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Chef Tom Colicchio stands with some GREAT Dems for Our Right to Know
Chef Tom Colicchio Stands With Federal Lawmakers as GE Food Labeling Bill Is Reintroduced
2/12/15
The Center for Food Safety (CFS) announced today that Chef Tom Colicchio joined Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Representative Peter DeFazio (D-OR) as they reintroduced the Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act. Will they be able to make a difference?
Concerned consumers have been pushing for the right to know what’s in the food they buy for many years. And companies like Monsanto have been pushing back with their money and political influence to make sure that doesn’t happen. So the fight continues for consumers who want companies to be required to label their products if they contain genetically engineered ingredients.
,,,“We cannot continue to keep Americans in the dark about the food they eat,” said DeFazio. “More than 60 other countries make it easy for consumers to choose. Why should the U.S. be any different? If food manufacturers stand by their product and the technology they use to make it, they should have no problem disclosing that information to consumers.”
Tom Colicchio, who owns Craft Restaurants, joined the elected officials because he has been a longtime advocate of using the political system to reform our food system. He co-founded Food Policy Action in 2012 “to hold legislators accountable on votes that have an effect on food and farming.” Food Policy Action’s site contains an arsenal of information about how each elected official is voting on food policy issues. Colicchio hopes the information will be used by Americans to “Vote with their forks and elect more food policy leaders across the country.”...
http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/02/12/chef-tom-colicchio-stands-federal-lawmakers-ge-food-labeling-bill-reintroduced/
2/12/15
The Center for Food Safety (CFS) announced today that Chef Tom Colicchio joined Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Representative Peter DeFazio (D-OR) as they reintroduced the Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act. Will they be able to make a difference?
Concerned consumers have been pushing for the right to know what’s in the food they buy for many years. And companies like Monsanto have been pushing back with their money and political influence to make sure that doesn’t happen. So the fight continues for consumers who want companies to be required to label their products if they contain genetically engineered ingredients.
,,,“We cannot continue to keep Americans in the dark about the food they eat,” said DeFazio. “More than 60 other countries make it easy for consumers to choose. Why should the U.S. be any different? If food manufacturers stand by their product and the technology they use to make it, they should have no problem disclosing that information to consumers.”
Tom Colicchio, who owns Craft Restaurants, joined the elected officials because he has been a longtime advocate of using the political system to reform our food system. He co-founded Food Policy Action in 2012 “to hold legislators accountable on votes that have an effect on food and farming.” Food Policy Action’s site contains an arsenal of information about how each elected official is voting on food policy issues. Colicchio hopes the information will be used by Americans to “Vote with their forks and elect more food policy leaders across the country.”...
http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/02/12/chef-tom-colicchio-stands-federal-lawmakers-ge-food-labeling-bill-reintroduced/
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I'd say more, but I don't want to be a spoiler in case someone hasn't seen it yet. 
something you read once and it transforms and improves YOUR favorite things to cook. For example, he makes oven dried tomatoes with olive oil and rosemary and then there are like 10 things you could use that in as an upgrade from canned tomatoes or even just great fresh tomatoes. And even that example doesn't do the book justice -- in short, he improved my approach to cooking.
