What is the future of our food? GMO or organic? California SB 1056 is important to watch.

Date:   5/8/2006 10:11:52 PM ( 18 y ago)

http://www.environmentalcommons.org/gmo-tracker.html

This is a Legislative Tracker of the bill
sponsored by Mansano in many states
that outlaws local communities and counties,
such as Mendocino a couple years ago,
from passing laws that outlaw GMO's.

I have had this bill in the back of my mind.
I just signed up for an update.

http://info.sen.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?maison=SB&nro=1056&act=1&site=sen

This is a sleeper, and very important to watch.
GMO foods and organic cannot exist side by side.
Altered seeds corrupt everything around them.

Please see
"The Future of Food," the DVD
and make sure others are aware of it.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/11/07/LVG709K7MV1.DTL




"Just about everybody is pretty serious about their chow," says Deborah Koons Garcia, enjoying the understatement. "Even if they don't eat good food, they're serious about their junk food."

No matter how serious they are, though, Garcia knows most people don't realize that genetically engineered foods have quietly slipped into much of the American food supply, mostly from corn and canola. They're in an estimated 60 percent of all processed foods.

She wants people to understand the risks, in her view, while there's still time.

"We are at a crossroads," says Garcia, fending off the wet affections of her three Dalmatians as she explains why she's spent the last three years and a chunk of what she calls her "Jerry money" making "The Future of Food," a documentary about GMO (genetically modified organism) foods. Though Garcia has made films all her life and runs her own production company, Lily Films, she is better known as the widow of Jerry Garcia, the legendary Grateful Dead lead singer and guitarist who died in 1995.

"Someone needed to make this film, because if this technology isn't challenged and if this corporatization of our whole food system isn't stopped, at some point it will be too late," says Garcia, her back to the sweeping ridgetop view from the Mill Valley home she and Jerry bought not long before he died. She went ahead with their plans to add on, and made her film with a staff of six in the vast downstairs room that would have been her husband's art studio.



 

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