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forwarding from Food Democracy Now! Team:
URGENT: Make a call to Stop the Monsanto Protection Act today!
If approved, the Monsanto Protection Act would force the USDA to allow continued planting of any GMO crop under court review, essentially giving backdoor approval for any new genetically engineered crops that could be potentially harmful to human health or the environment.
These riders, which we dubbed the "Monsanto Protection Act" last year,
would strip federal courts of their authority to halt the sale and
planting of an illegal and potentially hazardous GMO crop.
See backstory, justification, urgency, details below fold.
Urgent action summary: call & tell your Senators to support the Tester amendment, #74 --- and to demand removal of the biotech rider (Sec. 735) in the Senate Continuing Resolution spending bill.
[1]Take action today to stop the Monsanto Protection Act!
[3]Tell your Senator: "Vote for Peoples' Rights not Corporations!"
URGENT: Make a call to Stop the Monsanto Protection Act today!
Last week we sent an urgent alert reporting that once again Monsanto is
working behind closed doors to corrupt our basic democratic rights.
Senator Mikulski (D-MD) has introduced an outrageous rider giving a blank
check to Monsanto and other corporations to plant illegal genetically
engineered crops and it could be voted on as early as this afternoon!
This dangerous rider was not included in the House-passed Continuing
Resolution and we're extremely disappointed to see that Senator Mikulski
has included it in the Senate version.
The good news is that thanks to our pressure Senator Tester has introduced
an amendment (#74), co-sponsored by Senators Boxer, Gillibrand, and Leahy,
to strike the rider from the Continuing Resolution!
We need your help to make sure that the Senate passes the Tester amendment
to stop this biotech rider today.
[4]Click here to make a call to stop the Monsanto Protection Act in its
tracks!
Background:
Last week, biotech lobbyists once again succeeded in slipping the
dangerous biotech rider (Sec. 735) into the Senate Continuing Resolution
spending bill in an effort to strip federal courts of their authority to
halt the sale and planting of any illegaly, potentially hazardous GMO
crop.
If approved, the Monsanto Protection Act would force the USDA to allow
continued planting of any GMO crop under court review, essentially giving
backdoor approval for any new genetically engineered crops that could be
potentially harmful to human health or the environment.
For the past year, Food Democracy Now! and our allies have been able to
hold them off, but we need your help today!
[5]The Monsanto Protection Act could pass as early as this afternoon and
we need your help today. Click here to tell your Senators to support the
Tester amendment, #74, to stand up for your rights and the Constitution!
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/...
These riders, which we dubbed the "Monsanto Protection Act" last year,
would strip federal courts of their authority to halt the sale and
planting of an illegal and potentially hazardous GMO crop.
As they did last summer, these new provisions, called "riders", would
allow biotech companies to continue to sell their unapproved seeds to
farmers, who could plant them while important legal appeals are taking
place, instead of halting the planting of the unapproved crop until the
court settled the appeal as has been done up until now.
According to legal experts, this provision "would create a
precedent-setting limitation on judicial review" and is a "dangerous
assault on fundamental federal and judicial safeguards".
If allowed to pass, the Monsanto Protection Act would:
* Violate the constitutional precedent of separation of powers by
interfering with the process of judicial review.
* Eliminate federal agency oversight to protect farmers, consumers and
the environment from potential harms caused by unapproved biotech
crops.
* Allow Monsanto and biotech seed and chemical companies to profit by
overriding the rule of law and plant their untested GMO crops despite
no proof of their safety for the public and environment.
Click on the link below to Stop Monsanto's GMO Trolls on Twitter.
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[10]Monsanto Senate Trolls
If allowed to pass, the Monsanto Protection Act will open farmers and
the agricultural economy to very real and significant harm from
cross-contamination events. Currently, the Plant Protection Act requires
the USDA to regulate GMO crops to protect "the agriculture, environment
and economy of the United States". As a result of previous lawsuits, the
USDA is required to complete court-mandated environmental impact
statements (EIS) prior to the sale and planting of GMO crops, but even the
USDA has shown little regard for this law.
[11]Click here to stop the Monsanto Protection Act and tell your Senator
to stand up for your rights and the Constitution!
Now, the new provision included in the Senate Continuing Resolution
spending bill will allow biotech seed and chemical companies to openly
skirt even minimal protections of human health and environmental concerns.
We need your help to make sure your Senator demands that Appropriations
Chairman Mikulski pulls this dangerous and unconstitutional rider, and
support any amendment that would strike the biotech rider from the new
Continuing Resolution.
[12]Join Food Democracy Now! and our allies to help stop the Monsanto
Protection Act. It's time that our elected officials start putting our
rights over the profits of Monsanto and biotech companies.
Thanks for participating in food democracy,
Dave, Lisa and the Food Democracy Now! Team
Background:
"`Monsanto Protection Act' would keep GMO crops in the ground during legal
battles ", Grist, June 29, 2012
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References
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1. Tell Congress to Stop the Monsanto Protection Act!
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/...
2. http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/...
3. Tell Congress to Label GMOs!
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/...
4. Stop the Monsanto Protection Act!
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/...
5. Stop Monsanto's GMO trolls in the U.S. Senate
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/...
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11. Stop the Monsanto Protection Act!
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/...
12. Stop the Monsanto Protection Act!
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/...
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