Connecticut Residents: Tell Your State Representatives to Choose the Better of Two GMO Labeling Bills!

The Connecticut Senate has passed SB 802, a GE labeling bill that ANH-USA helped draft. It now contains an amendment with a triggering provision requiring three more of the nine states that make up the Northeast to pass a similar bill before it could go into effect in 2015. If the other states failed to adopt GMO labeling statutes, the Connecticut GMO law would still go into effect on its own, but in 2016, as a standalone provision.

The House, on the other hand, has passed HB 6527. This bill is weaker than SB 802 because it removes that standalone provision, and increases the number of states needed to trigger the GMO labeling requirement to five. Moreover, the combined total population of at least two of those five states would need to be at least 25 million people.

Thank your representatives for passing HB 6527, but ask them to vote YES on SB 802 because it’s the stronger bill and provides the greatest protections to consumers!

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I'm writing to thank you for passing HB 6527, a GMO labeling bill. I'm extremely pleased that my state is taking a leadership role in labeling genetically engineered foods. However, I would instead ask you to vote YES on a similar bill, SB 802, since it's a far stronger bill and provides much greater protection to consumers.

There is a significant difference between the two bills. SB 802 contains an amendment with a triggering provision requiring three more of the nine states that make up the Northeast to pass a similar bill before the law could go into effect in 2015. If the other states failed to adopt GMO labeling statutes, the Connecticut GMO law would still go into effect on its own, but in 2016, as a standalone provision.

HB 6527, on the other hand, removes that standalone provision, and increases the number of states needed to trigger the GMO labeling requirement to five -- with two of those five having a combined population of at least 25 million -- before Connecticut citizens would have the right to know what is in their food.

Why is that? Why shouldn't your constituents be allowed to know what is in their food regardless of what other states do? Why shouldn't we have freedom of choice in what we feed our families? We need GMO labeling even if other states in the Northeast do not follow suit, which means SB 802 is a FAR stronger bill and provides far greater protections to Connecticut consumers.

Thank you for passing HB 6527 in the House, but the Senate's version, SB 802, is far better. Please urge your House colleagues to vote on that bill, and let that be the version that becomes law!

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