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Congress and Obama protect (of all companies!) Monsanto


 A new act will require the USDA to issue temporary permits allowing farmers to continue planting genetically modified organisms.

Obama again shows his true colours in protecting big business to the detriment of the general populace.      To think of Monsanto, of all companies, given any sort of "protection" makes the mind boggle.   And that ignores the potential risk to health to which everyone is going to be subjected.   IPS reports.

"Food safety advocates are outraged over revelations that U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama approved an act that includes a provision purporting to strip federal courts of the ability to prevent the spread of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

The provision in the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2013 requires the U.S. Department of Agriculture to issue temporary permits allowing the continued planting of GMOs by farmers, even when a court rules that the agency erred in its environmental impact review of the GMOs.

The provision, which activists call the Monsanto Protection Act, is one for which the multinational corporation Monsanto has been lobbying Congress for at least a year. The legislation passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Mar. 6, 2013 and the Senate on Mar. 21, with Obama signing the legislation five days later on Mar. 26."

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