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Family farmers, ranchers and consumers are locked
in a battle for safe and healthy food against giant international
food corporations. Many important food decisions are being made
at the boardroom table rather than the dining room table. Multi-national
food and commodity companies play fast and loose with the safety
of our food, and make huge profits off of your food dollar and the
low price they pay to farmers and ranchers.
We Won't
Buy GM Wheat
Our largest foreign markets have stated adamantly and repeatedly
that they will find new sources for wheat if the U.S. allows genetically
modified wheat to be grown and sold.
Market
Risks of GM Wheat - study prepared by Dr. Robert Wisner, Professor
fo Economics at Iowa State University.
Exactly
what is genetic modification? Is it true they're taking genes
from fish and inserting them into a strawberry? Quick
facts on GMO's.
What is our government doing to ensure that the
GM
food we eat is safe? Not
much, according to the Pew Initiative for Food and Biotechnology.
More
information on GM Wheat
We’re fighting to protect consumers’ right to know by
requiring the clear and accurate labeling at the retail level of
all foods that have been irradiated or contain genetically modified
ingredients (GMO’s), antibiotics used in human medicine, hormones
that enhance growth in food-producing animals, chemical levels exceeding
U.S. limits or chemicals not approved for use in this country.
Read more on labeling
Once again, Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling is under fire.
This bill is scheduled to be introduced immediately after Memorial
Day and is expected to move quickly
Read Action Alert
WORC submitted comments to the Agricultural Marketing
Service of the USDA on the recordkeeping requirements of Country
of Origin Labeling.
Read
comments. (pdf)
And in Minot the manager of Marketplace Foods publicly
announced
its compliance with the North Dakota law of labeling fresh meat
as to the country of origin.
See the press release |
