When we worked on an ordinance to the city council in Des Moines, we were
able to collect 2,000 signatures in 8 days by placing them in places like
Zanzibars, New City Market, Java Joes, etc. so you might consider that.

Barb


>This is an excellent opportunity to highlight an
>heretofore ignored risk (GE food). Sen. Harkin has
>apparently said he would support labeling if he
>recieves 10,000 requests to so. In order to hold him
>accountable to his pledge (which would by the way, be
>a bold move given the current love affair between
>government officials and the biotech industry), I
>think a coordinated effort to not only encourage
>people to write
>but also to keep a running count of letters sent would
>
>essential to success. As in fund raisers, letting
>people know that we have, say " 7,562 letters" from
>Iowans written would have the likely effect of
>prompting more folks to participate.
>Any volunteers or ideas on how to do this? I'll copy
>to Laurel Hopwood and the IOWA TOPICS Listserve to
>gather ideas about this also.
>
>Jim Fleming
>Chair, Leopold Group
>641-693-9000
>
>--- Jack Eastman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> ----------
>> From: Laurel Hopwood <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:46:24 -0500
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Please contact Sen Harkin and forward!!
>>
>> Hi friends/ PLEASE FORWARD
>> There is need to get 10,000 constituents in Iowa to
>> contact Sen. Harkin!
>>
>> Contact The Honorable Tom  Harkin, U.S. Senate, 731
>> Hart Senate Office
>> Bld., Wash, DC 20510
>> 202-224-3254  or  319-365-4504 (ask for a staff
>> person who handles biotech
>> issues)
>> or least effective, [log in to unmask]
>>
>> SAMPLE LETTER/PHONE SCRIPT:
>> Dear Honorable Tom Harkin,
>>
>> As my elected representative in Iowa and as the
>> Chair of the U.S. Senate
>> Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, I
>> am requesting the
>> following:
>>
>> Please work for "mandatory" labeling legislation on
>> all foods containing or
>> produced from genetically engineered material.
>>
>> As a consumer using individual judgment, I want to
>> know what I'm buying.
>> As an individual living in a democratic society, I
>> want to be able to
>> choose what I am eating.
>>
>> I know that taking genes from one species and
>> putting them into another
>> isn't "substantially equivalent" to anything else
>> which we've ever done
>> before.  The biotechnology industry has developed
>> corn genetically
>> engineered with a bacterial toxin that acts as a
>> insecticide. Am I supposed
>> to eat that ear of corn and feel confident that
>> there's nothing in there
>> that's going to harm me?
>>
>> If I become ill, how will my physician be able to
>> connect cause and effect
>> without labeling?
>> Suppose my physician wants to know the interaction
>> between this
>> insecticidal toxin and the white cells and
>> intestinal flora in inflammatory
>> bowel disease?
>>
>> Consequences from consumption of these novel
>> products are unknown. The end
>> results may include, but are not limited to: (1)
>> harm to the immune system,
>> triggering of autoimmune disease, and induction of
>> allergic responses; (2)
>> further evolution of antibiotic resistance in
>> pathogenic germs from the use
>> of antibiotic resistance marker genes that are
>> commonly used in most GEFs;
>> (3) reduction of beneficial phytoestrogen levels.
>>
>> Please, Senator Harkin, take the lead to require
>> mandatory labeling!
>>
>> Signed,
>> XXXXX
>>
>> (This action alert is sent by Laurel Hopwood, GE
>> Committee Chair,  Sierra
>> Club
>> <[log in to unmask]>)
>>
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