Top 10 Reasons To Pass the GMO-Free Ordinance in Humboldt County

1. To protect local GMO-free farms from cross-pollen contamination by GMO crops.

2. To attract & promote GMO-free farm-based businesses in our area.

3. GMOs are so new and untested that it makes sense to set aside a biological corridor for naturally selected non-gmo crops.

4. To eliminate the possibility of GMO/’Round-Up Ready’ crops being planted (a technology that leads to an increase in the use of cancer-causing pesticides).

5. To encourage farmers to grow nutritious produce. Some GMO crops are designed to have features such as longer shelf life at the expense of nutrition.

6. To encourage biodiversity in farming which would otherwise be lost to a few patent-holding biotech seed companies.

7. To avoid situations where a farmer is sued for royalties by the biotech industry due to accidental cross-pollen contamination (See PercySchmeiser.com)

8. To keep GMO/Terminator Gene technology out of our local agriculture (a trait that causes a plant to produce sterile seeds).

9. To protect the local ecology from GMO crops which produce the toxin ‘BT’.

10. It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature. Splicing the DNA of different species of organisms is unnatural & potentially dangerous.

For further information, please contact the Humboldt Green Genes.