"Just label it" GMO foods labeling actions

[Glia]

These organizations are doing a good job on the FDA GMO food labeling requirements issue:
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Incredible news—more than 500,000 supporters have commented on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) petition to have genetically engineered (GE) foods labeled!

If you haven't commented on the petition yet, it's not too late.

As family farm supporters, you and I want to know what's in our food and how it was grown or raised. We try to be informed eaters.

But here in the U.S. there's no requirement that food with GE ingredients be labeled.

That's why Farm Aid has joined hundreds of organizations across the country calling on the FDA to mandate labeling for all GE foods.

Already, more than 500,000 people have signed the petition—will you help us get to 1 million and protect our food supply and our family farmers in the process?

This campaign isn't just about our rights as eaters—it's critical for farmers too. Farmers should have the right to purchase, plant and save non-GE seeds, and grow their crops without fear of GE contamination. Lack of regulation of genetic engineering violates basic rights of both farmers and eaters.

We know that mandatory labeling of GE foods will not fix all that's wrong with genetic engineering, but it's an important step. Labeling GE ingredients will let you and I decide what kind of food we eat and feed our families. Labeling GE food will help family farmers who do not plant GE seeds have a stronger market for selling their goods.

Tell the FDA that it's our right to have mandatory labeling of all GE foods.

Sincerely,

Hilde Steffey
Program Director, Farm Aid
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Thank you so much for standing with nearly 43,000 supporters of the Environmental Working Group to demand that the federal Food and Drug Administration require labeling of genetically engineered ingredients in the food we eat.

More than 90 percent of Americans agree with us that we have the right to know what's in our food. The best way to reach these people and make sure the FDA gets the message is to share this petition far and wide. EWG Action Fund board member Robyn O'Brien has joined the Just Label It campaign and Food, Inc. director, Robby Kenner. Together they created a video about why we all have the right to know what is in the food we eat. Will you help us spread the word?

Thank you again for taking action. You have the right to know what's in your food. Together, we'll make sure that happens.

Sincerely,

Ken Cook
President, Environmental Working Group