[Occupymendocino] [Fwd: CALIFORNIA: Let's Make California the First State to Label GMOs!]

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Subject: CALIFORNIA: Let's Make California the First State to Label GMOs!
From:    "Organic Consumers Association" <ronniecummins at organicconsumers.org>
Date:    Tue, April 1, 2014 8:17 am
To:      agnes at mcn.org
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CALIFORNIA: Let's Make California the First State to Label GMOs!

Dear Agnes,

In 2012, California's Prop 37 sparked a groundswell of GMO labeling bills
in states across the nation. Last year, Connecticut and Maine passed GMO
labeling laws, but those laws won't go into effect until other states pass
similar legislation. Let's make California the first state to pass a GMO
labeling bill with no strings attached!

Please contact your state legislators today and ask them to support SB
1381 to label genetically engineered foods in California. [
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13537
]

Last week, SB 1381 to label genetically engineered foods in California,
was passed out of the state Senate Health Committee. The bill now goes
back to the Rules Committee and then on to the Senate Judicial and
Agriculture Committees, before going to the Senate floor for a vote.

SB 1381 is a simpler, clearer version of Prop 37. Polls, both before and
after the 2012 election, showed that 67 percent of Californians support a
state GMO labeling law. SB 1381 is our chance to finally achieve what the
people of California want: GMO labels on their food. We deserve the right
to know if our food has been genetically engineered, just as citizens do
in the 64 countries across the globe that have mandatory GMO labeling
rules.

This is going to be a huge fight. Lobbyists from the Grocery
Manufacturer's Association are out in full force, spreading their
misinformation at the state Legislature in Sacramento. But we can win if
we act together. It's urgent that we pass SB 1381 in this 2014 session!

Please contact your lawmakers today and together, we can knock this bill
out of the park, and make California the first state to enact a GMO
labeling law with no strings attached! [
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13537
]

Want to do more?
You can give a shout out to Senators Evans, Wolk, Beall, Monning and
Delsalnier on Facebook and Twitter for their yes votes on SB 1381 in the
Senate Health Committee.

And you can call Senators Hernandez (916-651-4024) and Anderson
(916-651-4036) and tell them you are not happy that they voted no on SB
1381. Senator Hernandez's district voted 62 percent for Prop 37 in 2012.
And as Chair and Vice-Chair, Senators Hernandez and Anderson represent ALL
of California on the Health Committee.

Last, you can call Senator DeLeon (916-651-4022) who wasn't present for
the Health Committee vote and ask him to co-author SB 1381 and vote yes
when it comes to the Senate floor.

Read the text of SB 1381 here [
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/13-14/bill/sen/sb_1351-1400/sb_1381_bill_20140221_introduced.pdf
]

More information? Visit LabelGMOs online [ http://www.labelgmos.org/ ] or
contact Pamm Larry, plarry at labelgmos.org

Finally, please endorse SB 1381 at www.caforgefoodlabeling.org.

-Melinda and the OCA team


Organic Consumers Association

6771 South Silver Hill Drive - Finland, MN 55603 - Phone: 218-226-4164 -
Fax: 218-353-7652

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