The People's Email Network Last 25 Messages Transmitted Log Go Back Stop The Monsanto Reckless Release Act ********** [160429:061014] B.G., Milwaukee, WI I'm concerned that releasing GMO products into the wild without testing will damage our environment and perhaps our health. Even more disturbing is that this was added unbeknownst to Senators to the bill. That should be investigated and meanwhile no GMO products should be introduced to the wild. ********** [033045:123113] A.L., Portland, OR stop anonymous bills and stop GMOs in our food. ********** [083248:100413] m.m., Cleveland, OH As a voting constituent and concerned gardener, I urge you to stop the release of poluting chemicals. ********** [092439:053113] J.H., Saint Louis, MO It use to be that a person who owned a horse was responsible for keeping him fenced in. If the horse ran over someone or ran down the highway causing an accident, the farmer was held responsible. Not so with Monsanto and its genetic modified animal-plants. ********** [124636:052913] L.S., Tallahassee, FL Is this the brainless way we make laws in the US?? Please do a better job than this! ********** [084547:052413] C.F., Las Vegas, NV Public Health Issue !!! Stop GMO !! Get Monsanto out of our food, out of our country, out of our GOVERNMENT ! ********** [022456:051713] S.Y., San Antonio, TX Untested and potentially dangerous organisms. ********** [152536:051613] J.E., Houston, TX Sunshine is necessary for good governmental health. ********** [090500:051613] B.B., Temple, GA How can a bill/act pass if not one single person will admit to placing suspect material into the wording? This bill allowing Monsanto free reign should be EJECTED. I do not want GMO foods! Please bring the REAL food back and make companies label GMO's! ********** [094805:051413] H.D., San Pedro, CA Wake up and do your job! ********** [190744:050913] D.M., Lederach, PA The "Monsanto Rider" that was surreptitiously slipped into the recent 'Emergency Spending Bill' is an outrage and an assault on the basic principles upon which our government was founded. It purports to forbid the courts from hearing/adjudicating cases brought against Monsanto for harm done by its GE/GMO crops. Not only does it subvert the clearly expressed will, interests adn rights of the majority of American citizens, but it is a blatant attempt to usurp the power and authority of the entire Judicial branch, a co-equal branch of our government. This is a clear violation of our foundational principle of carefully calibrated checks and balances on governmental power as clearly delineated in the U.S. Constitution. Congress does NOT have the authority to do this. It is an absurd, treacherous and despicable act that cannot stand up to legal or constitutional scrutiny. No wonder the congressman who slipped the rider into the bill did not want to admit it or be identified with it. We now know it was Roy Blunt (R-MO), the 'Senator from Monsanto', with assist from Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) who failed to hold hearings on the amendment. Congress is making itself irrelevant and mocks both the law and constitution to which each member swears an oath. Both Blunt and Mikulski should resign and would if they had any self-respect. Impeachment comes to mind. The rest of Congress should be ashamed of themselves for being a party to such a travesty, especially the Democrats who claimed they did not know it was in the bill. News flash: it is YOUR job and responsibility to READ the bill and ALL amendments BEFORE you vote on them! Do they really have to be told this? But this is only one travesty among many, these days, I'm afraid. It has come to represent the extraordinarily low bar of the Congressional status quo. I suppose once Congress had allowed the Executive branch to usurp it's War Powers and Trade/Treaty Authority, it was a small step further for it to try to usurp the authority of the Judicial branch. Rest assured that we will remember who introduced this, who voted for it and who signed it, come election day. ********** [050520:050813] K.O., Ithaca, NY I am furious that this irresponsible graft made it through with the spending bill! We want whoever did this to be held accountable! ********** [051543:050113] L.M., Las Vegas, NV This action to insert a provision to protect Monsanto and big ag and allow them to continue poisoning our food supply is disgraceful. I fully expect those elected officials of Nevada to investigate and remove this legislation. This is just another of the political games played in Washington to benefit specific interests and is not good for our country or the world. STOP THIS NOW!!! ********** [102642:042913] p.c., Los Angeles, CA Please, if GMOs are truly "safe" then we don't need language in a spending bill that forbids the Dept of Agriculture from intervening in any way. Please ask the Senate Appropriations Committee to look into this episode and remove this language from a spending bill. Thank you ********** [191030:042713] M.K., Seattle, WA Our food is at risk. Monsanto needs to be stopped. The Reckless Food