I want: all GM foods to be labelled because I'm not convinced any GM foods are safe informative food labels that let me decide what to buy because I care about my family and the community's health and wellbeing my government to review the release of GM crops because I don’t trust the Federal Government to prioritise the community's health over private sector profit protection for farmers, most of whom remain GM-free, because they and the community deserve real choice I want environment groups to stop campaigning against safe technology that could significantly improve the quality of life for people with coeliac disease. And also to stop using political tactics to try to block technology that could significantly reduce world hunger and millions of deaths. I want all GMO to be clearly labelled! If products are not labelled, this is an infringement on our basic consumer rights to know what we are eating, good or bad! The same as our foods are labelled or free” or Salt” we have the right as consumers to “Organic” “Preservative “Low know if the ingredients in the food products that we are consuming are Genetically modified. We are seeing the residents of the USA fight for the rights to have their food labelled, and yet this government study is recommending that our rights to know are taken away!!? This raises some questions about who conducted this agriculture study and was Monsanto in any way consulted or involved in these findings??!! All food must be labelled if it contains “GMO” GM ingredients!! Furthermore, we need stricter regulations for all GMO farming in Australia, as the many studies support and show that cross pollination and contamination can easily occur and does nothing to protect Organic farmers. Please refer to the recent case of Steve Marsh when his farm was contaminated by a neighbours genetically modified crop, resulting in Steve losing his “Organic certification” and crippling him financially! If GMO farming continues to expand, we will see many more organic lose their certification and potentially their farms! This also could result in devastating long term implications on the environment and farming! I want: all GM to be labelled because I do NOT wish to eat food which has been modified informative food labels that let me decide what to buy because most GM food is hard to decipher my government to review the release of GM crops because I do not want all food contaminated by GM. I still wish to save my own seed which can be adulterated by GM on other properties
I want: all GM foods to be labelled because I'm not convinced any GM foods are safe informative food labels that let me decide what to buy because I care about my family and the community's health and wellbeing my government to review the release of GM crops because I don’t trust the Federal Government to prioritise the community's health over private sector profit protection for farmers, most of whom remain GM-free, because they and the community deserve real choice I want environment groups to stop campaigning against safe technology that could significantly improve the quality of life for people with coeliac disease. And also to stop using political tactics to try to block technology that could significantly reduce world hunger and millions of deaths. I want all GMO to be clearly labelled! If products are not labelled, this is an infringement on our basic consumer rights to know what we are eating, good or bad! The same as our foods are labelled “Organic” or “Preservative free” or “Low Salt” we have the right as consumers to know if the ingredients in the food products that we are consuming are Genetically modified. We are seeing the residents of the USA fight for the rights to have their food labelled, and yet this government study is recommending that our rights to know are taken away!!? This raises some questions about who conducted this agriculture study and was Monsanto in any way consulted or involved in these findings??!! All food must be labelled “GMO” if it contains GM ingredients!! Furthermore, we need stricter regulations for all GMO farming in Australia, as the many studies support and show that cross pollination and contamination can easily occur and does nothing to protect Organic farmers. Please refer to the recent case of Steve Marsh when his farm was contaminated by a neighbours genetically modified crop, resulting in Steve losing his “Organic certification” and crippling him financially! If GMO farming continues to expand, we will see many more organic lose their certification and potentially their farms! This also could result in devastating long term implications on the environment and farming! I want: all GM to be labelled because I do NOT wish to eat food which has been modified informative food labels that let me decide what to buy because most GM food is hard to decipher my government to review the release of GM crops because I do not want all food contaminated by GM. I still wish to save my own seed which can be adulterated by GM on other properties
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