Moms want labels for Mother's Day

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From: "Robyn O'Brien for Just Label It" <info@justlabelit.org>
Date: May 2, 2012 11:10 AM
Subject: Moms want labels for Mother's Day
To: <aquarianm@gmail.com>

Moms have a right to know what they feed their families. Ask a mom in your life to contact the FDA and help us reach 1.2 million supporters by Mother's Day! Dear Daniel, My youngest daughter's face began to swell shut at breakfast one day – and I had no idea why. We were only eating waffles, scrambled eggs, and tubes of blue yogurt...so what was happening to her? Before my daughter had a violent allergic reaction that morning, I honestly hadn't given a lot of thought to what I fed my kids. I mean, if it was on grocery store shelves, it was all the same, right? But since then, like so many moms, I learned that there are all kinds of new ingredients in our foods that weren't in what we ate as kids. That's why we need labels. More than one million people like you have already contacted the FDA in support of labeling genetically engineered foods – and now we're so close to a new milestone. Help ratchet up the pressure on the FDA by getting us to 1.2 million supporters by Mother's Day. Forward this short video loaded with data to some of the moms in your life. Urge them to sign Just Label It's petition to the FDA before May 13. Why moms? Because what we want is simple: information to keep our kids healthy. That's why so many of us pay attention to labels, and why I shared my story in this video filmed by the writer and director of Food, Inc. We have a right to know what we are feeding our kids, like moms in other countries already have. It's a simple Mother's Day request to the FDA: mandate labels for GMOs. And the time is now. All kinds of changes are happening to our food supply: from meat fillers that we didn't know were in there to a salmon that has been genetically engineered to produce growth hormones year-round that cause the fish to grow at twice its natural rate. We need more people to contact the FDA to demand the right to know what we are eating. Moms have a right to know what they feed their families. Help us reach 1.2 million supporters by Mother's Day – ask a mom in your life to contact the FDA today. If more of us speak out this month, we'll show the FDA that moms and others across America want to know how their food is produced. Please, watch this video, and then share it with at least one mom today. Thank you for taking the time to do this. Together, we can affect remarkable change. Robyn O'Brien AllergyKids Foundation

We're building a movement of concerned citizens – parents, health care workers, small business owners, farmers, and more – who care about what's in the food we eat. In October 2011, the Just Label It campaign was formed when the Center for Food Safety filed a petition with the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to require the labeling of all foods produced using genetic engineering. Days later, we asked citizens from around the country to join us and tell the FDA to "Just Label It." More than 1.1 million Americans have contacted to the FDA urging them to label genetically engineered foods. Ask others to sign on at www.JustLabelIt.org/takeaction. Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Learn more at www.JustLabelIt.org

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