FW: URGENT: Stop Obama's sneak attack on GE food labeling!

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Subject:

URGENT: Stop Obama's sneak attack on GE

food labeling!

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Friends,

 

 

 

 

 

Please sign this Petition and forward to

your friends.

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a link to yesterday's

Consumers' Union Press Release: http://www.consumersunion.org/pub/core_food_safety/016318.html

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a link to the letter to Michael

Taylor and Kathleen Merrigan http://www.consumersunion.org/pdf/Codex-comm-ltr-0410.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

THANK YOU!

 

 

 

 

 

Anne

 

 

 

 

 

Anne Dietrich

Administrative Director

Truth in Labeling Coalition

P.O. Box 1208

Fairfield, Iowa 52556

Web: www.truthinlabelingcoalition.org

Phone: (641) 472-0411

Fax: (641) 469-5779

 

 

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Food

Democracy Now Team

 

 

Anne Dietrich

 

 

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 1:18 PM

 

 

Stop Obama's sneak attack on GMO food labeling!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stand

Up for Your Right to Know!

 

 

 

Say

" No! "

to bad rules regarding GMOs!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stop

Obama's sneak attack on GE Food labeling!

If the U.S.

government has its way, a powerful intergovernmental group youve probably never

heard of may soon prevent anyone anywhere from labeling genetically modified (GMO) food.

Operated by the

United Nations, the Codex Alimentarius is a collection of guidelines, codes and

recommendations regarding food safety and labeling standards which are used by

the World Trade Organization (WTO) to settle

international disputes regarding food and agricultural trade agreements.

The U.S. Delegation

to the Codex meeting is adopting a position that would make it virtually

impossible to label foods as " GMO-free " anywhere in the world. Click on the link below to stop this end-run

around our democratic process and make sure the voice of the American people is

heard on GMO labeling.

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/stop_the_sneak_attack/127?akid=115.68760.LJnvyc & t=7

According to draft

language circulated by the FDA, the U.S.

will oppose a proposal at an upcoming meeting of an important Codex committee that

would allow the labeling of genetically engineered food. Consumers Union and

more than 80 family farm, public health, environmental and organic food

organizations, including Food Democracy Now!, have raised concerns that the

U.S. position will create major problems for American producers who want to

label their products as GMO-free.

Unfortunately,

rather than taking a proactive stance on GMO labeling

and standing up for the rights of America's citizens, the Obama administration

has incorporated pre-existing Bush administration positions, stating that Codex

should not suggest or imply that GM/GE foods are in any way different from

other foods.1

Leading national

food policy experts believe this position directly contradicts USDA Organic standards, which prohibit the

use of genetically engineered products. If adopted, the Obama administrations

proposal might not only weaken organic standards, but could also lead to

further genetic contamination of U.S. organic crops - the fastest

and most profitable segment of agriculture today.

Even worse, the

current U.S. draft position

paper declares that mandatory labeling laws such as they have in Europe are

false, misleading or deceptive.2 If

the U.S. succeeds in writing

this proposed Codex regulation, any attempts to label foods here in the U.S.

as genetically engineered, whether voluntary or by law, would become far more

difficult, if not impossible.

This extreme

position on genetically engineered food is unacceptable. Countries should be

able to make their own decisions on the labeling of genetically engineered

foods. Please below to tell the Obama administration that you

support labeling of GMO food:

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/stop_the_sneak_attack/127?akid=115.68760.LJnvyc & t=9

Thank you for

participating in food democracy

Dave, Lisa and The

Food Democracy Now Team

 

We need to keep the pressure on! Please

donate to Food Democracy Now today whether its $5 or $50.

We rely on folks like you to keep us going. Thank you!

 

 

 

Sources:

 

1. Consumers Union, Press Release, April 20,

2010

 

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/128?akid=115.68760.LJnvyc & t=12

 

2. 80+ Groups Urge FDA, USDA to Change U.S. Position on Food Labeling

Civil Eats, April 20, 2010

 

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/129?akid=115.68760.LJnvyc & t=14

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