Breaking News: New York Moves Forward with GMO Labeling Bills
Great news for New Yorkers who want to know if their food contains genetically modified organisms. #GMO label Bill A.617 just successfully voted out of Assembly Consumer Affairs & Protection Committee in a 9 to 6 vote, and now it needs to make it through a Codes Committee.
Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal of Manhattan sponsored A00617, and State Senator Ken LaValle of Suffolk sponsored S00485 for mandatory GMO labeling in New York. Make sure you thank them, first and foremost.
New York residents can take further action to keep this positive momentum going, and they should. The room was filled with Big Ag and Biotech special interests and the NY Farm Bureau, all lobbyists who would like to keep GMOs from being labeled. Aside from the assemblymembers themselves, there were only five NY GMO Labeling Coalition representatives to counter Big Food talking points, but chair Dinowitz apparently did a stand up job rebutting biotech claims.
If you live in New York, please CALL & EMAIL your Assemblymember and your State Senator today. Let them know that you demand mandatory labeling of GMOs, and urge them to sponsor their respective bills to pass GMO labeling this year. If your representative is already a co-sponsor, let them know that you support this important stand they are taking against companies like Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, and Syngenta.
Read: Bill Demanding GMO Labeling Introduced in Rhode Island
To check to see if your Assemblymember has co-sponsored Bill A00617, check this link.
You can also visit righttoknnow-gmo.org to join thousands of other New Yorkers who want and end to biotech meddling in our food supply.
To help New York require food makers to label all GM food, you can also visit this site.
Will New York be the next state to label GMOs? Arizona, Massachusetts, Indiana, California, Rhode Island, and numerous other states are working hard to pass GMO labeling initiatives. With more states joining the line up and eventually passing GMO labeling measures, we come closer to instituting a nation-wide GMO labeling law.
IF THE PACKAGE DOES NOT SAY GMO FREE OR ORGANIC THEN IT IS NOT! NO NEED FOR RELABELING!!! This is just more proof that most people must not read anything anyway.
“No need for relabeling” Ha Ha you got that right the aim is to ban GMO There is a serious need for lawful investigations and amending the rules and regulations of the FDA USDA allowances on supposed Organic, natural and sadly non gmo labeling. Parts per million meaning there are parts per million synthetic surprise-allowances found in all the 3 listed and are allowed to be falsely labeled natural, organic and non gmo factory foods. The facts are in these agencies rules as they are also bullying the NOSB to change their allowances and sunshine rules
Local farm markets and natural stores will be the only truth in organic natural and non gmo foods
Shop local and plant your own gardens community supported agriculture = ORGANIC
So every product on the shelves that is not marked GMO is GMO safe. Prove it.
Labeling is a good start but better to place a moratorium on all GMO open-field production until long term independent safety studies are conducted.
As a farmer, who has experimented with genetic engineering in the lab, I know the dangers of rogue proteins, reproductive issues, problems with gut bacteria that are severely disturbing and just part of the multitude of problems associated with creating new life forms. GMOs provide no benefits to farmers and have failed to deliver the promises monsanto made 15 years ago when they were introduced.
We passed our counties first ever voter iniative for a moratorium here, on Maui the frontline of the production of GMO seeds, despite being outspent by Monsanto and Dow, who paid over $8 million, the most ever spent on an election in the history of Hawaii.
We won with less than $65 k, average donation was $50. We don’t want monsanto to do to Hawaii or anywhere what they did to Anniston Alabama, where they were convicted of knowingly poisoning an entire town for decades and covering it up.
Excellent post and congratulations on the win.
GMO Food — It’s Worse Than We Thought – Dr. Russell Blaylock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA2GhOCtmBE