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TalkingDog

(9,001 posts)
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 12:28 PM Feb 2012

GM foods banned in Monsanto canteen. Monsanto says employees should have a CHOICE

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/gm-food-banned-in-monsanto-canteen-737948.html

Monsanto, the biggest promoter of genetically modified food, was hoist with its own petar when it was disclosed that it has a staff canteen in which GM produce is banned.

The firm running the canteen at Monsanto's pharmaceuticals factory at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, serves only GM-free meals, Friends of the Earth said. In a notice in the canteen, Sutcliffe Catering, owned by the Granada Group, said it had taken the decision "to remove, as far as practicable, GM soya and maize from all food products served in our restaurant. We have taken the above steps to ensure that you, the customer, can feel confident in the food we serve."

Monsanto confirmed the position. "Yes, this is the case, and it is because we believe in choice," said the company's spokesman, Tony Coombes. But employees at Monsanto's agribusiness plant at Cambridge were happy to eat GM produce, he said. "The notice in the restaurant there says some products may contain GMOs [genetically modified organisms] - because our staff are happy to eat food sprayed with fewer chemicals.
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GM foods banned in Monsanto canteen. Monsanto says employees should have a CHOICE (Original Post) TalkingDog Feb 2012 OP
Despicable effing hypocrites. Words fail me. snagglepuss Feb 2012 #1
"...was hoist with its own petar..." RevStPatrick Feb 2012 #2
I read in an article the other day.. Viva_La_Revolution Feb 2012 #4
Actually not incorrect, just rare. How Billy S. wrote it in Hamlet. TalkingDog Feb 2012 #5
I stand corrected! RevStPatrick Feb 2012 #8
These people wouldn't recognize irony if it bit them repeatedly. hobbit709 Feb 2012 #3
It's because the company is required to keep that stuff out of food in Europe Generic Other Feb 2012 #6
"choice" would be great IcyPeas Feb 2012 #7
I'd like a choice, too! City Lights Feb 2012 #9
...Because Americans have a right to KNOW.... bvar22 Feb 2012 #10
But I want to know too.... DonRedwood Feb 2012 #11

Viva_La_Revolution

(28,791 posts)
4. I read in an article the other day..
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 12:55 PM
Feb 2012

that a company was "going back to the basis." :eyeroll:

I don't think there is any actual editing anymore, they just run it thru a word processor and print it

TalkingDog

(9,001 posts)
5. Actually not incorrect, just rare. How Billy S. wrote it in Hamlet.
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 02:13 PM
Feb 2012

In the following passage, the "letters" refer to instructions (written by his uncle Claudius, the King) to be carried sealed to the King of England, by Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the latter being two schoolfellows of Hamlet. The letters, as Hamlet suspects, contain a death warrant against Hamlet, who will later open and modify them to instead request the execution of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Enginer refers to a military engineer, the spelling reflecting Elizabethan stress.

There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows,
Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd,
They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way
And marshal me to knavery. Let it work;
For 'tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petar; and 't shall go hard
But I will delve one yard below their mines
And blow them at the moon: O, 'tis most sweet,
When in one line two crafts directly meet.

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
6. It's because the company is required to keep that stuff out of food in Europe
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 02:26 PM
Feb 2012

They don't even have to ask in the US. That is the point, right there.

IcyPeas

(21,955 posts)
7. "choice" would be great
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 02:26 PM
Feb 2012

however, foods are not required to be labeled that they contain genetically modified ingredients (in the USA, anyway). the public doesn't know what contains gmo and what doesn't. how can we have a choice when they are not, by law, labeled? huh, FDA?

eat at your own risk.

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
10. ...Because Americans have a right to KNOW....
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 02:39 PM
Feb 2012
Labeling GMO Foods & Country of Origin
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