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Good Evening Senator Sanders,

Firstly, let me thank you for doing this AMA. As a Vermonter, I greatly appreciate your willingness to get in touch with your constituents and allow us to ask you questions about the current issues facing our government. I appreciate your government service and I feel like you have done a great job of representing the ideas that Vermonters would like to see reflected in our government (and on a personal note as a veteran, I would like to thank you for your work on the Veterans’ Affairs committee).

However I would like to speak with you today regarding the push to label GMO food within the United States. I would like to ask, why you support this movement (which is primarily based in the assumption that GMO foods are more dangerous than non GMO food) when almost all major scientific and academic communities are in agreement that GMO food poses zero health risks? (Sources cited at bottom) To me, this seems analogous to other politicians claiming that global climate change isn’t real despite the overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary. Thank you for your time and keep up the good work Senator Sanders.

General scientific consensus

A statement from The National Academy of Science assessment of GMO safety

A statement from The American Association for the Advancement of Science's statement

A statement from the American Medical Association

A statement from the very anti-GMO European Commission saying GMOs are safe

A statement from the Royal Society of Medicine

Good Evening Senator Sanders,

Firstly, let me thank you for doing this AMA. As a Vermonter, I greatly appreciate your willingness to get in touch with your constituents and allow us to ask you questions about the current issues facing our government. I appreciate your government service and I feel like you have done a great job of representing the ideas that Vermonters would like to see reflected in our government (and on a personal note as a veteran, I would like to thank you for your work on the Veterans’ Affairs committee).

However I would like to speak with you today regarding the push to label GMO food within the United States. I would like to ask, why you support this movement (which is primarily based in the assumption that GMO foods are more dangerous than non GMO food) when almost all major scientific and academic communities are in agreement that GMO food poses zero health risks? (Sources cited at bottom) To me, this seems analogous to other politicians claiming that global climate change isn’t real despite the overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary. Thank you for your time and keep up the good work Senator Sanders.

General scientific consensus

A statement from The National Academy of Science assessment of GMO safety

A statement from The American Association for the Advancement of Science's statement

A statement from the American Medical Association

A statement from the very anti-GMO European Commission saying GMOs are safe

A statement from the Royal Society of Medicine

Hi Kristin,

I'm a former Navy sailor myself and a transgender woman as well. Firstly let me thank you for your service and for your time as a SEAL, you guys are seriously bad ass.

Now my question is how has the VA been with your care? I've had enormous trouble with the VA changing my legal name and gender documentation and even after that was complete I've had some rather less than stellar care and am now just getting my prescriptions through my companies insurance, even though it costs more. Also have you faced any other kinds of transphobia during your transition specifically from the armed forces community? When I was involuntarily outed during my time in service my fellow sailors took it upon themselves to harass me until I became extremely depressed and attempted suicide but that was back in 2005 and hopefully times have changed.