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Connecticut Sierra Club Takes on Genetically Modified Foods (GMOs)  Click here for details (Updated May 20th)  with tons of upcoming events!  See also: http://gmofreect.org/
Our statewide efforts to get GMO labeling is having an affect on the national scene. Click on this link and sign the national petition for S.809 National bill to label our foods with GMO's
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You Are Invited to a Taste of GMO-Free: Rally and Food Tasting
Sign up to attend on May 21 in Hartford!
On May 21st

You should be at this rally: 
  • If you want to know what is in your food.
  • If you have concerns about putting our food supply in the hands of the folks who brought us PCBs, Agent Orange, Astroturf, Roundup, lead in gasoline, and CFCs. (This labeling legislation is an important step in fighting the money and power that Monsanto and Dupont wield to keep us ignorant.) 
  • If you are concerned about pesticides. So far, despite many promises of wonderful things, GMOs have brought us food sprayed with more and more herbicide and food that is actually a registered pesticide.
  • If you take local food seriously. As one bumper sticker says, "Local Food is Primary Care."  If we don't grow healthy food here we may not get it. 
  • If you want to meet some of Connecticut's star chefs and taste their food.
You don't need to attend this rally:
  • If you are happy with the current food system, 
  • If you don't care about knowing what is in your food, 
  • If you like increased FDA tolerances for Roundup in our food
  • If you don't care about the corporate takeover of the food system.
However you feel on the issue, in a democracy it should be the people who are heard.  Tell your legislators your opinion.

In our GMO panels, I've often heard former Congressman Rob Simmons stress the importance of "We the People" in our Constitution, giving us sovereignty.  Make your voice heard.

Food sovereignty is a rapidly emerging hot topic globally.

On May 25, tens of thousands of activists around the world will "March Against Monsanto." Marches are planned on six continents, in 36 countries, totaling events in over 250 cities, and in the US, events are slated to occur simultaneously at 11 a.m. Pacific in 47 states. Check out the March Against Monsanto website to learn more.

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