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    Should Congress approve a proposition included in an agriculture bill up for vote this week, biotech companies like the Monsanto Company could win yet another victory in Washington.

    The US House of Representatives is expected to weigh in on the Agricultural Appropriations Bill for Fiscal year 2013 this week, and included within the act lies the “Farmer Assurance Provision,” a small subsection that has so far earned opposition from hundreds of thousands family farmers, environmental interest groups and other advocates. Those hoping to defeat the bill have gone so far as to dub the provision the “Monsanto Protection Act.”

    Small time agriculturists have increasingly spoken out against biotech companies in recent years, as giants like Monsanto have made millions off of genetically engineering crops that traditional plants simply can’t match up with. Additionally, Monsanto has taken a slew of farmers to court over questionable patent infringement suits, almost always winning the help of high-powered attorneys. Now if the Farmer Assurance Provision is approved by Congress, GMO companies will once again be allowed an advantage from their friends in Washington.

    If the provision is approved this week, biotech companies won’t have to wait for federal approval to test and plant laboratory-made crops, instead being allowed to carry on with even selling such crops until the government elects to tell them otherwise.

    “The provision would strip federal courts of the authority to halt the sale and planting of an illegal, potentially hazardous GE crop while the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) assesses those potential hazards,” explains a letter to the House that has been signed by dozens of food businesses and retailers, as well as interest groups and agencies representing family farmers. “Further, it would compel USDA to allow continued planting of that same crop upon request, even if in the course of its assessment the Department finds that it poses previously unrecognized risks.”

    More here:http://rt.com/usa/monsanto-protectio...-congress-271/

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    Default Re: "Monsanto Protection Act' to be voted on by Congress

    I'm not surprised at all. Monsanto has brought the law. They sue neighbouring farmers who's crops have monsanto "seeds" blow over the fence to put them out of business. There's a great monsanto-movie I watched a year ago - here's the trailer:

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    Default Re: "Monsanto Protection Act' to be voted on by Congress

    Monsanto is not going to go away because the government says so. Not that the government ever would. The government in a capitalist society basically acts as the executive branch of the upper most rings of capitalist power. Through deregulation that liberalist powers of capital have been able to gain direct control of the state. It's no longer a behind the scenes operation, it's out in the open. The elite are not pulling the strings, they're out in front taking a bow.

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    Default Re: "Monsanto Protection Act' to be voted on by Congress

    Dont expect it to be STOP. US population dont see it and will not take action. Let's just see.

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    Default Re: "Monsanto Protection Act' to be voted on by Congress

    Here is an organization that is fighting the GMO/Biotech industry. I highly recommend that US citizens support such organizations and/or call your representatives to kill these types of bills that enable corporations to circumvent the law and thumb their nose at the people.

    Food Democracy NOW!

    URGENT: Stop the Monsanto Protection Act today!

    Dear Craig,

    Like a zombie rising from the dead, the "Monsanto Protection Act" is back and alive in the U.S. Senate and we need your help to stop it!

    Click here to help stop the Monsanto Protection Act in its tracks!

    Late Monday night, biotech lobbyists succeeded in slipping the dangerous biotech rider (Sec. 735) into the Senate Continuing Resolution spending bill in an effort to strip federal courts of their authority to halt the sale and planting of any illegaly, potentially hazardous GMO crop.

    If approved, the Monsanto Protection Act would force the USDA to allow continued planting of any GMO crop under court review, essentially giving backdoor approval for any new genetically engineered crops that could be potentially harmful to human health or the environment.

    Clearly Monsanto and the biotech industry are getting desperate and want to try an end run around a growing movement of farmers and citizens who are rejecting their products and calling for GMO labeling in an effort to make sure their new GMO crops can evade any serious scientific or regulatory review.

    For the past year, Food Democracy Now! and our allies have been able to hold them off, but we need your help today!

    The Monsanto Protection Act could pass as early as next week and we need your help today. Click here to stop the Monsanto Protection Act and tell your member of Congress to stand up for your rights and the Constitution!

    http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/g....442197.XM5UvC

    This riders, which we dubbed the "Monsanto Protection Act" last year, would strip federal courts of their authority to halt the sale and planting of an illegal and potentially hazardous GMO crop.

