Californians have been consistently telling biotech that they want to know what is in their food, but Big Biotech and Big Food refuse to listen. The Grocery Manufacturer’s Association, consisting of companies like Monsanto, Dow, and Bayer, along with food producing companies like Coca-Cola, Kraft, and General Mills, has spent $48 million to deny the YES vote on Prop 522. The GMA has also put forward another $22 million to deny the vote on SB-1381, and even bought the last two votes in the California Senate to kill a labeling initiative that would force these companies to label the toxic foods they’ve been serving the nation.
California is not going to stand down, though, and they need your support. On October 21st, Los Angeles City Council will vote on a citizens’ request to make the city a GMO-Free zone.
Two city council members, Paul Koretz and Mitch O’Farrell have brought about a way to tell Monsanto and their buddies just what they can do with their GMO seed monopolies. They introduced a motion to curb the growth and proliferation of GMO seeds and plants within the city, and to protect local gardens and city-grown food from current and future contamination from GMO seeds.
They make this request based on the urging of over 90 advocates for responsible agricultural stewardship and scientists in the field from the European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility. They released a statement saying:
“As scientists, physicians, academics, and experts from disciplines relevant to the scientific, legal, social and safety assessment aspects of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), we strongly reject claims by GM seed developers and some scientists, commentators, and journalists that there is a “scientific consensus” on GMO safety and that the debate on this topic is “over.” We feel compelled to issue this statement because the claimed consensus on GMO safety does not exist.”
If you live in LA, or if you don’t, you can tell city council members that you support this motion to make LA GMO free. With each little pocket of this country that we are able to eradicate genetically modified foods from – the better. These pockets will also likely show better health among their citizens over time, and these results will be hard for biotech and food manufacturing companies to deny.
We support you LA!
SO BORING….to see another ‘Monsanto is poisoning you’ sign. Yawn. Please post an exact instance of Monsanto or GMOs poisoning a person. Please. Huh….There isn’t one.
Brenda, what should bore you is when people aren’t protesting Monsanto’s Satanic Contamination of this Planet. The least that every person in America should be doing is protesting with a sign “MONSANTO IS POISONING YOU” instead of people like yourself complaining about good, honest, ethical and caring individuals carrying signs who actually care about the health and welfare of all life on this planet.
I guess what I understand is that a genetically modified ear of corn isn’t going to poison anybody. So….I am waiting for the information showing the death of someone/anyone by Monsanto or any other company. Waiting….waiting…
Start educating yourself. It doesn’t kill anyone instantly, but has devestating effects on everyone’s health and it has been proven to cause disease. Why do you think that there is such an increase in cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases, new disease never heard of before, etc.
Your must either work for this Demonic Company or someone in your family must work for Monsanto, or you wouldn’t be making such idiotic comments!
People, except yourself, are realizing what Monsanto has been doing to us. With Monsanto, it’s all about the money – they don’t care about the health of humans or any living organism on this planet!
Please tell me which disease; l believe the health issues were caused by the release of Duke Nukem 3D–it makes as much sense. BTW, have you taken genetics classes? Microbiology? Any of the sciences or even Biology? I would actually pay for you to take an easy summer class at our local university here in KS. How about it? So, snark aside….I will nicely say….read all of the pro-gmo articles that you can. Every night, for several hours for several months. Compare them to some of the anti-gmo articles. You will see a vast difference in the presentation of material. It becomes very easy to discern fallacy. I was pretty neutral several years ago, but really wanted to find out more about both sides of the issue. (I find it puzzling that people think gmo supporters work for gmo companies–that also supply conventional and regional seed that dates as far back as 1865!…Can’t a laid-back, middle-aged artist try to gain knowledge about science without being called a shill?!)
LOL!!! So sad a troll that has sold out to poison…..
even MORE BORING to see how Monsanto pays trolls to post propaganda!
Ahhhh, you again. I see you are stalking my disqus comments. Exactly what proof do you have that I am being paid by Monsanto? I teach art and graphics–and while I admit a teacher doesn’t make much $$, I still haven’t received any shill bucks, lol! It is boring to be called a paid troll–typical and lackluster. I also asked some farmers this morning to respond to your farmer comment yesterday; here is what one says: “Ask
if he know any farmer who keeps corn for the next year’s planting.
Nobody does if they planted a hybrid variety because the next generation
won’t produce as much, and many of the plants will look different than
the parent generation plants. The only
crop that ‘saving seed’ was ever a ‘thing’ was soybeans–since they are not
hybridized. But most bean farmers still buy new seed each year to get
the latest and greatest traits. Finally, even nonGMO seed companies
require the farmers to not save seed – and fruit trees, roses and lots
of other plants. GMOs were not the first patented seeds and they were
not the first that had the patents enforced. And no…Monsanto doesn’t force me to buy their seeds….I buy seeds from many diff. companies as I have fields around the county with different requirements due to varying soil conditions. ”
I’m curious–what college or high school science classes did you take? And, again–why would you be afraid of a banana that contains more iron? You didn’t answer.
Ha! BUSTED!!!! Pretend you’re an innocent consumer while posting mega-propaganda! Feeling guilty,eh?? Too bad we can’t talk to all those thousands of Indians farmers that bought GMO seeds but are now dead! You people aren’t human!
Wow. You must be new to this topic or you would have realized the whole Indian suicide thing has been discredited numerous times. How am I ‘busted’? Like I said, I drink coffee w/farmers–before I go to work at my Art job. I see you don’t really answer questions. Check your local university and take some science classes.
LOL!!!! oh great, another GOP, Fake News, birther, pseudo-science shill trying to deny the planet is round. Which flat-earth society chapter do you attend???
Still unable to formulate an answer to a simple question, I see…and I despise the GOP, voting for Obama twice. Are you perhaps, nine? Because most 7th graders understand science better, or at least can produce some pertinent research to have a decent conversation. BTW, pseudo-sciencers are the anti-gmo folk…you’re backwards again.
oh Brenda, brenda, brenda….U R BUSTED!! Typical troll tricks to twist everyones words using your PSEUDO-SCIENCE bs to flood the internet with more propaganda. There must be a Biotech class on lying, and trolling. I bet you teach it! Its all that glyphosate toxin you’re ingesting that is killing your brain cells.