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Senate Removes Monsanto Protection Act from Spending Bill
Senate Removes Monsanto Protection Act from Spending Bill
Date: 9/26/2013 4:34:16 PM ( 11 y ) ... viewed 748 times
FROM HUFFINGTON POST
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
The so-called Monsanto Protection Act is set to expire, and will not be included in a bill designed to avert a government shutdown, according to a statement Tuesday from the press office of Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.).
House Republicans earlier this month released legislation that would include an extension of the Monsanto measure in their continuing resolution. The measure shields sellers of genetically modified seeds from lawsuits, even if the resulting crops cause harm.
Monsanto Protection Act Progress Report
Dear Leslie,
We are writing you to press this urgent matter that threatens not only America’s family farmers, but also the future survival of organic seeds.
Last night we got the great news that Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) removed the Monsanto Protection Act, Section 735, from the Continuing Resolution. It's not over yet, but this is an incredible victory for everyone who raised their voice against this outrage in Congress, now we have to keep to working!
2:33 pm
September 26, 2013
Activists Score Major Victory in Senate Against Monsanto Protection Act as Senate Removes from Spending Bill
Posted by Dave on September 25, 2013
Activists Score Major Victory in Senate Against Monsanto Protection Act
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Senate Removes Law Protecting GMO Crops From Court Authority From Spending Bill
WASHINGTON, DC -- Food Democracy Now!, a grassroots movement of more than 650,000 farmers and citizens, is praising Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Chair of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, after she announced last night her intention to strip the controversial Monsanto Protection Act provision from the Senate’s version of the stop-gap spending bill, which extends the current budget deadline from September 30th to December 15th.
READ MORE HERE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/24/monsanto-protection-act-expire_n_398...
“This is a major victory for the food movement and all those who care about openness and transparency in their government,” said Dave Murphy, founder an executive director of Food Democracy Now!, a grassroots movement of more than 650,000 farmers and citizens that led the charge against the secret rider for the past year. “And a sign that our voices can make the difference when we are effectively organized.”
The Monsanto Protection Act (section 735), a provision that circumvents court authority to stop the planting and cultivation of GMO crops, was set to expire at the end of September, but its inclusion in Continuing Resolution (HJ.Res.59) by House Republicans, which passed by a vote of 230-189, would have kept the provision as law through the end of the year. But last night, Senator Mikulski, responding to the tens of thousands of phone calls from outraged citizens around the country, announced she would remove the Monsanto Protection Act from the Senate's version of the continuing resolution.
“This is what happens when people become engaged in the democratic process,” Murphy said. “Millions of people around the world were outraged when the bill passed originally and removing the Monsanto Protection Act from the current bill is a sign that the food movement has arrived politically. The American people are tired of Monsanto’s lies and the manipulation of our political process and we’re not backing down.”
Since the passage of the Monsanto Protection Act, Food Democracy Now! has generated more than half a million signatures to Congress and the White House asking for the removal of the secret rider, including more than 40,000 phone calls to Congress in the past two weeks.
“Corporations shouldn’t be allowed to win special interest handouts in closed door meetings with a handful of members of Congress. It’s time that our elected officials stop cozzying up to rogue corporations like Monsanto and get down to the business of representing the interests of the American people,” said Murphy.
VIEW THE ACTION HERE: http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/call/tell_Congress_to_stop_the_monsanto_pr...
http://fooddemocracynow.org/blog/2013/sep/25/activists__remove_Monsanto_Prote...
Leslie with the Big Guys at the National Heirloom Expo, 2013
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Ronnie Cummins, OCA, Steve Ray, CEO from Mercola, Leslie Goldman, Plant Your Dream Blog-Dave Murphy, Food Democracy Now
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The image is a picture of me at the March Against Monsanto, May 25, 2013 at Balboa Park. I am holding packets of different kinds of Baker Creek Heirloom corn--diverse corn varieties--that are GMO free. More and more varieties of these diverse corn seeds, that hold the wisdom and intelligence of cultures are becoming contaminated by GMO Corn seeds and no longer grow true to their ancient type. This is what the indigenous people of the world are screaming about. They are losing their Sacred Seeds. We are all losing our Sacred Seed by not hearing the screaming.
Photo by David Bryson Hatfield
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