Update 1/27/2011: From the Center for Food Safety - "The Center for Food Safety criticized the announcement today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that it will once again allow unlimited, nation-wide commercial planting of Monsanto's genetically-engineered (GE) Roundup Ready alfalfa, despite the many risks to organic and conventional farmers USDA acknowledged in its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS). " See the CFS website for more information.
There's also a link on the lower right side of this page if you want to add your voice to the concerns.
Original Post 2009: The Center for Food Safety is putting out a fund raising plea to help their fight against Genetically Modified Organisms. Keep them in mind if you can help any time throughout the year. Here's what they have to say about their accomplishments so far:
"Over the past few years, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) has used groundbreaking legal victories and grassroots campaigns to protect your food by putting a halt on the sale and plantings of many GMO crops. With the support of individuals such as you, we've successfully stopped the commercialization of genetically engineered wheat, rice, alfalfa, and biopharm crops (crops that have been engineered to produce pharmaceuticals). And we're on our way to stopping other crops - such as a recent federal court victory that called the government's approval of Monsanto's pesticide promoting GMO sugar beets "illegal." And for years we've helped fend off the approval of genetically engineered salmon.
Imagine if these GMO crops had not been stopped. Think of all the foods using wheat, for example that would have been contaminated had Roundup Ready wheat been commercialized. Or the threat to organic dairy if alfalfa was contaminated by Monsanto's genetically engineered variety. We know that nearly 400 million pounds of additional herbicides have been used because of the use of GMO crops designed to withstand massive doses of toxic weed killing chemicals. Imagine the pesticide pollution of our croplands, waterways, wildlife and air that would have occurred if GMO wheat, rice and alfalfa had been commercialized. And independent scientists have shown that the release of even a few genetically engineered salmon into a native population could lead to extinction."
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