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GMO Food Labeling

If you are concerned about the labelling of genetically modified foods please fill out this letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Respectfully request that the Prime Minister of Canada immediately require the labelling of GM foods and ensure that a tracking system is in place to ensure the public’s health as a result of current exposure. Also encourage the Prime Minister to regard this as a serious matter and respond to your concerns immediately.

TO:
Prime Minister Stephen Harper,
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa
K1A 0A2

From:
Of:
Email:

* (Please read and modify letter if desired to reflect your own feelings)

Dear Prime Minister Stephen Harper,
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa
K1A 0A2

Dear Prime Minister Harper,

I am writing to you regarding what I believe to be my constitutional right to know what I am consuming. There is no requirement currently in Canada to ensure that all genetically modified foods are labelled. All citizens have a right to know what they are buying/consuming, and in particular, if it is genetically modified. This allows the consumer to make an informed choice.

There are many reasons why I would like to avoid genetically modified foods. I don’t agree with the patenting of food seeds.  This allows big corporations to control what is grown. This practice will ultimately lead to a loss in natural seed stock.  Biodiversity in our ecosystems is governed by natural selection and not genetically modified seeds. Genetically modified seed can spread to other farm areas causing contamination. This loss of natural diversity is extremely dangerous repercussions.

The terminator gene, an attempt to control the contamination of GM seeds is an even graver threat to our food security and to farmer’s rights. It means that farmers cannot save their seeds as they have been for thousands of years. They must continue buying them year after year from corporations like Monsanto. Ontop of that, it means we have no continuity in our food production system. If these GM crops with terminator seeds were to fail because of their insuitability to the climate they’re being grown in, because a pest has become resistent to the pesticides sprayed on them, or for any other number of reasons, our ability to feed ourselves and export or crops for profit would be devastatingly halted.

The lack of labelling requirements for GM foods does not protect public health. Consuming a food that has been altered may affect people’s heath. In order for doctor’s to determine any possible side effects, people need to know what they have consumed.  There is a strong need to ensure the public’s health by ensuring that a system is in place to track the consumption of GM foods.

We respectfully request that as the Prime Minister of Canada you immediately require the labelling of GM foods and ensure that a tracking system is in place to ensure the public’s health as a result of current exposure. I also encourage you to regard this as a serious matter and look forward to your early response to my concerns on this matter.

Environmentally yours,

Respectfully,

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