Monsanto Charged With Crimes Against Humanity

Monsanto has been attempting to monopolize the global food supply with their patented crops for decades.

Monsanto produces Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone that has potential carcinogenic capabilities and causes mastitis in cows. Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone will fatten up cattle faster and allow cows to produce more milk, but at what cost?

Monsanto produces Glyphosate, which is also known as Roundup. The World Health organization has recently declared roundup a probable carcinogen. Last month, the Center for Biological Diversity’s annual “Dodo Award” went to Monsanto for its reckless peddling of glyphosate, a carcinogen that’s driving loss of wildlife and diversity around the globe.

According to other recent research, glyphosate may also promote antibiotic resistance by disrupting gut bacteria and dysregulating manganese utilization; manganese accumulation in bile acids allows salmonella to gain a stronghold there.

Monsanto has donated millions of dollars to both democrats and republicans in an attempt to squash GMO labeling laws, even though the vast majority of Americans want GMOs labeled!

Monsanto has also advertised heavily against every GMO labeling law that has ever come up for a vote.

Earlier this year, dozens of food, farming, and environmental justice groups announced they will put Monsanto on trial for “crimes against nature and humanity” on October 16, 2016 (World Food Day), in The Hague, Netherlands.

The steering committee for the Monsanto Tribunal includes Vandana Shiva, Corinne Lepage (former environment minister of France), Gilles-Éric Séralini (toxicologist researching toxicities of GMOs and glyphosate), and Olivier De Schutter (former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food), among others.

90% of Americans Want to Know If Their Food Is GE.

According to the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), 80% of the foods on your grocery store’s shelves contain GMOs (now referred to as

GEs), but virtually none of them are labeled.

As concerns about pesticide toxicity and other potential health hazards associated with GE foods grow, more and more people want to know what’s in the food they buy. According to a December 2015 poll, 9 out of 10 Americans now want mandatory labeling for GE foods.

Moreover, 88% want that information to be clearly listed on the food label, rather than having to use a smartphone to scan a QR code to find the information.

You Can Contact Your Senators in Washington to Support GMO Labeling

You can also find your Senators’ contact information by calling the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121. A phone call has greater impact than an email.

You can also sign the Food Democracy Now!’s petition, addressed to members of Congress, the FDA, and the President Obama.

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