From: Golden1.rm [golden1.rm@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 10:30 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

Dear FDA,
 
Your proposed rule is disgusting.  I don't know who is twisting your arm to make this decision, but it is quite obvious that you are not concerned with the public's desires or the public's safety.  You are making these rules in spite of overwhelming opposition.  You must be pawns of the special interests.
 
The only possible reason for you wanting to make these rules is to protect and further the interests of the big agro-giants and food-makers.
 
The interests behind these rules are over-zealous and greedy people who have no foresight.  Haven't we learned enough from past mistakes when we have tried to tamper with artificial foods?  We don't need GMO's.  Most people don't know that you are feeding them GMO's (GE foods).  If they knew, they would be out-raged.  You know this, yet you continue.
 
Why is everyone so afraid of labeling their products as being genetically engineered?  Are they afraid that people won't buy them?  Why is everyone afraid to do more testing?  How many times do we have to wait to find out that what we have been using for so long is really bad for us?  Stop listening to just the mega-corporations!  Start listening to the people.  You are supposed to serve the people, not the corporations!
 
You are just a deceitful and harmful organization.  You are a wolf in sheep's clothing.  Many things that are good for us, you outlaw.
 
I can't believe that you would hire someone from an organization that you are supposed to be regulating and then have them go back to that organization.  
 
This is totally outrageous and the word will spread.  
 
It's already been proven how GMO's have upset the ecological cycles.  It has harmed butterflies.  Why don't we get a clue?
 
- Stan Murrah