CA Right to Know Label GMO Foods officially on the Ballot

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California voters to decide on GMO labeling

Polls show overwhelming support for historic labeling initiative
June 12, 2012 -- Last night, the California Secretary of State’s office announced that the Right to Know initiative to label genetically engineered foods will be on the state’s November ballot. The historic initiative would be the first law in the United States requiring labeling of a wide range of genetically engineered foods.

“We’re thrilled that Californians will have the opportunity this November to vote for the right to know what’s in our food,” said Stacy Malkan, a spokesperson for the California Right to Know campaign. “This initiative is pretty simple. It's about our fundamental right to make informed choices about the food we eat and feed our families.”

The initiative requires labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) – which are plants or meats that have had their DNA artificially altered by genes from other plants, animals, viruses, or bacteria, in order to produce foreign compounds in that food. This type of genetic alteration occurs in a laboratory and is not found in nature.

Polls show nearly unanimous support across the political spectrum for labeling of genetically engineered foods. Nine out of ten voters in the U.S. and in California back labeling, according to recent polls (see Mellman 2012, Reuters 2010, Zogby 2012). An April poll by San Francisco TV station KCBS found 91% backed labeling.

The California Right to Know initiative is backed by a broad array of consumer, health and environmental groups, businesses and farmers. Major endorsers include Public Citizen, Sierra Club, American Public Health Association, United Farm Workers, California Certified Organic Farmers, Organic Consumers Association, Consumer Federation of America, Nature’s Path, Lundberg Family Farms, Organic Valley, Dr. Bronner’s, Eden Foods, Mercola.com, Center for Food Safety, Food Democracy Now! and the California State Grange.

Grant Lundberg, CEO of Lundberg Family Farms in the Sacramento Valley, noted that the United States stands out as one of the few developed nations that does not provide consumers with simple labels to inform them if their food has been genetically engineered. “More than 40 other countries -- including all of Europe, Japan and even China -- already label genetically engineered food. Californians deserve to be able to make informed choices too," Lundberg said.

"As a doctor committed to the health of people and the environment, I strongly believe that people have a right to know, and to choose for themselves, whether to eat foods that have been genetically engineered," said Robert Gould, MD, president of the SF-Bay Area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Susan Lang, a Sacramento mother of two who was one of thousands of volunteers who worked to place the initiative on the ballot, said passing the Right to Know initiative is in the best interests of everyone in the state. "I want to know whether the food I’m buying contains genetically engineered ingredients. All the parents I know want to have this information too,” Lang said.

The California Right to Know initiative is widely regarded as the best chance to achieve GMO labeling in the United States, and the campaign has generated significant national interest in the growing movement for transparency in our food system, as reported in a recent front-page New York Times story.

In March, more than one million people submitted comments to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on a petition for mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods, more than any other petition in FDA history. Twenty states have tried to legislate GMO labeling, but none have succeeded due to intense opposition from corporate special interests.

“All eyes are on California, and the voters of this state will support our right to know what’s in our food when they vote this November,” said Stacy Malkan from the Right to Know campaign.

More info: Contact Stacy Malkan, 510-542-9224; Stacy@carighttoknow.org

For more information about the California Right to Know campaign, see http://www.CARighttoKnow.org.


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The People of California who are Registered Voters: 7.5 Million + 2 of Us Will Vote Yes Right to Know Label GMOs


Petition on Change.Org. started by Leslie Goldman, Your Enchanted Gardener.

Please go sign it.

http://www.change.org/petitions/the-people-of-california-who-are-registered-v...

This petition, that began June 3, is my place to focus endorsements for the CA Ballot Initiative. I want to move toward recording 7.5 Million Californias + 2 and allies from other states and countries who will vote yes to November 6 in California. The Petition has grown to include cheerleaders from other states.


The Caravan to the National Heirloom Expo, September 11, 12 & 13 2012


Many individuals and organizations are coming together to create a tipping point of people who are asking the Right to Know if GMOs are in our foods.
My personal contribution toward this grassroots movement will be building enthusiasm for the CA Ballot Measure. I have set out to Caravan to the National Heirloom Expo. The Expo begins September 11, 12 & 13 in Santa Rosa, CA.

My plan is to begin driving up to Santa Rosa, CA on September 1, stopping along the way to education about GMOs and gain further support for the CA ballot measure.

Right now, Uncle Sam is in the farmbed with the GMO movement. This is clear. Toward that end, I want to inspire Uncle Sam to get married to "Anti" GMO, and end this ellicit affair with Unwholesome Seeds. My Journey toward Santa Rosa, and success at the ballot Box November 6, is a journey to regain our Sacred Seeds.

