POLITICAL: URGENT: Stop Obama's sneak attack on GE food labeling!

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Subject: URGENT: Stop Obama's sneak attack on GE food labeling!

Dear Friends,

Please sign this Petition and forward to your friends.

Here is a link to yesterday's Consumers' Union Press Release:

http://www.consumersunion.org/pub/core_food_safety/016318.html

Here is a link to the letter to and Kathleen Merrigan

http://www.consumersunion.org/pdf/Codex-comm-ltr-0410.pdf

THANK YOU!

Anne

Anne Dietrich

Administrative Director

Truth in Labeling Coalition

P.O. Box 1208

Fairfield, Iowa 52556

Web: www.truthinlabelingcoalition.org

Phone: (641) 472-0411

Fax: (641) 469-5779

Stop Obama's sneak attack on GMO food labeling!

Stand

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Stop

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labeling!

If the U.S. government has its way, a powerful intergovernmental group youve

probably never heard of may soon prevent anyone

anywhere from labeling genetically modified (GMO) food.

Operated by the United Nations, the Codex Alimentarius is a collection of

guidelines, codes and recommendations regarding food

safety and labeling standards which are used by the World Trade Organization

(WTO) to settle international disputes regarding food

and agricultural trade agreements.

The U.S. Delegation to the Codex meeting is adopting a position that would make

it virtually impossible to label foods as " GMO-free "

anywhere in the world. Click on the link below to stop this end-run around our

democratic process and make sure the voice of the

American people is heard on GMO labeling.

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According to draft language circulated by the FDA, the U.S. will oppose a

proposal at an upcoming meeting of an important Codex

committee that would allow the labeling of genetically engineered food.

Consumers Union and more than 80 family farm, public health,

environmental and organic food organizations, including Food Democracy Now!,

have raised concerns that the U.S. position will create

major problems for American producers who want to label their products as

GMO-free.

Unfortunately, rather than taking a proactive stance on GMO labeling and

standing up for the rights of America's citizens, the Obama

administration has incorporated pre-existing Bush administration positions,

stating that Codex should not suggest or imply that

GM/GE foods are in any way different from other foods.1

Leading national food policy experts believe this position directly contradicts

USDA Organic standards, which prohibit the use of

genetically engineered products. If adopted, the Obama administrations proposal

might not only weaken organic standards, but could

also lead to further genetic contamination of U.S. organic crops - the fastest

and most profitable segment of agriculture today.

Even worse, the current U.S. draft position paper declares that mandatory

labeling laws such as they have in Europe are false,

misleading or deceptive.2 If the U.S. succeeds in writing this proposed Codex

regulation, any attempts to label foods here in the

U.S. as genetically engineered, whether voluntary or by law, would become far

more difficult, if not impossible.

This extreme position on genetically engineered food is unacceptable. Countries

should be able to make their own decisions on the

labeling of genetically engineered foods. Please click on the link below to tell

the Obama administration that you support labeling

of GMO food:

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Thank you for participating in food democracy

Dave, and The Food Democracy Now Team

We need to keep the pressure on! Please

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to Food Democracy Now today whether its $5 or $50. We rely on folks like you to

keep us going. Thank you!

Sources:

1. Consumers Union, Press Release, April 20, 2010

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2. 80+ Groups Urge FDA, USDA to Change U.S. Position on Food Labeling Civil

Eats, April 20, 2010

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