[Oe List ...] from ICA colleague Lucille Chagnon

[lifeline248]

Dear OE colleagues:
For those of you concerned about how greatly Monsanto continues to seriously harm the food we eat and the planet, this alarm--with a March 3rd deadline--just in from the Food for Democracy Now Team <info at fooddemocracynow.org>
When the main page comes up after you click on of the the blue lines below, click on Click here(right after:  Not Lucille Chagnon?--which you are obviously not; I am) and you can quickly enter your own info.  
I've never copied something like this, but this is a biggie.  Let this be the Witness I didn't write this year.
Grace, Peace, and Love,
Lucille Chagnon, a colleague since the late 60s (when I was Sr. Lucille Tessier), now living in VA with my husband of 31 years, Richard.

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

Dear Lucille,

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:

http://fdn.actionkit.com/go/111?akid=88.93545.mOxr3E&t=6

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 theUSDA 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.

http://fdn.actionkit.com/go/111?akid=88.93545.mOxr3E&t=8

Thanks for all you do,

Dave, Lisa and the Food Democracy Now! Team

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Lucille T. Chagnon
Literacy Acceleration Consulting

4176 Vivian Street

PO Box 438

Chincoteague, VA 23336-0438

lifeline248 at aol.com

www.teachtwo.net  
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