March was the Millions Against Monsanto campaign’s Month Without Monsanto. For someone who’s already been eating organic, a month without Monsanto seems pretty simple.
But, as original Month Without Monsanto blogger April Dávila found, Monsanto’s tentacles reach far beyond the grocery aisles.
Our non-organic, often sweatshop-manufactured, cotton clothing has sprouted from Monsanto’s seeds, too.
Even the gas is our cars is Monsanto-made! About 35% of the U.S. corn crop is made into ethanol. (The rest feeds factory farmed animals or becomes “food” ingredients like high fructose corn syrup.) It’s tough to choose between supporting Monsanto or Big Oil. The fact is, we need to drive less and carpool more or, better yet: walk, bike, and use public transportation whenever possible.
The Obama Administration’s USDA recently approved a new corn variety genetically engineered by Syngenta to be easier to convert to ethanol. Like crops that are modified to produce pharmaceuticals, genetically modified ethanol crops present a huge contamination danger to our food supply.
Who’s protecting consumers? The USDA’s deregulation decision is final. The only thing we can do at this point is scream bloody murder at the politicians we elect to provide oversight on these issues.
Time to write the president and your congressional representatives!
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