[Peace-discuss] Fw: [Clarity] food labeling, no defense

[Laurie Solomon]

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From: "Michael Parenti" <mp at michaelparenti.org>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 2:27 PM
To: "Michael Parenti" <clarity at lists.michaelparenti.org>
Subject: [Clarity] food labeling, no defense

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> This was sent to me. I signed the petition and am passing it on to all of 
> you. I usually do not send out things that are passed on to me, even if I 
> act upon them, out of regard for all the inflow that most of you are 
> handling. But this is important. Obama is holding true to form:
>
> The Obama administration is planning on dispatching delegates, on May 3rd, 
> to a WTO meeting to propose changes to a document called the Codex 
> Alimentarius, which is responsible for determining international standards 
> on food labeling. Specifically, these changes would restrict labeling as 
> it pertains to genetically modified genes and organisms. Much more than a 
> giveaway to multinational agribusiness interests, this is an affront to 
> democracy and national sovereignty itself for any number of nations, 
> including our own. In short, if this passes, it would literally become 
> illegal, under international law (in such a way as to trump laws at the 
> national level, via Breton Woods institutions) to inform consumers of 
> genetically modified foodstuffs, and our own FDA and USDA, as well as 
> state and local agencies, would become powerless to protect the interests 
> of American consumers, with regard to our food supply. If you have any 
> interest whatsoever in knowing what's in the food you eat, I would 
> strongly urge you to please have a look at this petition, and consider 
> signing it. And then pass it along to everyone you know, as soon as you 
> can. We have until May 3rd on this. What I've given you thus far are the 
> facts, as I know them. My opinion, should you care to read it, will follow 
> the link below...
> Cheers, Tommy
>
> http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/cms/sign/stop_the_sneak_attack/?akid=115.119514.Zgg0mm&rd=1&t=6
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> I would *STRONGLY* urge anybody and everybody to sign this petition. 
> Everybody needs to know that this is happening, what the potential 
> consequences of it are, and that they don't have much longer to raise 
> their voices about it. This isn't a matter of telling people how they are 
> or aren't allowed to make a living, nor is it even a matter of something 
> as perfectly reasonable as telling RJR Nabisco, Unilever, Parmalat, et al, 
> "No, sorry, but you're not allowed to use ground glass or rat feces as 
> filler in the breakfast cereal you put on our supermarket shelves"... This 
> is a matter of denying the citizens of sovereign nations their right to 
> know what's in their own food, regardless of how they've chosen to set up 
> their own democratic institutions or what they've come to expect from 
> their regulatory agencies, all because the WTO and IMF (and now, 
> apparently, Barack Obama) hold the bank accounts of shareholders in higher 
> regard than the well being of stakeholders. This wouldn't have at all 
> surprised me coming from Bush and Cheney, but it makes me absolutely sick 
> to see this sort of policy being advanced by the very administration we 
> put in place to undo the damage of their eight years. There is apparently 
> no limit to the ways this guy is willing to sell us out...
> Food Democracy Now - Stop the sneak attack on GMO labeling!
> action.fooddemocracynow.org
> If the U.S. government has its way, the powerful intergovernmental group 
> Codex may soon make it impossible to label food "GMO-free" for any country 
> in the world. On May 3rd, 2010 Obama officials from ...
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