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In a message dated 11/22/02 5:33:39 AM, Mr_Tracys_Corner

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>Greenpeace True Food Network

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>November 2002 Newsletter

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>--- This is Your Food on Drugs!

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>Crops, genetically engineered with human genes and other

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>proteins to produce drugs and industrial products, are

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>showing up in food crops. Take Action TODAY to stop these

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>risky crops. Read on to find out how.

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>Inside this Edition:

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>- Genetically Engineered Drug Crop Contamination Hits

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>the U.S.- Take Action!

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>- Supermarket Activists Take to the Stores

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>- National Call-in Day! Monday, November 25th

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>Mark your calendar!

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>- Trader Joe's Reaffirms Commitment

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>- Alabama Grandmothers Have Their Day in Court

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>--Greenpeace Exposes Genetically Engineered Drug corn

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>Consumer and Environmental Groups Urge Bush to Ban Drug-Crops

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>AURORA, Nebraska - Two Greenpeace activists unfurled a banner

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>on a silo containing 500,000 bushels of soybeans contaminated

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>by genetically engineered drug-producing corn. The banner read,

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> " This is your food on drugs. Ban genetically engineered drug-crops. "

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>For the full story, click on

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>http://www.truefoodnow.org/inside_scoop/tf-nebraska_action.html

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>TAKE ACTION NOW!! Send a letter to President Bush!

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>Demand immediate government action to end genetically

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>engineered pharmaceutical crops. Tell President Bush

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>to stop the planting of all genetically engineered drug crops.

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>Send a letter right now. Click on

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>http://www.truefoodnow.org/bin/takeaction.fpl?action_id=155

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>Send this email to your friends. Spread the word on the

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>biggest food scandal to hit the U.S.

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>---Supermarket Activists Take to the Stores

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>Thanks to True Food Network activists and the GE-Free Markets

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>Coalition, supermarket demonstrations took place at over 100

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>supermarkets across the country during the Supermarket Campaign

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>National Week of Action, October 26th to November 2nd.

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>Did you participate in the Week of Action? Tell us how it went.

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>Send an email to: geteam

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>---National Call in Day: Monday, November 25th

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>In the coming week, millions of shoppers will head to

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>supermarkets for the Thanksgiving holiday. This holiday season

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>is the perfect time to let the Supermarket chains know that you

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>don't want be stuffed with GE food. Join us in generating

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>thousands of phone calls on the first day of the

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>Thanksgiving holiday week.

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>Call your supermarket on Monday, November 25th.

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>Let us know if you made the call, by signing our petition at

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>http://www.truefoodnow.org/take_action/petition.html

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>(Petition will be online on the 25th)

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>If your supermarket's 1-800 number is not listed below, go to

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>http://www.truefoodnow.org/take_action/supermarket2002-map.html

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>to find the contact information for stores near you.

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>Shaw's/ Star Markets

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>1-888-431-7429

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>Safeway (They own Vons, Pavilions, Genuardi's, Randall's, Tom Thumb,

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>Dominicks's, Carr's, Eagle, Quality Center and Pak N' Save.)

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>1-800-723-3929

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>Food Emporium

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>1-800-837-9237

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>Publix

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>1-800-242-1227

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>Food Lion

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>1-800-210-9569

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>---Trader Joe's Joins Growing Movement to Eliminate Gene-Altered

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>Foods

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>Reinforcing the commitment it made a year ago, the national

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>supermarket chain, Trader Joe's, announced to its customers

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>on Monday that it has successfully removed genetically engineered

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>(GE) food from the majority of its store brand products.

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>This announcement comes at a time when an increasing number

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>of U.S. food companies are questioning the use of GE food

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>ingredients in their products.

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>For more on this story, click on

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>http://www.truefoodnow.org/inside_scoop/traderjcommits.html

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>---Grandmothers Defend Right To Tell the Truth About

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>Genetically Engineered Food

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>Decatur, Alabama - Two grandmothers will go to court to

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>defend their right to let consumers know that they are

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>eating risky genetically engineered (GE) food.

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>Gerry Coffey, 62, and Jean Tune, 79, were

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>arrested by local police after they refused to

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>leave the parking area of a Kroger supermarket where

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>they were petitioning and handing out information to shoppers

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>about the risks of genetically engineered food.

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>The women are a part of a national supermarket campaign,

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>led by the GE-Free Markets Coalition and Greenpeace, to demand

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>that grocery store chains eliminate the use of genetically

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>engineered food in store brand products.

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> " I saw nothing wrong with telling Kroger's shoppers that

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>60% of the processed food they buy contains genetically

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>engineered ingredients, " said Gerry Coffey.

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> " I had no idea Kroger management would have us

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>arrested for telling the truth about their food. "

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>Greg Reeves, a local Decatur attorney, will defend the

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>grandmothers, pro bono. " The people of Alabama should be able

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>to speak directly to shoppers about genetically engineered food

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>without fear of arrest, " said Reeves.

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>Gerry Coffey is a health educator and her family farms cotton.

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>Jean Tune recently started a community-supported, organic farm.

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>Both women are hoping to get the support of mothers and concerned

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>others on this important issue.

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>Help Greenpeace spread the word. Forward this e-mail on to other caring

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>individuals.

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>Want to do more? Become a Greenpeace member today!

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>To give online, go to:

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>https://www.greenpeaceusa.org/join2/list.htm

 

 

Namaste, Liz

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