Farmers pick a fight

In addition to National Milk, the others signing the poison pen letter were the American Farm Bureau Federation, the American Soybean Association, the American Sugarbeet Growers Association, the National Corn Growers Association and the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers' Alliance. Each party can agree to do business with the other. Because the farmers alliance cites "The Dannon Pledge" in its letter, I assume the farmers had read it. Here's Wesley Spurlock, president of the National Corn Growers Association: "Despite overwhelming evidence supporting the safety of GMO crops and their benefits to the environment, marketers of some major food brands, such as Dannon, have aligned themselves against biotechnology."