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(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, April 5, 2012) The California Right to Know<\/a> campaign announced this week that it has filed 971,126 petition signatures for the state’s first-ever ballot initiative to require labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods. The huge signature haul, gathered in a 10-week period, is nearly double the 555,236 signatures the campaign needs to qualify for inclusion on the November ballot. If passed this November, Californians will join citizens of over 40 countries, including all of Europe, Japan, and China, who have the right to know whether they are eating GE food. <\/p>\n

\u201cI am so proud of the army of volunteers, many of them mothers and grandmothers, who stood tireless in the rain and cold to gather signatures,\u201d said Pamm Larry, a former midwife, farmer, and longtime Chico resident, who initiated the California Right to Know campaign through her group Label GMOs. \u201cThousands of volunteers across the state contributed to this victory. The people of California have spoken: we will have the right to know what we\u2019re eating and no one will stop us.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThis bumper crop of signatures is a testament to the desire of Californians to know what\u2019s really in our food,\u201d said Grant Lundberg, CEO of Lundberg Family Farms and a third generation rice farmer and food processor. \u201cIt is a rich harvest of support for the right to know and the right to choose.\u201d<\/p>\n

Labeling genetically engineered foods is a wildly popular idea and enjoys nearly unanimous support across the political spectrum. A March 2012 Mellman Group poll<\/a> found that 9 out of 10 American voters favor labeling for genetically engineered food. \u201cIn a country seemingly dominated by partisan polarization on everything from the cause of hurricanes to the state of the economy, it\u2019s hard to find issues, outside of motherhood and apple pie, that can muster over 90 percent support \u201d\u00a6we found one,\u201d pollster Mark Mellman wrote in a recent article<\/a> in The Hill<\/em> newspaper. \u201cVoters express almost unanimous support for mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods,\u201d Mr. Mellman wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe right to know is a fundamental right and a bedrock American value,\u201d said Stacy Malkan, media director of the California Right to Know campaign. \u201cThis November, the voters of California will surely vindicate our right to know what\u2019s in the food we eat and feed our children.\u201d <\/p>\n

The chorus of Americans demanding that they be allowed the right to know if their food is genetically modified has been growing louder<\/a> as more GE crops have been approved<\/a> by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Last month<\/a>, over a million signatures were submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as part of the Just Label It<\/a> campaign in support of a petition filed by the Center for Food Safety asking the agency to require labeling of GMO foods. <\/p>\n

The proliferation of GE crops<\/a>, especially among corn, soybean and cotton seed varieties, has had significant adverse economic and environmental effects for American agriculture. Commodity production systems dependent on GE crops drive up the price of land and impede younger and limited resource farmers from getting started or staying in agriculture. GE crops also promote a technological dependency in which farmers must rely upon \u2014and pay the price set by- a shrinking pool of multinational seed and input providers. There is also substantial evidence that the rapid and widespread adoption of GE crops is dramatically accelerating resistance among agricultural pests, while doing little or nothing to reduce the volume of pesticides applied.<\/p>\n

The best way to avoid GE foods in the marketplace is by purchasing foods that are certified under the USDA organic certification program<\/a>. USDA standards prohibit the use of genetic modification in the production and handling of organic food. This prohibition is one of several reasons why shopping for organic is the right choice<\/a> for consumers. Until federal or state agencies act to implement labeling requirements, American consumers will have no assurance that the conventionally produced foods they purchase and consume do not contain GE ingredients. <\/p>\n

For more information on GE food and crops, see Beyond Pesticides\u2019 page on genetic engineering<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Source: CA Right to Know press release<\/a><\/p>\n

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides. <\/em>
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By forging ties with governments, nonprofits, and people who rely on these natural resources, we reduce the need for unnecessary pesticide use and protect public health and the environment. Beyond Pesticides provides hands-on services to the public and supports local action by: identifying and interpreting hazards; and, designing safe pest management programs. With the information provided by Beyond Pesticides, people may not only be able to make informed choices and adopt practices that protect themselves and their families from unnecessary exposure to pesticides, but they will be able to effect changes on community-wide pest management decisions and policies that govern pesticide use, such as pesticide uses in parks, schools, for community insect control and along roadsides. 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