops contributing money to defeat GMO labeling laws and initiatives, like California's Proposition 37, for GMO labels.
Instead of Kashi, I'm buying Nature's Path. All of their products are certified organic and Non-GMO Project verified. Nature's Path gave $606,826 to California Right to Know for the ballot initiative to label GMOs, Proposition 37.
It's bad enough that Kashi and other Kellogg's brands use GMOs. But even worse, your company defends the use of GMOs, and the contamination of organic crops from drifting seeds and pollen. As an organic consumer who buys organic foods to avoid genetically engineered ingredients, I find this highly offensive. How can Kellogg's continue to support genetic engineering, knowing that it results in the contamination of organic crops? Kellogg's clearly has no respect for the consumer's right to choose what to eat!
And then there are the health and safety issues. According to Kellogg's, "Biotech ingredients are safe and have become common in the open market." Genetically engineered ingredients may be common, but there is no evidence that they are safe. The FDA does not safety-test genetically engineered foods before they reach consumers, and it has no power to require biotech companies like Monsanto to prove that their products are safe for human consumption.
Scientists reviewing data from Monsanto's own studies have concluded that "genetically engineered foods are neither sufficiently healthy or proper to be commercialized."
I'm all done buying Kashi and other Kellogg's brands until Kellogg's supports the consumer's right to know about GMOs!

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