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SoyCoffee.Com- GMO-Free Assurance Since 2001

Foreseeing the commercialization of genetically modified food, SoyCoffee. com(SC) established our policy against genetically modified organism(GMOs) and their derivatives in food in April 2001. SC's Purchasing Department, working with our growers, has since protected our patrons and does everything possible to make sure our food is free of GMOs.

The burden of protecting our customers from the GMO experiment has been assumed by SC.

The SC brand is your best assurance of freedom from GMOs. We take every available step to ensure our avoidance of GMOs, including:

Identity Preservation is mandatory. GMO testing of each batch soybeans.

Knowing our farmers, suppliers, and their families.

Supporting consumer and environmental organizations working for the mandatory labeling of GE food and ingredients.

A Global Moratorium of Genectically Engineered (GE)Food should be Standarized

The technology of genectically engineered food, so widely used by corporations like Monsanto and Novartis, is the practice of altering and patenting the genetic blueprints of living organisms, then selling the resulting gene-foods, seeds, or other product for profit. Ironically, these corporations proclaim that their new products will eliminate world hunger, cure disease, and improve public health. In reality, through their business practices and political lobbying, the biotech industry has made it clear that they intend to use GE to monopolize the global food market - at unfathomable financial gain.

GE technology has the power to break down fundamental genetic barriers. By randomly inserting together the genes of non-related species - humans, animals, plants, and micro-organisms - previously unimaginable life forms are created.

With no meaningful regulatory restraints or scientific protocol, biotech companies have begun creating hundreds of new GE "frankenfoods" and crops, heedless of hazard; environmental, human, and negative socio-economic impacts on the world's several billion farmers and rural villagers. Despite an increasing number of scientists warning that current gene-splicing techniques are crude, inexact, and unpredictable, pro-biotech governments maintain that GE foods are "substantially equivalent" to conventional foods and therefore require neither mandatory labeling nor pre-market safety testing.

Over 60 million acres of GE crops are presently under cultivation in the US. Most supermarket processed foods now test positive for the presence of GE ingredients. In addition several dozen GE crops are in the final stages of development and will soon be released into the environment and sold without labels. The biotech industry boasts that almost 100 percent of the United States food and fiber will be GE within five to 10 years.

More and more scientists around the world are warning that genetic manipulation can increase the levels of natural plant toxins or allergens in foods (or create entirely new toxins) in unexpected ways by switching on genes that produce poisons. The public has become unwilling guinea pigs in a vast genetic experiment. Because these products have not been proven safe, they must be taken off the market.

Each January we discuss their lands past quality and plans for the fields in the coming year. Contracts are drawn up addressing issues such as bean specification, GMO affidavit, bushel amount and variety. It is foundation seed varieties from Iowa State University because they focus their effort on a food-grade bean breeding program that excludes GMOs. By supplying the growers with the seed, it guarantees the initial quality of the GEO-free seed. The seed is distributed in early spring.

A screening process is performed by placing the beans in tiered sifting pans and filtering smaller beans, pods, shells and any other foreign matter. As the process continues, the smallest particles such as dirt, weeds and crushed leaves fall to the final pan. This screening mimics the cleaning process done at the bulk bean storage elevator.

Once the waste material, or "clean out", has been removed, it is weighed to calculate a foreign matter weight percentage. For instance, a sample with 96 percent product and 4 percent foreign matter including split beans is a much better sampling than one with 85 percent product and 15 percent foreign matter.

The soybeans from the top screen are then assessed and recorded on a sample form. They are checked for moisture content and the bean condition is viewed. A letter series is used to judge characteristic attributes such as: are the beans small or uneven in size, have a dirty seed coat, seed coat is wrinkled or split, discolored beans, shriveled beans, high percentage of splits or immature green beans.

Considered on these characteristics, the sample is given a numerical score from the rating scale: 1-great, 2-good, 3-medium grade, 4-poor grade and 5-bad quality. If a sample quality is questionable, a 100 bean sample is taken and separated into good/bad bean piles. The highest percentage pile dictates the percent of that sample.

The accepted beans are then rough cleaned, separated by variety and placed in storage. Delivery varieties are blended together then continue on through the cleaner, gravity table, spiral separator and finally are taken to the bulk bin.

We are taking appropriate steps to eliminate the potential contamination of our organic soybeans. This is the only way we know of to ensure our customers that our soybeans are not genetically engineered. We hope this protocol becomes the standard for organically grown soybeans in the future.
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