I strongly urge you to remove GE soy, corn, milk from cows treated with rBGH, or other GE ingredients from your products, including Carnation baby formulas and Powdered Milk, Quik, Toll House Chocolate Chips, candy bars such as Butterfingers, KitKat and Crunch, and ice cream bars. Please heed American public opinion. I want to protect my family and the environment by avoiding transgenic foods. Long term studies on the safety of GE food crops have not been conducted. Thank you for your kind consideration.
Monarch caterpillars subsist on milkweed, which often grows in or near corn fields.
When researchers at Cornell University fed monarch caterpillars milkweed dusted with Bt corn pollen, half of those that ate the Bt pollen died within four days, while all those fed normal corn pollen survived. Every year, monarch butterflies, which act as pollinators for flowering plants, migrate through the Midwest Corn Belt, breeding at the time when corn sheds its wind-borne pollen. Start making your lawn a safe haven for butterflies and other pollinators, and choosing only organic corn products. Butterfly weed and bush, milkweed, azalea, aster, dianthus, honeysuckle and tall perennials attract and feed butterflies. Write to EPA Administrator Carol Browner.