Oct 14 2012
Accurate information about GMOs is available, Yes on Prop 37

On the GMO topic – the documentary – Genetic Roulette – can be viewed online free through 10/17.
geneticroulettemovie.com/

While in doesn’t necessarily address prop 37 pros/cons, it does point out many health, environmental, etc., concerns regarding GMOs.


 

Accurate information about GMOs is available, for example at

https://www.carighttoknow.org/ and at

https://www.responsibletechnology.org/,  but I have not seen any source that connects true answers to each misstatement in these new ads. In fact, it would be a valuable contribution to create such a fact sheet for volunteers to read before handing out flyers and engaging members of the public who may have seen and wondered about these ads. The first step would be to list the ads and their content. California Right to Know in Oakland may be doing just that, or may welcome anyone’s volunteering to do that. Emailing such a list to Kim Kelley (see below) would make it available to Pasadena-area volunteers.
Yeah – I’ve definitely been hearing/seeing the results of the “No” campaign blitz.

 

Not that I buy anything that Monsanto has to say on the subject, but if I didn’t know any better, I can see where the ads are swaying people that aren’t heavily involved on the other end of things.

 

So……….is there anywhere with some nice, specific counterarguments/fact-checking on the points they are making in the “No” marketing????

 

We all care enough about safe, healthy food to grow some of our own. Probably we want what we buy to be safe too, and we want to know what’s in it.

 

Last week Monsanto and other Big-Ag and Big-Food corporations started spending a million dollars a day on misleading TV ads to defeat Prop 37, the proposition for labeling foods containing genetically engineered ingredients.

 

The LA Times has come out against labeling, and just today used their business section to promote their views as “news”. The article ‘spin’ was that once people understood the detail of the bill, their support in labeling was declining. What they were really doing was validating the heavy corporate advertising campaign and further confusing voters. It appears that Monsanto has found a way to get to the LA Times and they are using the newspaper to further corporate goals.

 

Between September 27 and October 11, support for Prop 37 has dropped precipitously from 66.9% for, 22.3% against to 48.3% for, 40.2% against (California Business Roundtable). At this rate, unless something changes, it will be defeated.

 

These large corporations have much at stake. If GMOs are labeled in California, they will be nationwide—companies won’t want separate labels for California—and manufacturers will stop buying GMO crops for their products because some customers will avoid buying such labeled products. Only the status quo will maintain their profits—but that is undermining our health, the environment, and farmers worldwide. The eyes of the nation are on Prop. 37.

 

To improve the chances that Prop. 37 will pass, contact “Kim Clymer-Kelley” labelgmospasadena@gmail.com to distribute flyers outside Trader Joes and Sprouts, participate in rallies, obtain bumper stickers and yard signs. Donate at https://www.carighttoknow.org/

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