Moms Across America Objects to Impossible Food Products in School Lunches
May 06, 2021, Impossible Foods announced that they had secured Child Nutrition Labels (CN Labels) for its Impossible Burger products, clearing a hurdle towards widely entering the K-12 market in fall 2021. Moms Across America’s director Zen Honeycutt states. “We object to this GMO branded product being provided to our children in school lunches due to reported health concerns. We also object to the misleading marketing claim that Impossible Food’s fake GMO meat will help reduce climate change. Our children deserve better than to have a branded product promoted to them at their school that is potentially risky for their health and damaging to the planet, especially when there are safer, non-meat, more earth-friendly alternatives.”
Moms Across America understand that Impossible Foods is claiming that their products reduce climate change compared to the beef from cattle raised in Confined Animal Feeding Operations. However, compared to black bean burger ingredients grown on regenerative organic farms, this claim is inaccurate. GMO mono-crop farming, from which the Impossible Foods fake meat are derived, compared to regenerative organic practices, actually increases climate change. The GMO farming practices and agrochemicals decrease microbes in the soil (organic matter), increase chemical fertilizer inputs such as nitrogen, and pollute the water. These practices reduce carbon sequestration and increase nitrous oxide release, which is 300X more harmful than carbon.
We invite the public to contact their state PTA leaders and The School Nutrition Association by signing this campaign. Also, we invite parents to forward the article on the Moms Across America website to the school Principal, School Food Director, and parents.
Moms Across America Objects to Impossible Food Products in School Lunches
May 06, 2021, Impossible Foods announced that they had secured Child Nutrition Labels (CN Labels) for its Impossible Burger products, clearing a hurdle towards widely entering the K-12 market in fall 2021. Moms Across America’s director Zen Honeycutt states. “We object to this GMO branded product being provided to our children in school lunches due to reported health concerns. We also object to the misleading marketing claim that Impossible Food’s fake GMO meat will help reduce climate change. Our children deserve better than to have a branded product promoted to them at their school that is potentially risky for their health and damaging to the planet, especially when there are safer, non-meat, more earth-friendly alternatives.”
Moms Across America understand that Impossible Foods is claiming that their products reduce climate change compared to the beef from cattle raised in Confined Animal Feeding Operations. However, compared to black bean burger ingredients grown on regenerative organic farms, this claim is inaccurate. GMO mono-crop farming, from which the Impossible Foods fake meat are derived, compared to regenerative organic practices, actually increases climate change. The GMO farming practices and agrochemicals decrease microbes in the soil (organic matter), increase chemical fertilizer inputs such as nitrogen, and pollute the water. These practices reduce carbon sequestration and increase nitrous oxide release, which is 300X more harmful than carbon.
We invite the public to contact their state PTA leaders and The School Nutrition Association by signing this campaign. Also, we invite parents to forward the article on the Moms Across America website to the school Principal, School Food Director, and parents.