DOES YOUR FAMILY’S FOOD COME FROM
HERE… OR HERE?
WITHOUT LABELING, WE DON’T KNOW.
SEVEN DAYS
02.05.14-02.12.14
SEVENDAYSVt.com
An open letter to members of the Vermont Senate and our families when we purchase food, including We deserve to make informed choices for ourselves to know fied organisms (GMOs). For example, we deserve knowing when our food contains genetically modi an insert DNA from bacteria into corn, which produces when chemical companies use this technology to genes into salmon so that it grows unnaturally fast. insecticide within the corn itself, or insert eel-like y 200 on sense — that’s why H. 112 is endorsed by nearl Labeling GMOs in food sold in Vermont is just comm more than 30,000 citizens. Vermont businesses, food producers and farms, and say we should wait for others to act first, but we can’t Vermont needs to lead the way on this issue. Some s have the right to know what’s in our food. let other states decide when or whether Vermonter
We have the right to know if our food is genetically engineered.
Paid for by the Vermont Public Interest Research Group on behalf of the VT Right to Know GMOs Coalition
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lic hearing on the GMO labeling bill Vermonters: Come to the State House for a pub Vermont State House Thursday, February 6th, 6:00-8:00pm, or call the at (802)828-2228 between 8:30am and 4:30pm ing on other states to act first. to ask your Senator to pass H. 112 without depend 1t-NENPA(VTGMOs)020514.indd 1
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