美国加州人民发起将宣判转基因死刑的公民投票表决倡议 -

转基因食品对消费者与环境，只有风险，没有任何益处。加利福尼亚州为数不断增加的有机食品生产商与健康活动家 – 在全国许多消费者与农民的支持下 – 勇敢对抗孟山都及其走狗，采取的第一个步骤是揭露他们用转基因对非有机食品销售商们的食品造成广泛的污染，并在此基础上通过基层为动力的“公民投票表决倡议”程序推动强制性的转基因标识。孟山都及其在全世界的转基因推手非常清楚：“对转基因食品进行标识好比（在食品上）贴上‘骷髅与交叉的骨头’标识”！这就是为什么孟山都以及他们在克林顿、布什与奥巴马政府里的朋友竭力阻止对消费者真实的转基因标识法律，甚至阻止就此进行任何讨论，更不用说在国会里进行投票。孟山都与食品销售公司对美国的食品与农场系统即将遭到的一场围绕食品的斗争，将在很大程度上决定美国农业的未来。

加利福尼亚发起转基因标识投票表决倡议：勇敢对抗孟山都

The California Ballot Initiative: Standing Up to Monsanto

转载自美国《有机消费者协会》网站：

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_24074.cfm

By Ronnie Cummins Organic Consumers Association

：罗尼·卡敏思（Ronnie Cummins），有机消费者协会

Oct 7, 2011/2011年10月7日

翻译与转载者：陈一文（[email protected]）

（80年代两届全国青联委员）

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"If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it." - Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto, quoted in the Kansas City Star, March 7, 1994

《堪萨斯城市之星》（Kansas City Star）1994年3月7日引用孟山都的子公司Asgrow种子公司（Asgrow Seed Co）总裁诺曼·布拉克赛克（Norman Braksick）的名言：“对转基因食品进行标识好比（在食品上）贴上‘骷髅与叉骨’标识”！

Monsanto and Food Inc.'s stranglehold over the nation's food and farming system is about to be challenged in a food fight that will largely determine the future of American agriculture. A growing corps of organic food and health activists in California - supported by consumers and farmers across the nation - are boldly standing up to Monsanto and its minions, taking the first steps to expose the widespread contamination of non-organic grocery store foods with Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), and moving to implement mandatory GMO labeling through a grassroots-powered Citizens Ballot Initiative process.

孟山都与食品销售公司对美国的食品与农场系统即将遭到的一场围绕食品的斗争，将在很大程度上决定美国农业的未来。加利福尼亚州为数不断增加的有机食品生产商与健康活动家 – 在全国许多消费者与农民的支持下 – 勇敢对抗孟山都及其走狗，采取的第一个步骤是揭露他们用转基因对非有机食品销售商们的食品造成广泛的污染，并在此基础上通过基层为动力的“公民投票表决倡议”程序推动强制性的转基因标识。

有机番茄与转基因番茄

This month, lawyers representing a broad and unprecedented health, environmental, and consumer coalition, including the Organic Consumers Association, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap, Center for Food Safety, Mercola.com, Nature's Path, Natural News.com, LabelGMOs.org, Food Democracy Now, and the Institute for Responsible Technology, are filing papers with the California Attorney General's office to place a Citizens Initiative on the Ballot in November 2012 that would require mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods and food ingredients. If California voters pass this ballot initiative in 2012, it will likely be the beginning of the end for Monsanto and genetically engineered food in the U.S.

2011年10月，代表广泛的前所未有的健康、环境，与消费者联盟的律师，向加利福尼亚州首席检察官办公室提交2012年11月对转基因食品与转基因成分食品要求强制性标识举行“公民投票表决”的“公民倡议”法律文件。

签署该“公民倡议”法律文件的单位包括“有机消费者协会”（Organic Consumers Association），“布罗诺博士的魔术肥皂”（Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap），“食品安全中心”（Center for Food Safety），“Mercola网站” （Mercola.com）， “自然道路”（Nature's Path）， “自然新闻网站”（Natural News.com），“标识转基因网站”（LabelGMOs.org），“食品民主现在就要”（Food Democracy Now），与“负责任技术研究所”（Institute for Responsible Technology）。

如果加利福尼亚州的投票者2012年通过了这个“公民投票表决”的“公民倡议”的话，那么，很可能就是孟山都与转基因食品在美国终结的开始。

According to Zuri Star, a Southern California field organizer for the Organic Consumers Association, "The California Ballot Initiative is perhaps our last chance to stop the Biotech Express, to overthrow Biotechnology's dictatorial regime and build a safe and sustainable food and farming system based upon the ethical principles of consumer choice and BioDemocracy."

