

No to Monsanto and GMO


No to Monsanto and GMO
The Issue
We are greatly alarmed that the government of the USA is allowing the giant Monsanto monopoly to render us wholly dependent on its genetically modified seeds and chemicals for our food supplies. Monsanto's GMOs have not been satisfactorily tested as to the range of their effects, even though researchers worldwide are citing strong evidence of adverse consequences to human health and a risk of rapid collapse of food supplies in the event monocultural GMO strains prove susceptible to any number of organisms or conditions. GMO strains have proven impossible to control, often migrating in a manner that contaminates and/or overwhelms natural-organic human-food crops and native species critical to wildlife and ecosystems. Natural-seed banks do not protect against rapidly-developing, widespread crop failures. Monsanto cannot be trusted to conduct comprehensive tests nor to disclose evidence or proof of adverse impacts on human health. Witness the decades of tobacco industry denial of the many serious impacts on human health from cigarette smoke. Organic agriculture, permaculture and biodiversity are essential to the long-term sustainability of our environment, our health and inevitably our species. Moreover it would be insane from a strictly economic point of view to put us at the mercy of a single corporate monopoly for our survival. We therefore petition for comprehensive, immediate, and decisive governmental intervention against Monsanto and GMO on behalf of WE THE PEOPLE.

The Issue
We are greatly alarmed that the government of the USA is allowing the giant Monsanto monopoly to render us wholly dependent on its genetically modified seeds and chemicals for our food supplies. Monsanto's GMOs have not been satisfactorily tested as to the range of their effects, even though researchers worldwide are citing strong evidence of adverse consequences to human health and a risk of rapid collapse of food supplies in the event monocultural GMO strains prove susceptible to any number of organisms or conditions. GMO strains have proven impossible to control, often migrating in a manner that contaminates and/or overwhelms natural-organic human-food crops and native species critical to wildlife and ecosystems. Natural-seed banks do not protect against rapidly-developing, widespread crop failures. Monsanto cannot be trusted to conduct comprehensive tests nor to disclose evidence or proof of adverse impacts on human health. Witness the decades of tobacco industry denial of the many serious impacts on human health from cigarette smoke. Organic agriculture, permaculture and biodiversity are essential to the long-term sustainability of our environment, our health and inevitably our species. Moreover it would be insane from a strictly economic point of view to put us at the mercy of a single corporate monopoly for our survival. We therefore petition for comprehensive, immediate, and decisive governmental intervention against Monsanto and GMO on behalf of WE THE PEOPLE.

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Petition created on September 11, 2010
