Thursday, January 19, 2012

GMO Labeling

"Over 75 percent of packaged foods now contain one or more GMOs; over 80 percent of crops like corn and soy are genetically engineered. GMOs are in cooking oils, sugars, and baking powder; they’re also in surprising products like bee pollen and tofu; and they’re in those mysterious but ubiquitous ingredients like dextrose, isoflavones, and lecithin. With the FDA still hemming and hawing over how to handle GMOs, the onus truly is on us to sleuth out hidden GMOs if we want to avoid them.

Wherever you fall on the spectrum of skepticism to outrage, don’t you want to make that choice yourself?

Me, too. Which is why I’m urging you to watch and share this just-released video produced by Robert Kenner (of Food Inc. fame) with your friends; then add your name to list of the hundreds of thousands of folks who also want to make that choice—for themselves. All it takes is a label; we have the right to know, and we have the power to demand such labeling from our government.

Will you join Delicious Living and newhope360.com in supporting Just Label It and GMO labeling? Over 500,000 people like you—from moms and teachers to farmers and small business owners—have contacted the FDA about why labeling is important. Please take a moment to check out the Just Label It campaign, watch the video, and pass it on to your friends."

Radha Marcum
Editor-in-Chief, Delicious Living

Carlotta Mast
Editor-in-Chief,
newhope360.com

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