Islander
06-21-12, 10:45 AM
FROM Food Democracy Now via e-maIL
Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:17 AM
Urgent Calls needed - Senate votes on GMO labeling amendment today!
(http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/605?t=6&akid=577.24565.psKtfT)
Yesterday was a better day in the U.S. Senate for family farmers, eaters and the environment, with several key amendments protecting vital conservation programs passing in floor votes. (Please see below for the updates).
We want to thank Food Democracy Now! members and our allies for achieving some significant victories in the Farm Bill this week. As you know, we are up against some of the most powerful corporations on the planet, but this shows if we all work together we can help create significant change. In the past week Food Democracy Now! members have made more than 15,000 phones calls to the Senate, but we have one more hurdle this week.
Another urgent vote will take place in the Senate in the next few hours and your Senator could cast the deciding vote on the Sanders amendment #2310 that clarifies state's existing rights to require labeling of genetically engineered foods. This vote will require 60 affirmative votes to pass so we need A LOT of calls!
Click here to tell your Senator it's time to label GMOs! Americans shouldn't have to wait, nearly 50 other countries around the globe already require GMO labeling! (http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/605?t=7&akid=577.24565.psKtfT)
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/605?t=9&akid=577.24565.psKtfT (http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/605?t=8&akid=577.24565.psKtfT)
In the past year, more than a dozen states have introduced legislation to allow their citizens the right to know what's in their food and how it's produced, but massive corporate lobbying by Monsanto and the biotech industry has brought these bill to a halt in key states like Connecticut and Vermont.
Americans can no longer allow the threats of corporations to deny us our simple Right to Know what's in our food, nor live under the hypocritical and pseudo-scientific theory of "substantial equivalence", which was established by the FDA in 1992 and continues this politically motivated charade of not allowing the labeling of food that has been genetically engineered in laboratories.
Tell your Senators, "I support GMO labeling and you should too! (http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/605?t=10&akid=577.24565.psKtfT)"
Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:17 AM
Urgent Calls needed - Senate votes on GMO labeling amendment today!
(http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/605?t=6&akid=577.24565.psKtfT)
Yesterday was a better day in the U.S. Senate for family farmers, eaters and the environment, with several key amendments protecting vital conservation programs passing in floor votes. (Please see below for the updates).
We want to thank Food Democracy Now! members and our allies for achieving some significant victories in the Farm Bill this week. As you know, we are up against some of the most powerful corporations on the planet, but this shows if we all work together we can help create significant change. In the past week Food Democracy Now! members have made more than 15,000 phones calls to the Senate, but we have one more hurdle this week.
Another urgent vote will take place in the Senate in the next few hours and your Senator could cast the deciding vote on the Sanders amendment #2310 that clarifies state's existing rights to require labeling of genetically engineered foods. This vote will require 60 affirmative votes to pass so we need A LOT of calls!
Click here to tell your Senator it's time to label GMOs! Americans shouldn't have to wait, nearly 50 other countries around the globe already require GMO labeling! (http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/605?t=7&akid=577.24565.psKtfT)
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/605?t=9&akid=577.24565.psKtfT (http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/605?t=8&akid=577.24565.psKtfT)
In the past year, more than a dozen states have introduced legislation to allow their citizens the right to know what's in their food and how it's produced, but massive corporate lobbying by Monsanto and the biotech industry has brought these bill to a halt in key states like Connecticut and Vermont.
Americans can no longer allow the threats of corporations to deny us our simple Right to Know what's in our food, nor live under the hypocritical and pseudo-scientific theory of "substantial equivalence", which was established by the FDA in 1992 and continues this politically motivated charade of not allowing the labeling of food that has been genetically engineered in laboratories.
Tell your Senators, "I support GMO labeling and you should too! (http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/605?t=10&akid=577.24565.psKtfT)"