For nearly 30 years, OCA and our predecessor group, the Pure Meals Marketing campaign, have been educating customers and farmers in regards to the hazards of genetically engineered (GE) meals and crops, calling particular consideration to the truth that these “Frankenfoods” and crops are at all times accompanied by and contaminated with poisonous pesticides and chemical compounds (equivalent to Bayer/Monsanto’s Roundup/Glyphosate, and Syngenta/ChemChina’s neonicotinoids).
GMO meals and their companion pesticides and chemical compounds destroy the setting, pollute the water and air, kill bees and different pollinators, and poison our our bodies, metastasizing the diet- and environmentally-related power ailments and broken immune programs that now plague nearly all of the inhabitants, together with our kids. The nation’s power illness epidemic, which stricken 12% of People in 1984, earlier than GMOs and extremely processed meals dominated our diets, has now risen sharply to degrade the well being of roughly 60% of the inhabitants. This power illness epidemic units up 145 million People to develop into victims of most cancers, coronary heart illness, weight problems, diabetes, and, as witnessed not too long ago, genetically engineered viruses equivalent to SARS-CoV-2.
From the start, company agribusiness, chemical corporations, and GE technocrats (intertwined with Huge Pharma) have understood that buyers are cautious of GMO meals and medicines, and can attempt to keep away from these merchandise if they’re correctly labeled as “genetically engineered.”
After many years of campaigning, OCA and our allies had been proper on the verge of forcing nationwide GMO meals labeling, using the technique of organizing on the state label with poll initiatives and grassroots lobbying. However simply when Vermont’s hard-fought 2014 obligatory GMO meals labeling legislation was about to return into impact, in the summertime of 2016, forcing Huge Meals to label, in impact nationwide, not simply in Vermont, the Obama Administration, Congress, and a gaggle of natural {industry} “traitors” got here to the rescue of the Frankenfood foyer. The Obama “Darkish Act” preempted the appropriate of states to implement GMO labeling and mandated as a substitute a bogus federal labeling legislation, full of loopholes and exemptions.
The industry-friendly labeling legislation on “Bioengineered Meals” simply got here into impact a few weeks in the past. It’s cleverly designed to take care of the looks of labeling, whereas truly conserving customers in the dead of night about which meals are contaminated with GMOs and their poisonous companion chemical compounds.
As we’ve stated all alongside, the one actual safety customers need to defend themselves in opposition to hidden GMOs and their companion poisons is to purchase meals labeled as “USDA Natural” (or within the case of animal merchandise, these licensed as grass-fed or pastured), to develop your personal, or else to purchase native and regional merchandise from farmers and ranchers that you just belief.
Ronnie Cummins is co-founder of the Natural Customers Affiliation (OCA) and Regeneration Worldwide. To maintain up with OCA’s information and alerts, enroll right here.
