Beyond World Food Day: Protest the the Monsanto-sponsored 12th International Symposium on Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms

December 15, 2011 | Melinda Suelflow and Honor Schauland, Campaigns

Organic Consumers Association

Sunday, October 16, 2011 was the biggest day of action for mandatory labels on genetically engineered food in U.S. history. Hundreds of Millions Against Monsanto World Food Day events took place around the country.

Building on the success of World Food Day 2011, in September 2012, OCA member activists are going to take even bigger action! This year, we are planning a nationwide Week of Action on September 17 – 20th to demonstrate against the Monsanto-sponsored 12th International Symposium on Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms also in St Louis, MO. We want to organize actions at the hundreds of Monsanto locations in the US and around the world in concert with a large demonstration in St. Louis against this symposium. We also want OCA Activists in each state to hand deliver petitions to their state legislators, demanding mandatory labels for genetically engineered food and demonstrating that we truly are the Millions Against Monsanto.

OCA member activists are already diligently collecting signatures for our Truth-in-Labeling petition across the country right now. New petitions are coming in almost daily and being added to our online system.  And we need even more members to help us gather signatures through 2012.

What can you do to help this historic campaign? Download a pdf version of our petition. Take this petition to your workplace, your local coop, house parties, farmers' markets and wherever you can find people who demand the right to know what's in our food.

Once you have compiled a sheet or two of signatures, you can enter them into the online form here, or make copies and return them to the OCA so that we can get them into our database. (Remember: email addresses are required for signatures to be entered into our online system. The OCA does not share contact information with any other groups.)