$34.4 Million Can’t Seem To Buy Prop 37 Opponents Their Own Facts

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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/01-0



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Here ARE a few facts: A growing body of research links GMO foods to potential health risks, increased pesticide use, biodiversity loss, the emergence of “super bugs” and “super weeds" and the unintentional contamination of conventional crops.

What Prop 37 will do is add a line of ink to a label -- as is currently required for 3,000 other ingredients -- so consumers know which products have been altered in a laboratory. That’s why the vast majority of Californians support this common-sense measure, and it’s why 50 other countries already require that GMOs be labeled.

But that’s not all: This summer, Monsanto began selling its first GMO sweet corn product at Walmart. The sweet corn is engineered to withstand the herbicide Roundup and also contains an insecticide (Bt toxin) within the cells of the corn.

Are your children eating Monsanto's latest concoction? You won’t know because we don’t require labeling. In response to Walmart’s decision to undermine the will of its customers, the Yes on 37 campaign released a new ad highlighting the fact that California children are eating unlabeled GMO sweet corn without their parents knowing it.

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1. Yes on 37!

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2. I hope this passes.

After that, I wouldn't mind if Monsanto put their money towards reforming the referendum system that gave us Prop 8.