Fwd: What poison is in GMO, that GOP want to ban labeling---????
Mark W Lowry
John Locke WAR on CITIZENS “Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience and are left to the common refuge, which God hath provided for all men, against force and violence.” ~ John Locke, 2nd Treatise on Government.
Thomas Jefferson parasites "I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." Jefferson was most responsible for designing a form of government with citizens as sovereigns, the Constitution he produced, has been devoured by parasitic public official growths that will ultimately destroy its host America.
Mark W Lowry................................................................
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Date: Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 4:11 PM
Subject: What poison is in GMO, that GOP want to ban labeling---????
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House Republicans Fast-Track Bill to Prevent States from Labeling GMO Foods
Noel Brinkerhoff and Steve Straehley
7/16/2015
Republicans in the U.S. House have swiftly moved to adopt legislation that would prohibit states from adopting laws requiring labels on food containing genetically modified organisms (GMO).
The House Committee on Agriculture this week approved HR 1599, which would create a voluntary federal labeling standard while also preventing states from forcing companies to put GMO labels on their foods. The bill, which cleared the committee without debate, is now headed to the House floor.
“Members of Congress are really looking for a federal solution here,” Colin O’Neil, director of government affairs for the Center for Food Safety, told The Hill. “I think we’re going to get to that rubber-meets-the-road point where members realize they are being sold on a bill that doesn’t solve anything consumers are asking for, which is a mandatory labeling standard.”
Critics have called HR 1599 the “Mother of All Monsanto Protection Acts” after the company that has long opposed GMO labels, as well as the DARK (Deny Americans the Right to Know) Act.
Ronnie Cummins of the Organic Consumers Association characterized the legislation as “anti-consumer,” “anti-democracy and anti-state’s rights.”
Vermont already has a law in place requiring GMO products to be labeled as such. Big Food has been fighting in court to get the law overturned.
Read more …..
- Food Disaster: Republicans Stomp on GMO Labeling (by Katherine Paul, AlterNet)
- Statement from Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Assoc., on Reintroduction of Federal Bill to Kill States’ Rights to GMO Labeling Laws (Organic Consumers Association)
- GMO Bill Intensifies Federal Food Fight (by Lydia Wheeler, The Hill)
- Vermont First State to Require Labeling of Genetically Engineered Foods (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)
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