    As they did last summer, these new provisions, called “riders”, would allow biotech companies to continue to sell their unapproved seeds to farmers, who could plant them while important legal appeals are taking place, instead of halting the planting of the unapproved crop until the court settled the appeal as has been done up until now.

    In classic form, the biotech industry has cleverly hidden their toxic plan under the deceptive title of a “Farmer Assurance Provision” (Sec. 733). In truth, the “Monsanto Protection Act” would allow the biotech industry to continue to flout American legal precedence and violate the constitutional separation of powers set forth by our Founding Fathers.

    In short, the “Farmer Assurance Provision” is the greatest threat to farmers’ and citizens’ rights that Monsanto and the biotech industry has ever devised and it must be stopped - today!

    Click here to stop the Monsanto Protection Act and tell your member of Congress to stand up for your rights and the Constitution!

    According to legal experts, this provision “would create a precedent-setting limitation on judicial review” and is a “dangerous assault on fundamental federal and judicial safeguards”.

    This current rider is a response to the successful lawsuits that farmers have filed to prevent the sale, distribution and cultivation of GMO sugarbeets and GMO alfalfa, both of which were forced to stop from being planted while the USDA finalized full environment reviews. But once again, Monsanto and the biotech industry are working behind the scenes to shred vital legal rights simply so they can make endless profits.

    If allowed to pass, the Monsanto Protection Act would:

    Violate the constitutional precedent of separation of powers by interfering with the process of judicial review.
    Eliminate federal agency oversight to protect farmers, consumers and the environment from potential harms caused by unapproved biotech crops.
    Allow Monsanto and biotech seed and chemical companies to profit by overriding the rule of law and plant their untested GMO crops despite no proof of their safety for the public and environment.
    Click here to stop the Monsanto Protection Act and tell your Senator to stand up for your rights and the Constitution!

    No matter what you believe about GMOs, the fact is that corporations should not have the right to fundamentally undermine our basic rights and constitutional freedoms in their relentless pursuit of profits. Even the consideration of this dangerous provision is a sign of just how much power Monsanto has over our federal government and how far the biotech industry will go to force its genetically engineered food on to the American public.

    If allowed to pass, the Monsanto Protection Act will only open farmers and the agricultural economy to very real and significant harm from cross-contamination events. Currently, the Plant Protection Act requires the USDA to regulate GMO crops to protect “the agriculture, environment and economy of the United States”. As a result of previous lawsuits, the USDA is required to complete court-mandated environmental impact statements (EIS) prior to the sale and planting of GMO crops, but even the USDA has shown little regard for this law.

    Now, the new provision included in the Senate Continuing Resolution spending bill will allow biotech seed and chemical companies to openly skirt even minimal protections of human health and environmental concerns.

    We need your help to make sure your Senator demands that Appropriations Chairman Mikulski pulls this dangerous and unconstitutional rider, and support any amendment that would strike the biotech rider from the new Continuing Resolution.

    Join Food Democracy Now! and our allies to help stop the Monsanto Protection Act. It’s time that our elected officials start putting our rights over the profits of Monsanto and biotech companies.

    Thanks for participating in food democracy,

    Dave, Lisa and the Food Democracy Now! Team

    Background:

    "‘Monsanto Protection Act’ would keep GMO crops in the ground during legal battles ", Grist, June 29, 2012

    http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/g....442197.XM5UvC
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    Default Re: "Monsanto Protection Act' to be voted on by Congress

    heres food for thought..no pun intended.in my early research into ufos..of course lockheed and marten came up. so i did what every good internet researchers does...wikipedia...the strange thing i noticed when looking at past boardmembers and current..was a direct link to monsanto...sygenta...dupont etc...living in the farm belt...me being farmer this interested me greatly.so if you got the time..dig a little.if you havnt already.ignore this if this commen knowledge on avalon.keep this thread and others like it going its very important.its our FOOD.good work guys.sorry about spelling.
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