Ten Things You Can Do
10 things you can do for a GE Free BC
- Check your groceries. Ask: Is this food genetically engineered? Where is it from? Buy food labelled organic and/or GE free.
- Get and share information. The Society for a G.E. Free B.C. will provide you with information. Tell your family and friends. Staff a table at an event with a buddy from a list of volunteers.
- Show 'The Future of Food' movie. Screen it in your club, high school, Home Ec class, church, and community centre.
- Encourage your school to adopt a GE free policy in its cafeteria and vending machines. Approach your local PAC (Parent Advisory Council).
- Host a 100-Mile GE free Potluck, Serve on GE Free foods produced within 100 miles of your home.
- Ask at restaurants whether the food you are eating, including the oil it is cooked in, is GE Free.
- Talk to local and federal politicians and candidates. Write, email or call them. Attend and host candidates' meetings before elections, and bring up the GE free issue.
- Ask your workplace and local businesses to support the Society for a G.E. Free B.C., join the Society.
- Grow GE free seeds and plants in your garden.
- Volunteer with GE Free BC. Get together with people working on fundraising, municipal resolution, ethical businesses, and seed saving.