From Friends of the Earth <[email protected]>
Subject Your Signature is Needed: Keep risky GMO salmon off our plates
Date September 22, 2020 3:53 PM
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Dear John,

All communities deserve and need a food system that is healthy, safe and
protects our environment. But right now, our food system and wild salmon face a
new threat -- GMO salmon, the first genetically engineered animal allowed to be
sold for food, could end up on our plates as soon as this fall. Take action to stop GMO salmon from being sold to food service companies.
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Thanks to pressure from Friends of the Earth members like you, more than 80 food
retailers, including Kroger, Walmart, Costco, Albertson’s, Trader Joe’s, and
Whole Foods, along with restaurants like Red Lobster and Legal Seafood, made
commitments to not sell GMO salmon. But it could still sneak onto the market.

The GMO salmon company, AquaBounty, could sell its product to restaurants and
food service giants that serve millions of meals, like Aramark and Compass
Group. We all have a right to know what we are eating, but GMO salmon sold in
restaurants or cafeterias won’t have to be labeled.

Tell food service companies and restaurants to keep unlabeled GMO salmon off our
plates!

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[[link removed]]GMO salmon may pose serious environmental risks, including potentially
irreversible damage to wild salmon populations. They threaten fishing communities, coastal Indigenous communities and our
health. But the FDA has ignored these threats and is allowing this risky GMO
animal onto the market.

AquaBounty says it will sell GMO salmon this fall -- and so far, only a few
restaurants and one of the Big 3 food service companies, Sodexo, have said they
won’t sell GMO salmon.

Demand food service companies and restaurants buy sustainable seafood and say no
to GMO salmon!

Sign Now
[[link removed]]The GMO salmon is just the tip of the iceberg and could set a dangerous
precedent for the biotech industry to release other GMO animals onto the market,
including pigs, cows, and chickens. They are being engineered to better fit
within a factory farming system that benefits Big Ag corporations over fishers,
farmers, eaters, and the environment.

The FDA is allowing AquaBounty to push its risky GMO salmon onto the market --
threatening wild salmon, our health and fishing community livelihoods. That means it’s up to us to push restaurants and food service companies to join
grocery stores in refusing to sell GMO salmon. But we must act now!

Together, we can make sure restaurants and food service companies, like Aramark
and Compass Group, supply truly sustainable seafood and not GMO salmon. We will
protect our food system from Big Ag -- but we need you Friend!

Take action: Tell food service companies and restaurants to protect wild salmon,
fishing communities and our health and make a commitment to not sell GMO salmon!

Sign Now
[[link removed]]Standing with you,
Dana Perls,
Food and technology program manager,
Friends of the Earth

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