You may be relieved that President Obama caved under industry pressure and signed S 764, the Dark Act, into law. You may think that putting a QR Code, website, telephone number or symbol to “label” some GMOs will be sufficient to handle the GMO issue for your customers.

We are mothers, parents, and consumers of all kinds, who are aware that GMOs could be in your products. We’re resolved to simply not buy any products that could contain GMOs or toxic chemicals. We will read the labels, and if we do not see a clear indication that the ingredients are Non-GMO and certified organic, without toxic chemicals, we will assume it is GMO and contains toxic pesticides/herbicides and won’t buy it.

 

As much as we possibly can, we will only buy products which are both certified Organic and Non GMO Project Verified. We will ask our friends, neighbors and associates to do the same. There are millions of us.

 

You must understand by now that we do not want GMOs and toxic pesticides in our food of any kind. We do not want genetically altered sugar, soy, corn, cottonseed oil, gene-edited rice or syn bio vanilla. Otherwise, why would so many of you try to hide them? We reject the concept of patenting life, the practice of  altering DNA and consuming higher amounts of toxic pesticides/herbicides as safe.

 

While you may think that buying the cheaper GMO ingredients will be more profitable for you, you will see how wrong that is. What would be most profitable is to use organic ingredients without genetically altered foreign proteins and toxic pesticides. What would be most profitable is to be responsible for providing healthy food to the public and gain our trust.

 

There are millions more consumers every day who are learning about GMOs and you cannot stop that awareness by hiding GMOs in your products. The next generation has been educated about the dangers of GMOs and they will soon be your primary target consumers.

 

This is about more than feeling full, we want to feel fulfilled that we have fed our families safe food. Pesticides kill and are unsafe to eat. We do not want GMOs, labeled or not.

 

We ask you to make the switch to certified Organic and Non GMO Project Verified ingredients and provide safe food to the American people.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

Zen Honeycutt,Executive Director, Moms Across America Pamm Larry, Founder, LabelGMOs.org GMO Action Alliance Judi Shils, Executive Director,Turning Green The Conscious Kitchen John E. Peck Executive Director Family Farm Defenders M. Kelly Sutton MD, Raphael Medicine & Therapies PC Will Allen, Cedar Circle Farm, author “War on Bugs” Howard Vlieger, Farmer educator Illinois Right to Know Northeast Organic Farming Association, Vermont Organic Sacramento Gretchen DuBeau, Esq., Alliance for Natural Health USA

Sacramento Community Guild California Guild Environmental Voices Label GMOs Nevada Miriam MacGillis, OP Director, Genesis Farm Families for Early Autism Treatment (FEAT) Diana Reeves, Founder, GMO Free USA Bonnie Wright, Founder, NH Right to Know GMO Northeast Organic Dairy Producers  Ronnie Cummings, Organic Consumers Association Beth Lambert, Executive Director, Epidemic Answers Trish Sheldon, Co-founder, GMO-Free Florida Reverend Billy & the Church of Stop Shopping Moms for Safe Food