FW: Kiss your organics goodbye

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Subject: Kiss your organics goodbye

Keep organics safe from GMOs!

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Tell the USDA that you care

about about organic contamination, reject Monsanto's GMO alfalfa!

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Take a stand for organics, tell the USDA to reject Monsanto's

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alfalfa

Everything you thought you knew about organics is about to change. If the USDA

and Monsanto get their way, organic integrity is

about to go the way of the dinosaur.

Once again, the organic industry is under assault. This time the USDA is

determined to let Monsanto ride roughshod over common sense

environmental rules that would protect organic farmers from having their crops

contaminated by Monsanto's genetically modified

seeds.

Tell Secretary Vilsack that Monsanto's GMO alfalfa cannot be allowed to

undermine the organic industry. Comments are due by close of

business on Wednesday, March 3rd. So please ACT TODAY:

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During the Bush administration, Monsanto illegally won USDA approval for its GMO

alfalfa by convincing USDA regulators to bypass a

mandatory environmental review.1 In 2007, a court reversed this decision,

ordering the USDA to complete the legally required

environmental impact statement (EIS).

Shockingly, the Obama Administration's recent review would approve Monsanto's

GMO alfalfa.

The draft USDA EIS was issued in December 2009 and is poised to allow Monsanto's

GMO alfalfa on the market, despite the fact that

the USDA admits that these seeds will contaminate organic feed that organic

dairy farmers rely on to produce organic milk.2

According to the CEO of the largest farmer-owned organic dairy coop in the U.S.,

GMO alfalfa " threatens the very fabric of the

organic industry. " 3 We can't allow this to happen.

Despite massive public outcry in the past, the USDA's environmental review went

so far as to say that U.S. organic consumers don't

care about GMO contamination.

Tell Secretary Vilsack that you care about organic contamination and that you

want him to stand up for the organic industry and

organic consumers.

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Thanks for all you do,

Dave, and the Food Democracy Now! Team

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Sources:

1. Farmers Sue USDA Over Modified Alfalfa Crop, The New Standard, March 3, 2006

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2. Roundup ReadyR Alfalfa Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), United States

Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant

Health Inspection Service (APHIS) website

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3. USDA stance on GM alfalfa threatens " fabric of organic industry " , The Organic

& Non-GMO Report, February, 2010

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