A Day of Empowering the Grassroots The final agenda for the 2013 Environmental Summit is in. Join us on Saturday, November 9th, for a day of empowering the grassroots of Vermont. Click below to check out descriptions of the issue and skill workshops, and click here if you haven’t registered yet. The registration deadline is …
$4,800,000. That’s how much biotech giant Monsanto has spent so far fighting a GMO labeling initiative in Washington State. With such deep pockets likely to turn their attention to fighting Vermont’s labeling bill, and we want you to join us for the October 12th March against Monsanto. With the legislative session right around the corner, we will …
In a celebratory event in front of the State House, dozens of VPIRG organizers released the results of the largest summer outreach campaign ever. Since the beginning of May, VPIRG canvassers going door-to-door have collected approximately 30,000 signatures in support of GMO labeling legislation, which is pending in the state Senate.
Have you seen what over 25,000 postcards look like? I hadn’t before, and I don’t think our Vermont State Senators will have either – until August 15th! That’s the date when we’ll be delivering the first wave of these messages to a set of legislative champs we hope will carry the GMO labeling bill to victory …
A crew of four VPIRG canvassers journeyed to the farthest reaches of the state to talk to Vermonters about the campaign to label GMOs. The three-day camping trip marked the first time VPIRG has canvassed many towns in Essex County, including all of the United Towns and Gores (UTG). Highlights from the crew included: Out-canvassing …
One Billion Tax Dollars per Year Subsidize Junk Food Ingredients, Fuel Obesity Epidemic Montpelier, VT – Federal subsidies for commodity crops are subsidizing junk food additives like high-fructose corn syrup, at a rate that would buy 20 Twinkies for each American taxpayer every year, according to USPIRG’s new report, “Apples to Twinkies 2013.” Meanwhile, the …
Ag Subsidies Pay for 20 Twinkies per Taxpayer, But Only Half of an Apple Apiece One Billion Tax Dollars per Year Subsidize Junk Food Ingredients, Fuel Obesity Epidemic Montpelier, VT – Federal subsidies for commodity crops are subsidizing junk food additives like high-fructose corn syrup, at a rate that would buy 20 Twinkies for each …
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Representative Toleno and the Brattleboro Co-op welcomed the 60 grassroots canvassers who traveled to southern Vermont to camp out of Fort Dummer State Park for the week while reaching out to residents in towns across Windham County. The VPIRG citizen outreach team will knock on doors in every town in Vermont this summer to build support for labeling GMOs.
Canvassers camped in state parks in Orleans County recently talk with residents in Barton, Glover, Newport, Newport Center, Derby, Holland, and Morgan about efforts underway to label genetically-modified foods (often called GMOs) in Vermont. The campaign caught the attention of the Barton Chronicle recently featured a story of progress on the campaign so far. Read the article here on page 13.
Dave Rogers is a Policy Advisor for the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT), and is one of the lead organizers of the VT Right to Know GMOs coalition. Dave Joined NOFA in 2006 after 28 years as member of the UVM faculty in the Department of Animal Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life …
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