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Congressional Bill HR 875 was introduced by Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, whose husband Stanley Greenburg works for Monsanto.
The bill is essentially a giant gift package for Monsanto, mandating the criminalization of seed banking, prison terms and confiscatory fines for small farmers and 24 hour GPS tracking of their animals, and of “industrial” standards to independent farms.
The corporations want nothing less than full control of the land, the end of normal animals so they can substitute patented genetically engineered ones, and the end of normal seeds and thus of seed banking by farmers or individuals.
And now Monsanto wants its own employee, Michael Taylor (the man who forced genetically engineered rBGH on the country when the Clintons placed him over “food safety” in the 90’s) back in government, this time to act with massive police power as a “food safety tsar”. HR 875 would give him immense power over what is done on every single farm in the country and massive police state power to wield over farmers.
Rosa DeLauro and Stanley Greenburg have a great deal to account for in attempting to force through a mislabeled “food safety” bill with hidden intent to wipe out farmers and harm everyone.
Who Does This Bill Benefit the Most?
And Monsanto in particular – one of the most evil companies on the planet — is a powerful entity that has repeatedly proven its clout. Monsanto has already managed so many reprehensible acts, it boggles the mind. Including:
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Leading the world into a new age of potentially hazardous genetic modification of seeds.
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Patenting not only their own GMO seeds, but also a huge number of crop seeds, patenting life forms for the first time — without a vote of the people or Congress.
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Not allowing farmers to save their seeds to replant the next year – a practice that has been done for generations. Instead, they aggressively seek out and sue farmers they suspect of doing so.
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Suing farmers who have not been able to prevent the inevitable drift of Monsanto’s GE pollen or seed onto their land for patent infringement!
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Producing two of the most toxic substances ever known — polychlorinated biphenyls, known as PCBs, and dioxin (Agent Orange).
Perhaps their biggest assault to your food supply already is what’s known as terminator technology. These are seeds that have been genetically modified to “self-destruct.” In other words, the seeds (and the forthcoming crops) are sterile, which means farmers must buy them again each year.
The implications that terminator seeds could have on the world’s food supply are disastrous: the traits from genetically engineered crops can get passed on to other crops. Once the terminator seeds are released into a region, the trait of seed sterility could be passed to other non-genetically-engineered crops, making most or all of the seeds in the region sterile.
If allowed to continue, every farmer in the world could come to rely on Monsanto for their seed supply!
So, would it be safe to say that Monsanto stands to gain from H.R. 875?
Absolutely! With thousands of organic farmers driven out of business, they would be that much closer to dominating the food supply of the world, since organic farms don’t use Monsanto seeds or toxic products.
Based on their history, I believe it’s prudent to question what the future of our small farms will hold, should a bill with such blatant ties to Monsanto be allowed to pass without further scrutiny.
It is quite possible, perhaps even most probable, that the bill entitled H.R. 875: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 is designed to halt the growing trend of small organic farms – not through a direct, frontal assault on organic farming, but rather by insidiously creating rules and laws that make it extremely difficult, and incredibly expensive, for small farms to comply.
And in this case, the rules and regulations created by this proposed bill are mandatory, not voluntary, meaning they apply equally to a tiny farmer with half a dozen cows as it does to a massive factory farm.
What are the Potential Hazards of HR 875?
The stated purpose of H.R. 875: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 is:
To establish the Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services to protect the public health by preventing food-borne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to food-borne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes.
As detailed in the articles above, some of the potential hazards of HR 875 include:
- It includes small farmers who just sell their fruits and vegetables at farmer’s markets
- Anyone engaged in food growing, or “holding food for consumption” in the U.S. would have to register annually, and create and maintain extensive records of the foods they grow and/or store
- The definitions of who this law pertains to are so broad and loosely defined that they could potentially even include your personal backyard fruit or vegetable garden, even if you don’t sell anything but grow them for personal consumption
- It appears it could dictate how all food growers would have to grow their food, including potentially the necessity to use certain pest control measures, for example
- Authorities would have the ability to inspect any food production facility at random to make sure it’s operating in compliance with the food safety law, and again the definition of “food production facility” is so loosely defined it could apply to your personal orchard, vineyard, or vegetable garden, as long as it produces something edible
- After the enactment of this Act, the Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture and representatives of State departments of agriculture will promulgate regulations to establish “science-based minimum standards for the safe production of food” by food production facilities. Meaning, no one even knows what the food production standards are yet, but whatever they turn out to be will have to be followed
- It is prohibited to: fail to register; refuse to permit access to an inspector; refuse to allow copying of all records; fail to establish or maintain any record required under the law
- Should you fail to comply with any of the rules and regulations, there are both civil and criminal penalties, going as high as $1 million per violation, something that could clearly wipe out any small farmer in a blink of an eye
What Can You Do?
