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Keep Monsanto Protection Act out of fed. funding

backseatLover12backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
edited September 2013 in A Moving Train
We did it! Environmental champions in the Senate have stripped the Monsanto Protection Act from a major funding bill.

But this fight isn't over yet -- Monsanto's lackeys will almost assuredly try to sneak it right back in during the fight over the government shutdown. This dangerous legislation would put the GMO mega-corporation above the law, blocking citizens like you or me from suing them if their food makes us sick.

Tell your representative to do the work of the people -- not Monsanto. Demand Congress keep the Monsanto Protection Act out of the funding bill!

https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advo ... FNA4_NSRSR
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  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    Everything that is wrong with America wrapped up in one Company
  • ajedigeckoajedigecko Posts: 2,430
    polaris_x wrote:
    Everything that is wrong with America wrapped up in one Company


    Everything?

    Everything you want baby ...
    live and let live...unless it violates the pearligious doctrine.
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    ajedigecko wrote:
    polaris_x wrote:
    Everything that is wrong with America wrapped up in one Company


    Everything?

    Everything you want baby ...

    ya! ... tell me something that is wrong with america and I will attempt to link it to this evil empire ... :)
  • ajedigeckoajedigecko Posts: 2,430
    polaris_x wrote:
    ajedigecko wrote:
    polaris_x wrote:
    Everything that is wrong with America wrapped up in one Company


    Everything?

    Everything you want baby ...

    ya! ... tell me something that is wrong with america and I will attempt to link it to this evil empire ... :)


    My quote was inspired by "Full Metal Jacket"


    Now for the link game ... The amount of kids with no father to help teach.
    live and let live...unless it violates the pearligious doctrine.
  • unsungunsung Posts: 9,487
    polaris_x wrote:
    Everything that is wrong with America wrapped up in one Company



    Ever look at how many former Monsanto executives have been appointed to high level federal government positions over the last six years?

    Hint. It's a lot.
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    ajedigecko wrote:
    My quote was inspired by "Full Metal Jacket"


    Now for the link game ... The amount of kids with no father to help teach.

    sorry ... didn't see that movie!

    ok ... as to your issue:

    without knowing what causes fatherless children ...

    i will speculate that the main causes are:
    1. irresponsibility
    2. incarceration
    3. inability to co-exist with mother
    4. death

    all of these causes can be somewhat linked to the social infrastructure of america ... where poverty and class are impediments to traditional family roles ... this is related to an overall gov't philosophy that does not support these class divisions in a meaningful way ... see the fall of the middle class ... this prosperity gap has made a society that is divided by the haves and the have nots ... i will also speculate that many of the fatherless kids are in low income homes ... monsanto perpetuates this division by lobbying and controlling gov't policy that gives their company a competitive advantage which means only the rich or well off can afford real food like organics ... this in turn means the lower income people have little to no access to real food which in turn affects people from lower classes to function at the level necessary to overcome their poverty ...

    :mrgreen:
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    unsung wrote:
    polaris_x wrote:
    Everything that is wrong with America wrapped up in one Company



    Ever look at how many former Monsanto executives have been appointed to high level federal government positions over the last six years?

    Hint. It's a lot.

    this would be true for all the major asshole industries ... oil, defense, etc ...
  • even flow - question markeven flow - question mark Posts: 1,568
    polaris_x wrote:
    ajedigecko wrote:
    My quote was inspired by "Full Metal Jacket"


    Now for the link game ... The amount of kids with no father to help teach.

    sorry ... didn't see that movie!

    ok ... as to your issue:

    without knowing what causes fatherless children ...

    i will speculate that the main causes are:
    1. irresponsibility
    2. incarceration
    3. inability to co-exist with mother
    4. death

    all of these causes can be somewhat linked to the social infrastructure of america ... where poverty and class are impediments to traditional family roles ... this is related to an overall gov't philosophy that does not support these class divisions in a meaningful way ... see the fall of the middle class ... this prosperity gap has made a society that is divided by the haves and the have nots ... i will also speculate that many of the fatherless kids are in low income homes ... monsanto perpetuates this division by lobbying and controlling gov't policy that gives their company a competitive advantage which means only the rich or well off can afford real food like organics ... this in turn means the lower income people have little to no access to real food which in turn affects people from lower classes to function at the level necessary to overcome their poverty ...

    :mrgreen:


    :)

    The poison from the poison stream caught up to you ELEVEN years ago and you floated out of here. Sept. 14, 08

  • ajedigeckoajedigecko Posts: 2,430
    Polaris x 1pt
    Monstersanto. O


    Next.

