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Don't let the Real Monsanto Bill get through Congress.

An effort to fight global poverty and hunger may become a Trojan Horse to force genetically engineered crops on countries and farmers that do not want them.

Can you ask your member of Congress to keep genetic engineering out of any food aid and agricultural research legislation?

In the Senate, Senators Bob Casey (D-Penn.) and Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) introduced the Global Food Security Act which increases desperately needed funding for agricultural research in the developing world. Unfortunately, the bill also requires investment in genetically engineered crops favored by a handful of companies like Monsanto.

Most developing countries, especially in Africa, do not allow genetically engineered crops to be cultivated, but that's changing with international pressure. During the 2008 food crisis, pressure from U.S. companies forced countries to allow GE crops that are unwanted by their farmers. What's worse is that genetically engineered crops are not a solution to world hunger. The Union of Concerned Scientists recently found that genetically engineered crops have not increased the yield of American corn and soybean farmers -- nor will it be able to combat hunger in the developing world.

The House of Representatives is expected to introduce similar legislation soon.
Can you ask your Representative to keep genetic engineering out of any food aid and agricultural research legislation?

http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/t/5915/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1920

Thanks for taking action!

Also consider reading more about this important issue at:

"Stop Monsanto, Cargill, et al, from outlawing organic produce."

http://food.change.org/actions/view/stop_monsanto_cargill_et_al_from_outlawing_organic_produce

Source: Food & Water Watch

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Anahi Trejo @ 02:39PM PT Nov 03

I want my rights as a future farmer to be safe and not have to worry about patent infringment. It's our right to save our seed and am against GMO's.
Cindy Loomis @ 12:42PM PT Nov 02

Monsanto is interested in nothing but monopolization and profit at the expense of the health of our planet and all who live here.
Meghan Burrows @ 11:01PM PT Sep 08

Organic Farmers are very important to this country and to our Countries Health. We should be able to choose what types of food we eat. If we want to eat organic food, even though people say that it is not nutritionally different, we should still be able to eat it. If this bill passed we would not really have a choice on what we eat. The government would tell farmers what they have to use and farmers should be able to choose for themselves. We have to save the organic farms.
udo prambs @ 03:51PM PT Sep 07

we don't want to be guinea pigs to likes of Monsanto and company. It is about time that Congress realizes it has a duty to protect the people they supposed to represent. Or are we on the way to dictatorship?
thomas thirion Mesa, AZ @ 01:49PM PT Sep 07
Pledge fulfilled Sep 07!

I really think the big boys at Monsanto are gentically altered.
Linda Zielinski Philomath, OR @ 10:01PM PT Sep 06

Farmers should be allowed to use their own saved seeds. They should not be intimidated by bullies like Monsanto. Monsanto's goal is to have the power to control all the world's food supply. Stop the madness before it's too late. We all live downstream. I should have the right to say whether or not I want to ingest GMO crops. AND I DO NOT!!!!
pierluigi bonatesta Cagliari, Italy @ 01:18PM PT Aug 20
Pledge fulfilled Aug 20!

Pledge completed!
Kristy Baltezore Los Angeles, CA @ 03:25PM PT Aug 19

oops--infertile seed. :) y'all got my drift!
Kristy Baltezore Los Angeles, CA @ 02:38PM PT Aug 19

The world is a diverse and amazing place that depends on that diversity to thrive. Not only does Monsanto make the natural evolution of plant life suffer at the hand of the dollar it makes slaves of nations crippled under world bank debts taken out to pay for Monsanto's fertile seed. A tragedy and in my eyes a crime.
CD Collins @ 06:55PM PT Aug 10

Watch The Future of Food to find out how our seeds and future are being monopolized. The issue is crucial.