ACTION ALERT

TAKE ACTION: Tell Your Congress Member: Reject the King Amendment and any other rider or amendment to the Farm Bill that would take away states’€™ rights to label GMOs!

Monsanto hoped that by pouring $46 million into defeating California’€™s ballot initiative to label GMOs last year, other states would be discouraged from launching similar campaigns. It didn’€™t turn out that way. GMO labeling laws have advanced in Vermont, Connecticut and Maine. Washington State voters will decide the issue in November, at the ballot box.

Rather than try to defeat one state campaign after another, is the Biotech Bully looking to Congress for another handout? In the form of a sweeping ruling that would preempt states’€™ rights to label GMOs?  On Wednesday, May 15, the House Ag Committee passed the King Amendment, a measure that some say, if it survives to the final version of the farm bill, could take away states’€™ rights to label GMOs. The jury’€™s still out on whether or not the King Amendment could be interpreted that broadly. But when it comes to Monsanto and its willingness to bend the law for its own purposes, the verdict is guilty.

OCA is hosting a Twitter Rally tonight to let Congress know that we expect them to uphold states’€™ rights to label GMOs! Join us on twitter tonight, June 6 at 5 p.m. PST. It’€™s easy. Just login to your twitter account and type #LabelGMOs into your twitter search browser. From there you can follow the rally conversation and join in by adding #LabelGMOs to the end of your tweet.

If you’€™ve signed our petition, thank you! Could you forward it to five friends today?