Tell General Mills To Reject GMO Wheat!

Genetically engineered wheat is bad for consumers and bad for farmers.

It's bad for consumers because it is genetically engineered to soak up glufosinate, a pesticide that 166 times more toxic than glyphosate and has been banned in the European Union since 2013 because of unacceptable risks to reproduction, including premature birth, miscarriage, stillbirth, skeletal birth defects, and autism-like behaviors. Glufosinate is also linked to neurotoxicity, kidney toxicity, and hormone disruption.

It's bad for farmers because its yields are low. Data from Argentina, where GMO wheat is already being grown, show average yields 17 percent lower than non-GMO wheat.

Despite the serious harm GMO wheat could do to public health and farmer livelihoods, in 2024, President Joe Biden’s Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack gave Bioceres (a company that counts Monsanto-Bayer among its investors) and the Colorado Wheat Research Foundation the go-ahead to bring it to the U.S. market. 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.

There's still time to stop this. Glufosinate-tolerant GMO wheat hasn't been commercialized in the U.S. yet. So far, it is only grown in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, and imported to just Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Nigeria, and Indonesia.

Our best hope of keeping GMO wheat out of our food supply is to get big companies like General Mills to reject it.

Eaters around the world have revolted against 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 getting General Mills to quit all GMOs and go organic, let's ask them not to use GMO wheat.

If this crop is integrated into our food system it would dramatically increase our exposure to toxic herbicides. General Mills, a major U.S. wheat buyer, should lead the way and pledge to keep GMO wheat out of its foods.

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 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. Twenty years later, President Joe Biden’s Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said U.S. farmers could grow glufosinate-tolerant GMO wheat. Now, Argentina-based Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp. and the Colorado Wheat Research Foundation are going to jointly develop and commercialize it.

Glufosinate is 166 times more toxic than glyphosate and has been banned in the European Union since 2013 because of unacceptable risks to reproduction, including premature birth, miscarriage, stillbirth, skeletal birth defects, and autism-like behaviors. Glufosinate is also linked to neurotoxicity, kidney toxicity, and hormone disruption.

Data from Argentina, where GMO wheat is already being grown, show average yields 17 percent lower than non-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.

[Your Name]

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