64 Countries Mandate GMO Labeling

The US and Canada do NOT!

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Join 1,400,000 Americans Who Are Demanding to Know What's in Their Food

Studies show that 93% of Americans support mandatory labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods.

GE foods are labeled in 64 countries including the entire European Union. The U.S. is now one of the only developed countries in the world that doesn’t require labeling.

In 2014, 36 GE labeling bills were introduced in 20 states and experts are projecting the number to be as high or higher in 2015. While many state-level initiatives, including the recent one in Oregon, have been narrowly defeated under an avalanche of misleading advertisements, the handwriting is on the wall: Americans want GE food labeling, and will keep organizing until we get it.

That's why the Food Revolution Network is teaming up with a broad coalition of organizations in supporting the Center for Food Safety’s formal legal petition with FDA demanding that the agency mandate the nationwide labeling of GE foods.

Our coalition has gotten more than 1.4 million signatures so far. Please add your voice and send your comment to FDA and President Obama.

Help us reach the 2 million mark, and make mandatory federal GE labeling a reality in 2015!

Tell the FDA to Label GMOs

Subject: FDA-2011-P-0723-0001/CP

Your letter:

I write in support of a coalition of organizations that back Center for Food Safety's Legal Petition to FDA to Require Labeling of Genetically Engineered Foods (Docket No. FDA-2011-P-0723-0001/CP).
Unsuspecting consumers by the tens of millions are being allowed to purchase and consume unlabeled genetically engineered foods, despite a finding by FDA scientists that these foods could pose serious risks and despite the fact that FDA does not do any testing of its own. The patentability of GE foods demonstrates that they are novel, and should be labeled. In fact, at least 22 countries, as well as all of the EU member states, have mandatory labeling laws for GE foods, rendering U.S. policy an outdated and mistaken outlier.
U.S. courts have recognized a fundamental “right-to-know” rooted in the U.S. Constitution and in common law. Whether FDA believes that GE foods are “of the same or equal quality” as their conventional counterparts is irrelevant to the question of whether unlabeled GE foods are misleading. The proper focus is consumers’ expectations and whether they are being deceived. Because consumers do not expect foods to be genetically engineered absent special labeling, their right to know what is in their food is being taken away by FDA’s GE labeling policy.
Additionally, a number of studies over the past decade have indicated that genetically engineered foods could pose risks to humans, domesticated animals, wildlife and the environment. Human health effects may include higher risks of toxicity, allergenicity, antibiotic resistance, immune-suppression and cancer. As for environmental impacts, the use of genetic engineering in agriculture has led to uncontrolled transgenic pollution, threatening numerous microbial, plant and animal species with extinction; a dramatic increase in pesticides released into our environment; and the creation of an epidemic of herbicide-resistant “superweeds.” These health and environmental impacts matter to the public and support the requirement that these foods be labeled.
Labeling is essential for me to choose whether or not I want to consume or feed my family genetically engineered foods.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

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