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URGENT: Don`t Let the Biotech Industry Sneak This In!

Provision would strip federal courts of the authority to halt the sale and planting of illegal, potentially hazardous crops while USDA is assessing those potential hazards.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Congress is considering a sneaky, pro-GMO rider to a funding bill, and it may become law without anyone realizing it—unless you take action NOW!

The biotech industry has managed to insert a dangerous rider in support of genetically engineered crops into the FY 2013 Agriculture Appropriations bill.

The Great Indian Gene Bazaar

Kaushik Basu's Useless Suggestions to Prop up the Indian Economy

(NEW DELHI, India ) - It has taken the civil society years of struggle to ensure that the plant genetic resources (PGR), which is essentially the preserve of farmers, are not passed on freely into the hands of multinational corporations/seed companies.

After the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity, the battle to seek control over PGR had of course intensified.

NPR Betrays Listeners` Children for Monsanto and Drug Money

NPR and PBS have a lot to learn.

(WASHINGTON DC) - NPR supporters were outraged when it began running "Marketplace," a show produced by American Public Media- funded by Monsanto.

Food Wars

Denae Gemmrig explores the public face of Monsanto, one of the nation's most powerful companies.

(PHOENIX, AZ) - While Monsanto works so hard to end the world’s hunger issues by creating genetically modified organisms, the people are fighting to get GMO food labeled.

Genetically modified organisms are organisms whose genetic material is altered using DNA from different sources and then combined into one molecule to create a new set of genes.

Oregon Prepares to Just Say NO! to GMO

GMOs have been injected into everything from baby formula to our dairy, and even our meat.

(NEWPORT, OR) - Health conscious Oregonians are mounting a campaign to demand that GMO foods be labeled as such. The group behind this effort has a web site oregonrighttoknow.org.

FNS News: Bleak News for Rio Grande Irrigators

The May 2012 Water Supply Forecast for New Mexico cited unseasonal temperatures that could impact farmers later in the growing season.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - Rio Grande irrigators in the Paso del Norte borderland are in for more bad news.

Experts have noted that spring runoff forecasts for the Rio Grande into New Mexico’s Elephant Butte Reservoir are only 21 percent of normal flows.

Biotech 2, Vermont 0

The biotech industry has had to use corruption and threats to keep secret what they continue to claim is safe and "substantially equivalent" to normal food.

(MONTPELIER, VT) - Vermonters was slammed by the biotech industry twice this month.

They were hit the first time when 90% of the population wanted GMOs in their food labeled but the governor would not sign a bill requiring this because the biotech giant Monsanto threatened to sue the state.

GM Maize: Nepal`s Food Security Threatened

The sole purpose of genetic engineering of seeds is control over seed supply and global food availability. This weaponization of food system is being implemented by a few American and European multinational firms.

(NEW DELHI) - Not only Nepal’s but the entire Himalayan region is under threat.

Genetically Engineered seeds are weapons of mass culling. The Nepalese Government’s foolishness in inviting USAID and Monsanto for ‘agricultural development’ through genetically engineered maize will destroy the quality of its livestock and humans.

AMA Urges Support of Bill Requiring EPA to seek Independent Scientific Analysis on the Effects of 15 Percent Ethanol

News from the American Motorcycle Association.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) sent a letter to U.S. House Speaker John Boehner urging the House to consider H.R. 3199.

This bill would require the EPA to seek independent scientific analysis on the effects of E15 gasoline as soon as possible.

Bill Gates and 47,500 Cases of Paralysis

Mimicking Monsanto’s PR, Gates used Bollywood actors to strongly promote his vaccine campaign to ‘eradicate polio’ across India. Vaccines ware given to Indian children. Have they brought health?

(NEW DELHI) - In India, Monsanto hired Bollywood actors to promote genetically engineered cotton seed to illiterate farmers.

Nana Petakar became a brand ambassador for Monsanto. The advertising has been called “aggressive, unscrupulous and false.”