Letter to Obama Urges Him to Keep 8 Year Old Campaign Promise to Label GMOs
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President Obama vowed he would make GMO labeling a reality when he was campaigning back in 2007. It is now 2015, and instead of keeping his promise, we’ve seen more legislation to block the labeling of genetically modified foods, not support it.
Even the New York Times admits that 90% of North America wants GMO labeling – so why the hold up in the White House? Obama seems to use his ‘executive order’ ability for so many other issues. Why not GMOs?
A letter was recently penned to send to Obama at JustLabelit.org. You can view it here, but I’m afraid the problem goes beyond our government agencies.
Monsanto seems to have endless bravado when it comes to controlling the White House, Congress, and Senate, all tied into one. They even once said in an in-house newsletter:
“Agricultural biotechnology will find a supporter occupying the White House next year, regardless of which candidate win the election in November.”
With new elections pending, and Hillary Clinton practically throwing herself on biotech companies, what are we to do? I think activism is essential to creating change, but I think it’s going to take more than a letter.
I think that these corporations and their leaders need to be tried in a court of law for knowingly poisoning people. The tide is turning, but labeling is already a moot point. It’s much more serious than that.
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Looking from the outside in, I understand that the Obama administration is deliberately destroying the US by all and with all means possible…
If you’re reading this, call your Reps. NOW and tell them, no way should HR1599 pass. This is known as the DARK act and if it becomes law, there will never be any mandatory labeling and GMOs will never be banned. Our leaders have to start working for, we, the people, not corporations! Monsanto wrote HR1599 and it’s up to us to stop it! #Bernie2016
THANK YOU for bringing this to attention. It may be voted on this week.
If passed, HR 1599 would cause economic loss, outlaw
local, state, and federal rights, kill Americans, and abet the rising corporatist-fascist control
of the govt. It overthrows
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-states’ rights to label foods containing GMO
ingredients. It
overthrows states’ rights to protect crops from GMO contamination.
Contaminated natural/organic crops lose their market value.
It overthrows the federal govt’s right to use
pre-market safety testing of GMO foods/crops and the biocides used on them. Industry can’t be trusted to do this, nor can its toadies at FDA, USDA, EPA. Glyphosate and 2,4-D in Roundup and Enlist Duo are known carcinogens and are absorbed systemically by ca. 99% of GMO crops. HR 1599 allows them to keep poisoning Americans.
HR 1599 LIES that a voluntary labeling program will work. FDA has had such a program in place now for 14 years, and NOT ONE corporation has labeled its GMO filth.
Watch out also for “Quick Response” (QR) response codes, which Hershey and ca. 90 other corporations will trot out between now and summer 2016. These are similar to bar codes, and citizens MUST have a smartphone (may cause cancer) to scan them to get a list of ingredients (already on the LABEL) and whether the product contains GMOs or is GE’d (a simple statement could be added to the LABEL, which corporations change all the time). – Hershey et al. have not said whose standards they will use to declare something GMO-free. FDA and USDA have essentially invalidated “natural” and “organic” labels already, allowing up to 5% GMO content in “organic,” e.g. (USDA 100% Organic is still relatively trustworthy, however; but it MUST say 100%.)
PS. Thanks for supporting Bernie Sanders. Jeb BUSH (oh how he hates his last name!) and Mrs Clinton both Love those GMOs. Or, more accurately said, they Love the agri/chem/biotech industry.
Obama was elected because Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld & Tony Blair are war criminals that manufactured false evidence of WMD duped Powell into believing it and murdered as many people in Iraq to seize oil and settle George’s blood lust for Saddam. Now, Jeb!, wants to defend his brother that “He kept us safe” I know that you hate Donald from your other postings, however, I suggest you look at a few of the topics that Bernie and Donald agree on. They were both against the war. I see you use Disqus on Natural News. They “moderate” me so much that they do not even publish my Avatar. Natural News supports many of Donald’s views. If our hope that the race is between Bernie & Donald, Bernie is going to have to put on his street smarts and attack the Bush Cheney war.
He’s in office thanks to the Bush and Clinton administrations. Bring in Bernie Sanders in 2016 and turn America on it’s head-finally and forever!…………………………..♥
Yes indeed! And every time you see some idiot declaring that Bernie is an extremist leftie, note that he – NOT Hillary or Jeb or the clown car – is the one who reflects the values and needs of mainstream America, to wit (polls say the majority of Americans agree with these):
Remedy the increasing wealth gap. Tax the rich and their corporations. Break up the big gang-banksters. Overturn the Citizens United ruling and get big money out of politics. Appoint decent justices to the SCOTUS. No to secretive, fascist trade deals like TPP, TTIP, TISA. Reduce current student debt. Provide universal education. Reduce global warming by curbing the coal, oil, fracking, and nuke industries. Use clean energy. Provide jobs repairing the infrastructure (hopefully this will include protecting the grid from solar flares and EMPs). Raise the minimum wage. Get equal pay for women doing equal work. Expand Social Security. STOP the perpetual wars. PROVIDE UNIVERSAL SINGLE-PAYER HEALTHCARE. YAY! ! !
Very well said……………………♥