I want to thank state Sen. Daniel Wolf and state Rep. Timothy Madden for their commitment to GMO labeling in Massachusetts. They are part of the legislative leadership team that helped garner an overwhelming number of cosponsors for the new Massachusetts GMO labeling bill.

More than three quarters of the legislature — 154 out of 200 legislators — is in favor of the bill due to the public’s wide support to have GMOs labeled in their foods.

A GMO — genetically engineered food — is a plant or meat product that has had its DNA artificially altered in a laboratory by genes from other plants, animals, viruses or bacteria in order to produce foreign compounds in that food.

This type of genetic alteration is not found in nature and is experimental. Many of the foods we currently eat and feed our families (including certain baby formulas and a high percentage of corn, soy, cotton and sugar beets commonly used in processed foods sold in the U.S.), contain genetically-modified organisms. But we don’t know which ones without labeling.

I certainly want to know what is in the food I’m buying, and polls show that 90 per cent of Americans want their foods labeled when they contain GMOs.

If you feel the same way, please visit MARightToKnow.com for information and show your support, sign on to the petition on the Take Action page. And urge your friends and family across the commonwealth to do the same.

Marilyn Miller
Oak Bluffs