permaculture

["sals3" <sals3@cox.net>]

this is just what 60 min. was talking about.  adding the Monsanto rider is 
just how they work it.  this 60 is a must watch it describes this move by 
Monsanto to a T.  how can they get away with this after the 60 min. that 
exposes this crap. there should be a law.  this is not right.
check out 60min. and see how the lobbyist own our government and write the 
laws
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7387331n&tag=contentMain;contentBody
see how the lobbyist get things like the Monsanto rider get put in  law



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sals3" <sals3@cox.net>
To: "Sustainable Agriculture Network Discussion Group" 
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Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 7:35 AM
Subject: Fw: [permaculture] Fwd: Monsanto About to Gain Immunity From 
FederalLaw?


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Pamela Sherman" <pamsher123@gmail.com>
> To: "Pamela Sherman" <pamsher123@gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 6:07 PM
> Subject: [permaculture] Fwd: Monsanto About to Gain Immunity From 
> FederalLaw?
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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
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