If approved, these genetically engineered apples could end up everywhere from school lunches to grocery stores, posing risks to our health, our environment and apple farmers across the United States.

Like other GMOs, it won’t be labeled and won’t have undergone independent safety testing — regulators will rely on the company’s sole assessment that the apple is safe for human consumption.

Worse yet, this GMO apple was genetically engineered via a new, virtually untested experimental technique called RNA interference, which many scientists are concerned may have negative, unintended impacts on human health and the environment.

We need your help today, right now, to tell the USDA to say no to GMO apples.

That’s why I signed a petition to The US Department of Agriculture, which says:

“USDA: Do not approve the genetically engineered Arctic Apple.

If approved, unlabeled genetically engineered apples could contaminate conventional and organic foods including fruit slices, juice, baby foods, and applesauce—products predominantly consumed by children and babies, who are at increased risk for any adverse health effects.

GMO apples may contaminate nearby organic and conventional apple orchards and could potentially cause valuable export markets to reject U.S.-grown apples, as has happened in the past when wheat and rice crops were found to be contaminated by GMOs.

This product is unnecessary and poses numerous risks to apple growers, the food industry, and consumers. The USDA should not approve this genetically engineered apple.”

Will you sign the petition too? Click here to add your name:

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-the-approval-of?source=s.fwd&r_by=9608188

Thanks!

I suggest you go to the link — there are alternative suggestions with links that I could not copy on to this email.

Aspartame has been Renamed and is Now Being Marketed as a Natural Sweetener. Artificial sweeteners especially aspartame has gotten a bad rap over the years, most likely due to studies showing they cause cancer. But not to worry Ajinomoto the company that makes Aspartame has changed the name to AminoSweet.

It has the same toxic ingredients but a nice new sounding name. And if you or your child happens to be allergic to Aspartame, well don’t take it personally it’s just business.

Despite the evidence gained over the years showing that aspartame is a dangerous toxin, it has remained on the global market . In continues to gain approval for use in new types of food despite evidence showing that it causes neurological brain damage, cancerous tumors, and endocrine disruption, among other things.

Most consumers are oblivious to the fact that Aspartame was invented as a drug but upon discovery of its’ sweet taste was magically transformed from a drug to a food additive. HFA wants to warn our readers to beware of a wolf dressed up in sheep’s clothing or in this case Aspartame dressed up as Aminosweet.

Over 25 years ago, aspartame was first introduced into the European food supply. Today, it is an everyday component of most diet beverages, sugar-free desserts, and chewing gums in countries worldwide. But the tides have been turning as the general public is waking up to the truth about artificial sweeteners like aspartame and the harm they cause to health.

The latest aspartame marketing scheme is a desperate effort to indoctrinate the public into accepting the chemical sweetener as natural and safe, despite evidence to the contrary.

Aspartame was an accidental discovery by James Schlatter, a chemist who had been trying to produce an anti-ulcer pharmaceutical drug for G.D. Searle & Company back in 1965. Upon mixing aspartic acid and phenylalanine, two naturally-occurring amino acids, he discovered that the new compound had a sweet taste. The company merely changed its FDA approval application from drug to food additive and, voila, aspartame was born.

G.D. Searle & Company first patented aspartame in 1970. An internal memo released in the same year urged company executives to work on getting the FDA into the “habit of saying yes” and of encouraging a “subconscious spirit of participation” in getting the chemical approved.

G.D. Searle & Company submitted its first petition to the FDA in 1973 and fought for years to gain FDA approval, submitting its own safety studies that many believed were inadequate and deceptive. Despite numerous objections, including one from its own scientists, the company was able to convince the FDA to approve aspartame for commercial use in a few products in 1974, igniting a blaze of controversy.

Prop 37 is the best chance we have of defeating the corporate agri-giants and of forcing food manufacturers to stop hiding potentially dangerous ingredients in our food, without our knowledge.

Please sign the petition below today. When we reach the goal of 200,000 signatures, it will be hand delivered to the White House and the Organic Consumers Association will make sure to have national media on hand to help spread the message. http://signon.org/sign/michelle-obama-tell-presiden?source=c.url&r_by=5382364

Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association

Saw spraying this morning in the Sedona skies….

There will likely be a vote this week.

Please return to the action alert page for the latest updates:
http://www.capwiz.com/grassrootsnetroots/issues/alert/?alertid=61506976&type=CO

That’s also the link you can share with your friends asking them to join you in contacting your Member of Congress.
http://www.capwiz.comwww.capwiz.com

Nancy Baer, Sedona AZ

Senator Sanders asking for GMO labeling citing health hazards and Senator Stabenow (D-MI) essentially obstructing any more discussion about the hazards, about how she’s discussed this with Bill Gates’ and then some story to make the listener feel guilt. Fortunately, a heckler gets the last word!!!

GMO Food Labels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzMF2C1bAnU&feature=relmfu

Debbie, many modified sweet corns do not digest easily as a result of the modifications – eat it and watch it be pooped through as a whole kernel – little food value at all. A Camp Verde farmer grows gmo sweet corn & now we don’t stop and buy it any more like we used to do years ago when we travel to Lake Powell.

Monsanto would have sued Naomi and Ruth and won. I worry about the poor and our seniors that rely on cheap and donated foods that will have little or no food value. I worry about our food chain being in the hands of big pharma and big ag. You should as well.

Jane Westin, Chandler