From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 4:38 PM
To: FDA Commissioner
Cc: president@whitehouse.gov; vice.president@whitehouse.gov;
fdadockets@oc.fda.gov; fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Oppose the New FDA Regulations on GE Foods!

FDA Commissioner 
Dockets Management Branch (HFA 305)
Food and Drug Administration
5630 Fisher's Lane, rm. 1061
Rockville, MD 20852

RE: Docket No. 00N-1396, and 00D-1598

Dear FDA,
 
I am astonished by your proposed new policies on genetically engineered 
 foods. The newest Roper Poll indicates that 70% of Americans want 
labeling of GE foods. That includes me, and that is the absolute minimum. 

Properly, these creations should be viewed as self-replicating potential 
threats. We outlaw computer viruses, but not potentially insidious and 
unstoppable biological Trojan Horses that could trigger fatal allergies or 
have unforeseen long-term health and environmental consequences. Please 
explain the logic of this position. (I know the FDA is not in charge of 
computer viruses. Thank God, I say, if these proposed regulations are a 
model of how they would be dealt with.) 

Making money is the professed purpose of corporations. Maintaining the 
highest standards of public health and safety is incompatible with this 
goal. To allow the corporations to develop products that will maximize 
their profits without regard for public safety, and then to freely 
distribute these into our bodies through the food supply system, without 
allowing us even a choice through knowledge (labelling), is simply abusive 
of basic rights of freedom. 

Contemplating living under these rules leads me to feel that I live in a 
corporate profit-fattening feedlot, invisibly incarcerated by FDA policies 
for the purpose of siphoning off my health if necessary and definitely my 
wealth to corporations I would avoid it I could see them. 

The proposed regulations are repugnant. I call upon all elected officials 
to whom this letter is copied to take seriously their duties to uphold 
public safety and to do whatever is necessary to contain this attack on 
the citizens and on the environment of this country. 

Sincerely,



Duane Sweeney
415 N. State #402
Bellingham, WA, 98225

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator Patty Murray
Senator Maria Cantwell
Representative Richard R. LarsenFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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