After GMO Labeling Shot Down, Citizens Start Labeling Products Themselves

After GMO Labeling Shot Down, Citizens Start Labeling Products Themselves







Anthony Gucciardi

Natural Society

Activists and concerned citizens around the world have had enough with
corrupt corporations censoring their right to know what’s in their food,
and frankly they’re beyond upset. And if the government will not side
with the 90 plus percentage of consumers who are in favor of GMO
labeling, then they’re going to do it themselves.

As it turns out, many are doing just that through the ‘DIY’ GMO labeling
campaign known as ‘The Label It Yourself Campaign’. Sporting a skull
with cornstalks for crossbones, the DIY labels inform customers as to
whether or not a product ‘may’ include GMO ingredients or most certainly
does.

Below is one label taken from the campaign website
that activists are now placing on products found in grocery stores,
homes of friends and family (to incite discussion), and just about
everywhere else:

People Will Not Stand for Corporate Food Lies Any Longer

With 80% or more of many staple crops like corn and
soybeans already genetically modified, there is a large chance that most
products containing these ingredients (or deriviatives) does indeed
contain GMOs. Even more so for highly processed high-fructose corn syrup
and other harmful ingredients which are arguably modified 100% of the
time. You can print out the labels from the campaign website and stick
them on products for yourself.


With a lack of real GMO labeling thanks to dirty tricks by pro-GMO
groups like No on 37, grassroots initiatives are the only methods of
alerting the public to what they are putting into their mouths. Pro-GMO
campaigns have impersonated and illegally used the FDA seal, posed as phony cop and democrat groups, and poured more than $45 million
into keeping consumers into the dark.Now, citizens are fighting back
through peaceful grassroots initiatives. As a picture from one Treehugger blog shows, consumers are honestly labeling processed foods across the shelves of international grocers:


As for the legal aspect? The Label It Yourself Campaign states:
<blockquote class="tr_bq">At the moment, the law protects misinformation and private property above truth-telling, and public well-being…</blockquote>Meanwhile,
corporations like Monsanto continue to pump out GMOs that have been
time and time again linked to disease, environmental disaster, and even
the center of ‘slave labor‘
issues. When government legislation is shot down through corruption, it
becomes a grassroots responsibility to take action and make a real
change.

Source:-
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/11/after-gmo-labeling-shot-down-citizens.html