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Thanks to all of you who helped us reach our first-quarter fundraising goal. Your generosity pushed us over the top’which means Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps and Mercola.com will pitch in to match the $200,000 you donated.
This round of funding couldn’t come at a better time. Corporations are lining up in Oregon to try to keep Jackson County from passing a ban on growing GMO crops. And soon, we predict, they’ll come out of the woodwork to try to defeat a statewide GMO labeling ballot initiative in Oregon, too.
Meanwhile, the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) appears to have found a Congressman willing to thumb his nose at the 90 percent of Americans who want GMO labeling laws. Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) plans to sponsor GMA’s bill to preempt state and federal GMO labeling laws.
And this week, the FDA’s Commissioner Margaret Hamburg confirmed that the FDA is planning to finalize its voluntary guidance (as in, optional) on GMO labeling. Hamburg’s comments included the same old ‘GMOs are not a health threat’ line the FDA has been feeding us for decades.
We have our work cut out for us. Thankfully, we have you.
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