gmo rally in augusta, maine

Right To Know GMO: Citizen Lobby Day

Thursday, May 30th
8:00 a.m. To 4:00 p.m.
At The Capitol In Augusta

Please come to the State House to help us shore up support for Maine’s landmark legislation requiring labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food. Momentum is building as the campaign moves forward. We need your help to continue to exhibit a strong public display of support as this bill comes to a vote in the House and Senate.

calling all vermonters

Your tiny state is about to take on the wrath of monsanto.
Courage! Solidarity! Get out the vote!

Rural Vermont – ACTION ALERT & Legislative Update
Now is the time for Citizen Action on Labeling Genetically Engineered Foods
PLEASE JOIN US AT A GRASSROOTS ACTION FORUM!  Montpelier tonight, Burlington and Middlebury tomorrow.

With one week to go before the Legislature takes its annual break for Town Meeting Week, momentum is building for H.112, the bill which will require that genetically engineered food sold in Vermont be labeled.

The House Agriculture Committee has once again taken hours of testimony from a wide variety of witnesses and the Committee’s Chair, Rep. Carolyn Partridge, has indicated that the Committee will vote on the bill by the end of this week.

important to watch these cases

Because that farmer is all alone out there facing a MEGA corporation with fangs.

In a front page story on Saturday, the Post writes up a case that might go to the Supreme Court about a farmer who planted surplus seed from a grain elevator and is being sued by Monsanto, because some of it was Roundup Ready.

Read the article HERE

a new, and super good looking DIY labeling campaign

to demonstrate how pervasive are GMO ingredients in processed foods:

Print out the labels.

Slap them around.

Make sure your mother is adequately informed, and rallying up her posse to join in the furor.

With consumer outrage there is retailer response.

With retailer action comes brand action

With brand action comes better farming practices.

Better farming practices leaves us with a liveable planet.

and the posibility of future Goodness.

soil microbial life

drinkable water

healthier food.

For goodness sake. Lets make a stink!

x Severine

GmoInside http://www.facebook.com/GmoInside

http://gmoinside.org/caution-gmo-inside-seven-ingredients-to-watch-out-for/

mapping a GMO free europe

As you may know, recent studies conducted in France have shown significant toxic effects from the use of Roundup. And particularly tumors in rats in feeding studies.

http://www.gmo-free-regions.org/gmo-free-regions/maps.html

genetic roulette

Jeffrey Smith’s brand new film, Genetic Roulette, can be watched free for the next week: http://geneticroulettemovie.com/ 

This is an incredibly comprehensive documentary about the impact of GMOs. If you eat food, and especially if the food you eat comes from a store, then you should watch this video.

When the US government ignored repeated warnings by its own scientists and allowed untested genetically modified (GM) crops into our environment and food supply, it was a gamble of unprecedented proportions. The health of all living things and all future generations were put at risk by an infant technology.

After two decades, physicians and scientists have uncovered a grave trend. The same serious health problems found in lab animals, livestock, and pets that have been fed GM foods are now on the rise in the US population. And when people and animals stop eating genetically modified organisms (GMOs), their health improves.

This seminal documentary provides compelling evidence to help explain the deteriorating health of Americans, especially among children, and offers a recipe for protecting ourselves and our future.

rock the barn

Rock the Barn, put together by three friends, is a (non-funded) promotional bicycle tour for prop 37, the labeling of GMO ingredients in California, and for small organic farms in California. We’re going from San Francisco to Los Angeles on August 6 – 17.  We’re bringing a guitar, saxophone, and hand drum. Our band is Becky White and the Secret Mission, www.beckywhitemusic.org. This ain’t our first rodeo, and we want it to be huge.

If you’re for prop 37, are against GMOs, or think Monsanto is an evil empire, then please support this tour.  

plant pathologist on GMOs

The Truth about GMOs
Plant Pathologist Don Huber Reveals the Risks
interview by Melinda Hemmelgarn for Natural Awakenings

At least 70 percent of processed foods in supermarkets contain genetically modified (GMO) ingredients, mainly from corn, soy, canola, sugar beets and cottonseed oil. Yet the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not require GMO food labeling, despite overwhelming consumer support for their “right to know.”

Genetic engineering goes beyond traditional plant breeding because it allows scientists to cross species barriers and insert a gene from one organism into another that would not normally occur. Examples include inserting bacterial DNA into a plant to effect traits such as pest or herbicide resistance. Plant Pathologist and Purdue University Professor Emeritus Don Huber, Ph.D., speaks out internationally about the risky business of biotechnology.

We are told we need GMOs to “feed the world,” but will GMOs provide affordable food for the masses, as Monsanto ads tell us?
There is nothing in the GMO process that has added any new yield potential to any crop. All of the yield increases achieved in the past 15 years have been through traditional breeding programs.

super insects?

First Super Weeds, Now Super Insects — Thanks to Monsanto
May 30, 2012 by Dr. Mercola

A new generation of insect larvae is eating the roots of genetically engineered corn intended to be resistant to such pests.  The failure of Monsanto’s genetically modified Bt corn could be the most serious threat ever to a genetically modified crop in the U.S.

And the economic impact could be huge. Billions of dollars are at stake, as Bt corn accounts for 65 percent of all corn grown in the US.

The strain of corn, engineered to kill the larvae of beetles, such as the corn rootworm, contains a gene copied from an insect-killing bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt.

But even though a scientific advisory panel warned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the threat of insects developing resistance was high, Monsanto argued that the steps necessary to prevent such an occurrence — which would have entailed less of the corn being planted — were an unnecessary precaution, and the EPA naively agreed.

continue reading HERE

a sugar beet discussion

Sugar Beet Industry’s Opinion on Roundup Ready Sugar Beets
and Frank Morton’s Response

The pro-biotech web site “Truth About Trade & Technology” published an article written by a farmer named Noel Kjesbo, who is a sugar beet producer in the Red River Valley (North Dakota and Minnesota – he doesn’t say specifically which state he farms). Noel was responding to the lawsuit brought by OSA and others against USDA-APHIS for the improper deregulation of a Roundup Ready sugar beet. Noel accused Organic Seed Alliance and the co-plaintiffs of being ”fraudulent”, “dishonest”, “selfish”,  and of using “misleading names”. He believes that we are using “global terrorism and food scares” to cause anxiety around food safety, and specifically the safety of genetically modified foods.

label it yourself

http://labelityourself.wordpress.com/
The Label It Yourself (#LIY) campaign empowers people to make educated decisions about what is in their food, without waiting for government or corporations to do it for them.

label gmos

We can’t say enough about the importance of this California ballot initiative to label GMOs.
Educate yourself!  The Committee for the Right to Know has developed an excellent website: labelgmos.org complete with FAQs, events, news and some compelling videos:

dining in the dark

short and sweet:

Just Label It .org

food democracy and dr. huber

On January 17, internationally recognized plant pathologist Dr. Don Huber, wrote a letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack warning of the discovery of a new pathogen and a possible link between Roundup Ready® (GMO) corn and soybeans and severe reproductive problems in livestock as well as widespread crop failure.

Less than 3 weeks later, the Obama administration approved 2 new Roundup Ready® GMO crops, set to be planted this spring… Read on about Dr. Huber’s discovery. If it gives you pause, sign our petition to ask Sec. Vilsack to stop these seeds from being planted until further research is done.

That video is just part one.  Watch the rest at Food Democracy Now.org