ACTION
BECOME A GENE DETECTIVE
Help track down GM food in Irish supermarkets and food shops
Greenpeace Trolleywatch http://weblog.greenpeace.org/ge/action.html
Consumers now have the power to make sure that Irish supermarkets and restaurants remain GM-free, since the EU's new and much stricter GM labelling legislation came into effect in April 2004.
Greenpeace International is asking members of the public to help find the food products containing GM ingredients and name and shame them for everyone to see. Companies may try to smuggle GM labelled products into supermarkets in the Irish Republic and the North of Ireland. The more people that help to reject these products, the easier it will be to maintain our right to say NO to GM food and crops.
Join shoppers throughout Europe in tracking down products that contain GM ingredients and listing them
on the Greenpeace Trolleywatch web site, with photos, so other consumers can beware.
Become a Gene Detective and join the Greenpeace Trolley Watch:
Whenever you go shopping, have a close look at the ingredients listed on the food packaging. If you find a product whose label lists GM (genetically modified) or GE (genetically engineered) ingredients, do the following.
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note down the product details including the name of the product, the food producer, the supermarket, and the GM ingredients;
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ideally take a picture, and, if possible, upload the picture directly to the Greenpeace Trolley watch website at http://weblog.greenpeace.org/ge/action.html. The web page contains a form letting Greenpeace know which country you found the product in, the name of the product, the food producer, the supermarket and the GM ingredients. Finally you attach your photo. It's as simple as attaching a photo to an email.
We very much appreciate your support because we want to keep consumers in Ireland informed! You can see GM products already identified in European shops on the Greenpeace website listed above.
Consumers inform consumers:
Print out the Greenpeace information flyer and hand it to your family, friends and neighbours. See if you can get leave copies of it with favourite shops, restaurants or at your doctor's office.
Return - Replace - Refund:
If you unknowingly buy a GM labelled product, take it back to your retailer and ask for a non-GM replacement or a refund. Get all of your friends to do it as well. Why not go together to make your point more forcefully ‚ the more the better! But remember to check out your store's refund policy first - we wouldn't want you to waste your money.
Speak out against GM food:
Send a protest letter to your retailer or food producer to demand for GM-free food. Simply save the letters in this pack, write in the retailer or food producer"s name and address and put them in the post. You will find contact details of food producers on the packaging. Most retailers have a customer service in their stores so you can also leave your protest letter there. Why not also write a letter to your local newspaper and encourage a local debate, maybe you could get the whole community involved.
