You already know that the Senate Ag Committee recently pushed out a bill which, if passed, will wipe out Vermont’s GMO labeling law. The bill will also allow food companies to continue to hide GMO ingredients in their products.

But did you know that if Monsanto gets its way, that same bill will also require the federal government to force feed consumers lies about genetically engineered food?

Our ally in this fight, Mercola.com, will match up to $250,000 if we can raise that much by midnight March 15—and we still have about $45,000 to go. Please donate online, by mail or by phone, details here.

What’s the latest plan, supported by Monsanto and its minions in Congress, to brainwash the American public about GMOs?

Buried in S. 2609, the bill Sen. Pat Roberts is trying to push through the Senate, is this gem:

‘SEC. 294. INFORMATION FOR CONSUMERS.

‘‘(a) EDUCATION.—The Secretary, in coordination with other Federal agencies as appropriate, shall provide science-based information, including any information on the environmental, nutritional, economic, and humanitarian benefits of agricultural biotechnology, through education, outreach, and promotion to address consumer acceptance of agricultural biotechnology. 

In other words, your tax dollars will be used to promote the so-called “benefits” of Monsanto’s GMOs—instead of promoting the devastating impact these vast commodity monocultures, and the toxic chemicals used to grow them, are having on your health, and the health of our entire ecosystem.

And this will all be done at the direction and insistence of the federal government.

If that’s not outrageous, I don’t know what is. 

But then, we’re talking about Monsanto. The same company that last year added a paragraph to the Chemical Safety Bill, one that guarantees Monsanto will never be held liable for any of the damages, to the environment or to humans, caused by PCBs.

PCBs, you may recall, were finally banned. But not until Monsanto, aided by government regulatory agencies, tried its best to convince us PCBs were “safe.”

Will the U.S. Senate pass another bill written by, and for, Monsanto next week?

We will do everything in our power to stop it. We urge you to do the same, by calling your Senators. And by continuing to fund this fight.

Our ally in this fight, Mercola.com, will match up to $250,000 if we can raise that much by midnight March 15—and we still have about $45,000 to go. Please donate online, by mail or by phone, details here.

Thank you!

Ronnie Cummins
National Director, Organic Consumers Association and Organic Consumers Fund

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