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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Green Living / It’s Time to END the Monsanto Protection Act

It’s Time to END the Monsanto Protection Act

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

Stop the Monsanto Protection ActYou know things have gotten really bad and tyranny is basically at your doorstep when the legislature of a government that’s gotten far too big for its britches starts passing “laws” favoring a small group of corporations and the patented products they produce without any debate or even a vote.

Sound hard to believe and completely unconstitutional at least in the United States?

It happened recently when The Monsanto Protection Act was first passed in March 2013.  Quietly and without debate, it was added to a bill (called the Continuing Resolution) which continued to pay the government’s bills through September 30, 2013.

Politico reporter David Rogers explained in his expose “Big Agriculture Flexes its Muscle,” that this rider favoring Monsanto was never voted on. Rogers, a seasoned political reporter, describes how the Monsanto Protection Act became law “with little or no floor debate and in a period of turmoil.”

According to the Organic Consumers Association, “the backroom deal that made the Monsanto Protection Act law generated a public backlash. It was the subject of a Daily Show episode. And it helped spawn a worldwide March against Monsanto, reported on by the New York Times.”

It’s Time to Right This Very Terrible Wrong – NOW

On September 30, 2013, the Monsanto Protection Act should sunset for good.

However, on September 20, 2013, the U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of the Continuing Resolution (H.J.RES.59), a bill to keep the government running through December 15, 2013. The bill already promises to force a showdown with the Senate because it includes a provision to defund Obamacare.

The Continuing Resolution also extends the Monsanto Protection Act, euphemistically referred to as the Farmers Assurance Provision, which gives biotech firms immunity from federal prosecution for illegally growing GMO crops. 

People, if you’ve never picked up the phone to call your Senator before, today is the day to do it!

**Please call your Senators right away and ask them to pass a clean version of the Continuing Resolution, one that doesn’t extend the Monsanto Protection Act. 

The phone number for the Capitol Switchboard is (202) 224-3121.  Call and ask to be connected with your Senator (give the operator your state). Alternatively, you can find the individual senators’ phone numbers here.

The Organic Consumers Association suggests the following simple script:

“I’m calling to ask the Senator to oppose the Farmers Assurance Provision, sometimes referred to as the Monsanto Protection Act, and to vote no on any bill, including the Continuing Resolution, which includes the provision.”

If you want to go into more detail, you can add:

“New GMOs aren’t regulated enough as it is. Even the American Medical Association complains that the Food and Drug Administration doesn’t safety test new GMOs for human health risks before allowing them on the market for human consumption. The AMA last year recommended that GMOs undergo mandatory premarket safety testing.

“The U.S. Department of Agriculture does conduct a mandatory review of new GMOs, but not for human health risks.

“The USDA is notorious for ignoring the impact new GMOs will have on organic and non-GMO farmers who experience serious economic losses when their crops are contaminated.

“In recent years, the courts have had to step in and stop the planting of new GMOs. The courts did this by requiring that the USDA complete a thorough Environmental Impact Statement before approving a controversial crop. The Monsanto Protection Act strips the court of its constitutional power to review executive branch decisions, which means the courts can no longer intervene in order to protect the public. Now, the USDA can rubber-stamp new GMOs and, even if serious harm could result, the court can’t stop them from being planted.

“I hope the Senator will work to stop the Monsanto Protection Act from being extended past September 30 and vote against any bill that includes it.”

Thank you for your help in righting the terrible wrong that was committed against the American people last March.  Let’s kill the Monsanto Protection Act for good.

UPDATE:  Well done friends!  It looks like we have a victory to celebrate.  According to the Food Revolution Network:

“Yesterday, the Senate stripped the “Monsanto Protection Act” from its version of the continuing resolution to keep the government funded.

This controversial piece of legislation, which is still in effect until the end of this month, allows biotechnology companies to sell genetically modified seeds even if a court blocks them.

It was snuck into a government funding bill six months ago, and the House voted to extend it last week. But the Senate, led by Senator Jeff Merkley and others, decided that protecting Monsanto at all costs was not necessary in order to keep the government running.

