How you can help!

 

• Become a part of the Tipping Point Network (TPN) headed up by Jeffrey Smith, non-GMO expert and author of Genetic Roulette and Seeds of Deception.  If you are passionate about informing others about GMOs, sign up to take the speaker training.  You can become part of the speaker network and speak to local groups about GMOs.  Check out the TPN at http://action.responsibletechnology.org/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup?signup_page_KEY=2925

 

Educating other consumers is the key.  Jeffrey states that we only need 5% of American consumers to create the "tipping point" by refusing to purchase GMOs.  The tipping point has already begun as we see more and more companies removing GMOs from their ingredients and many enrolling in the Non-GMO Project.  Food manufacturers are starting to feel our rejection in their bottom line through reduced sales.  

 

• Tell all of your family and friends about GMOs and encourage them to avoid them. Stop buying products with known GMOs like Kellogg's Fruit Loops.  Write to these big food manufacturers letting them know you don't buy their products because of the GMOs, and encourage them to change their ingredients.

 

• Write to thank Non-GMO manufacturers. 

 

• If you are purchasing a product that is not GMO (by reading the ingredient label) but it doesn't carry the Non-GMO Project Verification seal, write to that company, tell them about the Non-GMO Project (http://www.nongmoproject.org/) and encourage them to enroll in it.  I did this a couple of years ago with Amy's Kitchen and they wrote me back a few months later to inform me they were enrolling!

 

• Join in the activism of national movements like GMO Free USA, GMO Inside, and Moms Across America.  They regularly write to companies like Kellogg's, Smuckers and more, encouraging them to remove the GMOs from their products. And it works!  If you have facebook, follow them there.