Obama's Genetically Modified Food Bill is Bad for America's Health - “Monsanto Protection Act.”

Washington Times ^ | March 28, 2013 | Peter Lind

[slowhandluke]

Try a search on "Monsanto sues" and you'll get a lot of hits. The problems with Monsanto GMO crops and their legal strategy has been noted by both left and right.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/01/14/169318303/monsanto-lawyer-suggests-new-standard-for-suing-farmers:

"For years, the biotech giant Monsanto has provoked outrage among its critics for suing farmers who save and replant seeds, such as soybeans and canola, from the company's patented Roundup Ready crops."

http://www.rodale.com/research-feed/organic-vs-monsanto-organic-farmers-lose-right-protect-crops:Monsanto Defeats Small Farmers in Critical Bioethics Class Action Suit

"In the case the farmers, led by lead plaintiff Bryce Stephens, sought relief against Monsanto in the form a prohibition on Monsanto from bringing suit against organic farmers regarding seed contamination, given the really real possibility of cross-pollination via the wind and animals."

[bgill]

Someone needs to ask Moo if her garden was planted with heritage or GMO seeds and which are being served to her family.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/feb/17/local/la-me-gs-organic-farmers-sue-monsanto-to-stop-patent-suits-20120217

Elsewhere: “Monsanto each year investigates 500 farms whose fields purportedly contain Monsanto’s patented crops, even going as far as trespassing illegally on one Indiana farmer’s land. As of 2006, about 10 years after the commercial introduction of GMOs, Monsanto’s internal records show that as many as 4,531 such cases may have been settled out of court. “And all of these proceedings have been kept confidential.”

[Myrddin]

Congress can set limits on what the court is permitted to accept and process. They passed a crappy law and placed it off limits to judicial action. We do have some flaws in our governmental laws.

[AuntB]

This is a perfect example of what you get with ‘biparisanship’!

Don’t forget the big push on this by Republican Rep. Roy Blunt!

[snip]According to an article published Monday in the New York Daily News, US Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Missouri) “worked with Monsanto to craft the language in the bill.”

http://rt.com/usa/monsanto-bill-blunt-agriculture-006/

[opentalk]

Missouri..Monsanto headquarters. From your link

… Blunt’s Wikipedia page was vandalized this week to read in the first paragraph, “His Senate seat was previously held by Republican Kit Bond, until Bond's retirement, and will be sold by Blunt to Monsanto Corporation upon his retirement.”

[Mortrey]

I wonder if Michael Taylor (former Vice Prez of Monsanto) is STILL Bath-House Barry’s “Safe Food Czar”?

[mountainlion]

Monsanto has genetically modified many plants. The pollen form corn can blow into next field. Monsanto then sues saying that the plants they pollinated are theirs and the farmer needs to pay for the seed. They have already sued many farmers putting them out of business.

[KeyLargo]

A number of my fellow Vietnam War veterans have suffered with the effects of Agent Orange caused cancers. I was based in the Delta where Operation Ranch Hand was very active.

C-123 Veterans: Operation Ranch Hand (color)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j6Ocf-5DTs

http://www.everydayhealth.com/prosta...ncer-4096.aspx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDHClxfT2lI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQKIQDj2dP4
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