Community | January 31, 2011 | 10 comments

Stonyfield Says: "OCA’s letter is blatantly untrue".

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Stonyfield says: "The Organic Consumers Association distributed an inaccurate, irresponsible and frankly appalling letter that attempted to pin the blame for the USDA’s decision of deregulating GE alfalfa squarely on Stonyfield, Organic Valley and Whole Foods.

OCA’s letter is blatantly untrue and dangerously misleading, but also deeply divisive at a time when we all need to be focused on immediate actions necessary to stop this new policy from going into effect."

One more excerpt:
"But I need to take a moment to address the misguided and fallacious OCA attack on Stonyfield, Whole Foods and Organic Valley. Their missive has generated many questions in the last couple of days. I have read them with a heavy heart. I have no idea about their motivations. I have never met Ronnie Cummins and he certainly has never asked me for my views on these issues.

But simply put, instead of fighting with each other, we need to fight Monsanto and the forces that are causing the voices of hundreds of thousands of Americans who support organic to be silenced. All of us who are opposed to the USDA decision to deregulate GE alfalfa must speak with one voice. Anything less keeps us divided and distracted."
Photo and excerpts from: http://www.stonyfield.com/blog/2011/01/29/the-organic-community-must-come-out-sw...
Here you can read the OCA letter: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_22449.cfm



What do you think of this?
Is Organic Inc. selling out to Evil Monsanto?


In the meantime I can only say: Keep up the fight, let us reach millions and millions of people against GMO.
Bring Down Monsanto now. Add your voice here and stop forever the GMO's threat to the human race: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/bring-down-monsanto-monopoly/


I have no doubts we will win!


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10 comments // Stonyfield Says: "OCA’s letter is blatantly untrue".

  • bethbot
    • 0
      bethbot  

    • Leaving the future of organic integrity in the hands of the USDA is a risky decision. Not sure if they're really up to the task, given the fact they ignored over 200,000 people that asked them to keep it regulated.

    • 1 year ago
  • werewere
    • -5
      werewere  

    • Genetic modification of foods is just another step in the thousands of years of domestication that they have been through. Whats the big deal?

    • 1 year ago
  • Ricky84
  • MizPiz
    • +1
      MizPiz  
    • werewere:

      I personally just prefer organic food. I don't see anything wrong with genetically engineered food, but I also don't see the need for it.

      Basically, keep researching, but no need to distribute.

    • 1 year ago
  • ozoneocean
    • +1
      ozoneocean  
    • werewere:

      That's an extremely naive mischaracterization.

      These changes are quite a very different thing from "domestication" over time. Those changes happened completely in tune with the environments of those strains, at a slow gradual pace, within the limits of their own genome. GMO completely breaks this model: outside of it, devoid of any of the natural limits and safeguards inherent in the unmodified process.

    • 1 year ago
  • werewere
    • -1
      werewere  
    • ozoneocean:

      It IS within the species' genome because if it wasn't you wouldn't have functioning plant. A lot of the modification done on plants is just re-activating genetic code that isn't currently in use.

    • 1 year ago
  • unimatrix0
    • +4
      unimatrix0  

    • As Whole Foods, Organic Valley and Stoneyfield become larger and larger, they have more in common with Monsanto and other multi-nationals than they do with small organic farms.

    • 1 year ago
  • Incredulous
  • lookatmypix
    • +3
      lookatmypix  

    • I must say I do not favor coexistence with Monsanto and GMO crops in any way.
      There cannot be such a thing. It's an oxymoron.
      Waiting to know more details about this particular compromise.

    • 1 year ago
  • Dagum
    • +1
      Dagum  

    • They could be selling out. Or only some companies could be selling out or tricking others into doing so.

      It's sounds like war within the organic food industry. Maybe some shrewd yet underhanded business tactics to get a leg up on the competition. Regardless how they feel about Monsanto they still compete with each other.

      Who knows, it will be interesting to see this resolved.

    • 1 year ago
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