Monsanto's Dream Bill In The House of Reps
My brother and I were actually talking about this last night. And it all has to do with food security. I'm sure it's being advertised as a way to improve security, but diversification is the only way to keep anything safe - whether it's electric, natural gas, your own money, or your food.
Europe is a prime example with natural gas. They've been held hostage by Russia at least twice this winter, by actually stopping gas transport through Ukraine. Having only one source for anything is bad.
Also - if you remember from history lessons, monopolies were outlawed for a reason. They create a huge imbalance that has catastrophic consequences to all, not just those directly affected by a conglomerate.
Another example is something as simple as egg and poultry farming. Here's what my brother found...
(NYSEQAP). Over 85% of NY eggs come from just 12 commercial egg farms, 5 replacement pullet growers and one large breeder. 12 growers supply over 19,000,000 people. Please explain to me how that's safe. I could list hundreds of such example all over the nation.
Pease - go to Senate.gov and House.gov and contact your elected officials. No one should have such an inside track to total control over OUR lives. Monsanto has already bought the larger seed companies. Don't let them take the smaller ones or OUR personal right to grow, exchange or store our own seed.
Leslie
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Monsanto's dream bill, HR 875
by Linn Cohen-Cole
To begin reversing GM contamination will require ending the power biotech companies such as Monsanto exert over our government and through that, over our food.
HR 875, was introduced by Rosa DeLauro whose husband Stanley Greenburg works for Monsanto.
The bill is monstrous on level after level - the power it would give to Monsanto, the criminalization of seed banking, the prison terms and confiscatory fines for farmers, the 24 hours GPS tracking of their animals, the easements on their property to allow for warrantless government entry, the stripping away of their property rights, the imposition by the filthy, greedy industrial side of anti-farming international "industrial" standards to independent farms - the only part of our food system that still works, the planned elimination of farmers through all these means.
The corporations want the land, they want more intensive industrialization, they want the end of normal animals so they can substitute patented genetically engineered ones they own, they want the end of normal seeds and thus of seed banking by farmers or individuals. They want control over all seeds, animals, water, and land.
Our farmers are good stewards. That is who is threatened by Rosa DeLauro's bill (and because of that, we all are). At a time in this country when wise stewardship and the production of anything real - especially good food - is what is most needed, it is our best stewards whom Rosa DeLauro threatens, under the cruelly false name of "food safety."
And now Monsanto wants its own employee, Michael Taylor - the man who forced genetically engineered rBGH on us (unlabeled so us, unaware) when the Clintons placed him over "food safety" in the 90s - back in government, this time to act with massive police power as a "food safety tsar" from inside the White House. 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 and punishments to break them at will.
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We have a real chance to get this bill dropped from committee, as the head of the Energy and Commerce Committee is Congressman Democrat Henry Waxman.
Please call his office immediately and let them know your feelings on the matter and please tell them that you "disapprove" of HR875.
His office is located at:
8436 West Third Street, Suite 600
Los Angeles, CA 90048
(323) 651-1040 (phone)
(818) 878-7400 (phone)
(310) 652-3095 (phone)
(323) 655-0502 (fax)
Europe is a prime example with natural gas. They've been held hostage by Russia at least twice this winter, by actually stopping gas transport through Ukraine. Having only one source for anything is bad.
Also - if you remember from history lessons, monopolies were outlawed for a reason. They create a huge imbalance that has catastrophic consequences to all, not just those directly affected by a conglomerate.
Another example is something as simple as egg and poultry farming. Here's what my brother found...
(NYSEQAP). Over 85% of NY eggs come from just 12 commercial egg farms, 5 replacement pullet growers and one large breeder. 12 growers supply over 19,000,000 people. Please explain to me how that's safe. I could list hundreds of such example all over the nation.
Pease - go to Senate.gov and House.gov and contact your elected officials. No one should have such an inside track to total control over OUR lives. Monsanto has already bought the larger seed companies. Don't let them take the smaller ones or OUR personal right to grow, exchange or store our own seed.
Leslie
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Monsanto's dream bill, HR 875
by Linn Cohen-Cole
To begin reversing GM contamination will require ending the power biotech companies such as Monsanto exert over our government and through that, over our food.
HR 875, was introduced by Rosa DeLauro whose husband Stanley Greenburg works for Monsanto.
The bill is monstrous on level after level - the power it would give to Monsanto, the criminalization of seed banking, the prison terms and confiscatory fines for farmers, the 24 hours GPS tracking of their animals, the easements on their property to allow for warrantless government entry, the stripping away of their property rights, the imposition by the filthy, greedy industrial side of anti-farming international "industrial" standards to independent farms - the only part of our food system that still works, the planned elimination of farmers through all these means.
The corporations want the land, they want more intensive industrialization, they want the end of normal animals so they can substitute patented genetically engineered ones they own, they want the end of normal seeds and thus of seed banking by farmers or individuals. They want control over all seeds, animals, water, and land.
Our farmers are good stewards. That is who is threatened by Rosa DeLauro's bill (and because of that, we all are). At a time in this country when wise stewardship and the production of anything real - especially good food - is what is most needed, it is our best stewards whom Rosa DeLauro threatens, under the cruelly false name of "food safety."
And now Monsanto wants its own employee, Michael Taylor - the man who forced genetically engineered rBGH on us (unlabeled so us, unaware) when the Clintons placed him over "food safety" in the 90s - back in government, this time to act with massive police power as a "food safety tsar" from inside the White House. 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 and punishments to break them at will.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We have a real chance to get this bill dropped from committee, as the head of the Energy and Commerce Committee is Congressman Democrat Henry Waxman.
Please call his office immediately and let them know your feelings on the matter and please tell them that you "disapprove" of HR875.
His office is located at:
8436 West Third Street, Suite 600
Los Angeles, CA 90048
(323) 651-1040 (phone)
(818) 878-7400 (phone)
(310) 652-3095 (phone)
(323) 655-0502 (fax)
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