ACTIVISM (Canada): Get Bill C-517 approved (GE FOOD labelled)

	Please circulate widely. From: "HELKE FERRIE" <helke@sympatico.ca> Subject: Very, very important!!! Bill C-517
Date:	Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:44:18 -0400

Hi,

Those who know me also know that I very rarely send out an e-mail asking you to join me in an action. Well, this one is important. Very important, even if it is not won this time around! I have just finished editing a book by Health Canada scientists Dr. Shiv Chopra (who stopped bovine growth hormone in Canada in 1999 and in the EU as well). It is entitled Corrupt to the Core - Memoirs of a Health Canada Scientist and is coming out next month. It just went to press. In this book you can read what our government is willing to put into our food supply, public health be damned, to make their corporate buddies happy. (If this interests you, e-mail me for details.)

Just as I sent this out to press, here comes this message about Bill C-517! What a surprise and what an opportunity! If we get GMOs labeled in all foods, we are two thirds at the goal that must be achieved if we don't want to crash the human immune system, namely the total ban of this diabolical technology.

Please take the time to follow the steps and send a short message to your MP whose name and e-mail you get by just clicking onto the provided button and giving your postal code.

Please just DO IT!

Cheers and thanks, Helke

Below is what my husband Dr. Robert Ferrie and I sent to our MP Tilson:

Dear Mr. Tilson,

My wife and I are both deeply involved in medical research concerning the current food contamination crisis involving pesticides, genetically engineered foods, the potential for Mad Cow Disease, carcinogenic hormones in our foods and more.

We are asking you to please vote for this bill. We all have the right to know what we are eating and the right to not eat GE foods. I support mandatory labelling of GE food, which is already practiced in over 40 countries in Europe and elsewhere. From a purely economic perspective it is trade suicide for Canada to maintain a supportive stance of GMO food which does not allow Canadians a choice in what they eat, but does also undermines international trade: our beef and canola are already blackballed and more will follow, especially now that Europe has enacted their REACH treaty.

Bloc Québécois MP Gilles-A. Perron's Bill C-517 would allow implementation of mandatory labelling in Canada. I am asking you to vote in favour of Bill C-517. Please confirm your intention to support this important bill. Should you wish to inform yourself on the scientifically documented health hazards of GMO foods, we refer you to the new book Genetic Routlette by Jeffery M. Smith, Yes! Books, 2008. It contains all the currently known science on the subject in the context of health hazards.

Thank you and please let us know how you vote.

Sincerely, Robert K. Ferrie MD, Helke Ferrie MA.

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From: "Bonita Poulin" <poulin@xplornet.com>

Date: April 11, 2008 3:45:49 PM EDT (CA)

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Subject: Bill C-517: Mandatory labelling of GE food: Your turn to speak out!

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April 11, 2008 Bill C-517: Mandatory labelling of GE food: Your turn to speak out! By the luck of the Parliamentary draw, a private member's bill supporting mandatory labelling of GE food in Canada was randomly selected for debate in the House of Commons in April. What You Can Do It is important that federal MPs vote in favour of Bill C-517 on the second reading. The stakes are high but this time, the bill has a very good chance of becoming law. You have the power to persuade our federal MPs to support this bill and to choose us instead of Monsanto! 5 Easy Steps 1 Message 7 Minutes Take Action Now! Let others know. Share this on Facebook, Digg, StumbleUpon. Bill C-517, presented by a Bloc Québécois MP, was debated during a second reading on April 3, 2008 . A second hour of parliamentary debate may take place in as early as two weeks, according to the House of Commons calendar. Following this second debate, the House will be called on to vote on Bill C-517 on mandatory GE labelling in Canada. It is critical that we be able to count on a majority of MPs to vote in favour of Bill C-517. We have a reasonable chance of winning this vote, but we must get the word out now. Not only will mandatory labelling of GE foods provide you with the information you have a right to, it will also pave the way for a gradual withdrawal of GE foods from the food chain. This will also reduce the dissemination of GE seeds in the environment. If it is adopted in its second reading, Bill C-517 will be studied by a parliamentary committee and then returned for a third reading in the House of Commons followed by a final vote by Canada's 301 MPs. In the meantime, there is nothing preventing Canadian provinces, particularly British Columbia, from moving forward and adopting their own laws on mandatory labelling of GE food. You have received this email because you have subscribed to the Greenpeace Canada email newsletter. If you would not like to receive more emails from us, you can unsubscribe here.
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