依据祖里·斯塔尔（Zuri Star），“有机消费者协会”南加州一位现场组织者，的说法，“加州‘公民投票表决’的‘公民倡议’可能是我们终止‘生物技术快车’、推翻生物技术的独裁王国的最后机会，使我们得以建设一个基于消费者选择与‘生物民主’道德原则的安全、可持续的食品与农场系统。”

Moving the Battleground

转移战场

After twenty years of biotech bullying and force-feeding unlabeled and hazardous genetically engineered (GE) foods to animals and humans, a critical mass of food and health activists have decided it's time to move beyond small skirmishes and losing battles and go on the offensive. It's time to move the food fight over labeling GE food from the unfavorable terrain of Washington D.C. and Capital Hill, where Monsanto and Food Inc. exercise near-dictatorial control, to California, the heartland of organic food and farming and anti-GMO sentiment, where 80-85% of the body politic, according to recent polls, support mandatory labeling.

二十年来进行生物技术的威逼，强迫动物与人类食用没有标识的有害的转基因食品后，达到关键性数量的食品与健康活动家们决定，现在不应当再涉足往往造成不理结果的小规模冲突，转入反攻的时机已经成熟。应当将围绕转基因食品标识的斗争，从华盛顿特区与国会山孟山都与食品销售产业实现近乎独裁的地方，转移到加利福尼亚。加利福尼亚是美国有机食品与有机农场以及反转基因势力的心脏地带，根据最近的民意调查，80%-85%的民众支持对转基因食品强制标识。

The trillion-dollar biotech, supermarket, and food industry are acutely conscious of the fact that North American consumers, like their European counterparts, are wary and suspicious of genetically engineered food. Consumers understand that you don't want your food safety or environmental sustainability decisions to be made by out-of-control chemical and biotech companies like Monsanto, Dow, or DuPont - the same people who brought us toxic pesticides and industrial chemicals, Agent Orange, carcinogenic food additives, PCBs, and now global warming. Biotech, food, and grocery corporations are alarmed by the fact that every poll over the last 20 years has shown that 85-95% of American consumers want mandatory labels on genetically engineered foods.

达到万亿美元规模的生物技术产业、超市与食品产业强烈意识到北美的消费者，像欧洲的消费者一样，对转基因食品谨慎又怀疑。消费者非常清楚，你们不希望食品安全或环境可持续性方面的决定脱离孟山都、道公司（Dow）或杜邦（DuPont）这样的化学与生物技术公司的控制做出，因为正是你们，将有毒的除草剂/杀虫剂与有毒化学品，诸如橙剂落叶剂、致癌食品添加剂、PCB类（多氯联苯类），以及现在的全球温暖。近二十年期间每一次民意调查都表明85%- 95%的美国消费者要求对转基因食品强制性标识，这一事实引起了生物技术产业、食品产业与食品销售商的警觉。

Europe Shows Labels Drive GMOs off the Market

欧洲的经验表明转基因标识将转基因食品清除市场

Why are there basically no genetically engineered foods or crops anywhere in Europe, while 75% of U.S. supermarket foods - including many so-called "natural" foods - are GE-tainted? The answer is simple. In Europe genetically engineered foods and ingredients have to be labeled. In the U.S. they do not. Up until now, in North America, Monsanto and the Biotechnocrats have enjoyed free reign to secretly lace non-organic foods with gene-spliced viruses, bacteria, antibiotic-resistant marker genes, and foreign DNA-mutant "Frankenfoods" shown to severely damage the health of animals, plants, and other living organisms in numerous scientific studies.

为什么欧洲近乎所有的地方没有转基因食品与转基因作物，而美国超市中75%的食品 – 包括许多称之为“自然”的食品 – 都受到转基因污染？答案很简单。在欧洲，转基因食品与转基因食物配料都必须标识。在美国，转基因食品与转基因食品配料不标识。到目前为止，在北美洲，孟山都与生物技术推手们享受着可以秘密将基因切割病毒（gene-spliced viruses）、细菌、抗生素—抵抗标记基因（antibiotic-resistant marker genes）、植物以及无数科学研究中的其他活的生物体与食品联系在一起。

Monsanto and their allies understand the threat that truth-in-labeling poses for GMOs. As soon as genetically engineered foods start to be labeled in the U.S., millions of consumers will start to read these labels and react. They'll complain to grocery store managers and companies, they'll talk to their family and friends. They'll start switching to foods that are organic or at least GMO-free. Once enough consumers start complaining about GE foods and food ingredients; stores will eventually stop selling them; and farmers will stop planting them.

