The debate to label genetically engineered foods is escalating in the United States.

In the absence of any legislation at the federal level, states are taking the initiative into their own hands. Over 30 pieces of legislation have been introduced in 20 states so far in this year alone.

Colorado and Oregon are currently on the front line of this food fight to bring transparency to the way that our food is produced. In no way is this more obvious than the record amount of money being spent by the chemical industry in these two states to defeat labeling initiatives. Campaign spending contributions have been shattered as these chemical companies dump money into trying to defeat labeling initiatives.

Who held the previous records? The tobacco industry, which is fitting, as the tactics being used are the same.

But it’s not just money that these companies are throwing at these states. It’s misleading information and in some cases downright lies.

So the team here in Colorado decided to deconstruct one of the anti-labeling commercials. What we found may shock you, it may surprise you, and it just might make you laugh.

Share it, because with the labeling movement growing around the country, these very same tactics may soon be coming to a state near you.

On this changing landscape of health, where one in two men and one in three women are now expected to get cancer while one in 13 children has a food allergies, Americans need to know more about the food that they are eating, not less, and they deserve to be told that our food now contains ingredients that have been genetically engineered by the chemical industry to withstand their chemicals.

All of our key U.S. trading partners have this information. It is competitive data. On top of that, other countries have actually been told that their food contains these genetically engineered ingredients by our own American food companies who label these ingredients on the products that they sell overseas.

We aren’t asking American food companies to reinvent the wheel, but to simply provide that same information to American families, too.

It’s time to label genetically engineered ingredients in the United States, too, and let the free market decide.

Vote Yes on 105 in Colorado and Yes on 92 in Oregon, and join the movement that is happening around the country.

~ Robyn O’Brien

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