PCC SAYS: IF EVER THERE WAS A TIME TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED

[Guest guest]

**Dawna Fowler

***PCC SAYS: IF EVER THERE WAS A TIME TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED*

 

PCC is asking us all to comment on the USDA’s pending approval of another

new and exciting attempt to poison us and our children: Email a friend

<http://www.pccnaturalmarkets.com/share/index.php>

 

THANKS EVERYONE!!! Dawna

 

Comment at:

http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#submitComment?R=0900006480a6b7a\

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*PCC Sound Consumer

**USDA: organic consumers don't care

*by Trudy Bialic, Editor

*Learn more & act

*Read briefs about GE food in the Sound Consumer online Also visit the Web

sites of:

 

- The Center for Food Safety <http://www.foodsafetynow.org/>

- Beyond Pesticides <http://www.beyondpesticides.org/>

- The Institute for Responsible Technology

<http://www.responsibletechnology.org/GMFree/Home/index.cfm> , and

- Environmental Health Perspectives

<http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/home.action>

 

 

To let USDA know you do care about GE contamination, visit

www.regulations.gov

<http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#submitComment?R=0900006480a6b7\

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submit a comment before

February 16. PCC shoppers registered 30,000 comments on a similar issue in

1997. Let's do it again!

 

 

(February 2010) — If ever there was a time for you as an organic consumer to

stand up and be counted, it is now. I've never issued such a strong call to

action in these pages in all my 10 years as editor. But we are at a pivotal

moment in the organic movement. Everyone who cares about organic farmers and

organic food needs to speak up, before February 16, loud and clear. The U.S.

Department of Agriculture (USDA), in an environmental impact statement on

genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa, declares there is no evidence that

organic consumers care about GE contamination. The USDA also admitted that

an economic analysis shows GE alfalfa will hurt the organic industry and

small farmers — but it fails to analyze or suggest any possible protections

for organic. Alfalfa isn't a crop that people eat directly, but if you eat

yogurt, cheese, milk, ice cream or beef — and if you believe that " we are

what they (cows) eat " — then it's critically important. The GE alfalfa that

USDA is planning to approve is Roundup Ready alfalfa, meaning it's

genetically altered to survive being sprayed with the herbicide Roundup

(glyphosate). Studies have shown a clear link between glyphosate and

non-Hodgkins lymphoma (Journal of the American Cancer Society), and have

found that glyphosate damages and kills human cells even at diluted levels

far below recommendations (American Chemical Society). Glyphosate/Roundup

also is used on GE soybeans and GE corn, so the USDA's remark — that it has

no evidence organic consumers care about GE contamination — involves more

than just Roundup Ready alfalfa.

 

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