Dear Readers,

Sen. Boxer and Rep. De Fazio wrote a “Dear Colleague” letter which went public today, February 8th, urging U.S. legislators to support the labeling of GE foods. This is the first initiative of the kind in Congress, and a great opportunity to urge your Congressional representatives to sign on to the letter and support mandatory labeling.

The letter also creates the opportunity to bring back to life the petition to label GE salmon and to reenergize Capitol Hill on the GE salmon issue.  NGO friends and partners, especially the Center for Food Safety, are already at work on the Hill  but we all need you to let your representatives know these issues are very, very important to you .  You can find CFS’ action alert here: http://bit.ly/LabelingDC and also access the text of the letter.

Please call or email your legislators over the next 2-3 weeks (close date is Wednesday February 29th) and especially target the key individuals listed below if you are in their State or District, asking them to support the labeling of GE salmon and foods. We are providing you with their District phone # in the table below.  For other legislators, please use the following links to find their email and phone #, or use the zip code access available at the link above.

(1) to locate House Representatives

http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/   if you enter your zip code

http://www.house.gov/representatives/  if you know their name

(2) and the following link to locate Senators:

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm

KEY DECISION-MAKERS

House                                           Senate

Thank you for taking action! 

Margherita Pagni
Legislative Director 
Food Policy Fund, Institute for Responsible Technology