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Alert: Don't Tie AIDS Prevention Spending for Africa to GE Food

Tell Your Senators:

Don't Tie AIDS Prevention Spending for Africa to GE Food

Call Your Senators TODAY: Ask Them to Support Senate Bill 1009

(S.1009), for unfettered AIDS Relief

The Vote is scheduled for Friday, May 16th!!

An AIDS spending bill proposed this week to the U.S. Senate

includes a provision that could be used to blackmail African

countries that have refused to accept genetically engineered (GE)

food aid. In essence, the bill would tie U.S. support money for

urgently needed AIDS drugs to government acceptance of GE food

aid. A version of this odious bill has passed the House, and Senate

leader Bill Frist is expected to bring the House version of the

legislation to the Senate floor this week. African advocates like

Bread for the World oppose this bill and the outrageous provisions

that would punish African countries for excersing their right to refuse

untested GE foods.

The good news is that there is a version of the AIDS bill on the

Senate side, S 1009, that is much better than the House bill. It is

sponsored Senators Joseph Biden and Richard Lugar. It does not

contain the GE food provision, and has much better language on

AIDS prevention strategies.

CALL YOUR SENATORS TODAY! Urge them to support S. 1009,

and let them know that you strongly oppose using TYING U.S. AIDS

SUPPORT MONEY TO ACCEPTANCE OF GE FOOD AID FOR

AFRICAN COUNTRIES. (victims in the biotech industry's genetic

food experiment).

For a list of Senates and their phone numbers go to:

http://www.senate.gov/

To view the bill and its GE food aid provision, go to:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/F?c108:4:./temp/~c10882BaWF:e55890:

(Scroll to the bottom for section g)

For more information about the GE food aid debate, click here for

the Greenpeace investigative report:

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/contentlookup.cfm?CFID=13922&CF

TOKEN=48326407&ucidparam=20021007103422&MenuPoint=G-B

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