Legislative Alert! Contact Your Senators Today

Thanks to the American Holistitc Health Association  (http://www.ahha.org/AHHA_Issue_3-15-13.htm)  and the Alliance for Natural Health USA ( http://www.anh-usa.org/stop-monsanto-rider-in-senate/ ) for the following information and call to action. 

 

Please call your Senators and any other senators you're willing to call or e-mail.   The links provided will give you more info on the rider and the amendment to the rider offered by Senator Tester and others.

 

Text from ANH:

At this very moment, a Continuing Resolution (CR) for the big Appropriations funding bill (H.R. 933) is being debated in the Senate. It’s supposed to be about funding the government, but the Senate Appropriations Committee, chaired by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (who has always stood by our side in the past), has included a dangerous GMO rider that has no place in a funding bill.
 

Fortunately, Senator Tester, joined by Senators Boxer, Gillibrand, and Leahy, have introduced Amendment #74 to strike the dangerous rider from the CR. This is our one chance to ensure this heinous language does not become law. Tell your member of Congress to support the Tester amendment and dump the dangerous biotech rider.

The good news is that this amendment is our best opportunity to halt the GMO rider before the bill goes to conference committee, which will reconcile the House bill (which was passed without the GMO rider language) with this Senate bill. The bad news is that during the previous Congress, the House passed a bill with this exact same GMO language, so if we don’t stop the rider now, the House is unlikely to oppose it.
 

This is the same rider we’ve told you about before—the so-called Farmer Assurance Provision (Section 735)–that will strip federal courts of the authority to halt the sale and planting of illegal, potentially hazardous genetically engineered crops while USDA is performing an environmental impact statement . If this provision becomes law, it will be a huge blow to the justice system, completely overriding judicial safeguards that protect both farmers and the public, and rendering judges’ rulings irrelevant.
 

This Monsanto-driven rider is simply a biotech industry ploy to continue to plant GE crops even when a court of law has found they were approved illegally.