孟山都及其同盟者理解真实标识对转基因食品形成的威胁。一旦在美国开始对转基因食品强制标识，千百万消费者将开始阅读这些标识并且做出反应。他们将向食品销售商的经理与公司提出抱怨，他们将告诉他们的家人与朋友们。他们将开始转向有机食品，至少转向非转基因食品。一旦足够的消费者开始对转基因食品与转基因食品配料提出抱怨，这些商家将开始停止销售它们；农民也将停止种植他们。

Genetically engineered foods have absolutely no benefits for consumers or the environment, only hazards. This is why Monsanto and their friends in the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations have prevented consumer GMO truth-in-labeling laws from ever getting a public discussion, much less coming to a vote in Congress. And this is why activists are launching the California Ballot Initiative. By moving the battle from the federal level to the state level, by employing one of the last remaining tools of direct grassroots democracy in the USA, the ballot initiative, concerned consumers can bypass Washington and regain their fundamental right to know what they are eating.

转基因食品对消费者与环境，只有风险，没有任何益处。这就是为什么孟山都以及他们在克林顿、布什与奥巴马政府里的朋友竭力阻止对消费者真实的转基因标识法律，甚至阻止就此进行任何讨论，更不用说在国会里进行投票。这也就是为什么我们这些活动家发起这项加利福尼亚“投票表决倡议”。通过将战场从联邦水平转移开，通过运用美国基层民主剩余的最后这一项“投票表决倡议”法律手段，对转基因食品担心的消费者这样可以超越华盛顿的操控掌握他们有权知道他们吃的食品含有什么的知情权。

陈一文顾问按：美国民众坚持强制性转基因标识的一项非常重要内容，是来自喂食转基因大豆、转基因玉米成分饲料的家畜、家禽的“肉、蛋、奶”食品原料，以及由它们加工生产的一切食品也都必须标识“转基因食品”，而不能网开一面！

Passing mandatory GMO labeling in just one large state, California, where there is tremendous opposition to GE foods as well as a multi-billion dollar organic food industry, will ultimately have the same impact as a national labeling law.

加利福尼亚反对转基因食品的势力巨大，而且有数十亿美元规模的有机食品产业。在加利福尼亚这样一个大规模的州通过强制标识转基因食品的法律，其影响犹如通过一项全国性的强制标识法律一样。

If California food and health activists succeed in putting a GMO labeling initiative on the ballot in 2012 and the voters pass it, the biotech and food industry will face an intractable dilemma. Will they dare put labels on their branded food products in just one state, California, admitting these products contain or may contain genetically engineered ingredients, while withholding this ingredient label information in the other states? Will they allow their organic and non-GMO competitors to drive down their GMO-tainted brand market share? The answer to both of these questions is likely no. What most of them will do is start to shift to organic and non-GMO ingredients, so as to avoid what the Monsanto executive 16 years ago aptly described as the "skull and crossbones" label.

如果加利福尼亚的食品与健康活动家们能够成功将转基因标识放到2012年投票表决的议题中，而且如果投票通过的话，生物技术产业与转基因食品产业将面临难于对付左右为难的状况。他们是否敢于对他们的食品仅仅在加利福尼亚一个州内贴转基因标识，承认这些食品包含或者可能含有转基因成分，而对他们在其他州销售的同样食品不贴这样的标签？他们是否能够允许他们的有机与非转基因竞争者减少他们转基因污染的食品的市场份额？对这两个问题的答复大概都是“不”。这些食品生产商与销售商的大部分将转为有机食品与非转基因食品配料，以便避免孟山都的高级管理人员16年前称之为“骷髅与叉骨”作用的标签。

California Label Laws Have National Impact: Proposition 65

加利福尼亚的标识法律将有全国性影响：提案65

A clear indication of the impact of warning labels on consumer products was established in California in 1986 when voters passed, over the strenuous opposition of industry, a ballot initiative called Proposition 65, which required consumer products with potential cancer-causing ingredients to bear warning labels. Rather than label their products sold in California as likely carcinogenic, most companies reformulated their product ingredients so as to avoid warning labels altogether, and they did this on a national scale, not just in California.

清楚表明对消费性产品贴警示性标识将造成什么影响的一个实例：1986年，加利福尼亚的投票者，在击败产业界费力的阻碍后，通过了称之为“提案65”的一项“投票表决倡议”，要求含有具有潜在致癌性成分的消费产品必须贴警告性的标识。为了避免在加利福尼亚销售贴有致癌性警示性标识的产品，绝大部分公司对他们的产品的配方进行了修改（去除了有害性的成分—译注），因此不需要贴这样的警示性标识，而且，不仅在加利福尼亚这样做，在全国销售的产品都这样做。

This same scenario will likely unfold again in California in 2012. Can you imagine Kellogg's selling its Corn Flakes breakfast cereal in California with a label that admits it contains or may contain genetically engineered corn? This would be the kiss of death for their iconic brand. How about Kraft Boca Burgers admitting that their soybean ingredients are genetically modified? How about the entire non-organic food industry (including many so-called "natural" brands) admitting that a large proportion of their products are GE-tainted?

