Resources

Organizations

• Label GMOs - Help ensure Californians have the right to know and choose what they buy to feed their families.
• Yes On 522 - Official Washington State Label GMOs Campaign
• Moms Across America March to Label GMOs at July 4th Parades on Main Streets USA everywhere! Yes M.A.A.M!
• GMO Free Oregon is a group of volunteers across the state working to pass legislation that addresses the growing concerns related to genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Effort is underway right now on a statewide Right to Know GMO labeling initiative.
• Food and Water Watch Washington is organizing Campaign Action Meetings in Washington to build a grassroots base to win the campaign to label GMO foods. They're calling the campaign "Let Me Decide". 
•  GMOSeralini is to provide citizens, the media, and scientists with a one-stop resource for information about the research of Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini and colleagues on genetically modified foods and their associated pesticides.
• The Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT) is a world leader in educating policy makers and the public about genetically modified (GM) foods and crops. They investigate and report their risks and impact on health, environment, the economy, and agriculture, as well as the problems associated with current research, regulation, corporate practices, and reporting. Tipping Point Forum
• GMO Awareness Groups 
• Gene Ethics is a non-profit educational network of citizens and kindred groups. We want the precautionary principle, scientific evidence and the law rigorously applied to all proposed uses of genetic manipulation (GM) technologies and their products. 
• GMO Free Idaho is a local action group out of Boise, Idaho. We are dedicated to raising awareness about the presence of genetically modified organisms in our food supply and environment. 
• Port Townsend Food Coop Blog 
• Know GMO. ORG  is to promote the most effective videos about labeling GMO food, and to collect and present unscripted citizens expressing how they feel about genetically modified food. (Link List)
• Dr. Arpad Pusztai is a world renowned expert on food safety, who worked at UK's leading food safety research lab, the Rowett institute. In August 1998, he said on British TV that he would not eat genetically engineered food because of the insufficient testing procedures they have undergone.
• GMO Free Yahoo Group Link List 
• Facebook GMO Hollywood 

Documents

• The GMO Emperor Has No Clothes (PDF) The Synthesis Report of the Emperor Has No Clothes : Global Citizens Report on GMOs
• Port Townsend Coop 2013 Newsletter (PDF) GMO article has a QR Code in it
• Port Townsend Coop Non-GMO Brochure (PDF)
• Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize Gilles-Eric Séralini (PDF) 
• Monsoanto UK Food Labeling Ad 
• Coalition Against the Costly Food Labeling Proposition Funding Sources  
• Prop. 37 Will Raise Grocery Bills $400 Annually
• The Cigarette Papers several thousand pages of documents from the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation 
• “A Modest Campaign” - The Lead Industry and Lead Water Pipes  
• Biotechnology FAQ USDA (Pro-GMO) 
• Ballotpedia I-522
• 10 Reasons Why We Don't Need GMOs (PDF) 
• NYT Editors Ignore GMO Health Dangers 
• Say No To GMOs The articles in this 'GMO Issues' section of the Say No To GMOs! site were originally posted many years ago but they still provide some of the most relevant and germinal analysis available.
• Monsanto: A Corporate Report (Food and Water Watch) PDF 
• What's Wrong With Genetically Modified Food (PDF)
• Non-GMO Project Power Point For Retailers 
• Yes On 522 Contributions and Expenses
•  EWG's 2013 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce
• Best Public Relations Money Can Buy: A Guide to Food Industry Front Groups describes how Big Food and Big Ag hide behind friendly-sounding organizations such as: the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance, the Center for Consumer Freedom, and the Alliance to Feed the Future. The idea is to fool the media, policymakers, and general public into trusting these sources, despite their corporate-funded PR agenda. 

Videos

• GMO Free YouTube Playlist (200 videos, 26+ hours) 
• GMO Free YouTube Playlist #2 (200 videos, 25+ hours)
• GMO Free YouTube Playlist #3
• GMO Free YouTube Playlist #4
• Green Festival Los Angeles 2012 Non-GMO Meeting: Interviews & Intros
• KnowGMO.org - Prop 37, Farmers, Voters, Kids, Consumers
• Google Hangout Demo
• WWGF News Playlist
• Washington State House Agriculture & Natural Resources committee on Initiative 522 Hearing March 5, 2013 (2 hours)
• Senate Agriculture, Water & Rural Economic Development Committee (I-522) Hearing February 14, 2013 (2 hours)

