Aloha Friends,
Once again, Monsanto and the bio-tech industry are
working behind closed doors to undermine your basic rights. This time
they’ve gone too far!
This week, 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 tomorrow!
This dangerous rider was not included
in the House-passed CR, it's dissappointing to see that
Senator Mikulski has included it in the Senate version.
Thanks to
some pressure Senator Tester has introduced an amendment (#74),
co-sponsored by Senators Boxer, Gillibrand, and Leahy, to strike the
rider from the Continuing Resolution!
Hidden under the guise of a
“Farmer Assurance Provision” (Section 735), the provision strips the
rights of federal courts to halt the sale and planting of genetically
engineered crops during the legal appeals process.
In the past,
legal advocates have successfully won in court the right to halt the
sale and planting of unapproved GMO crops while the approval of those
crops is under review by a federal judge.
Join us in putting a stop to the Monsanto Protection Act!
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/stop_the_monsanto_protection_act_today_senate/
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