I believe everyone should take the time to look this bill over and decide for yourself — Do you, or do you not believe industry will use every loophole they can find to further their own interests over up-and-coming small, organic family farms?
If you believe this bill warrants further scrutiny before being blindly passed, here are a few ways you can get involved and make your voice heard:
- Contact your Congressional members at 202-224-3121 and ask them to oppose HR 875 and S 425.
- Find out who sits on your states agriculture and farming committee and contact them with your concerns.
- Contact your local elected officials and let them know your position on legislation and why.
- Attend a local Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) meeting, this is a good start to learning about what is going on in farming, as well as getting involved with local and state initiatives .
- Support the Farmers Legal Defense Fund
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44 Responses to “Monsanto’s Dream Bill - Dr Mercola’s take on HR 875”
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I am very concerned about the real threat that Monsanto will get this bill passed through which will limit organic farming for all time. Please oppose HR 875 and S 425.
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Robert Weissfeld Reply:
April 4th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Here we see, I fear, the classical definition of fascism - the merging of state and corporate interests - taking root.
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Nathan Scheer Reply:
April 5th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
I’ve been following the codex movement for awhile in fact I created my website to further help the awareness of these crimes against humanity as well as inform of solutions to several other problems we face!
Wake the people up and they will rule themselves, until then those at the top who are not named in the media will continue to make the matrix in their own vision!
PS. This is something that is deeper then alot of you think. When you’ve uncovered one layer you find theres several more to open your awareness to! This takes strength on everyones part to look at the problem for what it is! This is what you call a psyhic war on the mind!
Peace
-Nate
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P. Little Reply:
April 16th, 2009 at 9:08 am
AHO! Nate.
It is time to wake up. The government run by the corporation and the wealthy elite has NOT been concerned about the welfare of the whole–just about their private interests. There are MANY layers. We all need to take a deep breath and dive in with love sharpening our sword of discernment cutting through the illusions fed to us through a package, a box, and a GMO gene. Do you know where your water comes from? Do you know where your food comes from? Just answer those 2 questions and get political about those 2 questions and it will change your life and it will change our country. CHANGE–everyone voted for it–but WE are the ones we have been waiting for. Blessings and healthy eating to you all from Seattle.
P. Little
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Nate Reply:
October 31st, 2009 at 6:21 pm
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for I love that quote. Being that I’ve been a vegetarian since I was 18 Im 24 now - I understand your question that you asked about food and water. Right now I’m still a slave to both realms.
Although I choose to buy food from grocery stores that are more in the light of Organic and chemical free foods like Whole Foods and Vitamin cottage but I understand that both can be shut down in a blink of an eye if allowed.
My water comes from the same place everyone elses does - only difference is I have RO water filters 3 times over for all the water coming into the house.
But still a slave to the system I am and could be shut out if allowed.
It can be scary to think about… But. I agree we all must sharpen our swords and dive in with love for there is no other way to beat this inorganic form of living for the conscious mind. Illusions must be known - for no matter what our reality shows it’s all an illusion anyways and the only thing there is, is Love so embracing it will tell the universe we would like to experience the grand and mighty program of creation that it is and understand who we really are.
Hatred will only bring more of this problem.
Take care,
Simranjeet Singh
We’ve known this was coming. Deborah Koons Garcia did a wonderful documentary “The Future of Food.” I would definitely check it out. My husband and I interviewed her a couple of years ago. I need to get that up on YouTube.
Thanks for writing,
Tara O’Neill
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Nancie Tharp Reply:
April 5th, 2009 at 8:09 am
Tara,
When you do get your interview up on YouTube would you please notify me so I can link to it and pass it on?
