Subject: [permaculture] Fwd: Monsanto About to Gain Immunity From Federal Law?
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:07:46 -0600
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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.
*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.
*