<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:18pt"><div>Subject: Stop the approval of GMO apples!<br><br>Hi,<br><br>The USDA is poised to approve the first GMO apple.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>We need your help
today, right now, to tell the USDA to say no to GMO apples.<br><br><br>That's why I signed a petition to The US Department of Agriculture.<br><br>Will you sign this petition? Click here:<br><br><a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-the-approval-of?source=s.em.cp&r_by=913001"><font>http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-the-approval-of?source=s.em.cp&r_by=913001</font></a><br><br>Thanks!<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 24px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 24px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">John Thielking</div></div></body></html>