Guest (Caroline Dwyer) from Stony Brook Southampton says:
I would like to offer my heartfelt thanks to Kathleen Furey for organizing the event “GM Foods and You” held in the Avram Auditorium of Stony Brook University at Southampton on November 19, 2009. I would further like to extend my thanks to the panelists (including Steve Storch- Halsey’s Green Thumb Organic Farm, Linda Stasiak- Holistic Esthetician and Certified Holistic Health teacher, Eileen Weilbacher- Certified Holistic Health Counselor, Matthew Doris- Food Service Director, Tuckahoe School District, Dr. James Quigley- faculty member Stony Brook Southampton: Environmental Design, Policy and Planning ; Political Science and Bob DeLuca- President of the Group for the East End), who contributed their time and expertise to a question and answer period following Ms. Furey’s screening of Marie-Monique Robin’s documentary “The World According to Monsanto”. These members of the faculty and community did a great service to the Southampton student body and the greater Long Island population by so generously sharing their knowledge concerning the matters addressed in Ms. Furey’s presentation. The controversies surrounding Monsanto and their production of GM (genetically modified) foods and products are of great concern, not only locally, but to the citizens of the United States and the world at large. It is only through advocacy and the spread of information that we are able to make the changes necessary ensuring that we retain sovereignty over our consumables and other products that we come into contact with every day. Currently, in the United States, there is no law mandating that GM foods need to be labeled as such. I don’t know about you, but I would certainly like to have a choice as to whether or not I put something in my body, or my child’s, that has been biologically manipulated in a laboratory. Thank you Ms. Furey for standing up to the giants and working towards a day when, perhaps, we will truly know exactly what we are eating! More information on GM foods and what you need to know about them is available at www.cleanfoodearth.blogspot.com and www.responsibletechnology.org.