Today 60% of processed foods on our grocery store shelves contain genetically engineered ingredients, none of which has undergone pre-market safety testing.
Tallying Up
GMO-Free Support
Shaw's claims they haven't heard from their "real" customers about genetically engineered food despite receiving thousands and thousands of postcards, letters, emails and phone calls. There are numerous ways you can get involved with this effort. Check out the list below and help make this the year Shaw's goes GMO-Free!
Five Ways To Get Involved
1. Save your receipts for a few weeks and write a letter to Shaw's CEO - see directions in action alert below
2. Email the action alert to 25 friends and family and follow up with reminder emails and phone calls.
3. Print out the action alert and pass it out at PTO meetings, church groups and other civic meetings you attend. (or email lsetchell@cleanwater.org for a nice pdf version)
4. Hang up the action alert on bulletin boards in community spaces throughout your town/city.
Tell Shaw's CEO That You Do Not Want Genetically Modified Food!
We Want Them To Remove Genetically Modified Ingredients From Their Shaw’s Brand Products
*Shaw's parent company in England, J Sainsbury removed genetically engineered ingredients from their store-brand products in response to massive customer outcry. *Despite receiving over 20,000 postcards and letters, Shaw’s claims that they have not heard from their US customers.
Let Us Make Sure Our Voices Are Heard!
We are asking you to save your Shaw’s receipts and send them along with a letter to the CEO of Shaw’s supermarkets.
We need to show them that as paying customers, we want value for our $$...
It’s simple. All we are asking you to do is the following:
1. Collect your Shaw’s receipts.
2. Write a sample letter to the CEO of Shaw’s, similar to the one below.
3. Mail the letter and receipts to:
Clean Water Fund
Safe Foods Campaign
36 Bromfield St.
Boston, MA 02138
4. Include a note along with your telephone # if you would like to get involved.
Sample letter to Shaw's CEO Paul Gannon:
Dear Mr. Gannon,
I am writing to request that Shaw's remove all genetically engineered ingredients from Shaw's brand products. As a frequent shopper at Shaw's (see attached receipts) I am deeply concerned about the company's use of untested genetically engineered ingredients. GE ingredients such as corn and canola oil pose serious threats to my family's health in the form of new food allergens and plant toxins. If your parent company can do it in England there is no reason Shaw's cannot do the same for their US customers. We trust you do not want to lose customers.
Sincerely,
Signed name
Printed name and address (so they can write you back)
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