Dear Organic Consumer,

As someone once said, it’s wise to “keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” That’s why I’m a subscriber to the Monsanto-funded “Safe and Affordable Food Coalition” e-newsletter.

And that’s how I know the answer to this question: “How could the U.S. Senate ever vote for a bill as bad as H.R. 1599, the DARK—Deny Americans the Right to Know—Act?”

Answer: Because your Senator is being fed a steady diet of lies.

Any day now, the DARK Act could be introduced in the Senate. It could pass, just as it did in the House.  If we don’t stop it. Please help us raise another $155,000 during this fundraising cycle to help stop the DARK Act. You can donate online, by phone or by mail—details here.

Here’s what I read in the latest version of Monsanto’s fake news email:

As we ready ourselves for the debate on the Safe & Accurate Food Labeling Act in the Senate, we hope you’ll stand with us as we continue to fight for a common-sense, national food labeling law that brings much-needed transparency and consistency to marketplace.

And further down, this:

As we prepare for the next leg of the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act’s journey to becoming the uniform, national labeling law we need — we wanted to share several updates with you.

This is how Monsanto is portraying the DARK Act: as a “uniform, national labeling law.” That’s an argument your Senator likes. That’s an argument that says, hey, we recognize that GMOs should be labeled, so let’s create a “uniform national labeling law.”

But that’s a flat-out lie. 

What the DARK Act actually does, is preempt any attempt by the FDA, or any other federal agency, to require labels on GMO foods. In fact, the DARK Act preempts the FDA from even allowing voluntary labeling of GMO foods.

You know it. I know it. And Monsanto knows it. 

Does your Senator know it? Probably not. That’s why we’re working around the clock, armed with the latest studies, accompanied by unassailable experts, to reach every U.S. Senator.

Can you help support this work with a donation today? Any amount, large or small, will help. Details here on how to donate online, by phone or by mail.

We shouldn’t be surprised that the biotech and Big Food industries are lying about the DARK Act. They’ve lied for years about the effectiveness of Roundup. They’ve lied for years about the ever-increasing amounts of poison being dumped into our soil and onto our food.

But the worst lie of all, is the lie about how sick their poisons have made you, your friends, your families.

Scientists now know (and a recent report reveals that Monsanto has known all along) that glyphosate in low doses can be equally, if not more, toxic than the higher doses that are typically tested..

And the list of chronic and mortal diseases associated with low-dose exposure to glyphosate is long and frightening.

According to the latest numbers by the U.S. Geological Survey, a record 280 million pounds of Roundup were used in 2012. It’s only going to get worse until we convince our regulatory agencies to ban glyphosate.

In the meantime, we deserve to know if our food has been produced with a “probable carcinogen.”

This could be our last hope to require food corporations to tell you if the products you’re buying have been produced with genetic engineering, and Monsanto’s glyphosate—recently classified as a probable human carcinogen. Can you help us raise $155,000 by midnight September 30?