Showing posts with label Monsanto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monsanto. Show all posts

Friday, July 11, 2014

Wake up North America!

Countries that have GMO labeling and countries that have NO GE food label warning (in black and white)


Are Monsanto people still in charge of the US FDA?

The thing would be: How fast would you STOP buying Genetically Engineered foods if they were labeled? People have the power to put Monsanto and other pesticide companies out of business if they had a fair chance at honesty from their governments. Makes you wonder about lobbying and which of the people in power to control our health and food products are 'on the take'? 
What other reason could your representatives have for allowing harmful chemicals onto your table?




Monday, February 24, 2014

Monsanto March!


Pssst!   I'm going.   Are you?   Be there May 24th!

What ever town you are in, wherever you are in the world, if you care about what you eat, join in the groundswell of action against Monsanto corporation controlling our food. Country after country is banning the GMO products from Monsanto, and the only reason North America is not doing it is because the US Government has allowed Monsanto executives to take over the running of the FDA!  And recently 71 American Senators voted to continue allowing Monsanto to control food production in America and reject your right to even have labeling on your food! This is disgusting from people you elected who SHOULD be representing your health and safety interests!


May 24th, 2014, in YOUR city!

Click on our links to see what is happening around the world, let's not wait until we humans begin giving birth to two-headed babies, join concerned and thinking people now to show our governments that we demand they take action to ostracize this corporation.


countries with bans of Monsanto

organicconsumers.org/monsanto/

march-against-monsanto


 Use your voice - March on May 24!



Monday, May 20, 2013

Monsanto

partial reprint of an article by David Swanson

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been taken over by an outside organization. The organization is called Monsanto. Monsanto is, of course, the world's largest biotech corporation.  These are the people who brought us Roundup weed killer and the resulting superweeds and superbugs, along with growth hormones for cows, genetically engineered and patented seeds, PCBs, and Agent Orange, which Monsanto now wants us to use as herbicide on genetically engineered corn and soybeans. 

This chemical company - responsible for environmental disasters that have destroyed entire towns, and a driving force behind the international waves of suicides among farmers whose lives it has helped ruin - 
has monopolized our food system largely by taking over regulatory agencies like the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A recent study links Roundup to autism, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's.   

While Hungary has just destroyed all Monsanto genetically engineered corn fields, and Peru has also banned GM seeds, the USDA takes an entirely different approach toward the chemical giant. The USDA has, in fact, never denied a single application from Monsanto for new genetically engineered crops.  Not one.  Not ever.

Monsanto's growth hormones for cows have been approved by Michael Taylor, a former Monsanto lobbyist turned USDA administrator and FDA deputy commissioner.  This was after Margaret Miller, again, a former Monsanto employee, oversaw a report on the hormones' safety and then took a job at the FDA where she approved her own report.

Islam Siddiqui, another former Monsanto lobbyist, wrote the USDA's food standards, allowing corporations to label irradiated and genetically engineered foods as "organic."
Genetic use restriction technology, colloquially known as "terminator technology", produces plants that have sterile seeds. If put into use, these seeds prevent farmers from implementing the age-old basic farming method of planting seeds they harvest, requiring them to repurchase seed for every planting, because the terminator seeds are sterile! 

The recently passed and signed law nicknamed the Monsanto Protection Act strips federal courts of the power to halt the sale and planting of genetically engineered crops during a legal appeals process.  The origin of this act can be found in the USDA's deregulation of Roundup Ready sugar beets in violation of a court order.  The USDA argued that any delay would have caused a sugar shortage, since Monsanto holds 95% of the market. 

Monsanto's board members have worked for the EPA, advised the USDA, and served on President Obama's Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. Clearly, an investigation of large-scale government corruption by this singularly destructive corporation is long overdue. Why do the people need to hold protest marches against these kinds of company dealings? How can the USDA fall down to endangering people instead of looking after them? 

Is this just one more step in the Government versus the People movement? Can anyone in Government explain this? Why is the mainstream media not asking the questions? It's not just the hippies protesting anymore, it is the people. YOU are the people, and you need to be heard.



Be afraid folks. It is all true.