[GPSCC-chat] Fw: Thanks! Stop the Monsanto Protection Act - pass it on

[John Thielking]

FYI,  pleas sign the petition and pass it on. Thanks.
 
John Thielking

--- On Thu, 3/14/13, Dave Murphy, Food Democracy Now! <info at fooddemocracynow.org> wrote:


From: Dave Murphy, Food Democracy Now! <info at fooddemocracynow.org>
Subject: Thanks! Stop the Monsanto Protection Act - pass it on
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Date: Thursday, March 14, 2013, 10:40 AM




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Thanks for taking action! Please take a moment to ask your friends and family to join you in asking your member of Congress to stop the Monsanto Protection Act.

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Thank you for participating in food democracy,
Dave, Lisa and The Food Democracy Now! Team


Dear Friend,

Once again, Monsanto and the biotech 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, and we are extremely disappointed to see that Senator Mikulski has included it in the Senate version.

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!

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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