[Gen-Info] "Millions Against Monsanto" campaign launched

[Klaus Schramm]

Take Action! 
Sign the Millions Against Monsanto petition, demanding that the Monsanto 
Corporation:
Stop intimidating small family farmers. 
Stop force-feeding untested and unlabeled genetically engineered foods on 
consumers. 
Stop using billions of dollars of US taypayers' money to subsidize genetically 
engineered crops - cotton, soybeans, corn, and canola.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/monlink.html
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Organic Consumers Association launches, "Millions Against Monsanto" grassroots 
activism campaign
http://www.newstarget.com/019789.html

(NewsTarget) The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) recently launched a 
grassroots campaign "to mobilize one million consumers to end Monsanto's global 
corporate terrorism." 

The "Millions Against Monsanto" campaign website says it seeks to end the 
Monsanto Corporation's intimidation of small family farmers, its use of 
unlabeled genetically engineered (GE) foods in consumer products and its use of 
U.S. taxpayer money to subsidize GE crops such as corn, cotton and soybeans. 
http://www.organicconsumers.org/monlink.html

The OCA website for Millions Against Monsanto cites the experiences of small 
farmers such as Percy Schmeiser, a Canadian farmer whose crops were contaminated 
by a nearby field of Monsanto GE canola. Schmeiser was then sued by the 
corporation, which demanded he pay an expensive technology fee for the GE plants 
in his contaminated field. 

Oakhurst Dairy -- a company that produces milk from cows free of the synthetic 
hormone rBGH -- was also sued by Monsanto, which claims the dairy should not be 
allowed to inform its customers that its products do not contain the 
Monsanto-patented chemical. 

The campaign also calls for an end to Monsanto's environmental pollution, as 
well as the company's close ties to members of the federal government, which 
include Justice Clarence Thomas, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Anne 
Veneman and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, among others. 

Consumers wishing to join the OCA action campaign can find more information at 
http://www.organicconsumers.org/monlink.html