RESPONSE TO: FDA DELETES 1 MILLION SIGNATURES FROM GMO LABELING CAMPAIGN
Rocky Montana
While the Food and Drug Administration has seemingly reached the limit for unbelievable behavior, the agency's decisions continue to astound and appall consumers and health activists alike. In the agency’s latest decision, undoubtedly amazing thousands of individuals yet again, the FDA virtually erased 1 million signatures and comments on the ‘Just Label It’ campaign calling for the labeling of genetically modified foods.
FDA Deletes 1 Million Signatures for GMO Labeling Campaign
The ‘Just Label It” campaign has gotten more signatures than any campaign in history for the labeling of genetically modified foods. Since October of 2011, the campaign has received over 900,000 signatures, with 55 politicians joining in on the movement. So what’s the problem?
Evidently, the FDA counts the amount of signatures not by how many people signed, but how many different individual letters are brought to it. To the FDA, even tens of thousands of signatures presented on a single petition are counted as – you guessed it – a single comment. This is how, despite over a million supporters being gathered by the petition, the FDA concluded a count of only 394.
“This is an election year and there are more than a million people who say this is important to them. This petition has nothing to do with whether or not genetically modified foods are dangerous. We don’t label dangerous foods, we take them off the shelves. This petition is about a the citizens’ right to know what they are eating and whether or not these foods represent a novel change.” said Andrew Kimbrell an attorney for the Center for Food Safety, one of the partner groups on the 'Just Label It campaign'.
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The argument as to whether genetically modified foods are dangerous is a whole different discussion on its own, but for the FDA to completely sidestep the labeling of GM foods is completely and utterly irresponsible [and screams COMPLICITY , CONFLICT OF INTEREST and BRIBERY/BLACKMAIL OF FDA EMPLOYEES for starters]. Consumers have every right to know what they are consuming. Needless to say, biotechnology giant Monsanto is against GMO labeling, claiming that it would mislead consumers since GMOs are ‘perfectly safe’. [No, NOT labeling GMO foods would be, and is, misleading consumers. By not properly labeling GMO foods, consumers think that all foods are created/grown naturally. GMO foods are NOT naturally created foods; they are altered from their original Divine design; they are adulterated by man.] Of course there is plenty of evidence proving that GMOs are not completely safe, and how they affect life in the long-term is questionable to say the least. Either way, there is enough controversy surrounding the issue which is cause for alarm for millions of people, and Monsanto’s opinion on GMOs safety is a sorry excuse for not labeling foods as GM. Is the FDA avoiding such an issue because so many ties exist between genetically modified makers like Monsanto and the agency?
[Would someone from within the FDA please stand up and tell the truth?!?]
The bottom line is that you have the right to know what is in your food, and what your food IS. Denying that right, whether it be by the essential deletion of millions of signatures on a petition, or by ignoring the voices of hundreds of thousands of people, is taking power away from the people [and withholding information from the people. In essence this is a food war against the American people].
[This is about TRUTH IN ADVERTISING and THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE between health over disease; between natural foods over synthetic foods! Think about it; Monsanto or any one of their competitors connected to the AMA or BIG PHARMA could implant ANY foreign, detrimental bacteria, virus or environmental contaminant into these GMO foods in order to grow their other businesses bottom line and no-one would be the wiser. Rather than being beneficial and nutritious foods, GMO's could be, and perhaps already are, made to be disease delivery systems.]
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