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Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:14:40 EDT

[MedicalConspiracies] Have you been preempted yet?

 

 

 

 

 

Organic Consumers Association

 

 

 

http://www.jimhightower.com/node/5774

 

STEALING LOCAL DEMOCRATIC AUTHORITY

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Posted by Jim Hightower

 

 

 

Have you been preempted yet?

 

You probably don't know it, but chances are that your state

legislature either already has passed or is considering laws to steal

an important level of local authority from you and the other folks in

your city, town, or county. The present focus of this preemption power

grab is on local governments around the country that have been

responding (as they should) to the corporate effort to contaminate our

food supply with genetically modified organisms.

 

These GMOs literally alter the DNA of the food we put in our family's

mouths, including transferring animal genes into fruits and veggies.

There has been no longterm testing of the human and environmental

impacts of these Frankenfoods, yet the federal government has meekly

let Monsanto and a few other purveyors of genetically-manipulated

seeds to put this stuff into our food supply †" without even having

to label the foodstuffs as having GMOs in them.

 

Consumers, farmers, environmentalists, and other sane people don't

want the Monsantos to use us as their guinea pigs, so they have

already gotten more than 100 local governments to ban GMO crops within

their area. This has infuriated the corporate powers, who have spent

tons of money to defeat these local bans... but lost. So, for the last

couple of years, they've been sneaking off to state legislatures to

pass laws (often with no debate) that take away our local control over

this health issue.

 

To date, 14 states have stripped this democratic decision-making power

from local people †" and corporate lobbyists are moving to take it

away from local governments everywhere.

 

This is Jim Hightower saying... No matter how you feel about GMOs in

your food, this orchestrated corporate power grab is stealing the

fundamental right of our communities to protect our families' health

and shape our own future. To learn what's happening in your state,

call Environmental Commons: 707-884-5002.

 

Sources:

" Securing Local Control of Our Food & Environment, " Environmental

Commons, October 2005.

" Background: Industry Aims to Strip Local Control of Food Supply, "

Environmental Commons, 2004.

" Biotechnology State Uniformity Resolution, " ALEC, May 2004.

 

 

 

 

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