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GM Ag corporations thank Jack Kingston for Monsanto rider

A long list of agricultural corporations wrote a letter
thanking Jack Kingson (R GA-01) for working to get the Monsanto rider
into the 2013 Ag. bill:


Again, we commend Subcommittee Chairman Kingston’s efforts and
urge the support of Section 733 in the Fiscal Year 2013 Agriculture,
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act.



This letter is on

Monsanto’s own website.
It contains not one word about public health or quality of food or preservation of farmers who do not choose to

poison people the Monsanto way.
The glyphosate mentioned in the letter is the principal ingredient in Roundup, and



research shows it causes DNA damage even when vastly diluted.
Monsanto’s glyphosate-resistant crops are genetically modified to include a gene which produces a poison that

other research indicates is toxic to humans.
These poisons are what the Monsanto rider makes harder to get out of fields.

June 12, 2012 

The Honorable Harold Rogers 

Chairman 

House Committee on Appropriations 

United States House of Representatives 

H‐307 U.S. Capitol 

Washington, D.C. 20515  		The Honorable Norm Dicks 

Ranking Member 

House Committee on Appropriations 

United States House of Representatives 

1016 Longworth House Office Building 

Washington, DC 20515 


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Dear Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Dicks: 
 

Our organizations strongly support Section 733 of the

Fiscal Year 2013 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriations Act.
The provision will give
growers assurance that crops developed through biotechnology that
have already been approved by the Department of Agriculture (USDA)
can be planted and harvested under temporary stewardship conditions
in the event of litigation against the agency’s decision. We commend
Subcommittee Chairman Kingston for including Section 733 in the
subcommittee bill and urge your support for this necessary provision
when the Appropriations Committee considers this bill later this
month. The provision addresses Continue reading →

Even George Will is calling for drug legalization

We can’t afford this anymore:

A $200 transaction can cost society $100,000 for a three-year sentence.

It’s time to legalize, regulate, and tax drugs,
taking tax money away from private prisons and police militarization,
and freeing it up for education, health care, and rehabilitation.

George F. Will wrote 11 April 2012,

Should the U.S. legalize hard drugs?

Amelioration of today’s drug problem requires Americans to


understand the significance of the 80-20 ratio. Twenty percent of
American drinkers consume 80 percent of the alcohol sold here. The
same 80-20 split obtains among users of illicit drugs.

About 3 million people — less than 1 percent of America’s
population — consume 80 percent of illegal hard drugs.
Drug-trafficking organizations can be most efficiently injured by
changing the behavior of the 20 percent of heavy users, and we are
learning how to do so. Reducing consumption by the 80 percent of
casual users will not substantially reduce the northward flow of
drugs or the southward flow of money.

Will-like, he ignores the real reasons we’re locking up so many people
(corporate greed), but he does get at the consequences:

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