From: KauferER@hqmc.usmc.mil
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 2:59 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Genetically Modified Foods

I wish to register an urgent plea to require genetically modified foods to
be labeled as such.  We have right-to-know laws, and what could be more
important than the RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT WE ARE EATING?  Some people have
allergies to certain foods.  I and millions of others are vegetarians and do
not want to eat anything containing bits of other creatures.  And in fact I
do not want  to eat anything with unknown contaminants.  Why am I forced to
pay higher prices for organic soybeans in order to be sure I am getting real
soybeans as nature created them?

Please free us from the risk of eating unknown substances we would have
chosen not to consume if we had known about them.

Thank you,
Eleanor Kaufer, CSP
7108 Village Dr
Annandale VA 22003
kauferer@hqmc.usmc.mil