[GPSCC-chat] Stop the approval of GMO apples!

[John Thielking]

Subject: Stop the approval of GMO apples!

Hi,

The USDA is poised to approve the first GMO apple.

If approved, these genetically engineered apples could end up everywhere from school lunches to grocery stores, posing risks to our health, our environment and apple farmers across the United States.

Like other GMOs, it won’t be labeled and won’t have undergone independent safety testing -- regulators will rely on the company’s sole assessment that the apple is safe for human consumption.

Worse yet, this GMO apple was genetically engineered via a new, virtually untested experimental technique called RNA interference, which many scientists are concerned may have negative, unintended impacts on human health and the environment.

We need your help today, right now, to tell the USDA to say no to GMO apples.


That's why I signed a petition to The US Department of Agriculture.

Will you sign this petition? Click here:

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-the-approval-of?source=s.em.cp&r_by=913001

Thanks!


John Thielking
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