This is how we drive Monsanto's GMOs off the market
From my email ....
Dear Organic Consumer,
How do we know we're winning the war against Monsanto and Big Food?
Dozens of supermarket chains and natural health stores have declared that they won’t sell GMO salmon in their stores, even if the FDA approves it.
Grocery stores, including major retail chains, are starting to voluntarily label GMO-foods, and in some cases, get rid of them altogether. Meanwhile sales of non-GMO and organic products are steadily increasing.
The Grocery Manufacturers Association, desperate to prevent state GMO labeling laws, is peddling a bill in Congress that would preempt state laws—but no member of Congress has been willing to sponsor it.
We’re winning, one battle at a time. But until we bring down Monsanto’s evil empire once and for all, we still have work to do. If you help us raise $200,000 by midnight, March 31, two donors—Mercola.com and Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps—will pitch in to match our $200,000 by donating $100,000 each. We’ll use that $400,000 to fight for state GMO labeling laws, and county bans on GMO crops. Can you make a donation today?
Since January 1, 2014, our Organic Consumers’ network has donated $165,000 to the Vermont state GMO labeling campaign, and $15,000 to the Maryland state GMO labeling campaign.
We’ve also donated a total of $80,000 to campaigns to ban the growing of GMO crops in several Oregon counties.
Next week, we’ll send the first $100,000 of our $500,000 pledge to support the November 4 state ballot initiative in Oregon, an initiative that will require mandatory labeling of foods containing GMO ingredients.
Many of you helped us raise millions of dollars for state ballot initiatives in California and Washington State, only to be disappointed when Monsanto and Big Food squeaked by with narrow wins. I was disappointed, too.
But you can’t put a price on exposing Monsanto's lies and driving genetically engineered foods off the market. What you helped us accomplish in California and Washington State has cracked the foundation of Monsanto’s evil empire.
Now we need to finish the job.
Like you, I look forward to the day when we no longer have to raise money to fight for the basic right to know what’s in our food—and the right to ban the growing of crops, and the manufacture of foods, that are poisoning our soil, air and water, and ruining our health.
Until then, we’re all in this together.
Every donation made by midnight, March 31, no matter how large or small, will bring us closer to our goal of $200,000—and that much closer to matching funds from Mercola.com and Dr. Bronner’s.
Thank you!
Ronnie Cummins
National Director, Organic Consumers Association and Organic Consumers Fund
P.S. Funds donated directly to campaigns must be raised through the Organic Consumers Fund, our allied 501(c)4 lobbying arm. If you need to make a tax-deductible donation, please donate to our 501(c)3 nonprofit. Your donation will indirectly support our GMO bans and labeling laws by funding our ongoing education and media work.
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occultly shove GMO foodlike crapola down our gullets without our permission. Not to mention the destruction of living soils by the vast vat of Big Chem, Inc. poured out upon the earth to support the Mutant Crops.
and into the Gulf -- or in any of the other places where Big Chem, Inc. is screwing up the planet and creating DEAD ZONES.
...and don't like having my body and my planet violated + screwed up so a few corporations can profiteer.
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...people are waking up.
Big Agra + Pharma = 
--we are being forced to research our food, read every label, abstain from certain foods. It's a huge headache. So irresponsible of the industry and I would call it an egregious betrayal of public trust.
I think protests and boycotts can work in the case of food. When consumers balk and don't buy...
it sends a message.
I don't use soy products but now am avoiding corn and canola when I'm not sure it's non-GMO. Those are the three big GMO crops inflicted on Americans.
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Did you know that 80% of processed foods in your standard grocery store contain genetically modified ingredients? Most people are eating GM foods on a regular basis and are completely unaware of the fact. In the United States, 94% of soy, 88% of corn, 90% of canola, 95% of sugar beets, 25,000 acres of zucchini and yellow crook neck squash and almost all Hawaiian papaya are now genetically modified.
The environmental impact of GM crops is astonishing. According to a report by the Organic Center, genetically modified crops increased the use of herbicides by 383 million pounds in the US from 1996 to 2008. The widespread use of glyphosate herbicide used with herbicide tolerant GM corn, soybeans, canola and cotton has also led to the creation of herbicide resistant “superweeds”. This requires MORE herbicides to be used to “do the job”. I suppose this doesn’t sound bad if you are the company manufacturing the herbicides.
Monsanto holds the patents on various GM products, including GM corn and RoundUp Readysoybeans. They are also the producer ofthe herbicide RoundUp. The line of RoundUp Ready products accounts for roughly half of their annual revenue. It is no surprise that their lobbying power is the driving force working against the GMO labeling laws that over 80% of the American population desires. The United States is one of the few democratic Western industrialized countries that allows GM crops to be grown, and despite public outcry GM foods are still not required to be labeled as such in the US.
Another pressing issue is the cross contamination of GM crops into traditional
crops. In Mexico, native strains of corn were found to be contaminated with GM corn being grown thousands of miles away. This is an enormous and immediate threat to biodiversity as well as to the purity of organic food standards. It also poses another serious threat to farmers. GM crops are patented and Monsanto has sued farmers where unintentional (and undesired) cross-contamination was found. The Future of Food is a very informative film that talks about these and other pressing GMO issues. The Local Grocer has a free movie lending program for this and other educational films.
http://www.nhlocalgrocer.com/2012/05/are-you-eating-gmos/
