This post was contributed by a community member. The views expressed here are the author's own.

Community Corner

Heck No, We Don't Want Your GMOs! Monsanto Protection Act is Back!

GMOs & Monsanto - The Monsanto Protection Act that protects the biotech juggernaut from any legal action, even when it comes to federal courts, has been resurrected once again. In fact, this time even more corrupt politicians are trying to go ahead and extend the act in order to help shield Monsanto from the courts.

Unfortunately, the act was passed through being slipped in as a rider on an emergency Senate spending bill. Senators were ‘forced’ to pass the bill with the Monsanto Protection Act included, granting Monsanto the immunity that they were seeking. 

Monsanto has once again managed to weasel its way into legislation by using politicians (who have utterly failed to represent the public in any capacity) to push through a renewal of the immunity. According to the Huffington Post: 

Find out what's happening in Temple Terracefor free with the latest updates from Patch.

“House Republicans will include an extension of the so-called Monsanto Protection Act in the spending bill designed to avert a government shutdown, according to text of the legislation released Wednesday by House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.). The Monsanto measure was originally enacted into law in March by being slipped into the previous spending resolution, which is now set to expire.”

It is now up to us to blast out this news and block Monsanto from receiving immunity once more from the courts. After all, the absolute last thing we need is a DISEASE MACHINE BIOTECHNOLOGY company like Monsanto to have more authority than even the federal government.

Find out what's happening in Temple Terracefor free with the latest updates from Patch.

(Reprinted Article from FB)

Call your representatives and tell them to stop protecting Monsanto! and to label GMOs and ban them altogether!!!!!  This is our future and your children's future GMOs and Monsanto are destroying!

Participate in the October 12, 2013 March Against Monsanto right here in Tampa.  For more information on the March go to FB Page: March Against Monsanto Tampa.  Hope to see you there!

The views expressed in this post are the author's own. Want to post on Patch?

More from Temple Terrace