Act needs to be stopped. Monsanto doesn't care what it does to us or people in other countries. How can our government sell out our food industry to a company like Monsanto?? They need to be stopped, not supported by legislation that favors them. ********** [090953:042613] L.F., Chico, CA Monsanto has too much blood on its hands to be given any range of experimentation on wildlife of any kind. PLEASE put our lives back into the hands of the people we vote to represent us, not in the hands of those interested solely in power and profit. Linda F. Chico, Ca. ********** [162812:042513] m.r., West Hartford, CT Washington, DC is a literal crime scene this week, a classic whodunit. Not even Jon Tester, a member himself of the United States Senate, can get anyone to tell him who secretly slipped language into the emergency spending bill that purports to forbid both the Department of Agriculture and the Courts from restricting unsafe GMOs. This provision would purport to force release into the wild of untested and potentially dangerous organisms, and stands to benefit only the corporate special interests of Monsanto in particular. There is a word for this. And the word is graft, making law for the favor of a particular special interest contributor. If this is such a great provision, why is it that nobody will even admit who put it in there? It's not only a crime, it is irresponsible, as so many GMOs have proven to have been a disaster already, just accelerating weed and pest resistance. But Monsanto seeks to do the damage of reckless release into the environment first, and test later. We are demanding a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee to determine who is responsible for putting this in there, and to demand their immediate resignation, regardless of party affiliation, so that this kind of anonymous graft (link to the bill itself) can never happen again. ********** [050837:042413] J.K., Poughkeepsie, NY Please stop the Monsanto Reckless Release Act. This could have unprecedented effects on the environment in a plethora of ways. From local farmers, to the produce and food we eat, to the effect on the bees. You do have the power to help the land we live on, the food we eat, and the future of americans. Give us the freedom and more accessible ability to eat natural crops (non gmo) and top help stop a corporation in its earlier stages from creating a near patent on the food we eat. Sincerely, Jen ********** [013733:042413] A.B., Chattaroy, WA Dear "Elected" "Representatives": Please do your jobs and work toward the safety and health of those you "represent" by disallowing large corporations (like Monsanto) to control, compromise and poison our food supply. Please stop elevating US goverment greed and profit as a priority over sanity and health. I and We Thank You. AB ********** [145550:042213] D.S., Tolland, CT Monsanto has utilized illegal means and other underhanded strategies to gain a monopoly on seed and chemical sales for their benefit which very likely may harm America's food production. They have no respect for the farmers of America nor our own personal well being. ********** [132513:042213] A.F., Toledo, OH Why isn't there a law to stop a Congressman from hiding in deep shadows and secrecy when he has maliciously signed a change to a law that others had wanted? Such a person should receive 100 lashes with a wet noodle and be fined as much as he could afford plus a few dollars more! Then he should be expelled from Congress!-- ********** [235359:042113] D.D., Fairfield, ME Monsanto seeks to do the damage of reckless release into the environment first, and test later. We are demanding a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee to determine who is responsible for putting this in there, and to demand their immediate resignation, regardless of party affiliation, so that this kind of anonymous graft can never happen again ********** [133625:042113] P.G., Sedona, AZ This is outrageous. Stop the Machiavellian Monsanto madness. ********** [121517:042113] B.C., Santa Barbara, CA Take some moral responsibility and reject this act ********** [070441:042113] G.S., Rocklin, CA Just ONE QUESTION to all the ELECTED OFFICIALS back in Washington, D.C.: Why is it that you (who are getting paid excellent salaries and all kinds of benefits) are NOT TELLING YOUR CONSTITUENTS about the IMPORTANT LEGISLATION being surreptitiously passed through the DARK HALLS of CONGRESS? This latest MONSANTO scheme (in the Senate Appropriations Committee) is just the most recent example of GRAFT and CORRUPTION to make its way out into the LIGHT OF DAY. And that's ONLY because of the VERY COURAGEOUS HEROES in our midst (who get no money whatsoever from the taxpayers and lobbyists like you do) graciously take it upon themselves to keep us informed. ALL OF YOU (our elected representatives -- with very few exceptions) are bringing hatred upon America by your actions. Why not try doing the MORALLY RIGHT THING . . . . for a change? Or is that SWEET PERFUME of ILL-BEGOTTEN MONEY just way too irresistable . . . . ??? ********** Go Back