Title: Death blow to GMOs? California ballot initiative calls for mandatory labeling of all genetically engineered foods Source:
Natural News URL Source:http://www.naturalnews.com/033763_G ... ifornia_ballot_initiative.html Published:Oct 4, 2011 Author:Mike Adams Post Date:2011-10-04 13:02:08 by Original_Intent Keywords:Frankenfood, GMO, California, initiative Views:164 Comments:12
Death blow to GMOs? California ballot initiative calls for mandatory labeling of all genetically engineered foods by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) In what is perhaps the most significant breaking news we've heard on the GMO front in a long time, an effort has just been announced in California that seeks to gather enough signatures to put an historical initiative on the ballot which would require the labeling of GMOs in foods.
I interviewed Ronnie Cummins from the Organic Consumers Association (www.OrganicConsumers.org), who is a key leader in advocating mandatory GMO labeling. His organization is playing a significant role in helping to get this initiative on the ballot in California.
This is the pathway to victory against GMOs! With this initiative on the ballot, we have a very achievable strategy to deal a death blow to GMOs and restore sanity and integrity to our seeds and food crops.
Listen to the full interview with Ronnie Cummins on SoundCloud: http://snd.sc/qPBFJk
Highlights from the announcement for mandatory GMO labeling
• This labeling initiative is effectively a "ban" on GMOs, because most consumers simply won't buy genetically engineered ingredients once they know they are present in conventional foods.
• GMOs are only continuing to be grown and sold today because consumers have been prevented from knowing about the GMO ingredients in their foods.
• 75% of all non-organic processed foods in grocery stores today contain genetically engineered ingredients.
• 90% - 95% of Americans want to know which foods contain GMOs.
• The GMO industry is already gearing up to fight this ballot initiative and plans to spread lies about GMOs such as "GMOs are necessary to feed the world" or "genetically engineered crops are perfectly safe!" (The quack scientists who push GMOs are no doubt gearing up to spread their lies and disinformation as part of the effort to confuse consumers and thereby protect their GMO profits.)
• This initiative, if approved, would force health food retailers like Whole Foods and Trader Joe's to reformulate their own products and inventory to remove GMOs. "There's gonna be panic in the boardrooms of Whole Foods and Trader Joe's," says Cummins.
• 700,000 signatures are needed in California to put this initiative on the ballot. This will require an army of volunteers with clipboards to gather the signatures. See below for how you can contribute to this effort.
• Go to www.OrganicConsumers.org and click on the "Millions Against Monsanto" campaign page to see where you can sign up to be a volunteer.
• Significant funding providers for this campaign include: Dr. Bronner's - $1 million, Nature's Path - $500k, Mercola.com - $500k, Organic Consumers Association - $250k and others.
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Very good news, but we have all seen how Judges have struck down these initiatives even after winning a huge percentage of the vote. Even if they do require labelling it will only be in California and I wouldn’t trust them to be honest. The only way to guarantee you are not eating GMF is to grow it yourself.
Very good news, but we have all seen how Judges have struck down these initiatives even after winning a huge percentage of the vote. Even if they do require labelling it will only be in California and I wouldn’t trust them to be honest. The only way to guarantee you are not eating GMF is to grow it yourself.
Looking for the cloud around the silver lining? (Just joking.)
The thing is that California is such a big market that if the issue is forced there manufacturers will comply in other states just because it is too big of nuisance to do it for one and not all. They want to run one production line not more than one, and you can count on independent watchdog groups to be monitoring compliance.
If it makes it to the ballot IT WILL pass and probably overwhelmingly. And yes the corrupt courts will look for ways to strike it down, but this is nevertheless a major milestone, and the GMO producers do NOT want a lot of publicity as then their name gets associated with unhealthful Frankenfood. So, there are a lot of angles to this.
Anti-GMO activism is approaching the formation of a tidal wave as more and more people become aware of the greater and greater mounts of evidence that are accumulating which show the adverse health effects of genetically modified foods.