Saturday, March 25, 2017

Market Rejection of GMOs Grows — Four-Year Plan to Topple Toxic Agriculture


By Dr. Mercola Our annual GMO Awareness Week is upon us, and in this interview, Ronnie Cummins, founder of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) details the current state of the opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs). We first met about six years ago, when we collaborated to create the direct ballot initiative to label GMOs in California. A lot has happened since then, including the passing of what's colloquially known as the Deny Americans the Right to Know (DARK) Act, ironically misnamed "The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act" — this despite a full 90 percent of consumers supporting mandatory labeling. The Trump administration has also selected or appointed notorious cheerleaders for GMOs and factory farms to his cabinet — Mike Pompeo as head of the CIA, Sonny Perdue as USDA Secretary, and Rick Perry as Energy Secretary. Meanwhile, his Tea Party allies in Congress have called for the abolition of the entire National Organic Program!1 On the upside, in 2016 we sa
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/03/26/market-rejection-of-gmos-grows.aspx

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