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  1. Both the House and the Senate betrayed us several times on this bill – despite 92% or more of Americans demanding labels equal to or better than those set out by Vermont’s excellent law. Two of the Senate’s most damaging actions on it were carried out – AS USUAL on particularly fascist bills – in the dead of night when no one could see what they were doing and no one could call to protest anyway because the phones aren’t manned then. No one represents us anymore. Had enough yet?

    Besides overthrowing States’ rights by negating Vermont’s comprehensive law – plus over 100 existing ‘minor’ laws in other states – this bill from legislators who got thousands of bucks from Big Ag is class war on the non-rich. It requires that financially struggling Americans buy a smartphone (with a yet-to-be-designed app) to scan confusing QR matrix codes and then be directed to a corporation’s confusing site full of ads to eventually learn what Could have been learned from a simple printed label – ASSUMING, of course, that the website hasn’t crashed from millions of access attempts and ASSUMING, of course, that you can get a SIGNAL inside the grocery store that lets you use your expensive phone and access the net. I wonder how much the smartphone industry paid Roberts and Stabenow to require it in their class-war bill. – Had enough yet?

    Most seniors, poor, and disproportionately rural folks don’t have a smartphone. – Many can’t afford one and don’t want one due to privacy issues. The app lets marketers spy on your buying habits and ‘share’ (steal and reveal) the information with others for money. – The history of the RFID/chip/spy industry shows that stores ultimately intend to ‘tailor’ prices according to buying habits. Buy expensive stuff? Fine; we’ll up the prices but give you a ‘discount’ to keep you coming back (store ‘courtesy’ card). Too poor to buy much? Fine; we’ll either scam you with a ‘discount’ card and/or up the prices so you’ll go elsewhere. – Been spied on and jerked around enough yet?

    The corporate media are being quiet, so I don’t know yet whether Obama has signed this bill that denies us the right to know what’s in our food and thus attacks public health. He promised us in 2007 and 2008 that he”d support that right; but it appears to have worked out like his ‘promise’ to su pport unions. – I don’t know whether egomaniacal imbecile Trump has taken a stand on GMOs; Clinton (like Vilsack) is a darling of the GMO industry (BIO Conference speech, e.g.). If the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) is approved by a Prez Trump or a Prez Clinton (likely in both cases), then the GMO industry will also be able to forbid death/injury lawsuits by citizens regarding GMOs and the carcinogens that they produce nternally and/or are sprayed with.

    Had enough yet?

  2. They have to know what’s in our foods. Who want to eat GMO foods if it’s harmful to our health?

  3. Jun 15, 2016 GMOs, “Biggest Fraud In The History Of Science” – Some ‘Questions And Answers’

    In an ideal world, glyphosate would be taken off the commercial market due to its obvious adverse effects on human health and the environment. In such a world, the EU would at the same time be facilitating policies that would ensure a major shift towards more sustainable agricultural practices.

  4. July 15, 2016 Legislation in Alaska requiring labeling of GMO salmon will now be reversed by the Senate’s fake labeling bill

    Prior to the recent approval of the Monsanto-backed GMO fake labeling bill, Alaskan law required labels on all products containing genetically engineered salmon. As laid out in the Biotechnology Labeling Solutions Act, the new legislation “would allow the Agriculture Department to determine which foods qualify as genetically modified and let companies choose the method of disclosing genetically modified organism (GMO) ingredients to consumers.”

    1. Yes. The Roberts-Stabenow anti-labeling bill overthrew ca. 100 existing laws in other states as well as Vermont’s excellent labeling law – the law we want, need, and had demanded.

  5. That also explains this as well. July 20th, 2016 Russia dominates global wheat market

    For the second year running, Russia is the world’s top wheat producer with exports of 22.5 million metric tons of grain this year, according to the US Department of Agriculture. Russia has won contracts to exports 120,000 tons of wheat to Egypt. In the fall, as soon as the new crop is harvested, Russia will start supplying wheat to China, its low-price strategy which has increased its market share.

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