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One week from today California voters will vote on Prop 37 and we will see if truth will win out over corporate greed, and hopefully people will finally be given the right to know what is in their food.

 The state of affairs in India with respect to GM foods is further validation of the importance of labeling GM foods with Prop 37 in California.

 Over the past 16 years, it’s estimated that more than a quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide after being convinced to plant Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) seeds (especially Bt cotton), then having their crops fail, leaving them in financial ruin.

 Earlier this year, India’s National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), a government agency, sued Monsanto, the world leader in GM crops and seeds, and their collaborators, the Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company, for biopiracy, accusing them of stealing local varieties of eggplant to develop a genetically modified version.

 It seems now that the country may have had enough, and is citing the precautionary principle in their announcement that
all GM field trials should be stopped until certain conditions have been met.