Over the course of the next week, world leaders will be meeting in Rome at Food and Agriculture Association (FAO) of the United Nations to address the global hunger crisis. Top on the United States Department of Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer's agenda is to push Genetically Engineered Crops on the world's hungry. GE crops are untested and unwanted by the majority of the planet's population. GE crops will only deepen the global food crisis.
We have included a form letter for your convenience, but a personally crafted letter is more effective, so we encourage you to write it yourself. Please try to convince the reader in as few words as possible. The shorter and more powerful a letter is, the more likely it is to get published. Good luck!
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Food Sovereignty Not Biotech for World's HungryHere you will find a prewritten letter that you may submit to your local paper, using our online submission tool, or you may modify the letter or write your own. It's easy to spread the word!
The "Letters" section of your local newspaper is the most widely read section of the paper! Writing letters to the editor is an effective and easy way to communicate your perspective to both the community in general and journalists that long-term sustainability is the only answer for the global food crisis.
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