To make your work easier and even more effective, we've put together fact sheets on our current issues, samples of letters to the editor and tips on how to make your voice heard politically. There will now be a 75-day period for the public to comment on the FDA rules. Please take a moment to adopt this sample and submit it to your local paper, or a bigger paper if you saw coverage of this story.
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The Food and Drug Administration has let American consumers down again. Rather than acting on behalf of our safety, FDA has sided with big industry in failing to require testing and labeling of genetically-modified foods. Engineering crops for human consumption is a run-away train. This is a victory for biotech and processed food corporations, while those who want to give consumers a choice will bear the cost of testing and labeling. A broad coalition of scientists, doctors and public interest groups has worked to encourage FDA to require testing and labeling, a move that a majority of Americans favor.