MONSANTO: If consumers knew their foods were derived from genetically engineered ingredients, NO ONE WOULD BUY THEM.

Genetically Modified Alfalfa Polluting Organic Farm Industry

“If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it,” said Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto, in a 1994 article in the Kansas City Star.

On January 27 the USDA announced it will allow planting of genetically modified alfalfa without any restriction or labeling requirements. This means you could be drinking milk that contains genetically modified organisms (GMO’s) but you won’t know it because there is no law that says the label has to tell you.

The US organic agricultural system requires a paper trail from seed to shelf so that there’s proof a product is organic. Now, organic producers are at huge risk that their organic seed stock will become polluted by GMO alfalfa and other pollinating GMO crops, including GMO corn and sugar beets, significantly threatening their ability to produce certified organic products.

You can do something to help stop this. I urge you to call your Congressperson, Senators and the President and ask them to require the labeling of GMO ingredients in foods.


To reach your Congressperson and Senators call the US Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and the switchboard operator will connect you with them. Then call President Obama at 202-456-1111.

We need to speak loudly on this issue or we will lose our ability to know what we are buying.

Here in America, the pro-biotech lobby has been very successful in that there is no labeling requirement at all for GMO ingredients in foods. As a result, most consumers don’t even know that GMO ingredients are in 80% of conventional grocery products, and that virtually 90% of all the corn, soybeans, cotton and sugar beet crops in the U.S. are from GMO seed.

Their success is a direct result of violating the consumer’s right to know regarding labeling of what is in their food.

There is more than enough science to show that eating GMO’s is associated with infertility, immune problems, accelerated aging, allergies, diabetes, testicular atrophy, liver toxicity and changes in major organs in the gastrointestinal tract, including impaired digestion and odd tissue changes in the stomach and intestines that could predict cancer.