My personal position is that we have taken an incorrect evolution turn when we went the way of GMOs. This is not to say I do not have friends and allies within the GMO movement, or that I do not personally eat my share of GMO foods. Most of us do eat GMO foods on a daily basis.

The CA Right to Know Label GMOs is for me an issue of Consumer Rights. It is an issue of Cultivating Food Justice. It is an extension of the Freedom Right that became in the 60's when people of all faiths came together toward being Civil RIghts Justice. Our plate for Justice is now the food issue, and to Grow a Healthier Pizza (and a Challah...for my Jewish Friends) is what I want to teach.

On the Caravan, I will stop at my favorite Health Supermarkets. I have been a long time fan of Whole Foods Market. I want to give guided tours of Whole Food Markets along the way, pointing out the vast array of Non GMO Verified Indgredients that can be found in each WFM, as well as what foods contain GMO ingredients.

Today, more than 80 % of some of our foods contain GMO ingredients, but we do not know this.

Here are the words for the 7.5 Million + 2 Petition:




7.5 Million + 2 of Us Will Vote Label GMOs Right to Know

Greetings, California Voters Saying Yes to Our RIght to Know Label GMOs,

I just signed the following petition addressed to: The People of California who are Registered Voters.


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Right now, as of June 3, 2012, millions of Californians are without their knowledge eating GMOs every day. GMOs are Genetically Modified Organisms. They have been in our food for a number of decades. Somebody thought this was O.K. to include GMOs in the daily foods we eat, but did not take the time to ask us first if we wanted them there. More than 40 nations of the world have the integrity to give their people choice to know if they are eating GMOs in their corn, soy, and a host of other foods, but in the US, since the inception of the FDA in 1906, we have leaned toward supporting commercial interests that have placed profits over producing healthy kids. This has gone so far that Congress, in Fall 2011, declared that Pizza was a vegetable just so they could keep from the expense of improving foods in our schools. From our point of view, kids would benefit from more and more healthy ingredients. Toward that end, we are coming together, bonding together, opening an honest Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Food about GMOs, We are here to educate ourselves, and our fellow Californians that we might each stand in the light about what we are eating. We believe that in signing this petition we are Cultivating Food Justice on our own tables. We insist on our Right to Know and call on each other to Label GMOs.

We love California. We love good food. We love that we can grow our own food. Many of us are regaining confidence now that we can grow some of our own foods. We love and trust the process of initiative in the Golden State. We come together now as registered voters, and others around the country in support, that the people of California become aware that GMOs are in many of our foods. We each, endorse the California Right to Know Label GMOs. We are letting each other know that we are standing together here...to Grow a Healthier Pizza for our Kids.







[Your name]


Please go sign it.

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How did I Come Up with 7.5 Million +2 as the Number of People it will take to Win the CA Ballot Measure?




WHAT'S UP WITH THE NUMBER 7.5 MILLION + 2 CALIFORNIANS?





I was with Pamm Larry, the Grandma who started the California Right to Know Label GMOs initiative May 29. Someone asked, how many people voted in California? She said 15 million. She said that we needed 2 people plus 50 % to win the California Right to Know Label GMOs Ballot Initiative. So...I thought...that meant we needed 7.5 Million + 2 Californias to Vote Yes. Get it?

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My Position on Monsanto Corporation







Dr. Robert Fraley, PhD, the Father of Round Up Ready Teachnology: Leslie Goldman, Your Enchanted Gardener, and Tami Craig Shilling, head Monsanto Corporation information Officer, and m friend on Facebook, at the AAAS Science Conference 2010. I have a vision of teaching Nature's Organic Techology at the AAAS and encourage everyone to join the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Food now so we can help ease the tension between GMO and Organic Lovers.

I wrote about this meeting here
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Leslie Goldman, Your Enchanted Gardener, Earth Fair, April 2012, Balboa Park, ingredients all organic to Grow a Healthier Pizza. If Pizza is a vegetable, let it look and be made of the finest vegetables around. There is no way we can continue to shortchange our kids. They deserve the best and we can no longer cut corners on them for any commercial reason of profit motive or budget concern.--Leslie

The CA Ballot Initiative is creating a powerful grassroots movement that will end with returning our Sacred Seeds to us. As Your Enchanted Gardener, I am hear to educate and bring in 1000 years of Peace. This is impossible without Kids having the materials they need. Plant Your Dream is my call. Take your dreams off the Shelf is my message. Toward this end, the following position may be a mind twister to some, but it is where I stand.

I am not against Monsanto Corporation. I feel there are many people within our emerging Grassroots movement who currently work for Monsanto Corp and are heavily invested within Biotech Industries. I personally trust that Nature, the authentic Centtral Intelligence Agency for Planet Earth, has already invented the most marvelous Technology.

