From: organicconsumers.org
To: drheller@beahellerdc.com
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 2:05 AM
Subject: OCA: TELL SENATOR BOXER YES, YOU WANT THE RIGHT TO KNOW

Hello Bea,

The sister organization of the OCA, Organic Consumers Fund, is taking our successful marketplace advocacy strategies to where our laws are made, Washington DC and our State Capitols.

In 2000 US Senator Barbara Boxer (Democrat, CA) took leadership on the consumers right to know by authoring S. 2080, the Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act, which would require labeling of all genetically engineered foods.

Please reach out to Senator Boxer's office and tell her you again look forward to her authoring in the US Senate Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) bill to require labeling of food that contain genetically engineered ingredients, the Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act of 2002 (H.R. 4814).

Please ask her to keep you abreast of when the bill is introduced and it's progress.

Senator Boxer's contact info is:
Washington D.C.
112 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-3553 online email form - boxer.senate.gov/contact/webform.html

Sacramento 
501 I Street, Suite 7-600 
Sacramento, CA 95814 
(916) 448-2787 
(916) 448-2563 fax

San Francisco 
1700 Montgomery Street, Suite 240 
San Francisco, CA 94111 
(415) 403-0100 
(415) 956-6701 fax

Los Angeles 
312 N. Spring Street, Suite 1748 
Los Angeles, CA 90012 
(213) 894-5000 
(213) 894-5012 fax

Fresno 
1130 O Street, Suite 2450 
Fresno, CA 93721 
(559) 497-5109 
(559) 497-5111 fax

San Diego 
600 B Street, Suite 2240 
San Diego, CA 92101 
(619) 239-3884 
(619) 239-5719 fax

Inland Empire 
201 North E Street, Suite 210 
San Bernardino, CA 92401 
(909) 888-8525 
(909) 888-8613 fax

Currently in the US House of Representatives there is movement to more adequately protect consumers and growers from genetically engineered crops and foods. It would be a good idea to Ask Senator Boxer to author these as well. Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) is the chief author of all these bills that are listed below.

* the Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act of 2002 (H.R. 4814) - requires food companies to label all foods containing ingredients from genetically engineered plants or animals

* the Genetically Engineered Food Safety Act of 2002 (H.R. 4813) - improve the FDA's oversight and testing of transgenic foods

* the Genetically Engineered Crop and Animal Farmer Protection Act of 2002 (H.R. 4812) - better protects farmers and ranchers against powerful biotech companies and restore farmers' traditional right to save seed

* the Genetically Engineered Organism Liability Act of 2002 (H.R. 4816) - clarify and reform liability and other legal issues associated with genetically modified crops and foods

* the Real Solutions to World Hunger Act of 2002 (H.R. 4815) - expand research to help developing nations better feed themselves

Tom Taylor 
Midwest and Southeast Field Organizer 
Organic Consumers Association 
Tel: 612-331-7309 
Fax: 612-331-7483 
tom@organicconsumers.org

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