Estimados votantes de Oregon y Colorado,

Esta carta le llega de una madre voluntaria, que representa a miles de mamás a sabiendas y millones de mamás sin saberlo, con niños que padecen autismo, alergias, autoinmunidad, asma, obesidad, diabetes, enfermedad de Crohn, síndrome del intestino irritable y cáncer. 1 de 2 de nuestros niños, de hecho, hoy en día tienen alguna forma de enfermedad crónica en Estados Unidos. (1) Puede pensar que esta es una estadística alarmista, y quizás quiera dejarla de lado, pero es la realidad de nuestro país, es la lucha diaria de millones. Es lo que ven los médicos en sus prácticas y lo que ven los maestros y las enfermeras escolares en las escuelas. Hemos recibido miles de experiencias personales de madres sobre la creciente epidemia de enfermedades infantiles en los Estados Unidos.

What does this have to do with you? Especially if your child or grand child or nephews or nieces are not sick? Why should you care? Well, your child's or grand child's or niece's or nephew's future spouses are out there, in our American population, mostly likely eating GMOs, which are unlabeled foreign proteins untested to be safe on humans. In fact, there are thousands of studies now showing harm from GMOs to animals.  Moms Across America has over a thousand responses to our survey, most of which share that the mother believe GMOs are causing harm to our children. (2) They see this through trial and error of elimination of GMOs through diet.

We see our children get better from removing GMOs from our children's diets by eating organic. We see allergies, autism, asthma and auto immune issues that represent as rashes, disappear. What we don't see is whether or not their reproductive organs have been harmed from the exposure to GMOs that they have already unknowingly endured. This is of concern to us parents because we know that rats in Russia fed GMOs were sterile by the third generation. (3) We know that pigs in Denmark had a 30% miscarriage, infertility, sterility and loss of young rate when fed grains sprayed with Glyphosate. (4) 80% of GMOs are engineered to withstand Roundup (contains Glyphosate) and are therefore doused with this chemical which does not wash off. We know that the USA also has a 30% failure to conceive rate, the highest in recorded history and 85% of our processed food is GMO.(5) We believe GMOs and related chemicals are drastically impacting the health and future of America.

We want our children to be able to experience the profound love that it is to be able to create their own child someday and have their own healthy family. If you vote no on noviembre 4 to GMO labeling, you may be voting for the demise of the American people and a future we cannot afford. This is not fear mongering, this is the scary reality that we must have the courage to face in order to transform it.

That which we cannot be with, we cannot transform. Let's be with this for a moment.

20 Years from now, it is predicted we will have 1 out of 2 of our children with autism, (6) also  linked to Glyphosate, which was introduced into our food with GMOs at the same time that doctors "were flooded with children with autism." 13 years from now we will have no money left in the US health care budget for anything other than diabetes if we continue at the current rate. (7) Cancer is the number one killer of our children in America today. (8) More children die of cancer every year than people died in 9/11. Our miscarriage, stillborn and loss of young rates deducted from the US Census, mean that 2 million babies are lost each year, 379 a day, 3.8 babies a minute. One can only wonder what our miscarriage and birth defect rate will be 20 years from now... could we be with that rate doubling or quadrupling as our autism, diabetes, colitis and Crohn's disease diagnosis have? If things continue to go as they are we will continue to have more of the same.

What will our society be like if we allow this? How will our families, educational system, military and economy function with 50% of our children severely compromised and even more chronically ill or sterile? We do not have to be a scientist to know this is not in our best interest. We know this is not what mothers and father and concerned citizens want. We know that citizens of Oregon and Colorado want health, integrity in our food, labeling and freedom from being controlled by chemical companies just as much as citizens in other states do. We know you want the truth and you want to protect your loved ones.

Lo que no sabemos es qué alimentos son transgénicos cuando recogemos el paquete.

What many people still don't know is what a GMO is or to avoid them and that it is in fact engineered to either BE a pesticide, with the toxin inserted into the DNA of the plant with a virus or bacteria, infecting every cell of the plant, or it is engineered to resist herbicides, therefore allowing it to be repeatedly sprayed with chemicals. One of these chemicals, Glyphosate is described by Dr. Don Huber as  essentially giving the weeds AIDS, destroying their immune system. This chemical does not wash or cook off. We eat it. Our children eat it and our babies drink it in breast milk. We found Glyphosate levels over 1600 x higher than is allowed in the drinking water in Europe. (9) These levels are far above what has been shown to cause liver, kidney and sex hormone changes in rats and to destroy gut bacteria in chickens. Our gut bacteria is where 70% of our immune system lies. It is no wonder our children are getting sick!

Uno no tiene que esperar para "saber" a través de años de pruebas científicas, que los defensores de los OGM se han negado a hacer, que los OGM y los pesticidas / herbicidas relacionados están causando un daño grave a la salud de nuestros niños. Uno solo tiene que mirar qué son y cómo funcionan estos inventos relativamente "nuevos" (en comparación con miles de años exitosos de agricultura sin ellos) y qué está sucediendo con nuestra salud en Estados Unidos. Debemos reconocer que esta ciencia se basa en suposiciones de hace veinte años que ahora están desactualizadas. Debemos reconocer que hay una crisis de salud en Estados Unidos relacionada con nuestra comida y un desconocimiento en los consumidores para prevenirla. Debemos tomar medidas de precaución y ser "Más vale prevenir que curar".

We do not have to wait for more testing. We do not have to wait for a "better" labeling law. We do not have to fear higher costs of groceries (the reality is a penny per day) and we do not have to be confused by the LIES that out of state chemical companies are feeding you from the fruit of their greed...tens of millions of dollars made by selling Americans cheap, toxic food and by selling farmers toxic chemicals to spray on the food crops. They are protecting their profits.

Le pedimos que proteja a sus hijos, a nuestros hijos y al futuro de Estados Unidos votando SÍ a la etiqueta noviembre 4.

Con las etiquetas viene la responsabilidad. ¿Por qué deberían pagar miles de millones el precio de su salud en beneficio de las ganancias de unas pocas empresas químicas?

Podemos hacer algo AHORA. Puede votar SÍ en 105 y 92. Podemos causar veracidad en el etiquetado e integridad en nuestra comida. Podemos empoderar a los padres y a las personas que alimentan a las personas para que tengan la libertad de elegir comprar alimentos etiquetados con o sin OGM, independientemente de si pueden pagar orgánicos o no.

Les pedimos que tengan fe en nuestros agricultores de que pueden cultivar y cultivarán como se ha hecho durante miles de años, sin productos químicos tóxicos, cuidando la tierra y poseyendo y plantando libremente sus propias semillas (10).

Les pedimos que confíen en las madres de nuestra comunidad y voten SÍ. Tenga fe en nuestra fuerza como estadounidenses para cambiar el rumbo de la codicia y el beneficio para la salud de la gente y el futuro próspero de Estados Unidos.

Gracias.

Mamá de 3 niños que se han recuperado de las alergias y los síntomas del autismo al eliminar los transgénicos y comer alimentos orgánicos.

Zen honeycutt

Y el equipo MAAM

*Please see www.momsacrossamerica.com/data page for scientific studies, papers and reports behind this letter.