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Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
Make a Difference! Testify on Tuesday!
We have the right to know – Label GMOs!
Friends of Good Food,
Please make your voice heard on Tuesday, April 23, as MOFGA and our friends tell
Maine’s Joint Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (ACF):
We have the right to know!
Label GMOs!
LD 718, Maine's Right to Know GMO Labeling bill,
will require that most foods and seed sold at retail outlets
be labeled if they contain genetically modified (GM) ingredients.
The bill has massive bi-partisan support from a record 123 co-sponsors.
A recent scientific poll shows 91 percent of Mainers want GMO labeling.
Please join our rally and press conference at noon on Tuesday, April 23,
at the State Capitol in Augusta.
Bring positive signs and banners!
Testify at the 1 p.m. crucial Public Hearing
before the legislature's ACF Committee.Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
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With a week to go before California voters head to the polls to decide the fate of Proposition 37, which would require genetically modified (or GMO) foods to be labeled, I’ve been expecting an ugly campaign fueled by $41 million in corporate ad dollars to get even uglier.But the latest gift to the No on 37 campaign smells especially bad.With a week to go before California voters head to the polls to decide the fate of... more
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‘Home with candles and canned food’: Chelsea Clinton holed up in $4m Manhattan apartment - 17 years for man tried over Pentagon terror plot Recruited and funded by Federal Agencies. Plead Guilty or Disappear.-California to vote on modified foods- But thats all we can say…-WITH CAN-DO STANCE ON MARATHON, Asshole MAYOR MISREADS NYC‘Home with candles and canned food’: Chelsea Clinton holed up in $4m... more
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By Anissa Russell,WWH/CJE-There is a war raging, about your right to know the truth about your food. It is incredibly under reported, and unless it is something you are passionate about, you probably had no idea that this war even existed.By Anissa Russell,WWH/CJE-There is a war raging, about your right to know the truth... more
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Farmers Sue Monsanto Over GMO Patents
Humboldt Label GMOs Campaign begins signature gathering Feb. 21
Monsanto Guilty Of Poisoning French FarmerFarmers Sue Monsanto Over GMO Patents
Humboldt Label GMOs Campaign begins signature... more
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At this MSNBC poll, over 40,000 people have voted strongly in favor of labeling genetically modified foods: 96% of all respondents.
But, a review of several polls going back to 1994 reveals that the numbers have always been high — the vast majority of people have always wanted GM labels. That biotech foods have remained unlabeled for nearly 20 years in the US reveals a deliberate and willful refusal by regulatory agencies to serve the will of the people, instead opting to abet industry profits through public deception.
The 96% rating from MSNBC’s casual survey does represent a jump from a scientific poll conducted in 2003 by University of Maine and The Ohio State University (and partly funded by the US Dept. of Agriculture), where 85% of respondents said they wanted GM foods labeled. Researchers also noted:
“Polls have emphasized that a majority of consumers in the United States (US) desire GMFs to be labeled (Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology, 2001), and legislation has been entered at both the federal and state levels. For example, HR 3377 and S 2080—the “Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Acts”—were introduced into the US House of Representatives and Senate, respectively. In addition, at least seven states have debated labeling and marketing requirements for GM foods (Pollack, 2001). Further, the current lack of harmonization of policies across countries also makes GM food labeling an international trade issue.”
More in line with that 2003 study, a few weeks ago, a CBS/New York Times poll found that 87% want GM foods labeled. This prompted food columnist Mark Bittman to ask, “Why Aren’t G.M.O. Foods Labeled?” He finds it “unbelievable … that the F.D.A. and the U.S.D.A. will not require any of these products, or foods containing them, to be labeled as genetically engineered, because they don’t want to ‘suggest or imply’ that these foods are ‘different.’”
But they are, Blanche, they are. That’s part of what goes into the difference between organic and not.
The European Commission on Agriculture reports that a full:
“84% of the respondents favoured [GM labels] in a 1995 USDA survey in New Jersey; 93% in the 1997 Novartis survey; and 81% in the Time magazine poll. In Canada, a 1994 survey showed that 83% to 94% of Canadians polled want labelling on foods that are produced using biotechnology.”
It should be no big surprise that since the introduction of GM foods, the majority of people want GM labeling. Who wouldn’t want to know how their food’s been adulterated? It’s simply a matter of ethics. Even if all the GMO naysayers are wrong and transgenic food (and the chemicals used to grow it) causes no harm to the biosphere, we have the right to know what’s in our food. We have the right to choose to eat what we want, and reject what we don’t want to eat.
Read More: http://globalpoliticalawakening.blogspot.com/2011/03/after-20-years-nearly-everyone-still.htmlAt this MSNBC poll, over 40,000 people have voted strongly in favor of labeling... more
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