Help Me Save The Cucumbers (from Apeel)!

Jul 22, 2024

I need your help! We’re on a mission to save the cucumbers now!

So you’re aware that a company called Apeel Sciences wants to spray or dip your produce in a coating that their own filing with the FDA shows involves five heavy metals and two petrochemical solvents.

Despite that, the founder of the company keeps sticking to his line that the monoglyceride and diglyceride preservative product he says he wants every fruit in the world coated with–

–is just “food protecting food.”

I do not want any food in the category of monoglyceride OR diglyceride in my diet, or in my children’s. And in fact, I do not agree, actually, that it’s food.

So the article makes the case that we’re to love this, because consumers have complained that they don’t like the single-use plastic that English cucumbers currently are packaged in.

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Actually, I prefer the single use plastic wrap, because I can take it off and throw it away–rather than eat it!

I hope you will immediately–not later, but now–contact that massive Houweling company who is undertaking this experiment with their cucumbers in Walmart stores worldwide …and just take two minutes of your life to say that:

1. You will spend your grocery dollars elsewhere, not at Walmart, until and unless they guarantee you that Apeel products are not on your food.

And then, of course, do that. Take your grocery budget somewhere else. Vote with your dollars.

(In my next article, I’ll share with you the email I got from Walmart’s CEO. Where it appears he thinks I’ll shop at Walmart but skip the cucumbers. I wrote back saying, no, I’ll just completely skip Walmart shopping, actually.

He did seem surprised by my allegation about solvents and metals, though, and promised to look into it. Stay tuned for my next video and blog post.)

1. Doug McMillon

President and CEO

Doug.McMillon@walmart.com

2. John Furner

President and CEO U.S.

John.Furner@walmart.com

(479) 381-6663

Or if it’s Houweling, the Dutch company you’re talking to, tell them you’re disappointed that they feel that instead of the plastic wrap on the cucumber going to a landfill–they’re apparently thinking the consumer EATING the preservative is a great alternative?

Maybe share with them that you don’t agree. It’s always best to be polite, of course!

For a list of companies who’ve told us that they are vigilantly keeping Apeel-sprayed produce out of their stores, check out the link below.

On the back of that wallet card you can keep in your wallet for shopping, we also list the companies who refuse to answer our many queries. And we list those who’ve been caught selling produce coated with Apeel.

2. Also tell Walmart and Houweling staff that they should consult the FDA filing of Apeel Sciences so that they can learn for themselves that the synthetic spray they want to dip cucumbers in is made with a variety of highly toxic materials–

–and isn’t, as the Apeel founder repeatedly claims, “just plants protecting plants.”

So those are the two super important talking points to tell the Houweling Company, and Walmart. Please share this blog post with friends, because there’s strength in numbers. And we all should write these companies.

These email addresses for the huge Dutch produce company may seem like impersonal email addresses, but real, live people actually man those email addresses.

Here they are:

frank.houweling@houweling.nl
info@houweling.nl
qc@houweling.nl
backoffice@houweling.nl
finance@houweling.nl
sales@houweling.nl
marketing@houweling.nl
reco@houweling.nl
purchasing@houweling.nl
warehousing@houweling.nl

And grab our wallet card so you know which store chains are protecting you from Apeel produce, so you can support them. And which are actively selling it to you, or hiding that they’re selling it to you.

Thank you for each and every action YOU take to stop this company from coating all our foods and our children’s foods with toxins.

I can’t do it all by myself, I’m just one person--and we have to stop them now, before Apeel has contracts with lots more companies.

You and I and our efforts have already gotten contracts shut down with major suppliers who originally thought it was a great idea to dip their fruits in a preservative we are then forced to eat.

Last year, Apeel Sciences wrote us back saying their coating cannot be washed off. This year, some of their reps are saying it can be.

How exactly would you scrub a hardened fat off a raspberry, anyway?

Again, write these folks at Houweling:

Walmart is also involved in this partnership, so it would be appropriate to write these executives to tell them the same things.

Walmart:

1. Doug McMillon

President and CEO

Doug.McMillon@walmart.com

2. John Furner

President and CEO U.S.

John.Furner@walmart.com

(479) 381-6663

The article I read about this partnership even blames Covid, or basically says, “you wouldn’t want your produce to go bad if we had another issue like Covid, right?”

As in, just accept that your food is coated in toxic preservative.

Please be part of the solution–we at GreenSmoothieGirl are so grateful to those of you who do take action!

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