Canadian sugar company Lantic Inc. (Rogers Sugar and Lantic brands) needs to reject Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) sugar beet and stay GM-free. Lantic Inc. is the only sugar company in Canada that processes sugar beet (in Alberta) and is currently GM-free. The company is deciding now if it will accept GM sugar beets for the first time. (http://www.lantic.ca) For more info: http://www.cban.ca/sugarbeet

Send a Valentine to the President of Lantic Inc. asking him to keep sugar GM-free at http://www.cban.ca/sugaraction

This sugar beet is genetically modified to be resistant to Monsanto's herbicide Roundup and is currently applied to sugar beet used for processing into sugar - as opposed to red table beets. GM sugar beets are wind-pollinated, and there is a strong possibility that pollen from GM sugar beets could contaminate non-GM sugar beets as well as chard, and red and yellow beets (or "table beets").

ACTION OPTIONS:
1) Send an instant Valentine message at http://www.cban.ca/sugaraction
2) Print, decorate or distribute cut-out Valentine to send from http://www.cban.ca/sugarbeet
3) Print the action alert with cut-out Valentine from http://www.cban.ca/sugarbeet
4) or Write your own letter or elaborate Valentine to:

Edward Makin, President and CEO, Lantic Inc.
4026 Notre-Dame St. E.
Montreal QC H1W 2k3
Fax: 514 527 1318

For more information see http://www.cban.ca/sugarbeet or contact Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator, Canadian Biotechnology Action Network coordinator@cban.ca 613 241 2267 x 5.

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