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A bill to amend Maine’s constitution in order to give people the right to acquire the food of their choosing could be voted on as early as tomorrow (Thursday, May 7).
Fill out the form on this page to look up your state representatives and senators on the Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. Then call and email them to tell them why you support LD 783, the Right to Food Act!
Read moreLast week, with your help, we filled the state house and sent a strong message: Mainers don’t want to wait, we want GMO labeling Now! Well, we need your help again to keep the momentum going.
Lawmakers on the Agriculture, Forestry, and Conservation Committee could vote as early as THIS Thursday, (May 7) on Maine’s new GMO labeling law, and they need to hear from you! Ask them to vote ought to pass on LD 991, An Act To Amend Maine's Genetically Modified Food Products Labeling Law.
Reach out to the Agriculture Committee members right now! Send an email, call their office, and/
Read moreWe need your help as we close in on a big win for food consumers in Maine! Lawmakers on the Agriculture, Forestry, and Conservation Committee need to hear from you that you want them to support a bill to enact Maine’s GMO labeling law NOW!
The bipartisan GMO labeling bill (LD 991) has its public hearing at 1pm today (April 30). Folks from all over the state are traveling to Augusta today to ask committee members to please vote “ought to pass” on LD 991 because we have the right to know what is in our food.
Can’t be there? Join the action by sending an email to Agriculture
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What: Rally and public hearing on GMO labeling bill and Right to Food amendment
When: Thursday, April 30th 2015. Rally begins at noon. Public hearing begins at 1 p.m.
Where: Rally outside the State house; Public hearing at 214 Cross Building, State House Complex, Augusta, Maine
We are closing in on a couple of big wins for food consumers in Maine, but we need your help to convince lawmakers to protect Maine citizens, not Monsanto’s profits.
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AUGUSTA, Maine—Proponents of a GMO labelling requirement in Maine moved another step closer to their goal yesterday, as the legislature referenced LD 991: An Act To Amend Maine's Genetically Modified Food Products Labeling Law to the Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry.
A public hearing on the bill has been scheduled for April 30, 1 p.m. at the state house in Augusta.
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On Tuesday April 14, the bill to remove the trigger from Maine’s GMO labeling law moved on to the Legislature’s Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry.
Please join us at the bill’s public hearing on Thursday, April 30, 1 p.m. at the state house in Augusta!
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Maine is seeing a surge in small farms, with more than 1,000 farms added in the last 10 years, according to the 2012 Census of Agriculture.
A majority of this growth has come from small-diversified vegetable farms that are marketing directly to consumers through farmers markets, farm stands and Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs).
This growth has propelled Maine into the No. 2 ranking in the U.S. by Strolling Through the Heifers, a Vermont-based local food advocacy group that puts out a locavore index
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This week, the Maine legislature started its work on a bill to remove the trigger clause from Maine’s GMO labeling law. The bill, LD 991, An Act To Amend Maine's Genetically Modified Food Products Labeling Law, has been printed and referred to the Legislature’s Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. LD 991 would require foods distributed in Maine to include a label if genetically modified organisms were used to produce the final product.
TAKE ACTION: Please send a thank you message to the bill’s Sponsor, Representative Michelle Dunphy, and the group of nine bipartisan
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AUGUSTA, Maine—Lawmakers from both parties joined with concerned citizens and representatives from several non-profits at the Maine State House today, March 19, to roll out a landmark initiative that would place Maine at the forefront of the food safety movement.
The bill, LD 991, would require foods distributed in Maine to include a label if genetically modified organisms were used to produce the final product.
In 2013, Maine legislators passed a law that would require labeling for foods that contain genetically modified organisms, but only if five contiguous states passed a
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Dear Organic Consumer,
At noon today, several of our Maine-based OCA staff joined Maine lawmakers at a press conference in the State House to announce the introduction of a bill to require mandatory labeling of GMOs now—not later.
OCA is leading the grassroots coalition that will work to pass LD 991, a bill that has strong bipartisan support in the Maine state legislature.
If you were wondering if Monsanto had knocked the wind out of our sails, wonder no more. We may have narrowly lost a few ballot initiatives. But we won in Vermont in 2014.
And we can win in
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