Celebrate Non-GMO Month

October is Non-GMO Month sponsored by the GMO Project, a non-profit group dedicated to protecting non-GMO food and consumer choice.

They created Non-GMO Month to raise awareness about the GMO issue and see it as an opportunity to coordinate and to speak up about “our right to know what’s in our food and to choose non-GMO.” That is the purpose of the organization’s web site, to spread the word and to create and participate in events in our communities.

How can you celebrate the month? You can attend an event. There are events all across the country and all through the month. The biggest is the Right2Know March. This 313 mile walk goes from the United Nations Building in New York City to Washington D.C. It began on October 1 and continues through October 16 when the group arrives at the White House on World Food Day to “demand that genetically engineered foods be labeled in the United States as they are in Europe and Japan. American citizens deserve the same right to informed choices about the food we put in our own and our children’s bodies.” All along the route there will be special events at local, natural stores and a chance to connect with others including local farmers along the way.

One of the easiest things you can do to observe Non-GMO Month is pledge to choose Non-GMO Verified foods for the month of October. This page features dozens of recognizable brands and products that have made the commitment to ensure sustained availability of non-GMO options and believe consumers deserve an informed choice.

You can also enter the Daily Giveaway featuring products from these vendors.

If you grow some of your own food and flowers, make sure to buy non-GMO treated seeds. Or, as I have written about here on Care2, you can swap them to ensure they are GMO free and to also save you money. You can even join a seed library. A seed library allows members to “check out” seeds in the spring and in exchange, they agree to grow them and “return” the seeds after harvest from the mature plants they have grown in the fall.

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Carole R.

7:35PM PST on Nov 14, 2011

Thanks for the post.

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Christa D.

4:10PM PDT on Oct 13, 2011

Thanks!!

Cheryl B.

5:44PM PDT on Oct 11, 2011

great info

7:28PM PDT on Oct 9, 2011

thanks

NO ANY FW to me R.

10:52PM PDT on Oct 6, 2011

Thank you for the article.

Carol P.

9:14PM PDT on Oct 6, 2011

Bringing more awareness of the dangers of GMO foods is always a great thing. Most of the public has bought into the corporate song and dance that they are safe when they are far from it ... not safe for us, not safe for wildlife, and not safe for the planet.

The number of ways in which they are harming farmers, economies, and ways of life far outweigh the promises made by Monsanto and other toxic corporations.

pete M.

4:13PM PDT on Oct 6, 2011

Isn't it time now that genetically engineered foods be labeled in the United States as they are in Europe

Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/celebrate-non-gmo-month.html#ixzz1a2w08tVK

Sheri P.

12:10PM PDT on Oct 6, 2011

How about non-GMO every month of every year????

Annemarie W.

10:03AM PDT on Oct 6, 2011

thanks!