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Health & Fitness

The Second Most Important Vote This November 2012

Proposition 37 will affect every person in the United States

by Long Island Attorney Paul A. Lauto, Esq.

While virtually every American is aware of the most important vote we face this coming November to elect the president of the United States, painfully few are aware of what many consider the second most important vote.  That is Proposition 37 in California, the results of which will affect every person in the United States.

Proposition 37 involves the proposed law requiring labelling of all Genetically Modified (GM) foods, based on a consumer's right to know what is in their food.  The first ever lifetime feeding study evaluating the health risks of GM foods, was published this month in the peer reviewed journal Food And Chemical Toxicolgy.  The study results maintain, with over 30 other animal studies, a host of health problems and diseases connected to GM foods, including breast cancer.  The study showed that,  "...in female animals, 93 percent of the tumors found were in the mammary glands."  

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