Killing you softly. And secretly.
Ronnie Cummins- Organic Consumers Assoc.
It’s been a big news week for the GMO labeling movement. 
The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that Roundup causes cancer.
The New York Times reported that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has known this all along, but failed to act.
And Congress just reintroduced a bill, written by Monsanto and Big Food, intended to take away your right to know about GMOs. Permanently.
An anonymous donor in New England has stepped up with a matching funds offer that expires March 31. Can you donate $5 or more and help us raise another $110,000 to meet our goal of $200,000 by March 31 to fund GMO labeling in Maine, and in other New England states, including Massachusetts? Details on how to donate online, by check or by phone here.
Never has it been more urgent to get labels on GMO foods.
And never has it been more obvious that the federal government has no intention of protecting consumers from the risks associated with GMO foods—including the fact that nearly all of them are grown with glyphosate, a known carcinogen.
It’s up to us. We have to act before it’s too late.
Late last week, WHO released its findings that glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, “probably” causes cancer.
Days later, a new report surfaced that linked to official EPA documents showing that in 1985, the EPA classified glyphosate as a Class C carcinogen. Six years later, just about the time former Monsanto lawyer Michael Taylor got himself installed in a key position at the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), the EPA reversed that decision.
Thanks to the FDA, in the early 1990s GMOs were (illegally, according to some experts) classified as “substantially equivalent” to non-GMO foods and “Generally Recognized as Safe”—a classification that exempts them from any pre-market safety testing.
Since then, a long list of credible scientists have challenged the safety of GMO foods. But this much is irrefutable: Monsanto’s glyphosate is the cornerstone of GMO crops (whether those crops go into human food products, animal feed or biofuels). Glyphosate causes cancer. And the FDA, EPA and USDA have failed to protect us from what they’ve known all along is a cancer-causing toxin, widely used on our food, and prevalent in our drinking water.
Monsanto and Big Food have spent millions to corrupt the political process, manipulate the mass media and keep consumers in the dark. They would like nothing more than for us to give up this fight.
Now is not the time to give up. Now is the time to ramp up the pressure, and take a stand for consumer and states’ rights.
Our lives depend on it. Because while you may not drop dead instantly after eating glyphosate-drenched GMO foods, Monsanto’s chemicals linger in your body, quietly waiting for an opportunity.
We’re grateful for the generosity of our anonymous New England donor. Please help us make the most of this generous offer by donating $5 or more today to run strong GMO labeling campaigns in Maine, Massachusetts and other New England states.
Congress will have a much more difficult time ramming through their bill to preempt states’ rights to label GMOs, if we can pass a few more strong state laws asap.
Donations made to the Organic Consumers Fund, our 501(c) 4 lobbying arm, are not tax-deductible. If you want to support the grassroots advocacy and education campaigns in these states, you can make a tax-deductible donation of $5 or more to our 501(c)3 here.
Thank you!
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Ronnie Cummins
National Director, Organic Consumers Association and Organic Consumers Fund
P.S. According to a news report this week, the EPA classified Monsanto’s glyphosate as a carcinogen in 1985—and then reversed that decision, under pressure from the biotech industry. Please donate $5 or more today to pass strong GMO labeling laws. Your donation today will be matched by a generous anonymous donor in New England. Thank you!