What’s in your food? According to Congress, that’s none of your business.
As you probably know by now, instead of listening to the more than 90% of American consumers who want genetically engineered (GE) foods labeled, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed the DARK Act, a bill that would overturn state GE food labeling laws, block FDA from ever implementing mandatory GE food labeling, and allow food companies to continue to make misleading “natural” claims for foods that contain GE ingredients.
The DARK Act is a DISASTER for our movement and anyone who believes in the right to know what's in their food.
Center for Food Safety staff have been working tirelessly on Capitol Hill for months, meeting face to face with over 300 Members of Congress and their staff, to defeat this legislation, and because of that hard work, we were able to sway many House votes to our side at the last minute. Sadly, those votes were not enough to kill this dangerous bill.
We’ve already channeled over half a million of your emails and calls to your Representatives to defeat legislative attempts to ban GE food labeling and to support mandatory, nationwide labeling. We’ll need to ramp up even more grassroots pressure in the Senate so they can’t ignore your voices.
Big food and chemical corporations such as Monsanto have hired high-priced lobbyists who pressured Congress into passing the DARK Act - a law that will rescind GE food labeling laws passed in Vermont, Connecticut and Maine and nullify over 135 state and local regulations that restrict the use of GE crops or pesticides.
You can bet big food and chemical are only going to increase their lobbying tactics in the Senate, where the fight promises to be a tougher one for proponents of this anti-GMO labeling bill.
Together, we can stop this dangerous legislation once and for all.
Thanks for everything you do,
Center for Food Safety
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