Monsanto Company: Tell The Truth About Pesticide-Resistant "Superworms"!
An agricultural giant called the Monsanto Company has risen to the top of the corporate food chains thanks to their genetically modified corn and soybean sees, seeds bred to withstand and even produce their own herbicides and pesticides.
But in the decades since they’ve appeared on the scene, two more things have sprung up: a new crop of “superweeds” that have evolved to resist our chemicals, and root worms that have become insecticide-resistant “superworms,” both of which are set to swarm the Midwest in the coming year.
Rather than come clean, Monsanto has been covering their tracks, working to market their corn as fresh produce and spending millions to kill California’s Prop 37 requirement to label their corn and soybeans as genetically modified products.
The FDA still doesn’t require safety studies for Monsanto’s new strains, they’re designing food to produce dangerous chemicals, and these same chemicals have been breeding superworms that will devastate the landscape in the decades to come.
Don’t stay silent. Please, join us in calling on Monsanto to stop fighting Prop 37 in California, and spread this information on the danger of genetically engineered crops to as many friends as you can.
It’s time we knew what’s in the food we’re eating and the crops these companies are growing. Stop the superworm swarm: Join us in calling for greater transparency at the Monsanto Company!
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#US GMO Labeling petition
Please sign a petition for the White House to support the mandatory labeling of Genetically Modified Foods. You will need an account to do so. They are halfway towards the required 25,000 signatures needed.
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/support-mandatory-labeling-genetically-engineered-foods-gmos/nkWHZ2Vm
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350 | Tell Your Senators: Reject the XL tar sands pipeline!
Right now, the Senate is considering legislation to resurrect Keystone XL, overriding President Obama’s rejection of the pipeline, and greenlighting construction of this disastrous project.
We have a matter of hours to put together a massive response to show them that approving Keystone is unacceptable. We’re partnering with dozens of other organizations, media figures and celebrities to blitz the Senate with over 500,000 messages in 24 hours to demand they stop the pipeline.
Why is a #Monsanto lobbyist serving as the #FDA's Food Safety Czar?
Why is a former Monsanto lobbyist currently serving as the FDA’s food safety czar waging war on small dairy farms that produce fresh milk?
While factory farm operators are getting away with serious food safety violations, raw milk dairy farmers and distributors across the country have been subjected to armed raids and hauled away in handcuffs.
The Food and Drug Administration is running sting operations followed by “guns-drawn raids usually reserved for terrorists and drug lords” as part of a crackdown on unpasteurized milk.1 Meanwhile, the FDA is letting the highly consolidated industrial meat and factory farm industry off the hook despite growing problems.
Not surprisingly, the person responsible for prioritizing armed raids on small dairies over holding agribusiness accountable is a former Monsanto attorney and chief super lobbyist. Monsanto’s Michael Taylor is the second highest-ranking official at the FDA, and as Food Safety Czar is responsible for implementing the day-to-day policies that govern the food safety laws for the U.S. 2
Tell President Obama to fire Monsanto’s Michael Taylor from his job as Food Czar at the FDA.
Petition to Ban Disposable Plastic Bags | Sign the Petition | Animals #Australia
Plastic bags are responsible for the deaths of over 100,000 marine animals every year. Learn more… A meeting of the Environment Protection and Heritage Council held in April 2008, failed to reach a national agreement for Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea on banning single use plastic carrier bags. The Federal and State Environment Ministers involved had already made a commitment to phase out plastic bags by the end of the year, but opinions differed at the gathering on how to achieve a consistent policy.
Petition to Ban Bee Death-Linked Pesticides Gathers 1.2 Million Signatures | #goodnewsbitches
Sami Grover | January 16, 2012
When I posted on new research linking neonicotinoid pesticides to bee deaths, I noted that bee numbers improved after bans on these insecticides in France and Germany. I also noted that an entire supermarket chain had banned neonicotinoid use on its own-brand produce.
So there’s clear evidence that we can indeed move beyond the use of these chemicals, we just need citizens to push for it. And that’s exactly what they are doing. An Avaaz petition for a global ban on neonicotinoid pesticides 1,247,318 signatures and counting. Add your voice to the call to save the bees.
PROJECT DROP OF WATER +10 (uploaded on 16 Nov 2011 by movimentogotadagua)
Translation of the petition:
Your Excellency President Ms Roussef
Hon. Mr. Speaker of the House of Representatives Marco Maia PT / RS
We, the Drop of Water Movement ask for your commitment and action to prevent another environmental disaster of gigantic proportions:
- ask you to listen to the arguments of the people of the Xingu, environmentalists, scientists and technicians truly committed to finding solutions for sustainable development in Brazil.
- ask for the end of the speeches on environmental platform, and advance toward a true discussion of alternative policies to promote sustainable energy - able to generate the energy needed to develop the country, without ruining an ecosystem of this magnitude
- ask for the discontinuation of the works at Belo Monte and the opening of a broad debate to facilitate Brazilians to reflect on what model of progress they are willing to pursue, aware of the consequences of their choices.
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