For safer food… – 12/18/2007

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There is an organization — “The Center for Food Safety” – that has done some great work on the behalf of all those that want natural, wholesome foods to eat.
In the past year alone, they have:

Won a major federal court victory that stopped the planting of a new genetically engineered crop – Roundup Ready alfalfa – for the first time in history;

Halted risky field tests growing experimental drug crops (pharmacrops) in open fields through other federal court victories;

Defended the organic standards from numerous threats by agribusiness to weaken them;

Generated over 145,000 comments to FDA from people opposing milk and meat from cloned animals in our food supply;

Won the passage of the Mikulski-Specter amendment in the Senate version of the Farm Bill demanding further testing of food from cloned animals before FDA allows such products on the market;

Fought for and won a ban on animal cloning in organic production;

Successfully pressured Congress to remove language in the Farm Bill that would have eliminated the rights of states and local governments to regulate genetically engineered crops;

Pressured FDA to maintain strong and accurate labels on irradiated foods.

You can keep abreast of all food safety issues, or support this great organization by going to their website:

http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/index.cfm

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For safer food… – 12/18/2007