Labelling of GM ingredients in food
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Monday 9th November 2009, 9:41am
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There is a Food Labelling Review taking place in Australia at the moment and it's looking at GM food labelling. Many people want to be able to choose whether to buy it or not (for various reasons), and at what price. We have some GM labelling, but most GM ingredients slip through loopholes. Currently although up to 70% of processed food contains GM ingredients almost none legally require labelling.
You only have until 20th November to ask the Food Labelling Review Panel to LABEL ALL GM FOOD.
Use our letter writing section to send your thoughts directly to the review panel at FSANZ.
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Labelling of GM food.
Please can the review panel take into account that we wish to know what we are eating, and to be able to control what we eat.
It is a law that all ingredients must be stated on the food container, but it is necessary that the FACTS about the ingredients be also very clear. If GM product is being used in the preparation of this food, then we have the right to know that, so that we can opt to use or not use that product.
PLEASE don't be brainwashed by Monsanto's fierce marketing program to hide the presence of GM food, and to promote the sales of their products by stealth; please allow all Australians to be able to make an informed choice about whether they wish to ingest GM food, at the point of sale.
I ask that the Review Panel
I ask that the Review Panel respond to the right of the public to know what is in our food, and ensure all foods are identified and labelled in regards to GM products. It is already an onslaught that despite widespread opposition to the growing of GM crops, we are now facing possibility of not knowing whether or not our food has GM ingredients - we should at least have this choice in controlling what foods we eat and what health risks we may be exposing ourselves to. We have this right with the labelling of ingredients in food, and it is equally important we know the nature of the food we are eating particularly if it has been manipulated and there are outstanding ambiguities in the knowledge of impact this food will have on our health. Companies like Monsanto that have power and intent on controlling the food market, should not be allowed to bully the Australian public into less than their right to know what is in their food. Indeed what is it they want to hide? Why would they be so concerned about GM labelling if their propaganda that GM is safe is true. Indeed what argument is there to withold GM labelling?
Concern about GE
There are many examples of when humans have made short-sighted decisions and played with mother nature unaware of the havoc and headaches they would be causing future generations, such as introducing cane toads. It was a good idea at the time they thought and a huge problem now. I see genetic-engineering in the same light, but a light that could start a fire that will last forever, potentially, in terms of the long term impact of GE organisms.
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