Thursday, January 14, 2010

Tell the USDA to Reject Monsanto's GE Alfalfa!

Nature thrives and survives because of diversity. Creating millions of acres of mono-culture, industrialized crops is an invitation to disease and crop failure. Of course Monsanto's answer to that is spray the planet with its pesticieds derived from the Agent Orange it sold to the military to defoliate Vietnamese jungles and oh, inadvertently, give both US soldiers and Vietnamese a vareity of toxin-induced disorders. They are planet killers for profit!
Tell the USDA to Protect Organic and Reject Monsanto's GE Alfalfa!
The USDA is getting closer to approving Monsanto's genetically engineered alfalfa.  One of the biggest impacts of allowing the use of GE alfalfa is contamination of other crops, including organic alfalfa, which is used by most organic dairies.  The USDA actually acknowledges the problem of contamination, but claims consumers and others in the organic movement may not care about the contamination.  This is absurd, considering one of the main reasons many people seek out organic food is to avoid genetically engineered crops.

We need to let the USDA know that consumers don't want genetically engineered foods, and don't want organic foods to be contaminated.  Tell the USDA to reject the approval for Monsanto's GE alfalfa.
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