FDA proposes food sale of genetically engineered animals

Dear Consumers,

If the Wall Street bailout was hard to swallow, the government is preparing a
Halloween trick that just may be impossible to stomach.

The Food and Drug Administration is opening the way for grocery stores to sell
food made from genetically engineered animals. And the agency is proposing that
these products, called “Frankenfoods” by some, be sold to you without your
knowledge.

Sign our online petition demanding that food from genetically engineered animals
be labeled. We have the right to know what we are eating!

Genetically engineered animals are not a far-off, exotic concept. It’s
happening right now. Goats are engineered with spider genes to produce silk in
their milk. And pigs carry mouse and bacterial DNA to improve their digestion.

The jury is still out on whether food from these animals is safe for humans or
the environment. And the ethics of such changes have yet to be considered.

The FDA says they will conduct a safety review before these foods can be sold
for human consumption. But consumers won’t know if they’re buying
genetically engineered food, because the agency isn’t going to require a
label.

We know what’s in the can of soup we buy because the label tells us.
Shouldn’t we know if the meat we buy comes from a pig with another animal’s
genes, or whether our milk has insect DNA in it?

Sign our petition and show the20FDA that Americans want to know what’s in
their food!

We have until Nov. 18 to collect signatures. Please forward this email on to
others so they can sign too. Let’s stop this Halloween trick before it starts.


Sincerely,
Jean Halloran
NotInMyFood.org
A project of Consumers Union
101 Truman Ave.
Yonkers, NY 10703