From: Pat Rasmussen [patr@crcwnet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 11:07 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: re: dockets .00N-1396 and 00D-1598

re: dockets .00N-1396 and 00D-1598

Dear Commissioner Henney,

Stop insulting the public, wasting taxpayer money and wasting time
trying to get rules to help GE corporations make money and destroy our
health and our planet. We are not stupid. We said we don't want GE
foods, or trees -- PERIOD.

Stop trying to get this past the public. Stop trying to poison my
grandchildren. I don't want GE, I won't to eat GE, I don't want my
grandchildren or anyone's grandchildren eating GE, I do not want GE fed
to wildlife. When the foolish farmers plant it and can't sell it, I know
you are giving it to wildlife. I don't want GE on our planet. NO. NO. I
said NO.

The proposed Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations fail to
require labels or safety tests on genetically engineered (GE) food. The
new rules continue to deny Americans the right to know what is in our
food, while protecting the economic interests of biotech corporations.

Labeling GE foods would protect the public from potential health effects
that could only be traced if GE foods can be identified. By refusing to
require both labeling and mandatory safety testing of foods, the FDA
puts consumer's health at risk, and ignores the recommendations of the
Biotechnology Consultative Forum, who in December urged the US to
require mandatory labeling of GE foods.

I urge you to reconsider this proposal and insure that GE foods are
subject to pre-market testing and labeling.  Americans have a right to
make informed decisions about the food we consume.

Sincerely,
Pat Rasmussen
Leavenworth Audubon Adopt-a-Forest 
PO Box 154
Peshastin, WA 98847
Phone: 509-548-7640
patr@crcwnet.com
www.leavenworth-leaf.com