Images (Posters)

GMO Free Idaho Facebook Images
Food and Water Watch Washington - Day Of Action Feb. 6, 2013

Media List

• Elizabeth Weise is a science and food safety reporter for USA TODAY's Life section, based in San Francisco 
• Laura Petrecca is a breaking news reporter for USA TODAY, working out of the company's New York bureau
• Melissa Allison, Seattle Times business reporter 
• STEPHANIE STROM, New York Times
• Martha Baskin is an environmental reporter, whose work on the subject began with a project for the King Conservation District.  
• Michele Simon  Food Safety News
• Elaine Watson Food Navigator-USA
• Devon G. Peña A lifelong activist in the environmental justice and resilient agriculture movements, Devon G. Peña is a Professor of American Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, and Environmental Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. (Environmental and Food Justice)
• Joe Cozzolino  willamettemedia.com
• Jeffrey Phelps, Holistic Health Examiner
• Eric Scigliano Cross Cut
• Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times
• Brady Dennis Washington Post
• Stephen Lendman Reporter/Journalist
• ANNA MINARD, The Stranger
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List Of Seattle 2013 Events

Northwest Women's Show (March)

http://www.nwwomenshow.com/

Seattle VegFest (March)

http://www.vegofwa.org/vegfest

NW Folklife (May)

http://www.nwfolklife.org

Fremont Fair (June)

http://www.fremontfair.org

Bite Of Tacoma/Seattle (July)

http://www.biteofseattle.com

SeaFair (August)

http://www.seafair.com

Bumbershoot (Aug/Sept)

http://bumbershoot.org

Puyallup Fair (Sept)

http://www.thefair.com/

BioTech Connections

• The mission of the The Heartland Institute  is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems.( Smokers Rights )
• Competitive Enterprise Institute - Steve Forbes: “Over its 25-year history, CEI has played a critical role in preventing the worst of the left's utopian nightmares from becoming reality, and in undoing some of the damage those policies have created.
• Washington Policy Center 
• Washington Friends of Farms and Forests
• Washington State Farm Bureau
• Northwest Food Processors
• Best Food Facts
• GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe Helping readers navigate the confusing myths of modern biology  
• Washington Association of Wheat Growers
• No On 37 We believe that the misleading Proposition 37 will unnecessarily raise food costs, hurt small businesses and farmers, create frivolous lawsuits, and saddle California with more bureaucracy and red tape.
• ISAA is a not-for-profit international organization that shares the benefits of crop biotechnology to various stakeholders, particularly resource-poor farmers in developing countries, through knowledge sharing initiatives and the transfer and delivery of proprietary biotechnology applications. 
• SLEUTH 4 HEALTH - biotechnology blog 

Non-GMO Supporter Names

• genetic science deniers (Forbes)
  
• anti-genetically modified organism fear-and-panic bell (Forbes)
  
• the scientifically unwashed (Forbes)
  
• anti-technology advocacy (Forbes)
  
• activists (Forbes)
• an activist who has no formal training on the subject
• oddball anti-GMO organization and website (Forbes)
  
• notoriously anti-science (Forbes)
  
• chattering classes  (Forbes)
• anti-science “progressive” organizations and websites (Forbes)
• anti-science crowd 
• junk journalism (Forbes)
• anti-technology hysteriacs  (Forbes)
• brazenly anti-technology (Forbes)
• anti-GMO academicians (Forbes)
• anti-GMO fanatics (Forbes)
• biotech activists (Forbes)
• global warning deniers (Forbes)
• anti-GMO conspiracy theorists (Forbes)
• anti-technology herd (Forbes)
• ad hominem slinging anti-reality 
• GM critics
• Anti-biotech activists are like zombies in a horror movie (Truth About Trade)
• Advocacy groups
• consumer advocates 
• non-science alarmist arguments
• extremists can be immune to facts

BioTech Talking Points

• GMOs is a process that poses no known dangers to humans
• wide but soft support for California Proposition 37 
• National Academy of Sciences, the American Medical Association and most respectable science organizations support GMOs
• Séralini fiasco -brazenly anti-technology French scientist appears to have cooked the research books to propagandize GMOs
• GMOs are perfectly safe and nutritious
• scare story 
• scarey science
• controversy 
• Deceptive Labeling Scheme
• Shakedown Lawsuits
• Higher Grocery Bills 
• We have complete confidence that our food crops are as safe and nutritious as the standard alternatives.