In a sickening example of green washing, Cascadian Farms, a food group owned by General Mills, has recently begun a media blitz dedicated to saving the bees.
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This is hypocrisy at its worst, like slave-owners having an enormous plantation with thousands of slaves, setting aside one small field where there are no slaves, and then proudly proclaiming that they are abolitionists!
The bulk of food General Mills sells now contains genetically modified ingredients, including many of those nostalgic cereal brands we all grew up with. Anything that has non-organic sugar, cornstarch, canola oil, corn syrup, corn oil, milk (cows may be fed GMO alfa), soy (including soybean oil and soy lecithin), and even eggs (as chickens are fed soy) most certainly contains genetically modified (GMO) ingredients. There is good reason, based on solid studies, showing that GMOs might have dangerous and unwanted consequences in our bodies. But that's not what this article is about.
Genetically modified food was altered so that it could withstand huge doses of toxic pesticides--the pesticides that are killing our bees, and are the source of Colony Collapse Disorder, killing 30% of our bees and other pollinators each year!
While the fast disappearance of our honeybees is one of the biggest disasters on this planet, Cascadian Farms' bee-saving blitz is blatant green-washing. People need to become aware of what is really going on at General Mills, where 90% of the company is involved in selling us products implicated in killing our bees. Cascadian Farms: if you really want to save bees, start with your parent company!
Note: General Mills has spent over 2 million dollars to defeat GMO labeling in the USA, even though such labeling is standard in other countries. Here are some General Mills brands, all of which almost certainly contain some GMO ingredients: Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Bisquick, Fiber One, Chex cereals, Wheaties, Kix, Old El Paso, Haagen Dasz Ice Cream, Yoplait. They own many other groups, including Macaroni's Grill.