Thanks,
Nancie
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Zachariah McCannon Reply:
April 6th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Let me know when you get it up, too! The Future of Food is a wonderfully crafted educationally rich documentary that helped sculpt my mission in life and I would love to watch an interview with Deborah. By the way, I just watched The Future of Food last Friday and can’t get it out of my mind, which is why I’m here.
zbbm
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I am so glad to see that more powerful people than me are aware of this bill. Maybe with enough opposition, something can be done about this. If people don’t start opposing some of these things, I am concerned about the consequences.
Thank you,
Debra Jones
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Who does Monsanto think they are?? They are messing with a very powerful power from above. The lord made our well being and he will overtake Monsanto, who believes they are G-d. It will never happen. The Lord always wins.
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I’ve been railing against Monsanto for at least fourteen years, it seems - at least since their introduction of the curiously unnecessary bovine somatotropin into dairy operations.
Back in 1994, it took some balls to label your milk products “bst-free”, and some local health food stores did just that.
dave
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3/03/09
iam very upset about what is hapenningto our food supply, and all the other horrible things happenning the fda’s power to stop us from buying vitamins ect…this country is ruled by big businesses, everyone is dying with cancer, even children, the american people seem to be drugged and are letting all these things happen to them.
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Direct action is required. Pray all you want. But take action, too.
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If this passes they should be dragged into the street and shot like the dogs they are
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laura Reply:
April 17th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
where do you live?? we in america dont shoot our dogs on the street or for that matter dont shoot our dogs period,
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There are others. Monsanto has now launched it’s own blog. Having a public image problem, via the internet, they now attempt to divert the image through their own blogging. It reads like a PR invention, that doesn’t really answer the charges against them. Smiley wolves wearing suits and ties who go on lefty liberal educational tv and magazines with their slick doubletalk about feeding the world in times of increasing climate change. You can only listen so far, until you remember that Monsanto with the help of the US government plundered ancient and rare seed banks in Iraq that held seeds with a genetic heritage (a biohistory belonging to all of us) going back 1000s of years and then made it a crime for farmers there to collect or use their own normal and non-patented seeds off their own land.
Monsanto, who brought us Agent Orange and other forms of death agents, has already demonstrated their bottom line, and believe me, it is NOT about food, but power and control and money.
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It’s really a shame that big business like this wants to control every aspect of our lives. Pharma wants us all on pills and this bill will ensure that happens since foods that have been altered and sprayed with chemicals has been reported to cause cancer and other maladies in children and adults alike. So they will all get their way, we will be the walking dead, eating what we can to live and taking pills to stay alive. Supplements will probably be outlawed at this rate but that’s OK, we have Pharma.
I think I would rather be dead that have that much control placed over me!!
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It’s really a shame that big business like this wants to control every aspect of our lives. Pharma wants us all on pills and this bill will ensure that happens since foods that have been altered and sprayed with chemicals has been reported to cause cancer and other maladies in children and adults alike. So they will all get their way, we will be the walking dead, eating what we can to live and taking pills to stay alive. Supplements will probably be outlawed at this rate but that’s OK, we have Pharma.
I think I would rather move to a new planet than have that much control placed over me!!
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Watch your political leaders… in particular Obama. How he -they vote on this particular bill will inform you as to what their true economic-environmental stance and as to who they REALLY represent: the American People or “tax funded” coporate enterprise.
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OK enough is enough. I have always been told you only have your health and well being. Through pharmaceuticals and working my tush off to keep everything going, I through so much stress was diagnosed with cancer last year. It did not surprise me, in fact it appears quite common nowadays. Due to my illness I lost my job, health Ins, home, everything, but I cured myself and got off drugs through organic, local foods. I went on a very strict protocol (diet) and studied up on natural cures. without being able to make choices where my health was concerned I would surely be dead today.
This is definitly an delusion/illusion as a normal organic healthy being would never inflict so much abuse to humanity and even take away their right to choose their sustenance. Time to change the story folks…this is not how HIB’s live or treat each other…enough is enough!!!! WAKE UP!!
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Have you seen the French documentary, ‘The World According to Monsanto’? Here’s a link:’
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/monsanto_movie080307
Also, read Jeffrey Smith’s ‘Seeds of Deception’ and visit http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/Home/index.cfm
He is also part of Institute for Responsible Technology and has a ‘take action’ packet available after you get totally bummed out watching the documentary.
