Would you like your sweet corn to have pesticides in its genes, so that you eat the pesticide along with the corn? No? Then please come to a meeting of the Pesticide Control Board starting at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 20, at the Ramada Inn on Odlin Road in Bangor.

Monsanto Chemical Co. wants the Pesticide Control Board to approve its application to sell and plant their fake corn here in Maine. Last year we kept out another company’s genetically altered field corn. Now Monsanto wants to bring in genetically altered sweet corn and field corn, too. (Field corn is fed to animals, which you then eat, so you’d be getting it there, too.)

The University Cooperative Extension, the recipient of many of those research dollars you just voted for, wants this stuff to be brought into Maine. We have to make ourselves clear to University Extension and other researchers who create chemical and genetic mutants for industry: We want our research money to benefit Maine’s people, not multinational monsters like Monsanto.

Monsanto already has their fake potato growing in Maine, and it contains both the BT toxin and an antibiotic. You may have eaten some since they’re not labeled, and now your cells contain genetic material from these foreign substances. Nancy Oden New England Resistance Against Genetic Engineering Jonesboro