I called this Nature's Original Technology. This is a system that cannot be beat. It is aligned with more than 8000 years of indigenous know how, and some of the most ingenious and joy fulfilling approaches to living in Heaven on Earth.

I am here to instigate a Nation of Gardeners. It is through each of us growing a bit of our own food, that we get our beat back with nature. This is the core of why I invite you to become a Beet Keeper in an age of Beet Keepers, Return!

I challenge Monsanto. I would like us, you and I, as Dream Makers, to be so excited and passionate about or own dreams, so inventive in harmony with the "beet" of nature, that the Biotech dream becomes something that we outgrow.

I challenge you and I as a movement to be so committed in our journey toward regaining our Sacred Seeds. Monsanto Corp currently has more money that we do; yet we, as best I can see, have nature and all that breathes, crawls, and imagines a more beautiful life on our side.

[Kinda reminds me of the scene in Avatar...or the Tokien saga...]

There is simply no way that we will have a healthy earth for generations of kids if we continue the way we are going.

I invite us now to be so strong in our conviction that we can win in November, and so clear of the outcome of this Continuation of the Freedom Ride, that even even if Monsanto spends every dime in their marketing budget to say that Labeling GMOs is not a good idea, they will not succeed.

Can you hear me?

Dear Friends at Monsanto...go ahead... Please spend all your money on California. I encourage you to do this.

I look forward to meeting you on stage at the Triple AS Science conferences of the future.

I want to teach you how to come home to Organic and Beyond. I want to teach you that it would be best now for your investors if you create an Organic Section now of Monsanto. I will help you.

The time will come that you, dear Monsanto, must pay for the crimes that have been committed and are now being committed against the Sacredness of the earth and its peoples.

This is not to say that I believe you or your investors intended to do harm. We are all ignorant of how to live on our precious earth.

Let us all learn together now.

I give you a quote from one of my important Mentors, Edmond Bordeaux Szekely; the Co- Founder of what became the #1 Destination Spa in the World, Rancho La Puerta:

"You, too, must one day cease to be your present self, so that you may become a richer personality, in pursuance of the law, that life always creates more life, Truth more abundant Truth, the seed more abundant seeds. This is one answer to your Problems given by the grain of wheat."

and also:

" Our adaptation to the natural forces is a question of existence or Non Existence. We cannot transform the universe or nature so that they adapt themselves to us; on the contrary, we must adapt ourselves to nature and her laws."




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Leslie, 619.384.2631.

Looking for places to share earth wisdom and Grow a Healthier Pizza or Challah, up and and down to coast September 1-September 10, 2012 between San Diego, CA and Santa Rosa. Will likely go as far north as the Frey Organic Winery in Mendocino, CA.

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Petition:
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7.5 Million + 2 Californians Will Vote "Yes" to the Right to Know Label GMO's



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GROW A HEALTHIER PIZZA!" WORKSHOP @ THE NATIONAL HEIRLOOM EXPO, SEPTEMBER 11,12, 13







I am setting out in 2012 to inspire thousands of new gardeners. I set this intention when I spoke at Organic Listening Day at the USDA in Washington September 20, 2011, and volunteered to be the Enchanted Gardener for the People's Garden Initiative. The beginning: We can each grow some of our own food in containers and get our beat back with nature. I travel with a silver box that contains the deepest dreams of humanity, and a pot where you are invited to Plant Your Dream. I hand out seeds to others as well and encourage their planting. We have reached a tipping point of consumer initiative thanks to so many divergent voices coming together. A literal grassroots movement of gardeners will inspire the White House, Congress, and its Federal agencies to come to terms with Real Food Safety; this includes GMO proliferation. Our Food Emergency is my pressing issue of the 2012 campaign. As a consumer movement, the Right to Know Initiative reached near 1,000,000 signers in early May to get on the California Ballot. Now we are taking the next step at the ballot box this November. Washington is in the farm bed with Biotech Agriculture. Thousands more small gardeners are needed, and a new generation of organic farmers. We will ignite a movement of 10 million strong or more leading to 'Uncle Sam Marries "Anti" GMO.' "Grow a Healthier Pizza" is my contribution toward this victory through blogging, educating and planting strong intentions.


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CARAVAN TO THE NATIONAL HEIRLOOM EXPOSITION SEPTEMBER 11,12,13, 2012




I will caravan to the National Heirloom Expo, September 11,12,13 in Santa Rosa, CA. This event falls less than two months before the election and features some of our big anti GMO hitters, including Jeffrey Smith and Vandana Shiva. This Expo is a rally point for winning the campaign to Label GMOs in California.


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The Ultimate Gardener, HCI, 2009,
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