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Is Dole making deals with the devil?

Posted Tue August 24, 2010 12:00 pm, by Daniela E. written to Dole Food Company

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As someone who purchases Dole products from frozen veggies, to pineapple, to fruit & gel cups for my kids, I'm very upset to hear that you have decided to enter into an agreement with Monsanto to develop genetically modified foods in hopes to create "more nutritious, great-tasting products."

The track record sadly indicates that when we mess with God's design (or nature's design if you prefer) the end results are never predictable and often unforeseeable. You THINK you're doing a good thing, but your role should be to have farmers grow the best crops they can grow in the climate they reside in, using AS LITTLE chemicals and pesticides as possible, then picking those vegetables and fruits when they are at their best.

Thousands of years of evolution have brought us a multitude of food sources to meet all our nutritional needs. If you want us to have better tasting crops, find farmers to grow them closer to the point of sale. Less travel time means riper produce and that will give us better nutritional content and taste. No need to mess with DNA there!

There just isn't enough research done to show that any benefits that come from GMO products are lasting or sustainable. However, there is LOTS of research that shows how in the long run, GMO seeds are producing smaller crops, forcing overuse of pesticides and inserting random genes into our own bodies because the gene splicing bacteria used to alter the plants don't care what cells they work on.

Cross breeding has worked for generation after generation, but even that has a cost. Longer lasting crops with less nutritive values- while they will sell longer before spoiling and make YOU more money, I have to buy more food to get the nutrition my family needs.

Even still, that's better than the GMO alternatives. Please don't think with your money-hungry eyes, look into your heart and think of what your conscience will say in years to come when your dealings with Monsanto help corrupt crops all across the world.

Stick with the motto "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Continue using conventional produce, increase your farmers or packaging plants so the farms and consumers are closer to each other. Think about the health of your children eating food sources that have been shown to cause cancer, tumors, sterility, birth defects and a whole host of other health problems we see now in animals fed copious amounts of GMO foods.

We need a clean gene pool in our food sources, not corruption from a company bent on controlling the food of the world. Do your research and look only at that funded from sources that do not profit from the sale of GMO seeds. Sadly, science is for sale, and the high rollers get any outcome they want you to see.

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