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The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) and Moms across America (MAA) will confront Monsanto (NYSE: MON) executives today at the St. Louis-based corporation’s annual shareholders meeting.
Zen Honeycutt, founder of MAA, acting as shareholder proxy for Harrington Investments, will attend the shareholder meeting. On behalf of Harrington, Honeycutt will present a proposal intended to pave the way for more accountability on the part of Monsanto’s Board of Directors.
Honeycutt also will present scientific evidence linking Roundup’s key active ingredient, glyphosate, to a host of human health issues, and will deliver a stack of personal testimonials, collected by OCA and MAA, from people whose health has suffered because of exposure to glyphosate.
Outside the meeting, two medical doctors—Jeff Ritterman, M.D. and Norm Shealy, M.D.—will speak to protestors on the health hazards of GMO foods and glyphosate at an OCA-led rally. Protestors, dressed in black, carried “Monsanto Is Making Us Sick” banners, and posters featuring the images and words of people who have been injured by Roundup. The groups will end the protest by creating a memorial to the victims of Monsanto’s products, constructed in front of the corporate sign.
Washington DC – (December 10, 2014) —Consumers, farmers, states’ rights and consumer rights activists traveled to Washington D.C. today to attend a scheduled hearing and protest on a bill that would preempt states’ rights to pass laws requiring the mandatory labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).”
H.R. 4432, dubbed by pro-labeling groups as the DARK (Deny Americans the Right to Know) Act, was introduced in April by Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.). It was written with help from the biotech and processed food industries to protect corporate profits.
UPDATE: DEC. 9, 9 p.m. EST: An Oregon judge has ruled against allowing this lawsuit to go forward. We will provide updates as we learn more.
Today (Monday, December 8) eight voters and the Yes on Measure 92 campaign to pass a mandatory GMO (genetically modified organism) labeling law, sued to require the state of Oregon to count about 4600 votes that the campaign alleges were illegally tossed out.
The suit, filed in the Circuit Court for the State of Oregon for the County of Multnomah, alleges that local election boards illegally threw out the votes because the signatures on the ballot envelopes did not match the signatures on the voters’ registration cards.
The Yes on Measure 92 campaign came within 812 votes of winning, triggering an automatic recount which is still under way.
Susan Sarandon and Daryl Hannah Join Over 57 Millions Americans to Warn Brits of the Dangers of GMOs
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today launched a “Factory Farm Free Friday” pledge, calling on consumers to boycott meat, eggs and dairy from factory farms at least once a week - on Fridays.
The pledge focuses attention on the destructive impact factory farms have on human health, the environment, animal welfare and—as world leaders convene next week to address the escalating climate crisis—the role industrial, GMO agriculture and factory farms play in global warming.
FINLAND, Minn. - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued final approval today, over the objections of hundreds of thousands of citizens and more than 50 members of Congress, of Dow AgroSciences Enlist-brand corn and soybeans, genetically engineered to resist massive doses of a combination of 2,4-D- (one of the active ingredients in Agent Orange) and glyphosate (the key ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup herbicide).