The House of Monsanto Representatives removed your right to GMO labeling and they denied States' Rights!
If Monsanto is proud of their GMO products, why oppose labeling?
See below how your representatives voted.
Massachusetts should be proud that their delegation opposed this legislation.
Is this what a Republican Congress does?
FOCUS: Neil Young | The Importance of GMO Labeling
Neil Young, Neil Young's Facebook Page
Young writes: "As I write this, the dark act is up for a vote in the House of Representatives; representatives of the people. The dark act takes away the rights of those people to vote for or against things like GMO labeling in their states."
READ MORE
Neil Young, Neil Young's Facebook Page
Young writes: "As I write this, the dark act is up for a vote in the House of Representatives; representatives of the people. The dark act takes away the rights of those people to vote for or against things like GMO labeling in their states."
READ MORE
From: Food Democracy Now!:
Monsanto’s worst nightmare is about to come true! The American people are waking up, just as Monsanto's lobbyists are working behind closed doors to rig our nation’s laws against us.
Openness and transparency are allegedly the foundations of a democratic, free market society, but yesterday, in a stunning display of arrogance and miscalculation, the House of Representatives voted 275 to 150 to pass H.R. 1599, Monsanto's Poison Pill, to appease Monsanto and the Grocery Manufacturers Association in their continued quest to deny Americans there basic right to know what’s in their food.
For the past 4 years, the GMO labeling movement has had Monsanto and their junk food allies on the run, forcing them to spend more than $100 million to defeat four ballot initiatives and millions more to play defense in over 26 other states where common sense bills to label genetically engineered foods have been submitted.
Now, Monsanto is getting Congress to pass laws that protect their toxic GMO and chemical products at the expense of the American public and our constitution. This legal assault on our democratic rights is an outrage! But we’re not backing down.
Help us raise $100,000 in the next 10 days so we can defeat Monsanto and Stop this outrageous bill in the Senate! If you donate today, your tax deductible donation will be matched 3 to 1.
Despite Monsanto’s constant threats, farmers and activists across the country are continuing to fight back.
While yesterday’s vote in the House was disappointing, the fight is far from over and we need your help in the next 6 weeks to make sure we stop Monsanto’s poison pill in the Senate.
Right now Monsanto is desperate to hide their untested GMOs in our food because they know Americans don’t want to eat them. The good news is that last year the state of Vermont passed a strong GMO labeling bill and a recent federal court judge ruled in our favor and denied the biotech industry’s efforts to get the lawsuit dismissed.
This means that the same food companies that have fought to kill GMO labeling here in the U.S. - Pepsi, Coke, Kraft, General Mills and Kellogg’s - are preparing to comply with the Vermont law when it goes into effect next year and they're now desperate to get the Senate to pass this bill to make it illegal for Vermont or any other state to ever label GMOs!
Already, Monsanto and their corporate front groups are panicking at the idea of having to put simple labels on food products sold in the U.S., even though they already do this in 64 other countries around the world. This Congressional overreach smacks of desperation and the food movement has never had a better chance to expose Monsanto’s corruption of Congress and we need your help to do it!
In the past 4 years, Monsanto and the GMA spent more than $100 million to defeat GMO labeling, but they can’t keep us down!
At Food Democracy Now!, we’ve always believed that all roads lead to GMO labeling, which is why we’ve supported a 50 state strategy from the beginning. This year, we’ve to continue the fight with GMO labeling activists on the ground and we need YOU to make this happen.
Just like they did in California, Washington, Oregon and Colorado, pesticide companies like Monsanto, DuPont and Dow Chemical are spending millions of dollars to defeat your right to know what’s in your food. They’re not backing down, but neither are we. With your help, we can defeat them, like we did in Maine, Connecticut and Vermont!
Be a part of this Grassroots Surge to defeat Monsanto’s lie machine!
This is what happens when we stand up – Together we are unstoppable!
Thank you for participating in food democracy,
Dave, Lisa and the Food Democracy Now! team
Source:
To find out how your Representative Voted:
1. House Vote 462 - House votes to pass H.R.1599 275 to 150, New York Times, July 23, 2015.
