Time to Put the Brakes on Monsanto

From my e-mail In-Box --


So-called "Monsanto riders," quietly slipped into the multi-billion dollar


FY 2013 Agricultural Appropriations bill, would require -- not just allow,

but require -- the Secretary of Agriculture to grant a temporary permit for

the planting or cultivation of a genetically engineered crop, even if a

federal court has ordered the planting be halted until an Environmental

Impact Statement is completed.



That's why I created a petition on SignOn.org to Congress and President

Barack Obama, which says:  "Stop the Monsanto Riders."

Unless a citizen's army of farmers and consumers

can stop them, Congress is likely to ram these dangerous riders through

any day now.



Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to

your friends.



Thanks!



--Robert Shepherd



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