同样的情景2012年可能在加利福尼亚再现。你能够想像凯洛格（Kellogg）在加利福尼亚销售“早餐玉米食品”贴有承认包含或可能包含转基因玉米的标识？这将意味着他们享有盛名品牌的死亡。Kraft Boca Burgers若承认他们的大豆成分为转基因会如何？整个非有机食品产业（包括许多称之为“自然”的品牌）如果承认他们很大部分产品受转基因污染，又会如何？

Once food manufacturers and supermarkets are forced to come clean and label genetically engineered products, they will likely remove all GE ingredients, to avoid the "skull and crossbones" effect, just like the food industry in the EU has done. In the wake of this development American farmers will convert millions of acres of GE crops to non-GMO or organic varieties.

一旦食品生产商与超市被强制要求对消费者清洁真实并标识转基因产品，他们极有可能清除所有的转基因成分以避免“骷髅与叉骨”的效果，就像欧洲的食品工业做的那样。这种发展将引起美国农民的觉醒将千百万公顷种植转基因作物转为非转基因或有机品种的种植。

Finally consumers will be able to tell the difference between organic food (labeled as "organic" and thereby GMO-free); natural food (which will not have a GMO label), and bogus "natural" food (which will be required to display the label "contains or may contain GMOs").

作为这种发展的结果，消费者将能够说出有机食品（标识“有机”，因而“非转基因”）；自然食品（没有“转基因”标识），以及假冒的“自然”食物（将不得不显示“含或可能含转基因“）。

What Now? The Campaign Needs Volunteers and Money

现在需要干什么？该项运动需要志愿者与经费

Monsanto, the Farm Bureau, and the Grocery Manufacturers Association are already gearing up to fight against the California Ballot Initiative. They will literally spend millions to spread lies and disinformation that GMO foods and crops are perfectly safe; and that we need more, not less GMO food and biofuel crops in this era of climate change and growing population, etc. As the campaign progresses, they will lie and say that GMO labels will be costly to the food industry and raise food prices. We'll have to counter these lies of course, now and throughout the campaign, but first of all we must make sure that the 2012 GE Food Labeling Initiative actually gets on the ballot.

孟山都、农场局，以及食品杂活生产商协会正在组织力量对抗加利福尼亚的“投票表决倡议“。他们将花费数百万美元传播宣扬转基因食品与转基因作物绝对安全的谎言与误导性信息；而且鼓吹，在气候变化与人口增长的现在，我们需要更多而不是更少的转基因食品与生物燃料作物。随着该项运动的进展，他们将谎称转基因标识对食品产业有成本导致提高食品价格。现在与运动全过程中，我们当然必须应对这些谎言，但是首先我们必须确保2012年转基因食品标识倡议能够进入“投票表决”程序。

When corporations like Monsanto decide to launch a ballot initiative in California, or other states, one of the first things they do is hand over a couple of million dollars to a professional petition gathering business. Since, unlike Monsanto, we don't have a couple of million dollars to spare, we're going to have to rely on an army of volunteers to gather signatures. These volunteers can be trained and coordinated by our small, but highly dedicated and experienced, paid campaign staff and consultants, but for the most part we must drive this campaign forward with volunteer labor.

当孟山都这样的公司决定在加利福尼亚，或其他州，发起一项“投票表决倡议”时，他们首先做的事中的一件是，向一家专业请愿收集公司支付数百万美元。由于我们与孟山都不同，我们没有数百万美元做这样的事，我们就不得不依赖于志愿者大军来收集签字。这些志愿者可以由我们的小规模的，但是高度献身的、有经验的、支付了工资的运动工作人员与咨询顾问进行培训，但是，我们主要必须以志愿者工作将该项运动推向前进。

In order to hit the ground running in December, gathering 500-700,000 petition signatures of registered voters to put this measure on the ballot, we need your help now. We need an army of thousands of volunteer petition gatherers to step forward in California. And we need money. OCA and our allied lobbying organization, the Organic Consumers Fund, estimate that we need to raise at least $60,000 over the next month in order to effectively play our part in the California Ballot Initiative Campaign, to pay our staff, consultants, and other campaign expenses.

为了实现12月该项运动必须达到的目标，即收集到将该项法律手段使该项投票表决倡议进入程序所需的登记投票权人士50万到70万个签字，我们需要你们现在提供帮助。我们在加利福尼亚需要数千志愿者站出来组成请愿支持者签字收集大军。而且，我们需要必要的经费支持。“有机消费者协会”（Organic Consumers Association -- OCA）以及与我们联盟的游说组织“有机消费者基金”估计我们今后几个月需要募集至少6万美元来有效支付我们在加利福尼亚州的投票表决倡议运动中发挥的作用，包括支付我们工作人员、咨询顾问的费用，以及其他运动费用。