Tell General Mills To Reject GMO Wheat!

In 2024, President Joe Biden’s Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said U.S. farmers could grow a GMO wheat variety that’s genetically engineered to soak up glufosinate, a pesticide that is 5 times more toxic than glyphosate and has been banned in the European Union since 2013. Glufosinate exposure is associated with low-birth-weight babies.

The USDA didn’t conduct a scientific review or offer opportunity for public comments before announcing its decision. That’s because of the GMO deregulation that President Donald Trump pushed through in 2020.

The glufosinate-tolerant wheat could become the first GMO wheat grown in the U.S. So far, its reach is limited to Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. In addition, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Nigeria, and Indonesia allow GMO wheat to be imported for food and feed.

If this crop is integrated into our food system it would dramatically increase the load of agro toxins in the diet of Americans. As a major buyer of wheat in the US, we are asking General Mills to lead the way and pledge to reject this newly approved Genetically Modified wheat.

TAKE ACTION: Tell General Mills To Reject GMO Wheat!

Who’s behind this disaster? It’s an Argentine company called Bioceres that’s traded on the New York Stock Exchange and counts Monsanto (Bayer) among its investors. Eaters around the world have revolted at the idea of glufosinate-soaked GMO wheat with successful campaigns including “Not In Our Wheat” and “Bread without Poison.”

Bimbo, the largest bakery company in the world, announced in 2024 that it would go GMO Free. General Mills, which claims to be moving towards regenerative agriculture, needs to make that commitment as well. As a first step to get General Mills to stop all use of GMOs and go organic and regenerative, we ask them to reject this newly approved GMO wheat.

TAKE ACTION: Tell General Mills To Reject GMO Wheat!

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Dear General Mills,

Please reject glufosinate-tolerant GMO wheat.

Herbicide-tolerant GMO crops have greatly increased our exposure to these agrotoxins. So far, most of the herbicide-tolerant crops have been used for highly-processed food ingredients, mostly sweeteners and seed oils as well as animal feed and ethanol.

Because of these GMO crops, we’ve been exposed to more of the herbicide glyphosate (Monsanto’s Roundup) than any other pesticide. Now, thousands of U.S. farmers have non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and Bayer, which merged with Monsanto and dropped its infamous name in 2018, is paying billions to Roundup-exposed cancer victims.

Monsanto wanted to commercialize glyphosate-tolerant GMO wheat, but gave that up in 2004 in the face of stiff opposition from farmers.

Now, Bioceres, an Argentine company that Monsanto invested in, is renewing the effort with wheat that is genetically engineered to withstand a different herbicide, glufosinate, that is 5 times more toxic than glyphosate and has been banned in the European Union since 2013.

In 2024, President Joe Biden’s Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said U.S. farmers could grow Biocere’s GMO wheat.

Bimbo, the largest bakery company in the world, is GMO Free. General Mills, you need to make this commitment as well.

As a first step to stopping all use of GMOs and going organic, please pledge to reject this newly approved GMO wheat.

Thank you for your attention to this urgent matter.

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