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‘Consumers ultimately determine what they eat and therefore what the food system produces.’ – The State of Food and Agriculture, 2013, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Next Wednesday, October 16, is World Food Day. A day that marks the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
This year’s theme? Sustainable food systems for food security and nutrition. Tagline: Healthy people depend on healthy food systems.
FAO research tells us that if we want to address world hunger, we must invest in ‘sustainable intensification’ – not expensive GMO technology that threatens biodiversity and holds us hostage to a system that depends on fossil fuels, fossil water, and agrochemicals.
We must stop investing in a system that makes earth and the humans who inhabit it, sick.
According to the FAO, consumers ‘ you, us ‘ have the power to determine what our food system produces. By determining what we choose to eat.
Here in the U.S., the country that grows 40 percent of the world’s genetically engineered crops, our choices are not always so clear. Because here in the U.S., home of Monsanto – the dominant player in the global GMO market – food manufacturers are not required to label the genetically engineered ingredients they put in our food.
We must change the system. You can help, today, by investing in the movement to require labels on GMOs. Thank you!
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