[Scpg] A Center for Food Safety Action Alert

[Paul Racko]

----- Original Message -----
From: "juliana jones" <jjones at icta.org>
To: "juliana jones" <jjones at icta.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 9:33 AM
Subject: A Center for Food Safety Action Alert


STOP THE CONGRESS FAST TRACK FROM REMOVING THE RIGHT TO LABEL GENETICALLY
ENGINEERED FOODS!
>
> The House Ways and Means Committee approved a revived Fast Track
> international trade bill (H.R. 3005) Oct. 9 on a near party-line vote.
H.R.
> 3005 contains a provision to require that U.S. trade negotiators seek a
ban
> on labeling of genetically engineered ingredients and use of the
> precautionary principle (p. 14). This would set up consumer labeling as an
> "unjustifiable trade restriction" especially regarding genetically
modified
> foods threatening many consumer labeling regulations with being overturned
> through trade challenges. Under this bill our efforts to label GE foods
will
> become illegal barriers to trade!
>
> The floor vote on this version of Fast Track legislation is expected next
> week. We cannot allow this sneak attack on our right to know about
> genetically engineered foods to go unchallenged.
>
> TAKE ACTION!
> CALL YOUR REP. BY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19th!
>
> THE AFL-CIO HAS A FAST TRACK HOTLINE THAT WILL CONNNECT YOU TO YOUR MEMBER
> OF CONGRESS FOR FREE.
>
> CALL 1-800-393-1082 and tell your Representative to oppose H.R. 3005 and
its
> provision to seek a ban on labeling of genetically engineered foods.
>
> ( - Alert prepared by Friends of the Earth, a coalition partner of the
> Center for Food Safety)
> For more information on genetically engineered foods, see
> www.centerforfoodsafety.org
> ___________________________________________________________
> CFS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Washington, DC, with
an
> office in San Francisco, CA.  Established in 1997, CFS is a public
interest
> membership food safety and environmental organization that utilizes legal
> actions, policy initiatives, grassroots organizing, public education and
> media outreach to curtail genetic engineering and other industrial
> agricultural production methods that harm aquatic and terrestrial
> ecosystems.
>
> We need your support as a member! As a member of CFS, your support will
help
> us monitor government agencies that are regulating our food supply and
take
> legal actions against these agencies to ensure that money and back-room
> deals don't win out over what is right for the health of our families,
> communities, and the environment. To Learn more about how a membership to
> CFS can help our legal, scientific, and grassroots efforts please visit
the
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> call 1-800-600-6664.
>
> Center for Food Safety is a member of the GE Food Alert. To find out more
> about the coalition, visit www.gefoodalert.org.
>
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