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/GMFree/Home/index.cfm
Finally, join Weston A. Price Foundation
http://www.westonaprice.org/splash_2.htm to eat healthfully and support small farms
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Yes,
It is a large bill which many legislators do not read and and Monsanto knows that. There are some decent provisions but they are there to confuse you as much horrible and bad is in there. Monsanto represents the evil of the huge greedy Multinational companies who will make money at any cost even the mass death of humanity. Gail
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I contacted my representative and he told me how good this will be for everyone. Here is his response:
I understand your concerns about the effect this legislation could have on small and organic farms. In New Hampshire, small business is big business. I am working with my colleagues in Congress to ensure that small businesses, like our farmers, can continue to drive our economy.
The Food Safety Modernization Act would establish a Food Safety Administration (FSA) headed by an expert in food safety within the Department of Health and Human Services. This legislation would give the FSA oversight over all food-production facilities, and establish a strong risk-based inspection regime for food companies. The FSA would also be responsible for creating a system for certifying the safety of imported foods.
H.R. 875 would provide the Food Safety Administration with the regulatory tools to access important records, recall products, and penalize companies for knowingly selling tainted products. This legislation has been referred to the House Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Agriculture. Although I am not a member of these committees, please know that I will keep your views in mind should this legislation come to the House floor for a vote.
Is this gobbledegook or what? All of this because of peanut butter and pistachios that someone from Monsanto probably contaminated so everyone will be scared.
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The Bill H.R. 875 and Bill S 425 is just another attempt to strip away more and more Freedoms of the American people.
If the Government continues to take more and more control over what we can and cannot do, GUESS WHAT? A DICTATORSHIP WHICH WILL STRIP AWAY ALL FREEDOMS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE..
We will no longer have the ability to run our own lives. EVERYTHING WILL HAVE TO BE CLEARED THROUGH THE GOVERNMENT.
Is that what you want? I don’t think so. So take the time now to call your congressional representative and ask, NO, TELL HIM/HER TO VOTE AGAINST BILL H.R. 875 AND BILL S 425. AFTER ALL THEY ARE OUR LINK TO THE GOVERNMENT. THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE LOOKING OUT FOR OUR INTERESTS IN WASHINGTON.
I hope you will take the time to try to keep the Freedoms which we have left.
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it will come down to kill or be killed… you do know that..We’re fighting a 100% corrupt system on an uneven battlefield.. You notice this crap people like Monsanto pulls NEVER gets exposed in the national media.. the people never hear about it..until its too late.. I will poaching wild meat and eating nuts and berries.. the food is already poison, as is the water and don’t get me started on big phamra, big oil or chemical giants.. They OWN the government and have ANY ONE who oppresses them KILLED
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I’ll be surprised if my comment is posted. I am hostile and wild..There are allot of us that are this way.. THIS WHOLE THING NEEDS TO BE IN FRONT OF THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION.. it’s your only chance to win this war.
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There’s a huge Internet-driven hysteria driving these posts. Stanley Greenburg does not work for Monsanto; he worked for a consulting firm that had Monsanto as a client ten years ago. And so on. Yes, the language in this bill is vague, perhaps deliberately so, and potentially harmful to small and organic growers. Instead of whining about it here, TAKE ACTION. Call or e-mail your reps in DC and make your opinion known. Make it clear that if they support this bill, you will not return them to office. That’s a message they hear!
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This is unbelievable!
All our rights about choices have been taken away.
What’s happening in US?
This bill is a direct violation of freedom and has to be stopped
If this bill passes we will be getting sick and sicker because all the chemicals, GMO and hormones inside the foods and the FDA, AMA and pharmaceuticals will be even more rich and powerful
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The greatest tool to confront this evil, is at your fingertips, make noise, gather friends, flood your rep’s, Stand up and speak out, or die hungry, crying and drugged out.
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This is Capitalism at its greatest glory. This is what Most politicians since Reagan have been working for. They can only be stopped by us, the people of America. You know, the ones the Constitution mentions in “of the People, by the People and for the People. Until sufficient people say ENOUGH, get active and take back our nation it wil get worse. I believe peaceful resistance is the only thing that will succeed, think of Gandhi and get busy. Quit buying newspapers until they give us true and unbiased news (you must tell tha=em that is what you are doing), boycott foods you don’t know the origin and history of (ask your grocer before you buy). $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and GREED ARE THE ONLY THINGS THESE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND. THEY WILL FOLLOW THE DOLLAR AND THEREIN LIES OUR POWER.
