Hi All,
Thought you might find this Boston City County Resolution interesting.
k.
Karen Mundy
Communications Coordinator
Rural Economic Analysis Program
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics (0401)
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-9443
> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 20:47:44 -0500
>
> Subject: B-GE:Boston City Council resolution - Passed Unanimously Today,
March
> 3, 2000
>
> March 1, 2000
>
> RESOLUTION OF COUNCILOR MAURA HENNIGAN
>
> 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
taste,
> 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.
>
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