Organic Consumers Association

The Millions Against Monsanto Campaign
Challenging the Biotech Bullying of the Infamous Chemical Company

Top 10 Reasons to Label Genetically Engineered Food

1. A threat to life: The Convention on Biodiversity recognizes that genetic engineering is a threat to the amount and variety of life on the planet.

2. They're unhealthy: Scientists reviewing data from Monsanto's own studies "have proven that genetically engineered foods are neither sufficiently healthy or proper to be commercialized."

3. Allergens: Biotech's scattershot technique of spraying plant cells with a buckshot of foreign genes that hit chromosomes in random spots can trigger the expression of new allergens and change the character of plant proteins.

4. The dairy's different: Milk and dairy products from cows injected with genetically engineered growth hormones are different from normal milk and dairy products.

5. Birth defects: The third generation of hamsters fed genetically engineered soy suffered slower growth, a high mortality rate, and a bizarre birth defect: fur growing in their mouths. Many also lost the ability to have pups.

6. It makes a difference: Animals fed genetically engineered feed are different from animals fed conventional and organic feed.

7. Gene transfer: A single serving of genetically engineered soy canresult in horizontal gene transfer, where the bacteria in the human gut adopts the soy's genetically engineered DNA.

8. They're different: Genetically engineered foods are different from normal foods.


9. Testing: Genetically engineered foods have not been tested to determine whether they are safe for human consumption.

10. They're everywhere: Almost all non-organic processed food and animal products in the U.S. today contain ingredients that come from genetically engineered crops or from animals given genetically engineered feed, vaccines or growth hormones.

Genetically Engineered Foods Should Be Labeled!
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• 08/19/10 - Now's Your Chance to Stop Monsanto's FrankenSugar!
• 08/19/10 - Take Action: Tell Kellogg's No More Genetically Engineered Sugar
• 08/18/10 - Bill Gates's So-Called Philanthropic Foundation Buys 500,000 Shares of Monsanto Stocks
• 08/18/10 -Monsanto's War-Zone Harvest
• 08/14/10 - Victory! Judge Revokes Approval of Modified Sugar Beets
• 08/14/10 - Bollywood Superstar Aamir Khan Shines the Spotlight on What's Caused an Estimated 150,000 Farmer Suicides in India
• 08/12/10 - Canola Gone Wild! Uh-oh, Transgenic Plants are Escaping and Interbreeding
• 08/12/10 - The Ploy to Promote Genetically Engineered Seeds and Pesticides to Poor Mexican Farmers Is Impoverishing Their Communities
• 08/12/10 - Italian Activists Storm Field, Crush GM Maize
• 08/10/10 - The Ultimate Food Betrayal: How Big Biotech Rigged the Research on GM Foods
• 08/10/10 - DOJ Urged to Complete Monsanto Case
• 08/07/10 - When Agrochemical Corporations Invented Nature
• 08/04/10 - Genetically Modified Salmon Present a Number of Risks to Consumer Health and Environment
• 08/01/10 - Monsanto: The World's Poster Child for Corporate Manipulation and Deceit
• 07/29/10 - New Strategies Needed to Combat Superweeds, Scientists Say
• 07/28/10 - Organic Consumers Know Better: Collin Peterson is Not the OCA's Darling
• 07/26/10 - Herbicide-Resistant Weeds Now Found in At Least 22 States
• 07/26/10 - Herbicide Spray Raises Concerns in Shirley Area
• 07/23/10 - The Race to Make Fuel Out of Algae Poses Risks as Well as Benefits
• 07/22/10 - Tell Congress to Label Monsanto's Frankenfoods!
• 07/22/10 - 75 Member of Congress Ask Vilsack To Allow Farmers To Plant Biotech Alfalfa This Fall
• 07/21/10 - An update on genetically engineered meat and fish — Are they coming soon to a plate near you?
• 07/19/10 - An Open Letter on Haitian Agriculture to the CEO of Monsanto
• 07/19/10 - Why Is the Obama Administration Parroting Monsanto Talking Points?
• 07/19/10 - Risks of GMOs to Biodiversity and Human Health
• 07/18/10 - Monsanto Has Their Fingers in GM Crop Study in the UK
• 07/16/10 - Vote for Monsanto in the 2010 Corporate Hall of Shame!
• 07/15/10 - The Future of Food Now Streaming Live on Lily Films Website
• 07/14/10 - In EU 'No' to Genetically Modified Food Could Conceal a 'Yes'
• 07/13/10 - The Escalating Chemical War on Weeds - Profit Drive Of Monsanto And Other Chemical Companies Backfires
• 07/13/10 - British Pressure for GM Crops Unwelcome in Europe
• 07/08/10 - Monsanto Fined $2.5 Million for Misleading Farmers About GM Cotton Seed
• 07/08/10 - Dupont Dame Follows Monsanto Men to Obama's USDA
• 07/08/10 - EU Votes Against Compulsory GM Food Labelling on Meat and Dairy Products
• 07/08/10 - Genetically Engineered Soybeans May Cause Allergies
• 07/06/10 - Corn is the Biggest Culprit in Gulf Dead Zone
• 07/04/10 - Weeds That Defy Pesticide Invading Farms
• 07/02/10 - 56 Members Of House And Senate Ask USDA to Stop Genetically Engineered Alfalfa
• 06/29/10 - Monsanto Soybean Claims Probed by West Virginia
• 06/28/10 - Monsanto vs Geerston Seed Farms: Round Up Ready Alfalfa Case
• 06/28/10 - Giant Salmon Will Be First GM Animal Available for Eating
• 06/27/10 - Gen-M "Generation Monsanto" - Why We Need Labels on Genetically Modified Foods Now!
• 06/26/10 - Genetically Altered Salmon Set to Move Closer to Your Table
• 06/25/10 - How the Media Got GM Alfalfa Ruling Wrong
• 06/24/10 - The Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act
• 06/23/10 - Monsanto, Opponents Both Claim Victory in Historic Genetically Modified Crop Case
• 06/23/10 - Mexican Corn Farmers: Retreat to Subsistence
• 06/23/10 - GMOs Create Incredibly Toxic Colons
• 06/22/10 - Center for Food Safety Says Supreme Court Ruling in Monsanto Case is Victory
• 06/17/10 - Haitian Peasants March Against Monsanto Company for Food and Seed Sovereignty
• 06/17/10 - Label Genetically Modified Foods Now!
• 06/17/10 - EPA Cracking Down on Monsanto Phosphate Pollution in Idaho
• 06/15/10 - Monsanto in Your Garden: Why You Need to Buy Organic Seeds
• 06/14/10 -Monsanto's Glyphosate Problems: Scientist Warns of Dire Consequences with Widespread Use
• 06/12/10 - Battle in France over Government Push for Genetically Engineered Grapes and Wine