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[1]Tell the Senate to Repeal the Monsanto Protection Act and stop any
efforts to undermine state's rights to label GMOs?
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[3]Don't let Monsanto corrupt our democracy and kill GMO labeling in
Washington!
The Senate could reject The Monsanto Protection Act today! Take Action
Now!
Dear Scott,
Update: Your calls are making a difference! Last night Senator Barbara
Mikulski's office indicated that she will pull the Monsanto Protection Act
from the Continuing Resolution budget bill but we need your help Today to
seal the deal with Congress. We don't want them to get could feet!
Last Friday, on Sept 20th, the House of Representatives once again
betrayed the trust of America's farmers and everyday citizens when they
passed the Continuing Resolution (H.J.RES.59) containing the Monsanto
Protection Act. Rather than remove Section 735, House Republican leaders
kept the language from the Monsanto Protection Act intact in the must pass
spending bill, which members of the House passed 230 to 189. (See how your
member voted below).
Right now we need to put on as much pressure on the Senate as possible to
make sure they remove the Monsanto Protection Act from the current
stop-gap spending bill as Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) promised earlier
this summer. The language of the Monsanto Protection Act was set to expire
on Sept 30, but could be extended until Dec 15th if the Senate does not
act!
We've had an overwhelming response from Food Democracy Now! members with
over 40,000 calls and a half million actions, but we need to keep the
pressure on! Please sign and Make a Call today!
1. [4]Click here to tell Congress to repeal the Monsanto Protection Act!
Help end Monsanto's takeover of our government. Every voice counts!
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/607?t=1001&akid=985.440283.y9Phg1
2. [5]Consider making a call to your members of Congress to tell them
you're appalled that they passed the original Monsanto Protection Act and
are outraged that they're considering it again!
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/1023?t=1002&akid=985.440283.y9Phg1
Please Keep Calling, You're Having an Impact!
3. We've confirmed that a bill to try to pre-empt state GMO labeling
efforts will be introduced by Congressman Fred Upton's (R-MI), who is the
chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. If you support GMO
labeling at the state level, please let his office know you disapprove of
any bill that would steal state's rights to label GMOs - call (202)
225-3761.
Update on Upton: For the past 2 weeks, calls being made to Congressman
Fred Upton's office (R-MI) have been met with claims that Congressman
Upton is "not introducing" a bill to pre-empt state GMO labeling.
On Friday a Food Democracy Now! member reported what several sources in DC
have already confirmed: the House is considering introducing a bill that
would nullify state's rights to label genetically engineered foods.
Report from Food Democracy Now! member:
"I just called Congressman Upton's office and they claim he is not
introducing any language into any bill about GMO's, but the committee he
is on may be. I told her that if GMO's were so great why wouldn't the
people who agree with them want them on the label. She said, 'good
point'."
We need you to keep calling your members of Congress to make sure this
does not happen! We've already won GMO labeling bills in Maine and
Connecticut this year and Washington State could pass this fall.
Background on the Monsanto Protection Act
Called the "Farmer Assurance Provision" by biotech lobbyists and Congress,
the Monsanto Protection Act was slipped into the previous spending bill in
a backroom deal between a handful of Senators and Representatives and
Monsanto in an effort to circumvent successful legal challenges to the
corrupt regulatory process at the USDA.
In the past 6 months alone, two separate contamination events of GMO wheat
in an Oregon farmer's field and earlier this month of GMO alfalfa in
Washington state prove how harmful the corporate handout of the Monsanto
Protection Act is to America's family farmers.
Right now is the critical window where we need to stand together to stop
Monsanto and these corrupt corporations from trying to betray our basic
democratic rights once again.
[6]Please stand with us to help stop Monsanto, DuPont and the biotech seed
and chemical companies from corrupting our laws and democratic process.
Remember, democracy is like a muscle, either you use it or you lose it!
Thanks for participating in food democracy,
Dave, Lisa and the Food Democracy Now! team
Source:
Find out how your Representative Voted on the Continuing Resolution that
Contains the Monsanto Protection Act.
1. "H.J.Res. 59: Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014", Govtrack.us,
September 20, 2013.
[7]http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/1025?t=1003&akid=985.440283.y9Phg1
References
Visible links
1. Tell Congress to Kill the Monsanto Protection Act for Good!
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/607?t=1004&akid=985.440283.y9Phg1
2. http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/607?t=1005&akid=985.440283.y9Phg1
3. Tell Congress to Kill the Monsanto Protection Act for Good!
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/607?t=1006&akid=985.440283.y9Phg1
4. Tell Congress to repeal the Monsanto Protection Act!
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/607?t=1007&akid=985.440283.y9Phg1
5. Call to Stop the Monsanto Protection Act from being approved again!
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/1023?t=1008&akid=985.440283.y9Phg1
6. Tell Congress to Stop the Monsanto Protection Act and Support
State's Rights for GMO Labeling
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/607?t=1009&akid=985.440283.y9Phg1
7.
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/1025?t=1010&akid=985.440283.y9Phg1
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