-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: 24 Mar 2000 16:44:33 -0000 To: List Member <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Common Courage Political Literacy Course" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Boston urges GM food moratorium Common Courage Political Literacy Course - http://www.commoncouragepress.com Taking place this weekend in Boston is Biodevastation2000 (or The 4th International Grassroots Gathering on Genetic Engineering: Resistance and Solutions to the Corporate Monopoly on Power, Food and Life). Check it out at www.biodev.org . Below is a resolution passed by the Boston City Council. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- CITY OF BOSTON IN CITY COUNCIL March 1, 2000 RESOLUTION OF COUNCILLOR MAURA HENNIGAN (Passed unanimously, March 2, 2000) WHEREAS: Genetically engineered foods have never been proven safe, nor are genetically engineered foods tested by any federal agency as the Food and Drug Administration requires only that the companies engineering these foods state, on the "honor system" that the foods are safe with no further testing required; and WHEREAS: Cornell University researcher, John Losey, and other researchers indicated in repeated tests that the larvae from Monarch Butterflies were dying at an alarming rate from toxic pollen generated from the genetically engineered corn near their feeding sites; and WHEREAS: A class action lawsuit has been brought against the Food and Drug Administration by some of the nation's most prominent anti-trust lawyers for rushing these novel, unpredictable and untested food technology products to the market; and WHEREAS: Numerous bioengineers and related distinguished scientists have gone on record stating this technology clearly is different from traditional breeding methods and is highly probable to exhibit a host of undesirable health and environmental risk factors as well as great potential for negative cascade effects in the genetic cross-pollination of beneficial plants, insects and other fragile ecosystems directly linked to the breeding of this novel experimental food production technology; Now, Therefore Be It RESOLVED: That the Boston City Council, in meeting assembled, urges the Federal Government to require labeling of genetically manipulated foods and further urges a moratorium on the production of any more of these foods until acceptable testing systems are in place; and Be It Further RESOLVED: That March 26, 2000 be declared YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT DAY in the City of Boston. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- For more on genetically modified food, read the CCP book, "Against the Grain" by Marc Lappe and Britt Bailey, available now at http://www.commoncouragepress.com/lappe_against.html This is the free Political Literacy Course from Common Courage Press: A backbone of facts to stand up to spineless power. 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