Hidden within the appropriations bill passed by Congress last week to fund the federal government was an unnecessary rider that rolls back consumer rights and sharply restricts the ability to seek justice through the judicial system.
Section 735 of the funding resolution, labeled the “Farmer Assurance Provision,” prevents federal courts from intervening in the harvest or sale of genetically modified crops, even if they are shown to cause health problems.Dubbed by critics as “The Monsanto Protection Act,” the rider effectively shields the giant agribusiness conglomerate from loss, no matter what deleterious effects studies might find about its GMO products.“This would basically close off the courtroom before all the information was ever available,” says Fred Pritzker, founder of food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen. “It’s a very dangerous thing to do.”“It’s bad policy to ever tell the court it can’t hear an issue and make a decision based on all the facts that can only come out in the context of litigation,” Pritzker says, “rather than blanket prohibition by statutory fiat.”
you are looking for a job and instead of dealing with that congress votes in a law to deregulate process oof which the food we eat goes through.
“This provision is simply an industry ploy to continue to sell genetically engineered seeds even when a court of law has found they were approved by USDA illegally,” a petition by Food Democracy Nowstated. “It is unnecessary and an unprecedented attack on U.S. judicial review. Congress should not be meddling with the judicial review process based solely on the special interest of a handful of companies.”they are hitting us where we are daily the breakfast and dinner tables and they are still reaching out and being inclusive, if this doesn't piss you the f..k off then you are crazy and should be part of their voter purge.
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If the bill seems suspiciously helpful toward Monsanto, it’s because they wrote it in cooperation with Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, who defended its contents. “What it says is if you plant a crop that is legal to plant when you plant it, you get to harvest it,” Blunt said. “But it is only a one-year protection in that bill.”The senator has received over $64,000 from Monsanto in campaign donations since 2007.The rider was inserted into the massive appropriations bill with no hearings and no committee oversight. “In this hidden backroom deal, [Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski, Chair of the Appropriations Committee] turned her back on consumer, environmental, and farmer protection in favor of corporate welfare for biotech companies such as Monsanto,” Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of the Center for Food Safety, said in a statement. “This abuse of power is not the kind of leadership the public has come to expect from Senator Mikulski or the Democrat Majority in the Senate.”President Obama signed the bill into law despite an uproar from food safety advocates. Lo and behold, another consumer right down the drain.
"WHY, PRES.?" we need to know why please don't let this flounder. no wonder the republicans aren't crying foul.
i know this is 2 months old but somehow i missed it completely sorry if you've seen it and glad if you've not, knowledge is timeless good whenever you get it
i know this is 2 months old but somehow i missed it completely sorry if you've seen it and glad if you've not, knowledge is timeless good whenever you get it
