The Center for Food Safety
Urges You to Vote Yes on Measure 27
Oregonians should have the right to know what they
are eating. Up to 60% of processed foods on your grocery store shelves
contain genetically engineered (GE) ingredients. There is strong
scientific evidence of numerous potential health and environmental
risks of GE foods. These foods could be toxic, could cause allergic
responses, could have lowered nutritional value and could compromise
the immune responses in consumers. They may also cause environmental
problems, such as the growth of “superweeds” and the
extinction of native species. Under federal government policies,
GE foods reach your supermarkets without any required testing for
these human health and environmental problems.
By passing Measure 27, Oregon will become the first
state to allow its citizens to make an informed decision on whether
or not they wish to eat GE foods.
- Without mandatory labeling, there is no
way consumers can tell which foods are genetically engineered.
- Without mandatory labeling, genetic engineering
firms can use consumers and our children as unknowing
guinea pigs to test the safety of their GE foods.
- Without mandatory labeling, consumers and health
professionals will not know if adverse reactions to foods
are due to their being genetically engineered.
- Without mandatory labeling, consumers have no
means of holding the producers of GE foods liable
should these foods eventually prove hazardous.
Mandatory labels on GE foods would benefit everyone
— except for the corporations that want to boost their profits
and deny consumers the ability to know exactly what it is they are
buying.
We urge the citizens of Oregon to be leaders and
to protect consumers’ right to know. Vote Yes on Measure
27.
For more information, call the Center for Food
Safety at 1-800-600-6664 or visit our website at www.centerforfoodsafety.org.
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