Prop 37 Won Because of You and Concern for Profit Margin
Prop 37--The Grassroots Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Food will Ultimately Win its goal. Corporate Heads are coming to the Talking Table four months after Nov 6--Voting Day in California-- because of Concern for further loss of Profit Margin. A Grassroots Movement --Fueled by Will, Unsung Heroes, and Many Voices; and funded by Leaders in NON GMO, Organic, and Fair Trade, ultimately drove grocery manufacturers to decide it would be in their best interest to back National Labeling of GMO’s. Many of us, who worked for the YES on Prop 37 side, were working for ideals, as well as concern for the evolutionary fate of all people. For me, I saw Prop 37 as a step to restore the ideas in the song America The Beautiful, and as an important step to Win Back Our Sacred Seeds.
A LATTER STANZA TO THE SONG AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener
February 6, 2013
four months after Nov 6 Voting
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PREMISE OF THIS PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOG:
1. IT WAS THE BOTTOM LINE THAT ULTIMATELY CAUSED WALMART AND OTHER MAINSTREAM GROCERY MANUFACTURERS TO COME TO THE TABLE AND BEGIN DISCUSSING THE GROUND RULES FOR A NATIONAL GMO LABEL
This is from that story from the New York Times, January 31, 2013, about four Months after 3.4 Million Votes YES on Prop 37:
Executives from PepsiCo, ConAgra and about 20 other major food companies, as well as Wal-Mart and advocacy groups that favor labeling, attended a meeting in January in Washington... The inclusion of Wal-Mart has buoyed hopes among labeling advocates that the big food companies will shift away from tactics like those used to defeat Proposition 37 in California last fall, when corporations spent more than $40 million to oppose the labeling of genetically modified foods.
“They spent an awful lot of money in California — talk about a lack of return on investment,” said Gary Hirshberg, co-chairman of the Just Label It campaign, which advocates national labeling, and chairman of Stonyfield, an organic dairy company.
Instead of quelling the demand for labeling, the defeat of the California measure has spawned a ballot initiative in Washington State and legislative proposals in Connecticut, Vermont, New Mexico and Missouri, and a swelling consumer boycott of some organic or “natural” brands owned by major food companies.
Forces to reckon with--Jeffrey M. Smith, Institute of Responsible Technology, left, has for years seen consumer spending as the key to moving beyond GMO proliferation. His film, "Genetic Roulette" I see creating that Tipping Point. Gary Hirshberg, inspiration behind the national Label it Movement, carries a strong vision. The former CE-YO for Stonyfield Farms, his Voice is being heard in Washington.
Since food companies collectively spent over $45 million to stop Prop 37, California’s GMO labeling law, it’s hard to believe that they — and Walmart in particular — would turn around and push for a federal GMO labeling standard. But a trickle of reports, aspects of which we’ve now confirmed, suggests just such a turnabout.
Playing a state-by-state game of whack-a-mole with grassroots groups trying to pass laws across the country (as is occurring in Washington state, Vermont, New Mexico, and Connecticut) may simply have become too exhausting and costly for these companies. If so, such an about-face would vindicate GMO opponents’ strategy of a direct appeal to consumers. GMO-labeling advocates may have succeeded in beginning to drive a wedge between biotechnology seed companies, like Monsanto and Syngenta, and the food companies that have to sell what’s produced with their wares.
2 . PROP 37--THE GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN IN MY MIND A MOVEMENT TO RESTORE AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL. THIS MOVEMENT WILL WIN ULTIMATELY, BECAUSE OF YOU--HER EMINENT GARDENERS OF AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
Grassroots Movement Growing
WORDS FROM THE LATTER STANZAS OF THE SONG
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
America the Beautiful
Words by Katharine Lee Bates,
Melody by Samuel Ward
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,.
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
Here is a Video I made One Month before the Vote Nov 6:
views: 365 Feb 6, 2013
THIS IS THE POEM THAT APPEARED IN THE PACIFIC SYMPOSIUM HANDBOOK THAT CAME OUT NOVEMBER 6
We will wake up one morning in a
post GMO world with smiles on our faces.
We will have returned our world to sanity.
We will have claimed the RIght to Know
what is in our food.
We will know we were born to grow some
of our food and to support local farmers,
who say "Happiness is Organic!"
because we are a Friend of the Farm.
We will see with real eyes--that all of us--
are growing in the same pot called Planet Earth.
Nature says, Plant Your Dream!
When we hear this message, we will be free of all adversaries
who decided they would grow food that doesn't feed our soul.
The world that we knew--The Economy we imagined working--
is worth no more than dead dollar bills turned by
Eden Foods into pencils.
Abundance will Grow with us no longer complaining,
blaming, or banking on a bankrupt system.
Our voices will be heard,
Our Noble Visions for America the Beautiful will be seen.
We are here to Grow A Healthier Pizza. I see this world coming.
We are each designed to be its Gardener.
Nature's Original Technology will prevail.
How Fast Can a Dream Grow? As Fast as a Blade of Grass.
Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener
November 6, 2013
A PHOTO FROM GOLDEN HALL, SAN DIEGO, WHERE A HANDFUL OF US GATHERED TO FEEL OUR COMMUNITY AND HEAR THE VOTE, NOV 6
David and Lisa Bronner, of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap,major contributors to the YES Campaign--were there, some of the youth who helped were also present, and me.
STEPPING FORWARD TO END GMO PROLIFERATION
GENETIC ROULETTE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR 2012
Photo of Jeffrey M Smith and Leslie Goldman, Your Enchanted Gardener, Watering the Greatest Grassroots Movement in CA History. Image by Keith Wyder from the Closing Ceremony of the National Heirloom Expo, September 13, Santa Rosa, CA,
On February 5, Jeffrey M. Smith, announced that his film "Genetic Roulette," The Gamble of our lives, had won the Aware Guide's award for Top Transformational Film of the year.
More than 30 films were in the the vote. "Genetic Roulette" was the runaway leader because many who voted YES on 37 voted for it. They saw the importance of this film winning.
I DE CLARE that "Genetic Roulette" is not only the Top Transformational Film of 2012, but it is the Most Important Documentary Film of The Year.
I would like to see these signs at the Academy Awards in Hollywood in March.
JOIN THE CAMPAIGN TO GROW A HEALTHIER PIZZA: HELP WIN BACK OUR SACRED SEEDS
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Patricia Bragg, of the Bragg Health Crusade was instrumental in the launch of the Campaign to Grow A Healthier Pizza 2012. Our focus in 2012 was planting a Grassroots Movement to Win Prop 37. When all is said and done, the People--The Grassroots--with help from Non GMO and Organic Trade leaders will have won out to Win Back Our Sacred Seeds.
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