Labeling GMOs

OUR MISSION AND HISTORY

• People want to know what is being put into their food
• 90% of Americans and a high majority of Californians
• want meaningful labels that clearly identify GE foods
• proposition 37, to make companies put their GMO
• information on the labels but it failed.

Our Reasons

• GMOs contain foreign genes for which the harmful side effects are unknown
• Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 required ingredient labeling of food
• why do Monsanto and the corporate food industry put millions of dollars behind fighting this label?
• Animal studies have shown that GMOs cause sterility within three generations
• Recent rat studies show enormous tumors on rats fed with GMO

WHY SHOULD THEY DO THIS?

ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS

• potential to cause a variety of health problems and environmental impacts.
• For instance, they may produce new allergens and toxins
• spread harmful traits to weeds and non-GE crops, or harm animals that consume them.

HEALTH RISKS

• new allergies, allergic reactions
• liver problems
• reproductive problems
• infant mortality
• bt crops: stenlity, disease, death

OTHER RISKS

• increase in herbicide use and an epidemic of herbicide-resistant "superweeds,"
• which will lead to even more herbicide use and cost can also be a factor in mor herbicide use

SCIENTISTS ARE WRONG!

• harm to monarch butterflies: pollen on milkweed.
• Allergenicity: life threatening allergies in U.S. and Europe.