Time is Ticking! Tell USDA to Keep Apples GMO-free
Submit Comments by midnight, Monday, December 16
Keep apples GMO-free
The way they are meant to be!
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Monday, Dec. 16 at 11:59 p.m.
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Now's the time! Tell USDA to keep apples GMO-free by midnight tonight!
I have had this conversation with my children and their friends multiple times. Just this summer in fact, we picked apples at our friends house and the apples were absolutely delicious but they didn't look perfect like in the store. The difference was they were fresh, grown without chemicals, radiation and wax. Explaining those differences is one thing, but now the biotech industry is wanting to add apples to a growing list of foods to grow genetically engineered. Their promise? Resistant to bruising and turning brown. But wait a minute, shouldn't we want food that has a limited shelf life? Don't we want food in the most natural form?
Below I am sharing with you a "Call To Action" email I received this morning from Farm To Consumer Legal Defense Fund. I hope you will respond today and share this with your family and friends and in your social media so we can stop this from being approved.
The old saying... An Apple A Day Will Keep The Doctor Away, may not be true anymore if it is approved.
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The biotech industry keeps promising to solve major problems, from world hunger to malnutrition. Instead, they've given us herbicide-resistant and pesticide-producing crops, increasing Americans' exposure to toxic chemicals.
What's the latest genetically engineered crop that's heading for your plate?
Apples that never turn brown.
Like all genetically engineered crops, these new apples have not been proven safe for human consumption. Even worse, they use a troubling new genetic engineering technique, RNA interference.
A 2012 Cell Research study indicated that ingesting RNA material from certain plant-based foods can have unexpected effects in mammals.
Humans should not have to serve as the guinea pigs for this technology!
Although these GMO apples are primarily targeted to the fresh-sliced apple market, they could also find their way into juice, baby foods or applesauce at the processing level--all products frequently eaten by children and babies who are at increased risk for any adverse health effects.
Even the apple industry has opposed this genetically engineered product due to the negative impact they could have on farmers growing organic and non-GMO apples through contamination, and to the image of the apple industry as a whole. If the apple industry doesn't want GMO apples, and consumers don't want GMO apples, then who wants these apples on the market?
This product would only benefit the biotech industry and big food processing companies.
See more info and talking points.
Submit comments to USDA by Monday, December 16, 2013 at midnight.
Please share this alert with family and friends, http://bit.ly/FRN13434
What's the latest genetically engineered crop that's heading for your plate?
Apples that never turn brown.
Like all genetically engineered crops, these new apples have not been proven safe for human consumption. Even worse, they use a troubling new genetic engineering technique, RNA interference.
A 2012 Cell Research study indicated that ingesting RNA material from certain plant-based foods can have unexpected effects in mammals.
Humans should not have to serve as the guinea pigs for this technology!
Although these GMO apples are primarily targeted to the fresh-sliced apple market, they could also find their way into juice, baby foods or applesauce at the processing level--all products frequently eaten by children and babies who are at increased risk for any adverse health effects.
Even the apple industry has opposed this genetically engineered product due to the negative impact they could have on farmers growing organic and non-GMO apples through contamination, and to the image of the apple industry as a whole. If the apple industry doesn't want GMO apples, and consumers don't want GMO apples, then who wants these apples on the market?
This product would only benefit the biotech industry and big food processing companies.
See more info and talking points.
Submit comments to USDA by Monday, December 16, 2013 at midnight.
Please share this alert with family and friends, http://bit.ly/FRN13434 
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