Denied: Lawmakers Fighting to Hide GMO Ingredients Nationwide
Despite an overwhelming number of consumers voicing their desire to know whats in their food, Idaho lawmakers, as well as others, are taking steps toward making sure that never happens.
In the face of states introducing and passing GMO labeling laws that would require the labeling of genetically modified foods, these lawmakers are asking the federal government to make sure there will never be any required labeling, and that all labeling be voluntary.
Republican Sen. Jim Rice from Caldwell told lawmakers that a patchwork of state labeling laws would be too complex for manufacturers and could raise food prices – both being untrue claims. According to Rice and others, this lack of transparency should be standard across the nation, even if states pass mandatory GMO labeling efforts.
The House has already passed the request 41-24 last week.
The Grocery Manufacturers Association, along with allies like Monsanto and Dow, have teamed up on a federal bill that would deny your right to know what is in your food.
This bill, which has been called the “Denying Americans the Right-to-Know Act” (DARK Act), would:
- Prevent states from adopting their own GE labeling laws, effectively silencing millions and denying the people their rights.
- Block any attempt by states to make it illegal for food companies to put a “natural” label on products that contain GE ingredients.
- Prevent the Food and Drug Administration from requiring companies to label GE ingredients and instead continue “voluntary” labeling policy.
Tell Congress to drop this corporate hand-out of a bill!
Call your Senators and Representative and ask them to help stop this and any similar bill, and to support mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods!
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A message courtesy of Center for Food Safety, here is something you can say:
“Hello. I strongly want to know what is in the food I buy and feed my family. That is why I support the mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods. Unfortunately, some Members of Congress want to keep me in the dark by preempting state labeling laws and preventing the FDA from ever requiring labeling. That is why I urge you to oppose the “DARK Act,” an industry-backed bill to block GMO labeling introduced last year by Representatives Mike Pompeo and G.K. Butterfield. Instead, I urge you to support mandatory labeling legislation introduced by Representative Peter DeFazio and Senator Barbara Boxer that would give all consumers the right to know what is in their food.”
The GMA wants voluntary labeling, but that is like asking members of Congress to stop taking bribes – voluntarily. Yeah right. They have tried killing even state’s rights to decide what is in their food, and their right to label genetically modified organisms.
“This legislation would create a uniform, national program governing the premarket review and labeling of genetically engineered foods. First, it would require the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a safety review of all new plant varieties used for genetically engineered food before those foods are introduced into commerce.
Second, the legislation would create a new legal framework, subject to FDA oversight, governing the use of label claims regarding either the absence of, or use of, genetically engineered food or food ingredients. The legislation would also require FDA to develop Federal definition for “natural” claims on product labels. Given this new legal framework, states would be precluded from imposing any requirements that are not identical to these Federal requirements.”
The GMA will stop at nothing to keep genetically modified foods from being labeled, because they know this will halt the monopolies on seed that Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta, and other companies are currently trying to wield over entire nations, not just our own.
I will say it once again for all the ignorant Americans out there: IF THE LABEL DOESN’T SAY NON GMO, GMO FREE OR ORGANIC THEN IT IS NOT!!!!Its that simple. The entire anti GM movement was based on the idea that two very different species would never cross genes in nature. But in a recent article on NATURALNEWS (another anti GM site) called: Green sea slug steals photosynthesis genes by eating algae; gene transfer uncontrollable in wild, the anti GM folks have now defeated their own argument I guess without even realizing it. All I see now is just a bunch of scared little people talking out of both sides of their mouths.
The only simple thing here is you.
so sick of having to beg these criminal pricks for the right to exempt myself from their poisonous earth killing crap.you cant possibly keep up with the political assaults on our Earth and the people .you could literally spend all day researching their next criminal assault and write them letters of protest and never slow this machine down.they can destroy lives with a 10 second stroke of their pen and people will spend years and years trying to reverse their criminal decisions,laws,acts and policies that do not and never have benefited the people they get enormous wealth from by way of extortion to “serve the public” .theyre all crooks,they all play the controlled opposition daily ,each one with a different crime they pretend to fight against in our interests .174,000 $ for life these chumps take home ,plus the investments they are allowed to make because of their huge incomes and inside knowledge of what criminal policy will benefit their incomes the most.they are ALL millionaires pretending to represent those who could never DREAM of such an income,much less for “working”(playing dress up) less than 200 days out of the year ,ALL EXPENSES PAID ,only the best hotels/motels ,no worries about transportation requirements being “up to date” financially,no raising their children or living in a stacked and packed “sustainable development” like the rest of us,no gmo foods on their plates ,the few left who plenty of room the grow their own food but no necessity to do so ,in fact ,i am sure if they have gardens for “novelty purposes” they surely have a gardener to do it for them while the rest of us take public transportation to the local gmo/chemical food retailer to pack it back on a bus at 5$ or more per trip.those who have found ways to avoid the mandatory poisons or disagree with their imposed criminality are now defined as “domestic terrorists”