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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (189162)

5/14/2012 11:36:19 AM

From: Wharf Rat

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Yay, me.

Mendocino County GMO Ban

Mendocino County, California was the first jurisdiction in the United States to ban the cultivation, production or distribution of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). [1] The ordinance, entitled Measure H, was passed by referendum on March 2, 2004. Initiated by the group “GMO Free Mendocino”, the campaign was a highly publicized grassroots effort by local farmers and environmental groups who contend that the potential risks of GMOs to human health and the ecosystem have not yet been fully understood. [2] The measure was met with opposition by several powerful interest groups representing the biotechnology industry, The California Plant Health Association and CropLife America, a Washington based consortium whose clients represent some of the largest food distributors in the nation, including Monsanto, Dupont and Dow Chemical. [3] Since the enactment of the ordinance, Mendocino County has been added to an international list of “GMO free zones.” [4] Pre-emptive statutes banning local municipalities from such ordinances have now become widespread with adoption in sixteen states. [5]

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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (189162)	5/14/2012 12:20:03 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543050

Not for me. For whatever reason, GMO food (corn) makes me and my kids extremely ill. I need to know which foods have GMO. RIght now I just assume all corn is GMO- and that's a fairly safe assumption to make. So I only eat organic products, if corn is an ingredient. However, it would be nice for me, and people like me, to know what's in their food. And actually, it would be nice for other people to know that sensitivity to these foods can cause dramatic systemic illnesses that mimic Crone's and IBS. If more people knew this, they'd be able to modify their diets, and get rid of their disease, as my family has. Who knows how many of the Crone's and IBS sufferers are really just sensitive to their food? It's not like it's intuitive. You need to know, for example, that modified food starch is often corn. And many GMO foods have sobriquets that make it hard for consumers to identify them. This is a huge issue in our nation's health, I suspect. But no one really has any incentive to figure it out.