‘The Town That Food Saved’

I love this story. My wife is very much an advocate of sustainable and local gardening, where we live in West Virginia. This is an important issue, wherever you live, because we import so much of our vegetation and seafood from unstable regions of the world: http://michaelmaczesty.blogspot.com/2011/06/whos-watching-what-we-eat.html

Regarding Genetically Engineered Food, if it is so great and will feed the planet, why don’t Monsanto and others want it labeled?  The answer is that they know the polls show that people won’t buy GE food if it is labeled because they don’t trust it.   In 1992 the Food and Drug Administration made a finding that Genetically Engineered plants are not sustantially different from natural plants and therefore foods from Genetically Engineered plants do not have to be labeled.  But if Genetically Engineered plants are not substantially different, then how can they be patented.  All Genetically Engineered seeds are patented.  The truth is that with Genetically Engineered crops we are sowing the seeds of environmental destruction.  In Europe Genetically Engineered foods must be labeled.  People have a right to know what they are eating.  For more info go to the website, “Just Label It.”    Thanks,  Derek Casady, president, Truth in Labeling Coalition.