Let Consumers Know What's In Their Food - Vote Yes on Measure
27
The more than 15,000 members of the following
consumer-owned grocery cooperatives simply want to know what is
in their food.
We are asking for basic consumer information. Measure 27 is not
designed to stop biotech research, but to give consumers the information
we need in order to choose whether or not to consume genetically
engineered (GE) food.
Many experts question the consumption of
food made with GE ingredients without more in-depth, long-term studies.
They feel these products have been released without broad consideration
of the long-term effects. We have experienced many new technologies
hailed as innovative enhancements of our quality of life, only to
discover serious problems years later. Problems that would not have
impacted so many people if adequate long term research had been
done before approving them for public use.
Concerns regarding a negative effect on
our state's economy and your cost of groceries are unfounded.
The European Union and Japan require labeling of GE foods,
and major US food manufacturers as well as Oregon potato farmers
are already supplying labeled products for export. It has not measurably
affected the cost of foods in those countries.
Very little GE food is grown in Oregon. The largest
farmers cooperative in our state has chosen to go GE free to make
sure that it can satisfy it’s Pacific Rim customers. It won’t
hurt our farmers, but will assure them that they can continue to
have access to foreign markets with a label that will give them
an advantage over other agricultural states.
Major manufacturers already label for the
rest of the world. Vote yes to give Oregonians the same RIGHT TO
KNOW what is in OUR food.
The consumer-owners of:
• Ashland Community Food Store, Ashland
• Coos Head Food Store, North Bend
• First Alternative Natural Foods Co-op, Corvallis
• Food Front Cooperative Grocery, Portland
• Oceana Natural Foods Cooperative, Newport
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