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[Pamela Sherman <pamsher123@gmail.com>]

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From: Dariel <
Date: Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 4:40 PM
Subject: Monsanto About to Gain Immunity From Federal Law?

Dear Friends,

Please take the time to look into this horrendous charge against Monsanto.
Again and again they go around our agencies and our courts and our
congress.... to get whatever they want.

*A so-called “Monsanto rider,” quietly slipped into the multi-billion
dollar FY 2013 Agricultural Appropriations bill,* would require – not just
allow, but *require* - the Secretary of Agriculture to grant a temporary
permit for the planting or cultivation of a genetically engineered crop,
even if a federal court has ordered the planting be halted until an
Environmental Impact Statement is completed. All the farmer or the biotech
producer has to do is ask, and the questionable crops could be released
into the environment where they could potentially contaminate conventional
or organic crops and, ultimately, the nation’s food supply.

 In a statement issued last month, the Center For Food Safety had this to
say<http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/2012/06/19/farm-groups-and-public-interest-advocates-join-forces-to-oust-dangerous-%E2%80%98biotech-provision%E2%80%99-from-agriculture-spending-bill/>about
the biotech industry’s latest attempt to circumvent legal and
regulatory safeguards:

*Ceding broad and unprecedented powers to industry, the rider poses a
direct threat to the authority of U.S. courts, jettisons the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) established oversight powers on key
agriculture issues and puts the nation’s farmers and food supply at risk.
*

**
*Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) has sponsored an amendment to kill the rider,
whose official name is “the farmers assurance” provision.* But even if
DeFazio’s amendment makes it through the House vote, it still has to
survive the Senate. Meanwhile, organizations like the Organic Consumers
Association <http://organicconsumers.org/cgi-bin/artman2/admin.pl>, Center
for Food 
Safety<https://www.google.com/#hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=center+for+food+safety&oq=cen&gs_l=hp.1.0.35i39j0l9.52.396.1.2996.3.3.0.0.0.0.251.614.0j1j2.3.0...0.0.3paNy7X4lcU&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=d7a50cc02f3c90da&biw=1280&bih=64>,
FoodDemocracyNow! <http://fooddemocracynow.org/>, the Alliance for Natural
Health USA and many others are gathering hundreds of thousands of
signatures in protest of the rider, and in support of DeFazio’s amendment.
At the very bottom of the long, rich article this link will take you to --
you will be able to sign a petition to your congress people asking them to
vote for the DeFazio amendment.  Please take the time to do this and -- 
*PLEASE
take the time to send this on to all your friends and family.  *Please help
prevent this unspeakable behemoth from further contaminating our food and
our legal system.  There is so much at stake here.

Thank you for considering this.

Dariel


* Is Monsanto About to Gain Immunity From Federal Law?*

*Read article:
*

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/12295-focus-is-monsanto-about-to-gain-immunity-from-federal-law