The RIGHT TO KNOW GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD ACT will require food manufacturers to identify genetically engineered ingredients on the labels of foods sold in California, so passing a labeling law for genetically engineered foods in California can have the same impact as passing a federal law, so regardless where you live, it can definately have an impact on you.
Starting May 1, and extending through May 26, 2012, a broad coalition of food, farm, health, public interest, and environmental groups all over the country, joined by leading organic food companies, will attempt to raise one million dollars to support the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act. All donations will support state GMO-labeling campaigns and their defense from lawsuits.
Genetically engineered foods have been on the market since 1996, do you honestly know which foods are genetically engineered when you go grocery shopping for yourself or your family?
A group of "Right to Know" public interest organizations and organic companies, as listed below, have pledged to match the first million dollars raised in this nationwide "Drop the Money Bomb on Monsanto Campaign."
The "Right to Know" organizations and organic companies are:
- The Organic Consumers Association
- Mercola.com
- Food Democracy Now
- Nature's Path
- Lundberg Family Farms
- Eden Foods
- The Organic Consumers Fund
- Institute For Responsible Technology
"Monsanto is one of the most powerful, arrogant and destructive companies in the world. For decades, they have controlled the world's food supply by buying off politicians and regulatory agencies, intimidating small farmers, manipulating the outcome of scientific studies, lying to consumers - and threatening to sue states like Vermont if they dare to pass a GMO labeling law.
...Despite Monsanto's claims to the contrary, scientists are clear: genetically engineered food has been linked to a wide range of health hazards, including kidney and liver damage, infertility, auto-immune disorders, allergies and autism, accerlerated aging, and birth defects...
We have the right to know if the food we buy has been genetically engineered...It's time to take back our food. Our farms. Our power. It's time to show Monsanto what ordinary people like us can do when we come together. It's time to drop the money bomb on Monsanto."
www.organicconsumersfund.org/donate/moneybomb.cfm
SIGN the Labeling Petition at:
www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/action.cfm
EDUCATE yourself and others, for more information on GMOs, go to:
www.responsibletechnology.org
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