Monsanto Protection Act of ‘No Concern’ to Senate?
Hundreds of thousands of people signed petitions and called their representatives and senators when word first surfaced of a law designed to give biotech firms immunity from federal prosecution for illegally growing GMO crops. The Farmers Assurance Provision, dubbed the “Monsanto Protection Act,” was nonetheless, in March, quietly and without debate slipped into the Continuing Resolution, a bill to fund the government through September 30.
Now, with a new deadline looming for another possible government shutdown, the Monsanto Protection Act is back, thanks to House Republicans who have kept it in their version of the new Continuing Resolution (H.J.RES.59). Once again, the public is up in arms over this blatant gift to the biotech industry, and slap in the face to the public.
But according to a Jennifer Hing, a spokeswoman for the House Appropriations Committee, all of our protests have fallen on deaf ears. Hing told the Huffington Post that she doesn’t expect the Senate to reject the Monsanto Protection Act: "We have received no indication that this is a concern," she said.
Wow. Speechless. No indication of concern? Okay, let’s keep trying. Please call your senator and ask him or her to vote no on the new Continuing Resolution (H.J.RES.59) unless the Farmers Assurance Provision, aka Monsanto Protection Act, is removed. Then send your Senator a note. And while you’re at it, call your representative, too.
TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to Vote No on the Continuing Resolution unless the Monsanto Protection Act is removed
