Currently, vaccines are allowed for use in organic livestock production. However, many vaccines on the market today are genetically engineered–which means that these vaccines, according to federal law, are supposed to be excluded from organic production. Unfortunately many genetically engineered vaccines are being used in organic livestock production, without the review or approval of the organic oversight board that is supposed to control what inputs can legally be used in organic production, the National Organic Standards Board.
The National Organic Standards Board will be considering a recommendation at their November 3-5 meeting in Washington, DC to allow unrestricted use of genetically engineered vaccines in organic livestock production.
The Organic Consumers Association opposes the use of genetically engineered vaccines, and all GMOs, in organic production. Please join us in the telling the NOSB to reject the recommendation for unlimited use of GMO vaccines and instead to adhere to the regulation that requires each GE vaccine to be individually reviewed.
Scientists are warning, “Genetically engineered vaccines possess significant unpredictability and a number of inherent harmful potential hazards.”
Already, we have seen these hazards manifest themselves. To name just one example, a small biotech firm in Texas tainted half a million bushels of soybeans with a trial vaccine used to prevent upset stomachs in piglets.
Tell the NOSB that GMO vaccines have no place in organics.
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