BC Action Alert: Ask your candidates for their position on the GM apple!

[Lucy Sharratt - CBAN Coordinator]

BC Action Alert: Ask your candidates for their position on the GM apple!

April 13 - May 14, 2013: The provincial election has started! Do your local candidates oppose the GM apple? Ask about the GM apple at all-candidate debates or at other opportunities! 

This year, the small BC company called Okanagan Specialty Fruits could get approval in the US and Canada for its GM “non-browning” apple, engineered to keep from going brown after being cut. Ask your candidates in the provincial election what their position is on the GM apple. Ask this question in all-candidate debates and make your concerns know:

"What is your position on the genetically modified apple? Its designed not to turn brown after being cut but no one wants it and it threatens our industry:

• 69% of Canadians say they don't want to eat the GM apple - according to a 2012 poll conducted for the BC Fruit Growers Association
• BC apple growers oppose the release of the GM apple. The BC Fruit Growers Association has passed resolutions against the apple. They fear that the GM apple will hurt their markets for apples (that consumers won't buy as many apples because they will want to avoid the GM apple).
• Contamination from the GM apple is a threat to organic apples and the future of BC organic apple growers.
• The federal government has not consulted with farmers and consumers and does not consider economic concerns before it approves a new GM crop like the apple. The BC government needs to defend its industry.

"If you are elected will you take action to stop the GM apple?"

For updates and materials for your candidates: www.cban.ca/bcappleaction

Contact us to let us know what your candidate says: email in...@cban.ca

Sign up to get action alerts in the BC campaign here https://groups.google.com/d/topic/gm-apple-action-bc/B0QIQkN7Nz4/discussion 

For more information about the apple: www.cban.ca/apple

Thank you for your action!

Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator 
Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) 
Collaborative Campaigning for Food Sovereignty and Environmental Justice
Suite 206, 180 Metcalfe Street
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2P 1P5 
Phone: 613 241 2267 ext. 25
Fax: 613 241 2506 
coord...@cban.ca 
www.cban.ca

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