Monsanto and Congress Move to Stomp on States' Rights
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 17, 2013
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_27543.cfm
FINLAND, Minn. - The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today called on all members of Congress to reject the King Amendment and any other amendments or riders to the 2013 Farm Bill that would take away states' rights to enact laws requiring the labeling of foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
King is from Iowa where there is a lot of.........corn
Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA) testified on May 15 against the King Amendment. He said:
"I oppose the King Amendment because the amendment takes away important authorities from the states and gives them exclusively to the federal government. The 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution firmly establishes states' rights and many states represented by members of the House Agriculture Committee use their state sovereignty to enact laws that protect their citizens from invasive pests, livestock diseases, maintain quality standards for dairy products, ensure food safety and unadulterated seed products. While this list is by no means exhaustive, even a cursory look at state laws regulating agriculture reveals that laws in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Wisconsin and California, will potentially be nullified by the King Amendment."
Sources in Washington D.C. have told the OCA that even if the King Amendment doesn't make it into the Senate version of the Farm Bill, Monsanto is lobbying its Congressional allies for other measures that would accomplish the preemption or nullification of any state GMO labeling law.
Perhaps it will be a push of a conservative states' rights wing that will stop this ploy.
In any case everyone should wake up to the new "Genetically Modified Democracy"!!
There is a petition link in the story to let your Congress know you are aware and vote.
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