Health & Fitness
GE food has been linked to everything from allergies to kidney failure to cancer.
On the eve (May 24, 2013) of a worldwide protest against Monsanto,
71 U.S. senators (listed below) voted against an amendment to the Senate version of the 2013 Farm Bill that would have guaranteed states the right to enact mandatory GMO (genetically modified organism) labeling laws.
Seventy-one Senators voted against you, the 90 percent of consumers who have said that you want labels on foods containing genetically engineered (GE) ingredients.
Seventy-one Senators – including 28 so-called liberal Democrats and 43 Republican so-called defenders of states’ rights - voted against your state’s Constitutional Tenth Amendment right to protect the health, safety and welfare of its citizens and local businesses.
The 71 Senators Who Voted Against Your Right to Know
Alexander (R-TN)........ Ayotte (R-NH)........ Baldwin (D-WI)
Barrasso (R-W........ Baucus (D-MT)........ Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)........ Brown (D-OH)........ Burr (R-NC)
Carper (D-DE...............Cassey (D-PA)........ Chambliss (R-GA)
Coats (R-IN).............. Coburn (R-OK)........ Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)........ Coons (D-DE)............. Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)........ Cowan (D-MA).........Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)........ Donnelly (D-IN)............. Durbin (D-IL)
Enzi (R-WY)........ Fischer (R-NE).......... Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)... Graham (R-SC).... Grassley (R-IA)
Hagan (D-NC)..... Harkin (D-IA).......... Hatch (R-UT)
Heitkamp (D-ND)... Heller (R-NV)... Hoeven (R-ND)
Inhofe (R-OK)...... Isakson (R-GA)....... Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (D-SD)..... Johnson (R-WI..... Kaine (D-VA)
Kirk (R-IL)........ Klobuchar (D-MN)....... Landrieu (D-LA)
Lee (R-UT)....... Levin (D-MI)........ McCain (R-AZ)
McCaskill (D-MO)..... McConnell (R-KY).... Menendez (D-NJ)
Moran (R-KS)........ Nelson (D-FL)............. Paul (R-KY)
Portman (R-OH)...... Pryor (D-AR)........ Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)........ Rubio (R-FL)........... Scott (R-SC)
Sessions (R-AL)....... Shaheen (D-NH)........ Shelby (R-AL)
Stabenow (D-MI)...... Thune (R-SD)........ Toomey (R-PA)
Udall (D-CO)........ Vitter (R-LA).......... Warner (D-VA)
Warren (D-MA)............................WickerR-MS)
It’s time for the 71 Senators who voted against the Sanders Amendment to start voting with the citizens who pay their salaries, not the lobbyists who fill their campaign coffers. If they don’t? It’s time for us to demand that they leave. And vote, or throw, them out if they refuse.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_27635.cfm