To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Defend science-based food regulation
Legislators are trying to force the FDA to put warning labels on food made from genetically engineered crops regardless of whether the food contains genetically engineered ingredients and despite the fact that genetic engineering is the most effective new tool for providing safe, affordable, sustainable food. Food safety should be regulated according to the best scientific evidence; food ideology should be kept in the marketplace.
Why is this important?
The most fundamental goal of society is to produce safe, affordable, sustainable food. The challenges to this are great and growing with the human population, climate change, and loss of farmland. An amalgam of corporate and ideological interests oppose biotechnology despite its spotless safety record, remarkable benefits to the environment, and its contributions to keeping food affordable. Working to the benefit of these special interests, legislators are trying to rewrite FDA regulations so that warning labels must be placed on food made from crops improved using biotechnology, even if the food contents are indistinguishable from food made without biotechnology.