Fw: Let's make this strike three for GE Animals.

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FYI--- On Sat, 11/15/08, Sarah Alexander, Food & Water Watch <fwwatch wrote:

Sarah Alexander, Food & Water Watch <fwwatchLet's make this strike three for GE Animals.totallyopenDate: Saturday, November 15, 2008, 11:24 AM

 

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November 15, 2008

 

Dear Gerald,

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keep genetically engineered animals off your plate.

 

 

 

 

Act now.

You might think that after their controversial decision to allow cloned animals into the food supply, the Bush administration would take a break for while. But they're up against the clock, and trying to push genetically engineered animals onto your dinner plate. Can you help us make sure they don't get their way?The Food and Drug Administration recently released its draft plan for how it will approve animals that are genetically engineered to grow faster, produce more milk, or even produce drugs in their meat or milk. The agency wants to use its drug approval process to approve new GE animals - a process that is flawed and wrapped in secrecy. This approval process would require the agency to review the

effectiveness of the genetically engineered trait and any health impact on the animal, but not test the food that comes from these animals. And this process does nothing to weigh any environmental damage caused by things like GE fish escaping from fish farms and breeding with wild fish, or the ethical considerations of altering the genes of animals in the first place. And to make matters worse, the FDA is not requiring that food from GE animals be labeled, so consumers won't know if the food they buy for their families was produced with this controversial technology.Tell FDA to ban the use of genetically engineered animals for food. Take action.

 

Thanks for taking action,Sarah Alexander, Senior Food OrganizerFood & Water Watch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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