Campaign for Healthier Eating in America
The Campaign can end the genetic engineering of the food supply by creating a tipping point of consumer rejection of brands with GMOs. It already educates consumers about the health risks and provide clear non-GMO choices through GMO Health Risks brochures and printed Non-GMO Shopping Guides.
About You
Section 1: About You
First Name
Charles
Last Name
Burkam
Organization
Country
United States
Section 2: About Your Organization
Organization Name
Institute for Responsible Technology
Organization Website
Organization Phone
641-209-1765
Organization Address
PO Box 469, Fairfield, IA 52556
Organization Country
United States
Your idea
Name Your Project
Campaign for Healthier Eating in America
Country your work focuses on
United States
What makes your approach innovative?
Health is the main motivator, but non-GMO choices are essential. Without labeling, identifying those choices requires easily accessible guidance. We now provide an on-line Non-GMO Shopping Guide, which can become a mobile phone application accessible by virtually everyone. The Campaign does not depend on legislative changes (which can always be undone) for success, but on consumer power.
Describe Your Idea
The Campaign can end the genetic engineering of the food supply by creating a tipping point of consumer rejection of brands with GMOs. It already educates consumers about the health risks and provide clear non-GMO choices through GMO Health Risks brochures and printed Non-GMO Shopping Guides.
How will you sustain your solution?
The Campaign has already generated local grassroots efforts within communities and regions, thereby strengthening the whole "sustainable" movement. There is no charge for an individual to officially become a member of the Campaign. Similarly, organizations and groups can be Campaign Partners in the coalition merely by disseminating information that has already been created.
What will be the impact of your solution?
It will move food manufacturers away from GMOs and towards voluntary testing and labeling by the Non-GMO Project, thereby increasing non-GMO choices. With more non-GMO choices available, more consumers will reject brands containing GMOs. When the "tipping point" of consumer rejection is reached, food manufacturers will eliminate GM ingredients in the US, just as they already have in Europe!
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Remember send a clear message to the industry by buying non-GMO candy this Halloween!
I am so excited to learn there is a
NON-GMO SHOPPING GUIDE:
http://www.nongmoshoppingguide.com/SG/Home/index.cfm
At the moment, I still have quite a bit of "unknown" food products in my pantry. So I am getting into the habit of calling the "800" numbers printed on food packages when I am preparing meals.
When customer service answers, I state that I am already a loyal customer and I want to keep using their products as long as they can certify all the ingredients in their products are NON-GMO.
Then I ask customer service to send a message to their corp office stating that a customer is requesting they get their products listed on the NON-GMO SHOPPING GUIDE at www.responsibletechnology.org.
THIS IS AN EFFECTIVE STRATEGY!
- Let's also take the shopping guide with us to our grocery stores and show it to the store managers! Let's show them we are paying attention to what they are putting on the shelves.
WE ALL DESERVE NON-GMO FOODS IN OUR FOOD SUPPLY.
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