Joanne Poyourow of Environmental Change-Makers tells the story of her part in trying to ban GMO seeds in Los Angeles. During the show Joanne mentions:
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- David King of the Seed Library of Los Angeles (SLOLA)
- Seed Freedom LA for more info about GMOs or for info on how to make your city or county GMO-free.
- 21 Reasons for a GMO-Free Zone
- Scientific and scholarly studies on GMOs
- Info for Grassroots campaign organizers
- Where to find Safe Seeds
- How to assure your garden is GMO-Free
- YES Magazine’s summary of the United Nations’ evolving policy toward agriculture
- L.A. Times article on the power of lobbyists
Joanne’s blog can be found at www.Change-Making.com.
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GMOs for me is like Gluten-free, a tempest in a tea cup.
Why aren’t more people mad about fracking in Socal?
http://www.kcet.org/news/redefine/rewire/natural-gas/report-fracking-imperils-southern-california-residents-wildlife.html
Rather than banning how about working with people who use GMO’s to work out how to co-exist? I use them on the farm I work on and they have a fit in our system. If we can all listen to each others concerns and come up with solutions I think it is better than fighting each other until one side has won (and trampled on the rights of the other.)
As a point of clarification they do not always lead to more pesticide use. Golden rice has been engineered to give beta-carotene to help prevent blindness. The seeds are distributed and do not tie farmers to the organization that produced them. There is no tie to pesticides with this GMO.
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