Get Ready for World Food Day Actions 10/16/11

Get Ready for World Food Day Actions 10/16/11

• By Alexis Baden-Mayer, Esq., Political Director
  
  Organic Consumers Association, April 19, 2011
  Straight to the Source
  
  

On Sunday, October 16, 2011, the Organic Consumers Association's Millions Against Monsanto campaign is calling for World Food Day actions to demand labels on genetically engineered foods and a moratorium on the use of genetic engineering in agriculture and food production.

Get involved:

Join your local Millions Against Monsanto chapter.
Volunteer for the Millions Against Monsanto campaign.

RSVP for World Food Day on Facebook.

Sign and distribute the Millions Against Monsanto petition.
The goal is to have 435 actions, one in each U.S. Congressional District, and for each action to represent 2300 Millions Against Monsanto supporters.

435 x 2300 = 1,000,000 Against Monsanto

It would be great to have 2300 people participating in each event, but we can also demonstrate our numbers by delivering petitions signed by 2300 people in each Congressional District.

Anyone who can't attend an action on 10/16/11, can join the virtual rally by signing the Millions Against Monsanto petition.

Time to start planning our Millions Against Monsanto World Food Day actions!

Step #1 - Help your congressional district chapter get 2300 signatures on the Millions Against Monsanto petition for mandatory labels on genetically modified food. You can distribute the petition online or by printing it out:

http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/action.cfm

Step #2 - Declare your targets. Which local decision makers need to get a copy of your Millions Against Monsanto petition? Scroll down for ideas.

Step #3 - Plan your action. The basic components of the events on Sunday, October 16, 2011, should include an announcement of the number of petition signatures you've collected, who the petition is being delivered to and why. If Sunday isn't a good day to deliver the petition, you may also want to make a public event of the petition delivery on a weekday before or after the 16th. If you need suggestions or assistance getting started, please feel free to email molly@organicconsumers.org.

Step #4 - Spread the word. If you are planning an event, please be sure to email us all of the event information so that we can help you promote the it in your area. Email: molly@organicconsumers.org Another way to keep us in the loop is to invite WorldFood Day to your Facebook event.

WHERE SHOULD WE RALLY ON WORLD FOOD DAY?

Targets of the Millions Against Monsanto Campaign

• Politicians who should support laws that would make GMO labels mandatory.

1. Is your US Representative a cosponsor of bills in Congress to stop genetically engineered salmon?
2. Click here to ask your Member of Congress to cosponsor the Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act
3. Do your state representatives support state bills to label genetically modified foods?
4. Click here to ask your state legislator to sponsor a GE Food Right to Know Act in your state.
   

• Grocery stores that sell unlabeled genetically modified foods.

1. Top 6 U.S. Food Retailers
   
2. Whole Food Market
3. Trader Joe's

• Food companies that use genetically modified organisms.
  

1. Kraft (includes Back to Nature and Boca Foods)
2. Kellogg's (includes Kashi and Bear Naked)
3. Ice Cream Companies (Dreyer's, Edy's, Nestle, Haagen-Dazs, Klondike, Good Humor, Breyer's)

• Farms that use GMO seeds or growth hormones.
• Biotech companies.
  

1. AquaBounty (fast-growing salmon)
2. Beijing GenProtein Biotechnology Company ("human breast milk" produced by cows)
3. Dow (2,4-D-resistant crops)
4. Eli Lilly (bovine growth hormone)
5. Monsanto (alfalfa, sugar beets, wheat)
   
6. Okanagan Specialty Fruits (non-browning apple)
7. Syngenta (ethanol-only corn)
   

• Companies that promote, invest in, or do business with, the biotech companies.
  

1. National Public Radio/American Public Media