<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareSharedContentClass" style="position: relative !important; "><div id="article" class="auto-hyphenated" style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; "><div class="page" style="text-align: justify; "><h1 class="title" style="text-align: start; -webkit-hyphens: manual; font-size: 26px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="3" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">I like the idea labeling but wonder if the skull is overkill. Some, including my brother, think GMO's are great science and will help world hunger. I would rather just stick something on that alerts people to the fact but doesn't get them so mad they rip off all the labels. Richard</span></font></h1></div></div></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareSharedContentClass" style="position: relative !important; "><div id="article" class="auto-hyphenated" style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; "><div class="page" style="text-align: justify; "><h1 class="title" style="text-align: start; -webkit-hyphens: manual; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.25em; font-size: 1.33em; ">After GMO Labeling Shot Down, Citizens Start Labeling Themselves</span></h1><br><p style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14px; ">By Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society</p><p style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14px; ">17 November 12</p><div style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14px; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14px; "><img class="reader-image-tiny" style="float: none; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; " id="5c234a4a-ee48-488e-8778-aac65a779e2e" height="25" width="28" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:E902521D-A65B-429B-9353-A1EBCBA8E65B@att.net">ctivists and concerned citizens around the world have had enough with corrupt corporations censoring their right to know what's in their food, and frankly they're beyond upset. And if the government will not side with the 90 plus percentage of consumers who are in favor of GMO labeling, then they are going to do it themselves.</p><p style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14px; ">As it turns out, many are doing just that through the 'DIY' GMO labeling campaign known as 'The Label It Yourself Campaign'. Sporting a skull with cornstalks for crossbones, the DIY labels inform customers as to whether or not a product 'may' include GMO ingredients or most certainly does.</p><p style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14px; ">Below is one label taken from the campaign <a href="http://labelityourself.org/liy/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(32, 0, 127); ">website</a> that activists are now placing on products found in grocery stores, homes of friends and family (to incite discussion), and just about everywhere else:</p><p style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14px; "><img width="345" height="345" class="reader-image-large" style="float: none; margin: auto auto 0.75em; max-width: 100%; display: block; " id="70ae6f20-7c42-4c99-8d9c-4860196d8271" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:5590052A-5C1C-4397-ABA6-872B4D021D67@att.net"></p><p style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14px; "><strong>People Will Not Stand for Corporate Food Lies Any Longer</strong></p><p style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14px; ">With 80% or more of many staple crops like corn and soybeans already genetically modified, there is a large chance that most products containing these ingredients (or deriviatives) does indeed contain GMOs. Even more so for highly processed high-fructose corn syrup and other harmful ingredients which are arguably modified 100% of the time. You can print out the labels from the campaign website and stick them on products for yourself.</p><p style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14px; ">With a lack of real GMO labeling thanks to dirty tricks by pro-GMO groups like No on 37, grassroots initiatives are the only methods of alerting the public to what they are putting into their mouths. Pro-GMO campaigns have impersonated and <a href="http://naturalsociety.com/monsanto-funded-anti-gmo-labeling-fda-logo-quote/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(32, 0, 127); ">illegally used the FDA seal</a>, posed <a href="http://naturalsociety.com/anti-gmo-labeling-campaign-poses-cops-democratic-party/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(32, 0, 127); ">as phony cop and democrat</a> groups, and poured more than <a href="http://www.carighttoknow.org/_45_million_against_right_to_know" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(32, 0, 127); ">$45 million</a> into keeping consumers into the dark.</p><p style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14px; ">Now, citizens are fighting back through peaceful grassroots initiatives. As a picture from one <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/label-it-yourself-gmo-labeling-goes-diy.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(32, 0, 127); ">Treehugger</a> blog shows, consumers are honestly labeling processed foods across the shelves of international grocers.</p><p style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14px; ">As for the legal aspect? The Label It Yourself Campaign states:</p><blockquote style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14px; "><em>"At the moment, the law protects misinformation and private property above truth-telling, and public well-being…"</em></blockquote><p style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14px; ">Meanwhile, corporations like Monsanto continue to pump out GMOs that have been time and time again linked to disease, environmental disaster, and even the center of '<a href="http://naturalsociety.com/monsanto-abusing-illegal-workers-in-slave-like-conditions/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(32, 0, 127); ">slave labor</a>' issues. When government legislation is shot down through corruption, it becomes a grassroots responsibility to take action and make a real change.</p><div style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14px; "><br></div></div></div></span><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentBottomClass" style="line-height: 14px !important; text-align: left !important; "></span></div><br>TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send an email to <a href="mailto:occupymendocino@lists.mcn.org">occupymendocino@lists.mcn.org</a> put "Un-Subscribe me" in the Subject.<br><br>For listserv technical problems please contact: <a href="mailto:listmanager@mcn.org">listmanager@mcn.org</a><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>