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Barbara's Bakery
Hi Morgan - Thank you for the post. We continually strive to source Non-GMO ingredients through our supplier relationships and our participation in the Non-GMO Project. Our experience with North American farming today is that there is a very limited supply of GMO-free corn and soy grain available, so it's a challenge to bring affordable, entirely GMO-free products to the marketplace. This is an important issue for us, and we will continue to search for innovative solutions. -Sarina
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Morgan Harlan hmmm, I feel like when a company advertises itself as a "natural" company then stands behind the Non-GMO project then puts GMO's in its product is DEFINITELY misleading its customers (myself included). I understand it may be difficult to find Non GMO suppliers, but in my mind, you either change the recipe to include whatever Non-GMO's you can find, or campaign yourself differently. People will go out of their way to purchase a Non-GMO product (again, myself included), and are willing to pay the price to do such. I feel as if you have covered yourself under the "natural" veil and are reaping the benefits at the cost of your customers. I will not be buying your products any longer as I feel taken advantage of.
WE SHALL SEE WHAT THEY SAY...STAY TUNED...
I stand behind you 100% on this Morgan, and I'm really excited that you are calling them out on this. Bravo. I am horrified by this entire situation, especially in Hawaii.
ReplyDeleteI'm working with the Pacific Justice and Reconciliation Outreach Director Andy Sexton on a campaign for this same issue. My team and I have named it "Future Generations." The key objective is to reach the people of Hawaii in an effort to preserve the organic agriculture of Hawaii’s farmland. In 2006, efforts were brought forth by this organization to ban the use of GMOs from cornfields due to the ongoing damage of the sacred preserved land, and the health concerns associated with it.
Today, throughout all the islands, Hawaii’s taro farmers have now joined together to stop the use of GMO practices on all Taro farms. We are working alongside the PJR to promote awareness while they lobby against these practices to the Federal Government, but this is big business, and it’s a slow and painful process. It has to start with the people, it’s the only way to beat this.
The right to refuse genetically engineered food, what I call "lab food", is going to one day not be an option in the U.S. once it completely permeates our food sources. The ploy...if we don't modify the food, the increase in population will lead to scarcity in food supply….Oh but they don't tell you about the small farms these corporations pushed out of business so they could use that as an excuse. The first way we can do this, is to fight with the food stores. COMPLAIN! BE HEARD!! If you do not, they will give in for profits sake.
We shell out a fortune, and maintain loyalty with these stores because we trust that they are providing us with what we are asking for, NATURAL, ORGANIC, (translation: from the non spoiled chemically induced earth). If I want to buy foods that contain DNA from one species that was injected into another species in a laboratory, creating combinations of plant, animal, bacteria, and viral genes that do not occur in nature or through traditional crossbreeding methods, I would just go to the “sorely misinformed isle” at your traditional grocery store.
In 30 other countries around the world, including Australia, Japan, and all of the countries in the European Union, there are significant restrictions or outright bans on the production of GMOs, because they are not considered proven safe for consumption. In the U.S. on the other hand, the FDA approved commercial production of GMOs based on studies conducted by the companies who created them and profit from their sale, and the government through the FDA is directly profiting from pharmaceutical companies who develop “patented” drugs that claiming to cure "not the problem" but the symptom of the disease this is causing in the body, which cause you more side effects for you to take more drugs!
Personally, I have banned corn from my diet 100%, as well as many other foods that my body now rejects. If you think you can't make a difference, your wrong. If anything think about future generations; your children, and your children's children. It’s time to care. Thanks Morgan for caring.
It amazes and saddens me! Do these companies (and the government) think their actions don't effect their own flesh and blood?? Does the money mean that much to them...really?! So sad!
ReplyDeleteGMO companies like Monsanto make huge contributions to colleges (like the University of Hawaii), and encourage the mutation of fruits and vegetables to be able to control seed sales. Seedless Grapes??? Seedless Oranges??? This way not only can they control the profitability of seed and food production, they can even get a warrant to test food grown on your land! If it has even trace amounts of their unique DNA, they can SUE YOU FOR PROPERTY THEFT! Imagine if you are a small farmer near a GMO farm, the wind and water contaminates your farm and then the GMO company claims YOU STOLE THEIR SEEDS!!! Unbelievable that this has actually happened in Hawaii to local small farmers. To get back to an Organic rating the farmer must have all the contaminated soil removed from their land, incinerated and they will have to till for 50 years before it can be returned to Organic status. If there's no GMO farm nearby. Corn and soy are almost almost always a GMO product. Boycott corn and soy send a message to these companies that you wont buy or eat these products. Sorry Doritos, meet Beanitos.
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