Post by editorialist12 on Jul 27, 2015 10:10:54 GMT -8
In a disgraceful move and contrary to the will of the American people the House of Representatives voted 275 to 150 to pre-empt all state laws governing genetically engineered ingredients in foods. The legislation was entitled, the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act. Polls indicated that 90% of the American people wanted labels indicating whether or not GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) ingredients were present in the foods they purchase. To get the full story click on this link:
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This is just another example of our legislative officials in Washington, District of Corruption who are elected to do the will of the people doing exactly the OPPOSITE! It seems they are only accountable to the corporations or selfish interest groups who can fill their coffers with the greatest amount of money. In this case it is more than likely it was Monsanto who paid the greatest amount as Monsanto leads the market in the production of GMO's.
In an issue as great as this, don't the people for reasons of safety, health and nutrition have the right to know whether or not the foods they buy have GMO ingredients in them? Monsanto doesn't seem to care about what harm their products do to the environment or human health, one classic example is a product they manufacture that is supposedly killing off millions of honey bees, the main source of germination for our vegetable and fruit supply
However all is not lost. Those of us who want to know all the ingredients in our food supply we still have two opportunism to keep this legislation from coming law.
The first opportunity is to start contacting your two state senators who represent you in the U. S. Senate as the current legislation passed in the House of Representatives must now be approved by the U. S. Senate.
If passed by the Senate our second and final opportunity is to get Mr. Obama to veto it, provided there are not enough votes in the Congress to override his veto.
So let's get the ball rolling. The U. S. Senate will probably start considering this bill after they come back from their summer recess. Therefore please contact your two Senators NOW and demand they vote against any legislation that comes before them that would deny the right to label any food supplies containing GMO ingredients You can contact them by going to U. S. Senate Website--link: www.senate.gov/