OPERATION SHOPPING CART - EXPOSE THE GMA RALLY - Sat, Feb 22, 2014

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 GMO
Free Movement Takes on GMA

Grocery Manufacturers Association Fails to Intimidate GMO Free Activists

ORANGE COUNTY, CA (February 18,
2014) – GMO Free Orange County announced
that residents from LA, San Bernardino, Orange and San Diego counties will join
them on Saturday, February 22, 2014, to rally with GMO Free coalition partners
as they peacefully protest  the upcoming GMA Litigation Conference being
held later in the week in Dana Point at the Ritz Carlton. Health enthusiasts
and GMO Free activists will converge at Salt Creek Beach Park on the corner of
Pacific Coast Highway and Ritz Carlton Drive at 10:30 am with the demonstration
beginning promptly at 11:00 am.  The rally dubbed Operation Shopping Cart
– Expose the GMA is a peaceful family event and open to all concerned citizens.
 More details can be found at tinyurl.com/GMA-Label-GMOs

According to Organic Consumers Association,
a coalition partner of GMO Free Orange County, “the GMA is gathering
high-powered lawyers to help them plan their strategy to undermine state GMO
labeling efforts, so they can pass a federal water-down, voluntary GMO label
law.”

GMO activists like Operation
Shopping Cart event organizers John Diaz, local Orange County leader of
LabelGMOs Prop 37 and March Against Monsanto facilitator, D’Marie Mulattieri
are gathering the GMO Free community to further alert unsuspecting consumers to
the dangers posed by genetically modified organisms in the US food supply, “We
are ‘welcoming’ the GMA to let them know that we oppose their plans to attack
our democratic process of enacting local and state GMO labeling laws. We feel
that it is un-American to manipulate consumers into purchasing food made with
GMOs by pressuring the FDA to label GMOs as ‘natural, which is what the GMA did
this past December.’”

The GMA was found guilty of
violating state election campaign disclosure laws in Washington when it
willfully failed to disclose the top funders of the approximately $11 million
dollars spent to defeat its GMO labeling initiative I-522 in November, 2013.
The GMA has subsequently filed a counter suit against the State of Washington
challenging the state disclosure law. The Grocery Manufacturers Association is
a multi-billion lobbying group representing the interests of over 300 junk food
suppliers like Pepsico, Nestles, Coca Cola, Kelloggs and many other name brands
that grace the tables of Americans as well as pesticide and drug makers. They
GMA is a member of Alliance for Better Foods, a coalition to further the
consumption of genetically engineered foods.

GMO Free Orange County is joined in
opposing the antics of the GMA by coalition partners, Americans Organized for
Change, Food and Water Watch, Food Democracy Now!, Label GMOs: California's
Grassroots, March Against Monsanto - Laguna Beach, CA, Moms Across America, Organic
Consumers Association, Overpass Light Brigade – San Diego and Yo Soy Maiz.
Additional actions will be held at the same location in Dana Point on Tuesday,
February 25th and Wednesday, February 26th. All concerned
citizens are invited to attend. tinyurl.com/GMA-Label-GMOs

 GMO Free Orange County is a coalition
of grassroots volunteers with a mission to educate food consumers as to the
dangers of genetically engineered foods, agri-chemicals and unsustainable
industrial farming. Our goal is a healthy and sustainable food supply. More
info at http://www.mam-lb.com

                                                                               

Contact:

D’Marie Mulattieri

GMO Free Orange County

Orange County, California

askdmarie@gmail.com

949-429-9877

                                                                                      
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