The greatest opportunity to give people the right to know if their food is genetically engineered will occur with the California ballot initiative - officially known as Proposition 37 - which is coming up for vote on November 6. Proposition 37 will require labeling of genetically engineered foods, and end the routine industry practice of labeling and marketing such foods as "natural."

Your support, regardless of what state you live in, can make all the difference between winning and losing.

The information in the below video is based on the new report "GMO Myths and Truths" by EarthOpenSource.org. You can find more information here


Proposition 37 is about the most basic of principles - the right to know what you're eating. The fact that we even have to fight for this right is mindboggling, but that's where we're at, and it would behoove everyone to get involved, lest we let this opportunity slip out of our grasp.

It's important to realize that genetically engineered foods must be labeled in nearly 50 other nations around the world, yet "the land of the free" has persistently denied its citizens the right to know whether or not a food is genetically engineered. The industry, led by Monsanto, the worst company of 2011 according to Natural Society, has gone so far as to threaten states with costly lawsuits, should they decide to label GE foods. This is about as unAmerican as it can get.

Meanwhile, what little research is actually done on GE food keeps revealing disturbing results. The latest comes from France, where rats fed Monsanto's GE corn, or exposed to glyphosate (the active ingredient in Monsanto's herbicide Roundup), suffered tumors and multiple organ damage.

Food Companies, including "Organic" Brands, are Spending Millions to Prevent You From Knowing what's in Your Food

As of September 17, Monsanto alone has donated a total of $7.1 million to defeat Proposition 37.3 But a long list of food companies, including some "organic" and "natural" brands, have donated millions to the opposition as well. It's difficult to understand how any company could be so stupid as to take an official stand against the consumers they depend on for their livelihood, but that's what they've done.

The corporate owners of popular brands like Kashi, Larabar, Horizon, Odwalla and Back to Nature, just to name a few,4 have literally taken earnings they made from unaware consumers and spent it on an anti-labeling campaign in order to prevent you from ever knowing what's really in the food they charge you a premium for...

These brands present a wholesome, all-natural, environmentally-conscious façade, yet genetically engineered crops end up requiring far more agricultural chemicals than others, and some of them even have the pesticide built in! Agricultural chemicals are denaturing and destroying soil composition at a staggering rate, courtesy of glyphosate-hungry GE seeds.

And whether or not you believe agricultural chemicals belong in a wholesome diet is beside the point. You still ought to have the right to decide whether you want to spend your money on foods that contain genetically engineered ingredients, as environmental sustainability is another major concern for many of today's consumers.