From: Center for Food Safety [action@foodsafetynow.org]
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 8:21 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,

When you take away my choice to CHOOSE the quality of food I buy, you take 
 another step towards a dictatorship. The rights of this country include 
freedom of religion, and part of my spiritual practice includes being a 
vegetarian. When you allow companies to genetically alter vegetable foods 
with fish genes and chicken genes, you are crossing into a dangerous line 
of ethics. And when you do not demand GE labeling, you take away my choice 
to choose a truly vegetarian product.
Beyond that, I believe that chemical companies 'fund' the FDA, so 
therefore I do not trust the FDA for one moment to assure me that their 
rules are in my best interest. It appears that you only care about PROFIT, 
not health and safety, as has been proved in the past. What looks good and 
safe in the beginning can have disastrous consequences in the future. Our 
food chain has been in tact for thousands of years, and to assume that 
science can safely tamper with that is of the utmost arrogance. You can 
not go backwards once you introduce a new seed into the environment. You 
have taken a frighteningly immature attitude towards this fact--and what 
would cause such ignorance? The fact that you are not in an independent, 
neutral position.
If you continue to believe that you can take away my right to know if my 
food has been genetically altered, then you are setting yourself up to be 
responsible for any health and environmental hazard that comes from what 
you advocate.
I pray that you will look into your heart and sincerely ask if allowing 
genetically altered food to be distributed and sold without safety testing 
and labeling is a conscious, well meaning action, that takes into account 
the concerns of the citizens you have been asked to serve.

Sincerely,

David Langton

David Langton
6316 N. Mockingbird Lane
Paradise Valley, AZ, 85253

CC: 
The President
Vice President Dick Cheney
FDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00N-1396]
Senator John McCain
Senator Jon Kyl
Representative John B. ShadeggFDA Dockets Management [Docket No. 00D-1598]


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