by the El Reportero’s staff
Saturday thousands of volunteers will fan out state-wide to launch a petition drive to get the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act on the ballot in November. In the thick of the grass-roots initiative is the California State Grange, one of the leading partners in the effort.
The California State Grange has long supported the idea that GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in the food supply should be adequately tested and that consumers are entitled to know what’s in food they eat. The American people agree.
Yet despite overwhelming support for GMO labeling, for over a decade regulators and legislators at the national and state level have largely ignored public concerns. That’s why the Committee for the Right to Know is taking the issue directly to the voters of California. Now, with petitions in hand, over 1,500 volunteers will be gathering signatures at stores and farmers markets up and down the state.
“The bottom line is Californians have a right to know what’s in the food we eat and feed our children. It’s time to send a strong, direct message to those who govern us, whether they be agency or elected, that we want genetically engineered foods labeled,” says Pamm Larry, founder of the Committee For the Right to Know. Check the website, www.labelgmos.org for more information on this issue.
More than one million petitions delivered to Sen. Harry Reid’s office
Millions of citizens from every walk of life and every corner of the nation have signed petitions because they do not agree with this law
Washington, DC – A leading grassroots campaign to repeal ObamaCare today announced that it was delivering more than a million names of citizens who have signed petitions demanding repeal of the Health Care Act to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Ken Hoagland, chairman of Restore America’s Voice Foundation said that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was, “an assault on the Constitution and on the consent of the governed.”
Hoagland’s group has been airing television ads nationally for more than a year asking citizens to communicate with their legislators about the law. The ads feature Mike Huckabee and more recently, Herman Cain. “Millions of citizens from every walk of life and every corner of the nation have signed petitions because they do not agree with this law,” said Hoagland.
“Whatever is decided by the Supreme Court, we are asking Senators to obey the will of the people.” “Even if with the best intentions, there are troubling and fundamental Constitutional questions now being argued before the Supreme Court about the reach of our federal government,” he said.
“ As troubling is the fact that this wide-ranging legislation should not have been enacted without strong support from our citizens who will be forced to live under its many provisions,” Hoagland said.
“This law has profound consequences for our national budget, individual healthcare choices and our struggling economy and does damage to each. Most Americans believe it reaches too far into our personal choices and will raise healthcare costs.”