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What is needed is for us all to vote out of power every Republican and Democrat in congress and all state legsilatures, and vote in peope of any party who pass term limits, and reverse the facist police state laws accumultaed in law since the 1960’s. They don’t care what you think or want. They don’t care about any of us. The G8’s populaiton commitee spelled it out; according to then optimal world population is 500,000. They want six billion of us to just disappear. Global warming is not a problem, it is a solution, just as is poisoning our food supply, our water, and our atmosphere. The people who own and run the world have the arrogance to believe they can survive the devastation they have planned for the majority of the human race for the last forty years.
Wake up! They want you dead or behind bars and barbed wire.
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It’s a Fabian socialist technique, applied in this case by fascists: an unassuming, nice-appearing step, not too threatening, to get their toe in the door, in order to open it wider, later. So it’s classic stuff, which we should all recognize by now - if the education system had been doing its job. Its proper job, that is; not the propagandic job that it has been engaged in for far too long now, from both the right and the left. The totalitarians are trying to take over. Reject them from both sides of the political aisle, and return the US to government of, by, and for the people. And a good place to start is the rejection of this Trojan Horse of a bill, sponsored by one of the most criminal of corporations in our time.
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I;m afraid The Lord has nothing to do with this mess we’re in and if your counting on the Lord to not let this happen then we the people have already lost this battle for life!
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This bill will only harm people in the long run.When I think that if this bill were to pass that I could be arrested for giving my neighbors food!! It just blows the mind.I have contacted my reps/congress people etc and have gotten the same empty assurances they always give.I don’t think they’ve even read the bill!! When someone in power gets ill from some patented GMO super corn THEN maybe they’ll listen.
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Mosanto is a very dangerous and evil company but we the people can show them what we Americans are made of. Let’s all call our congressmen, and let them know if they vote for Bill 875 they will not be elected for public service ever again. We placed them in power, and they are obligated to the citizens of this country not special interest groups and especially Mosanto.
Together we can make a powerful statement that will echo all over the globe “WE ARE IN CONTROL NOW”. Enough is enough.
In 400 B.C., Hippocrates, the “father of Western medicine”, recognized the relationship between health and food. He said, “Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food”.
WE SHOULD ALL INTENT TO.
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Please contain Monsanto. We don’t need overcontrol and the elimination of our vital small organic farmers.
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Jo-Anne Rohn-Cook Reply:
April 7th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Enough control is ENOUGH. Let freedom and choices be made by people not Corp. out to control the world.
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Publicise it and push for a public vote on this bill. If it doesn’t benefit Monsanto as much as it appears, at least it is going to put many small, independent farms out of business.
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Can someone in Congress protect us from this type of invasion of special interest and it far reaching invasion of our natural way of life? If not, then God help us.
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WE must block this legislation. Can someone get it into the press…TV especially.
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I’m not in favor of this bill, but there is some serious misinformation floating around that will ultimately hurt the movement to stop it because of its outright lies. DeLauro’s husband does NOT work for Monsanto though he once conducted a poll for them (so saying he has “worked” for them is a malicious exaggeration.
Secondly, it does not require small organic farms to register (read the definitions section). People should READ these things before they go off on tangents.
But the newly created agency that this bill proposes would have sweeping powers to propagandize food at every level (which of course means bio-engineered foods and terminator seeds) as well as fear-based campaigns to make the public accept “surveillance” of food facilities.
There are plenty of reasons to oppose this bill, but people should READ the thing before they go off spouting misinformation.
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Stop controlling the food, seed and pesticides and give us back our health and freedom. We will get it one way or another. Your Karma will snap back and hit you in the face with this bill. VMG
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I am outraged by the activities of Monsanto and disgraced that our foods have been secretly
filled with Genetically Modified Ingredients.
The health of our people have been traded off for the profits of this and other corporations.
It is a national disgrace. The vote for this bill HR875 must be unequivocally NO. NO NO NO NO NO.
It shouldn’t matter how much lobby power Monsanto has, PEOPLE MATTER. And this message needs to ring loud and clear, in all of our practices!
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