Popcorn or Poison ?

Americans love popcorn, movies and popcorn go hand in hand.  16 billion quarts are consumed every year. But many do know that the seeds are coated with Neonicotinoids, a toxic bee-killing pesticide. Neocotinoids coat an estimated 80 to 95 percent of America's corn and nearly half of its soybean seeds. Neocotinoids, have also impacted the bee population. Scientists have linked it's use to alarming decline of the number of bees. The annual hive losses have been reported 40 to 50 percent loss. This has a huge impact because bees pollinate 71 of the 100 crops that provide 90 percent of the world's food. This also puts other pollinator species in danger, causing over 70 percent of plants to be unable to reproduce or provide food. 

The good new is that popcorn giant Popweaver has recently decided to phase out the use of neocotinoids-coated seeds. Popweaver plans to reduce the use of those seeds by 75 percent before 2017. Now the The Center for Food Safety is applying the pressure to PopSecret, which is Popweaver's biggest competitor.

I bet if we all committed to only buy popcorn that is made from seeds that do not contain neocotinoids coating, the industry would jump to remove it from all popcorn seeds....