This just in from the OCA

A new article in the New York Times calls attention to the pending controversy of unlabeled, under-tested, genetically engineered sugar being laced into breakfast cereals, chocolates, and a wide variety of non-organic processed foods and beverages next year. In September, OCA posted an alert to pressure major buyers of sugar beets to boycott Monsanto's latest herbicide-resistant crop. The American Crystal company, the #1 white sugar provider in the U.S., along with Kellogg, have brazenly announced they will welcome the biotech sweetener in early 2008. The New York Times notes that American Crystal's CEO responded to the deluge of consumer emails stemming from OCA's alert in September by turning off his email. If American Crystal won't listen, perhaps some of its major customers will. Please send a letter to Hershey's, Mars, and Kellogg demanding they keep their sugar additives GE-free. And of course keep in mind that your only real protection against GE sugar or any Genetically Modified Organism is to buy organic.
Take action: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_7031.cfm

This disturbs me. It's like we have no control over consumer goods anymore, its all just big business. Guess we could start growing our own sugar cane, humm?

I think sugar BEETS might be a little easier for most. And then there is the maple sugar for those of us with maple trees. Might be worthwhile (and the Maple sap season will be coming soon.