I hate chemicals. Corporations have gotten away with poisoning our Earth and our food. I suspect many cereal companies are the same. We need to purchase organic cereal in bulk at your local food coop. I think you will save money and also avoid the harmful chemicals, and best of all, you don’t expose your family to plastic either.
Pesticides kill our bees, birds, butterflies and us too!
Below is from Organic Consumers Association:
General Mills’ Broken Pesticide Promises
General Mills is a bastion of ultra-processed, genetically modified foods, but it’s always found ways to make it look like it’s part of the regenerative organic movement.
Its worst greenwashing was when it used its Honey Nut Cheerios brand for a Bring Back the Bees campaign – never mentioning that glyphosate and chlormequat, pesticides used to harvest the cereal’s oats, were implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder.
In 2016, General Mills announced a partnership with Organic Valley to expand its organic yogurt offerings by transitioning dairy farmers to organic. In 2025, it sold its yogurt division. Its organic lines were dropped—along with its organic farmers.
In 2019, General Mills announced it had put “strategies in place to reduce synthetic pesticide use,” but that didn’t stop the company from selling pesticide-soaked breakfast cereals. Worryingly, one of its organic cereals was contaminated with chlormequat, suggesting that General Mills may be buying fraudulent organic oats from overseas.
The latest news is that General Mills has abandoned its commitment to reduce pesticides.
We can’t let this slide. It isn’t okay for a company to lure its customers with false promises it’s never going to deliver on.
TAKE ACTION, BOYCOTT and/or CALL
Boycott General Mills and divert your dollars to independent organic brands or, better yet, local regenerative organic farms.
Give General Mills a piece of your mind. Call the company at 1-800-248-7310.
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