McDonald's Restaurant's - No More GM Food

McDonald's asks suppliers to stop using GM feeds

The ubiquitous high-street burger chain said, however, it would be impossible to demand a complete ban on GM feeds since non-GM corn and soya meal was not available in sufficient quantities.

(How did so much of the world's food become genetically modified without the consumer being aware?)

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Subject:   McDonald's asks suppliers to stop using GM feeds----
Date:       Sat, 18 Nov 2000 09:20:37 -0500
From:        Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization:     Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)

To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation

Dear Mr. Helliker, I thought you might like to read an article entitled: McDonald's asks suppliers to stop using GM feeds.

LONDON, Nov 16 (Reuters) - The British arm of McDonald's Corp., the world's number one restaurant group, said on Thursday it had asked its suppliers to find sources of animal feed that did not contain genetically modified products.

The ubiquitous high-street burger chain said, however, it would be impossible to demand a complete ban on GM feeds since non-GM corn and soya meal was not available in sufficient quantities.

``McDonald's in the UK has taken the decision to move away from the use of animal feed containing genetically modified ingredients. We have therefore requested that our suppliers seek non-GM sources of feed,'' the company said in a statement.

A McDonald's spokeswoman said the company's UK chicken supplier already used feed of Brazilian origin, which was ``principally'' not genetically modified.

The use of GM crops in the food chain has come under fire globally from consumer groups concerned about possible health implications.

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Well Mr. Helliker, it is a terrible shame that the world has to eat your "registered" POISONS and your genetically modified "frankenfoods" even though they obviously do not want to do so. One day, the public will ask you why you demanded that their human and/or animal foodstuffs could only be sprayed with your "registered" POISONS. What will your answer be? You were only following "orders"? But, you created the "orders".

Respectfully, Stephen L. Tvedten