Check In Here If You Support Mandatory GMO Labeling

[Left Coast2020]

I didn't quite make it to 1000 signatures (764), but I hope this initiative to require these dictators to label their food products as GMO is on the Nov. ballot in CA. I am so friggin sick of Monsanto (and ADM-Archer Daniels Midland) and their strong-arm tactics against common agri-business people. I don't know if there are enough signatures at this time, but I hope there is. I want these people to be held accountable.

Below is excerpt from RSN with link to full story. Check in if you are as sick of Monsanto as I am.


For nearly two decades, Monsanto and corporate agribusiness have exercised near-dictatorial control over American agriculture, aided and abetted by indentured politicians and regulatory agencies, supermarket chains, giant food processors, and the so-called "natural" products industry.

Finally, public opinion around the bio tech industry's contamination of our food supply and destruction of our environment has reached the tipping point. We're fighting back.

This November, in a food fight that will largely determine the future of what we eat and what we grow, Monsanto will face its greatest challenge to date: a statewide citizens' ballot initiative that will give Californians the opportunity to vote for their right to know whether the food they buy is contaminated with GMOs.



http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/271-38/10916-focus-millions-against-monsanto-the-food-fight-of-our-lives

[NYC_SKP]

1. K/R (nt)

[cali]

2. check and rec.

[Zorra]

3. natch nt

[EFerrari]

4. Tomorrow morning on LINKTv, Vandana Shiva's talk "The Seeds of Change".

10 a.m. pacific. She's tremendous.

[burrowowl]

5. YESSSSSSSSS!

Ban Monsanto!

[roody]

6. I've been out collecting signatures

a couple of weekends. They are very easy to get. Word from the headquarters is that we are close to our goal.

[Left Coast2020]

7. Good On Ya Roody. Thanks.

Was in Davis in the rain. Fairly easy to get signers.

[pinboy3niner]

15. Props to you!

I'd looked up locations to sign and found a local fair and a health food restaurant in my community. Before I went there, though, I was at an Occupy L.A. immigration/foreclosure protest and somebody had the petitions there. Serendipity!

[prairierose]

8. k & r ........n/t

[rainy]

9. Checking in

[Zalatix]

10. How long before the WTO tries to swat this law?

[hootinholler]

11. I'm in.

Won't be much help from Md, but I'm all for these sorts of laws.

[Lugnut]

12. Rec! K&R n/t

[beac]

13. I do. K&R! n/t

[tex-wyo-dem]

14. Checking in!

It's a no brainer that GMOs need to be labeled.

Like you, damn sick of these agri-mega corps dictating everything.

[limpyhobbler]

16. +1 nt

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

17. Hear Here...

[countryjake]

18. Kick Monsanto off the planet! n/t.

[pinboy3niner]

19. I'm thinking Newt's moon colony might be a good place for Monsanto, for starters.

Oh, but Newt doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell. That's very different.

[countryjake]

20. Nah, I was thinking of someplace a little further (and much hotter)...

like around 10,000 degrees...




Course, with the type of poisons they've created, such products might even damage ole sol.

[pinboy3niner]

21. Louis...

I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship...

[countryjake]

28. Yup, Monsanto is a dirty word where I live...

Just mention the words "GMO crops" around here and you'll get one good earful on the subject, from most farmers. My county is a major world supplier of vegetable seed and those seeds become totally worthless if the plant is contaminated with GMO pollen from another field.

[unapatriciated]

22. checking in and K&R

[Egalitarian Thug]

23. K&R. n/t

[UnrepentantLiberal]

24. Yo!

[TroubleMan]

25. Not just yes,

but hell yes.

[polly7]

26. Kick

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[abelenkpe]

27. I do! Nt

[barbtries]

29. people should know. nt

[1monster]

30. Checked and Recked

[Uncle Joe]

31. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Left Coast.

[KT2000]

32. Checking In!

Absolutely we should be allowed to know. Monsanto needs to go.

[kojoreport]

33. Just label it "non-GMO"

I agree with your post.
Since learning about GMO February 2012...
I created a curated website to get the awareness out to everyone who cares and should care.
About GMO and our environment, food, ecosystem and our health. GOD help us.
http://kojoreport.com
please check out site and PASS IT ON

it is the only way we can get the word out to Label our Foods.
Our kids children will have a lousy future if we do not change it TODAY

[ananda]

34. Absolutely.

GMO is so fucking evil.

[varelse]

35. check

we have a right to clear, complete, and accurate information on food labels.

[jsmirman]

37. Indeed *

nm

[jsmirman]

36. I would have signed

sorry I wasn't aware of this in time.

[roody]

46. They are not yet due.

If you have a health food store or restaurant, you might find a petition there. We collect in front of everyday grocery stores.

[Junkdrawer]

38. What? No Dihydrous monoxide jokes? No posts deriding us...

for a lack of knowledge of the Scientific Method?

Somebody is lying down on the job.

[zeemike]

39. Sure do...K&R n/t

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

40. K&R

[Agony]

41. Check - Farmers to appeal ruling

http://www.woodprairiefarm.com/
Farmers Determined to Defend Right to Grow Food File Appeal In Organic Farmers v. Monsanto

NEW YORK – March 28, 2012 – Today, in Federal District Court in Manhattan, family farmers filed their Notice of Appeal to Judge Naomi Buchwald's February 24th ruling dismissing Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association et al v. Monsanto. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will hear the farmers' appeal, seeking to reinstate the case, which has received worldwide attention. The farmers are determined to move forward with their lawsuit challenging Monsanto's patents on genetically engineered seed technologies in order to continue their pursuit of Declaratory Judgment Act court protection from Monsanto's claims of patent infringement should their crops become contaminated by Monsanto's seed.

[1monster]

42. Checking in for mandatory labeling of GMO food-like product.

[Arkansas Granny]

43. This should convince anyone of who our government really works for,

and it ain't us, folks.

[southmost]

44. k & r

[bvar22]

45. That is one of the reasons I voted for Obama!

Labeling GMO Foods & Country of Origin

What ever happened to THAT guy?



You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their campaign rhetoric.
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[tjwmason]

47. Totally support

It's mandatory over here thanks to E.U. regulations.

[Greybnk48]

48. yes 100% n/t