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HARVEST TIMES: October 2007

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HARVEST EVENTS:

MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 7 PM: HARVEST Board of Directors Meeting

TUESDAY OCTOBER 9, 6-8 PM: Cooking with Wild Seasonal Foods

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 10: MEMBER APPRECIATION DAY! ALL HARVEST CO-OP MEMBER-owners RECEIVE 10% DISCOUNT ALL DAY!

SATURDAY OCTOBER 13, 1-5 PM: JAPANESE ANIMATION, RATED PG

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 6-8 PM: Homeopathy 101: An evening with Dr. Peter Swanz

THURSDAY OCTOBER 18, 6-7 PM: MSCC MEETING: Join the Harvest Membership and Social Concerns Committee!

SAVE THAT DATE!
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 6-9 PM: Harvest Co-op Member Dinner and Annual Meeting St Paul AME Auditorium, 85 Bishop Allen Drive, (behind Harvest-Cambridge)

Please see our Calendar Pages for details!

SUGGESTION BOOK

Please see our Suggestion Page for this month's suggestions.

ONE MINUTE ACTIVIST:

This month, we ask the President of the American Crystal Sugar Company to encourage sugar beet farmers to avoid conversion to genetically engineered sugar beets.

October 2007

David Berg
President
American Crystal Sugar Company Corporate Office
101 North 3rd Street
Moorhead, MN 56560
(218) 236-4400

We, the undersigned, would like to thank American Crystal for historically encouraging related sugar beet farmers to avoid conversion to genetically engineered sugar beets. We are concerned about recent comments suggesting American Crystal is now supporting transition to biotech.

As you know, roughly half of all granulated sugar in the U.S. is derived from sugar beets. Consumers leery of genetically engineered products cannot rely on packaging labels indicating which products contain genetically engineered ingredients and which do not. As a result, consumers will seek out products from companies that have publicly stated that they do not use genetically engineered ingredients and/or products that are USDA certified organic.

One need only look at the history of genetically engineered crops to see that the promises made by the biotech industry starkly contrast the reality.

• Roundup Ready corn and soy have led to an increase of herbicide use, not a decrease.
• The increased use of Roundup on Roundup Ready crops has led to the advancement of superweeds that are resistant to this herbicide
• Consumer resistance to genetically engineered foods will affect profit margins of your company and its supporting farmers
• Studies consistently show that biotech cannot feed the world, despite what the American Crystal President recently stated and what biotech companies are advertising. The United Nation's own reports indicate that crop yields for organic operations that have been in place for 3 years or more are higher than biotech chemically intensive operations.

Please reconsider your decision to support genetically engineered sugar beets and, in so doing, you will make American Crystal a food staple that consumers can confidently rely on in the long term.

Thanks,

Name___________________________________Signature_______________________________________

Address________________________________________________________________________________

Phone___________________________________e-mail_________________________________________

Thanks to the Organic Consumers Association

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HARVEST RECIPES

With this issue, our recipe section will take on a new look. All recipes have been developed and tested by us: if something should go wrong, the sin is on our head! We welcome your feedback: write to us!

Happy cooking (and eating)!

Please go to our Recipes Page for this month's goodies!

HARVEST CO-OP CLASSIFIED ADS
August 2007

Please go to our Classifieds Page for this month's ads!