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Le Taz Hot

(22,271 posts)
Tue Mar 26, 2013, 08:52 AM Mar 2013

Ation Alert: Tell President Obama to Veto the Monsanto Protection Act

We regret to inform you, but late last week Congress succeeded in passing Section 735, aka the Monsanto Protection Act, in the Continuing Resolution spending bill - HR 933. Once again, Monsanto and the biotech industry have used their lobbying power to undermine your basic rights.

We need you to sign a petition to President Obama and tell him to veto HR 933 and the Monsanto Protection Act. With the Senate passage of the Monsanto Protection Act, biotech lobbyists are one step closer to making sure that their new GMO crops can evade any serious scientific or regulatory review.

This dangerous provision, the Monsanto Protection Act, strips judges of their constitutional mandate to protect consumer and farmer rights and the environment, while opening up the floodgates for the planting of new untested genetically engineered crops, endangering farmers, citizens and the environment.

We are asking that you sign the petition here and then call President Obama and demand that he veto HR 933. Join us in putting a stop to the Monsanto Protection Act!

Petition at Link:

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/stop_the_monsanto_protection_act_seize_congress

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Ation Alert: Tell President Obama to Veto the Monsanto Protection Act (Original Post) Le Taz Hot Mar 2013 OP
"Ironically, Monsanto bans GMO food in their cafeteria." IdaBriggs Mar 2013 #1
 

IdaBriggs

(10,559 posts)
1. "Ironically, Monsanto bans GMO food in their cafeteria."
Tue Mar 26, 2013, 09:03 AM
Mar 2013

The following information is from a Facebook posting of a summary of a lecture by Dr. Randall Tent. The link to the lecture is below.

Russia says if GMO food is eaten, animal won't reproduce.

GMO will cause fertility problems after 3 generations. We are now on the 2nd generation. The 3rd generation will be sterile.

When eating, you are transferring genes from the BT toxin from the soy into your DNA.

Typical GMO foods: soy, corn, cotton, rice, canola oil, potatoes, papaya, tomatoes, dairy products, peas. Everyone has eaten GMO.

Allergen from food has increased with GMO which was introduced in 1996.

How does Roundup herbicide work? It strips the plants of minerals. It can limit uptake of a variety of nutrients. Nutritional content of even GMO plants are also compromised.

Weight gain connection: you’re gaining weight because their is nothing (nutrients) in your food so you have to eat more before you get the "full" feeling.


Link to Video Lecture:


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