No one really knows what’s going to happen when the House and Senate try to reconcile their very different government funding bills. But any way you slice it, this is a big victory for those who love real food.”

And now in 2019, with Monsanto (now owned by Bayer), getting taken to court by thousands of plaintiffs with the latest being awarded $2 billion in damages, being stripped of its legal protections is having a severe effect.

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: the bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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Comments (8)

  1. Jennifer

    Jun 3, 2015 at 6:08 am

    Thus, it’s high time to END Monsanto itself as a merchant of death! The more especially as this biotech giant always finds a backdoor even after imposing the legal restrictions and bans on its poisonous products in many countries all over the world
    ireport . cnn . com/docs/DOC-1239314
    globalresearch . ca/the-end-of-monsanto/5452183

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  2. Joyce

    Oct 4, 2013 at 5:23 pm

    It’s time to END MONSTANTO! PERIOD!

    Reply
  3. Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

    Sep 26, 2013 at 12:17 pm

    Well done friends! It looks like we have a victory to celebrate. According to Food Revolution Network:

    “Yesterday (September 25, 2013), the Senate stripped the “Monsanto Protection Act” from its version of the continuing resolution to keep the government funded.

    This controversial piece of legislation, which is still in effect until the end of this month, allows biotechnology companies to sell genetically modified seeds even if a court blocks them.

    It was snuck into a government funding bill six months ago, and the House voted to extend it last week. But the Senate, led by Senator Jeff Merkley and others, decided that protecting Monsanto at all costs was not necessary in order to keep the government running.

    No one really knows what’s going to happen when the House and Senate try to reconcile their very different government funding bills. But any way you slice it, this is a big victory for those who love real food.”

    Reply
  4. Julie

    Sep 24, 2013 at 4:59 pm

    Done! Sometimes I doubt that our phone calls amount to a hill of beans but I am, as are all of you, passionate about our food supply. The last time I emailed/called my senator in Wisconsin about the farm bill, she said that Monsanto was feeding the world. Further response regarding Monsanto was all the lies she had been fed about how genetic tampering with seeds has gone on for centuries, etc. etc. It was a diatribe filled with 1/2 truths supplied to her by the enemy itself. I’ve got my GMO myth busters sheet handy now.

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    • John

      Sep 25, 2013 at 2:45 pm

      I have actually sent email on 4 topics recently and got replies on each. One Senator replied back and was very wishy-washy on the matter. My point being at least my email counted… don’t know how much. You know what grates me is these “food factories” are lumped in with the term farmer. When someone says farmer you think something completely different than what goes on. Anyhow see in my Senators response quoted below

      “Section 735 in H.R.933 clarifies the Secretary of Agriculture’s authority to partially deregulate a biotechnology trait by introducing temporary stewardship requirements that allow farmers to continue to grow and harvest a crop previously deemed safe and deregulated but being challenged in court. Nothing in Section 735 requires the Secretary to grant a temporary permit nor does Section 735 prevent the Secretary from revoking the temporary permit at any time.”

  5. John

    Sep 23, 2013 at 2:45 pm

    Done. thanks for the heads up. I really wish line item veto no never mind. Let the house and senate do their jobs.

    Reply
  6. Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

    Sep 23, 2013 at 2:33 pm

    I just called my 2 Senators from FL – Mark Rubio and Bill Nelson and left a voice mail (lines were busy) to please oppose the inclusion of the Farmers Assurance Provision, aka Monsanto Protection Act, in the Continuing Resolution. It took 3 minutes. Let’s fill up their mailboxes and overwhelm the staffers!

    Reply
  7. B

    Sep 23, 2013 at 2:18 pm

    Just called my 2 senators. It’s easy to do, and so important.

    I used the talking points above and made sure to point out that the Monsanto Protection Act is deceptively called the Farmers Assurance Provision, and that it puts a corporation above the law, putting profits above public safety and taking away the ability of the courts to make this corporation obey the law.

    Reply

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