This is a resource blog for GMO Free News, a Google Hangout hosted by women for women who want to know what is in their food.
Now an estimated 80 percent of processed food in the U.S. contains ingredients from crops altered in the lab to make them hardier, more resistant to disease and pests, and more tolerant of herbicides.
Saturday, February 9, 2013
GMO Labeling for CT Media Conference
Legislators and advocates for a bill in Connecticut to label containing GMOs gathered on February 7, 2013, at the State Capital. Rep Phil Miller [D - 36th] introduced speakers:
(Watch Tara's Speech at the Press Conference)
Tara Cook-Littman, Esq., GMO Free CT, Fairfield, CT
(917) 602-0855; taracook.littman@gmail.com; www.GMOFreeCT.org
Bill Duesing, Executive Director, CT Chapter, NE Organic Farming Association, Stevenson, CT. (203) 888-5146; ctnofa@ctnofa.org; www.ctnofa.org
Chris Eddy, Executive Chef, Winvian Restaurant, Morris, CT
860-567-9600 ext. 207; ceddy@winvian.com; www.winvian.com.
Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director, Food & Water Watch, Washington, DC
c/o Lucy Sedgwick: 860.251.9422; lsedgwick@fwwlocal.org
Websites: foodandwaterwatch.org, facebook.com/FoodWaterWatchCT
Rep. Jonathan Steinberg [D - 136th] http://www.housedems.ct.gov/Steinberg/
Rep. Tony Hwang [R - 134th] http://cthousegop.com/tony-hwang/
Also Present Sen. Cathy Osten {D - 19th]
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