Gwyneth: Just Label It

Got this email from Gwyneth Paltrow today!

Dear Jenifer.

I am writing to ask for your help to prevent a terrible law from being passed. On August 5, I am joining Just Label It in Washington, D.C to fight for mandatory GMO labeling – something supported by 90 percent of Americans.

Last week, the House of Representatives passed what we call the Deny Americans the Right to Know – or DARK – Act. This bill would make it effectively impossible for America to enact the same kind of mandatory GMO labeling that exists in 64 other nations – and it would overturn existing GMO labeling laws in states like Vermont, Connecticut and Maine.

There’s still time for us to make our voices heard. On August 5, we want to bring 100,000 petition signatures to show Senators and the President we’re serious about our right to know and choose what we’re eating and how our foods are grown.

We need your help: Will you sign our petition today?

Click here to join our petition: http://signforgood.com/stopthedarkact/?code=JLI

There’s no dancing around it. Last week’s House vote was bought and paid for by Big Food and its allies – like Monsanto – that have a vested interest in keeping Americans in the dark about their food.

But now it’s our turn to show our strength: If we can come together, we can stop this bill before it becomes a reality.

Help us reach 100,000 Americans against the DARK Act by August 5: Click here to call on Senators and the White House to support our right to know what we’re feeding our families by opposing the DARK Act.

Thank you for joining Just Label It and me. I will keep you posted on our progress.

All my best wishes,

Gwyneth Paltrow

P.S. When it comes to the food we feed our families, we all need to make our voices heard. Click here to sign our petition and urge Senators and the White House to reject the DARK Act.

Nice

I don't know much about the GMO debate. Heard a little bit from their side and some from the people against it. One thing I heard from the GMO side was the studies some doctor did on rats? They said those rats were known to get tumors even with out GMOs so they study was weak. I would like to learn more from both sides of the argument

Drought could be one of the effects.

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/california-drought-surprising-cause

Unfortunately in the US the state of affairs is this:

There are the people.

And then there are corporations.

The "representative" components of our government (congress) represent corporations. They act to protect and enforce corporations against the people, not the other way around.

In other words, we the people have been bought out.

Petitions and letters aren't going to stop a concentrated force of power like that. The only hope we have, because social forces are still operating, is to bring as much light to something as possible. Like the case w/ SOPA. The curtain hasn't quite dropped to the point where the government is ready to just expose militant rule yet, and so if we can get as much negative press as much global exposure as possible, there's a shot.

But we look at something like the TPP agreement just thus summer, and you kind of see we don't have much say anymore. When I'm ready and able, I'll be glad to get the fuck out of here.

Thanks for the post, Delphine.

It's not just here in the USA, Gates.  Although it is arguably worse.  Home of the free, yeah right.

Ultimately the most powerful approach is to create change from within.  Being the change we want to see, in Gandhi's words.
Krishnamurti too:  "You are the world."
This may seem very esoteric but that's how it works.  "It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness."