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rough notes for a Maritme Noon GE talkback call - aug 15, by aaron koleszar Yesterday on your show, jeannie cruckshank of the Canadian Council of Grocery distributors spoke about a labelling standard being developed. it is not surprising that she did not explain any details about that standard, if she had, she would have given away her little secret. her secret is that they are spending two years to develop a standard for voluntary labelling. not mandatory - VOLUNTARY - if you want to. canadian laws have allowed voluntary labelling for years, yet no companies label. it is obvious that this labelling standard process is just a government and industry stalling tactic. Jeannie also referred to the Food & Drug Act it's kind of ironic, as transgenic food is illegal under this act. The Food and Drug Act clearly states that adultered foods shall be labelled as such. This is also why our government wants to change the Food & Drug act with Bill C-80 - they want to remove the component which requires labelling of adultered food your guest also called GE crops "safe technologies" -why have the US FDA's own scientists sued the FDA for their approval processes of GE foods? -why does she trust that these products are safe? they are only tested by the companies that make them - the same companies who brought us PCBs, Agent orange, DDT, dioxin, breast implants, and lots of other nice "safe" chemicals. don't swallow it! ********************************************************** Aaron Koleszar <aaronk@isn.net> _________________________________________________________ FOR THE REAL NEWS ON THE A16 IMF/WORLD BANK & OAS PROTESTS, VISIT: http://www.indymedia.org - The Independenat Media Center http://www.a16.org - Mobilization for Global Justice DON'T TRUST THE CORPORATE MEDIA! TV TURNOFF WEEK WAS APRIL 22-30 (KEEP IT OFF!) _____________________________________________________________________ Excerpt From "Statement to the Public by Jailed IMF/World Bank Protestors" Our movement is a small part of a worldwide brotherhood and sisterhood joining in solidarity with all the impoverished, oppressed, and progressive people of earth. For us, breaking the law is not a frivolous gesture, but rather a last-resort means of exposing the immense powers that we all face when we attempt to create real, ethical change. We continue to draw inspiration from the civil rights, anti-nuclear, anti-war, environmental justice, labor rights, and anti-oppression movements. Who are we? We are your sons and daughters, your sisters and brothers, your fathers, mothers, grandfathers, and grandmothers. We are your co-workers, your fellow parishioners and rabbis, your healers, your teachers, and your students. We will continue to risk arrest, and if necessary resist with our very lives, until we expose this world as one in which profits come before people, so that a more just, humane, and free global society may take its place. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The preceding message was posted on the Sustainable Maritimes mailing list (sust-mar). http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/lists/sust-mar -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Sponsors: Chebucto Community Net http://www.chebucto.ns.ca Sierra Club - Chebucto Group http://www.sierraclub.ca Volunteer moderator: Paul Falvo mailto:sust-mar-owner@chebucto.ns.ca To submit a message to sust-mar, please send it to: mailto:sust-mar@chebucto.ns.ca PLEASE SEND MESSAGES TO SUST-MAR IN PLAIN TEXT ONLY MESSAGES CONTAINING HTML (MIME) CANNOT BE POSTED
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