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Vote yes to label GMO foods

I guess people don’t want to know what is happening to our food supply, or why food giants spent $11 million in Colorado to keep us uninformed. Maybe we don’t understand that the pesticide Roundup is genetically imbedded into the seeds of most food crops. Are we being slowly poisoned to death? Food giants made a long list of promises to consumers and farmers to the contrary that are slowly but surely being broken. They promised that certain pesticides cannot cross the barrier between mother and child in the womb – promise broken. This means our children’s health is being compromised by GMO foods.

Recently, scientists discovered GMO soy engineered by Monsanto in infant formula in Portland – promise broken. Giants promised farmers increased yields – not happening. The promise that GMOs would be less expensive: Tell that to the farmers in India, who bought the GMO hype, many of whom have been financially devastated, resulting in a rash of suicides throughout India’s farming community. GMO manufacturers promise less pesticide use, as BT pesticides are already in the plant: another promise broken as GMO farmers are now using 20 percent more pesticides to handle the super weeds and super bugs directly related to GMO manipulation.

For every unsupervised move giants make, nature responds by creating more herbicide-resistant pests and weeds. More than just broken promises, this is a system running out of control. More allergies, more cancers, more sickness and disease in Americans with no real answers. Europeans have banned GMOs to keep their food supply safe. We think we know better. We don’t.

The studies done on GMOs have been done by food giants themselves on rats, not humans. We are the lab rats now. Many of these studies and more are listed in The GMO Emperor Has No Clothes and numerous others online. Check it out for yourself. You owe it to our children. Vote yes on Proposition 105 to label GMO foods. Fixing GMOs is another issue entirely. Act now as it is getting more and more difficult to reverse course.

Jim Forleo

Durango



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