Comments on: Court of Appeals Dismisses Monsanto’s Appeal, Requires EIS for GE Sugar Beets http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=5364 News on pesticide science, policy and activism Wed, 15 May 2013 15:03:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Gina http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=5364#comment-108548 Gina Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:23:30 +0000 http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=5364#comment-108548 Organic consumers and producers in the U.S. are facing betrayal. A self-appointed group of “Organic Elites”, including Whole Foods Market, Organic Valley, and Stonyfield Farm, are surrendering to Monsanto.

According to the Organic Consumers Association:

“The main reason … why Whole Foods is pleading for coexistence with Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, Syngenta, BASF and the rest of the biotech bullies, is that they desperately want the controversy surrounding genetically engineered foods and crops to go away. Why? Because they know, just as we do, that two-thirds of [Whole Food's] $9 billion annual sales is derived from so-called ‘natural’ processed foods and animal products that are contaminated with GMOs.”

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