    The link between our spectacular media and the stellar reporting that is produced.


    Go.
    live and let live...unless it violates the pearligious doctrine.
  • backseatLover12backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    unsung wrote:
    polaris_x wrote:
    Everything that is wrong with America wrapped up in one Company



    Ever look at how many former Monsanto executives have been appointed to high level federal government positions over the last six years?

    Hint. It's a lot.

    That's right. And that's the point of doing what we can to keep the Monsanto Protection Act OUT OF FED. FUNDING.

    Did you sign the petition? Call your rep?
  • unsungunsung Posts: 9,487
    Over the last two weeks I've received eight letters from my rep due to phone calls made to him. I'm on it.
  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,052
    backseatLover12 wrote:
    We did it! Environmental champions in the Senate have stripped the Monsanto Protection Act from a major funding bill.

    But this fight isn't over yet -- Monsanto's lackeys will almost assuredly try to sneak it right back in during the fight over the government shutdown. This dangerous legislation would put the GMO mega-corporation above the law, blocking citizens like you or me from suing them if their food makes us sick.

    Tell your representative to do the work of the people -- not Monsanto. Demand Congress keep the Monsanto Protection Act out of the funding bill!

    https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advo ... FNA4_NSRSR

    Thank you! Message sent.
    Monsanto sucks: Evil Company Numero Uno.
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    Variously credited to Mark Twain or Edward Abbey.













  • even flow - question markeven flow - question mark Posts: 1,568
    I don't know how they get away with taking a farmers life away, and selling them seeds that kill themselves off after one crop, only to buy more. I wonder how mankind got this far without this corporation?!

    The poison from the poison stream caught up to you ELEVEN years ago and you floated out of here. Sept. 14, 08

  • backseatLover12backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6yCr_P1xwI
  • badbrainsbadbrains Posts: 10,255
    And yet our government swears they work and have the BEST intentions for us..... :fp:
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    ajedigecko wrote:
    Polaris x 1pt
    Monstersanto. O


    Next.

    The link between our spectacular media and the stellar reporting that is produced.


    Go.

    this one is easy ... mainstream media is but a shill for corporations to push the corporate agenda ... propaganda pieces and the like ... food companies are the worst in terms of perpetuating myths in order to get consumers to buy their shit (in every way) products ... biotech companies like Monsanto have their dirty paws in a lot of these food companies that use their strength through advertising dollars and connections to make sure misinformation is delivered accordingly ...
  • backseatLover12backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    polaris_x wrote:

    this one is easy ... mainstream media is but a shill for corporations to push the corporate agenda ... propaganda pieces and the like ... food companies are the worst in terms of perpetuating myths in order to get consumers to buy their shit (in every way) products ... biotech companies like Monsanto have their dirty paws in a lot of these food companies that use their strength through advertising dollars and connections to make sure misinformation is delivered accordingly ...

    I try and push the highlighted on everyone I know. Yet, people continue to follow the media like it's fact. When are people going to stop listening to the media? When are people going to just shut it all off?!!!
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    backseatLover12 wrote:
    I try and push the highlighted on everyone I know. Yet, people continue to follow the media like it's fact. When are people going to stop listening to the media? When are people going to just shut it all off?!!!

    it's pandora's box ... opening their eyes to the possibility that they are being lied to and manipulated is something people just aren't keen on finding out ... it can lead to their structured lives being shattered ... the truth ultimately forces action and change ... and many people don't want that ...
  • backseatLover12backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    polaris_x wrote:
    backseatLover12 wrote:
    I try and push the highlighted on everyone I know. Yet, people continue to follow the media like it's fact. When are people going to stop listening to the media? When are people going to just shut it all off?!!!

    it's pandora's box ... opening their eyes to the possibility that they are being lied to and manipulated is something people just aren't keen on finding out ... it can lead to their structured lives being shattered ... the truth ultimately forces action and change ... and many people don't want that ...

    Yeah, I know that. It's time to wake up. No more excuses.
  • badbrainsbadbrains Posts: 10,255
    polaris_x wrote:
    backseatLover12 wrote:
    I try and push the highlighted on everyone I know. Yet, people continue to follow the media like it's fact. When are people going to stop listening to the media? When are people going to just shut it all off?!!!

    it's pandora's box ... opening their eyes to the possibility that they are being lied to and manipulated is something people just aren't keen on finding out ... it can lead to their structured lives being shattered ... the truth ultimately forces action and change ... and many people don't want that ...
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