Genetic food giant Monsanto is at it again. Its next target: a new product that could eliminate all organic alfalfa, a key food for raising organic-fed cows and pigs without any genetic engineering. 
The USDA is well on its way to approving Monsanto’s genetically modified alfalfa. In its own report, the USDA says that not enough consumers care enough about organic foods for the USDA to block Monsanto’s modified alfalfa seeds. [1] This is absurd since one of the main reasons people buy organic food is to avoid genetically engineered crops.
The USDA is only accepting public comments for the next two weeks. We need you to write to the USDA right now and tell them they must not approve Monsanto’s mutant alfalfa. We’ll deliver your comments before the deadline. [2]
Click here: http://action.freshthemovie.com/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1753
Alfafa is one of the major food sources for certified organic animals, not only because of its quality as forage, but because Monsanto’s patented genes are already found in 95% of soybeans and 80% of corn. If the USDA lets Monsanto sell its new alfalfa, it will inevitably overtake organic alfalfa crops through the natural pollination process. [3] As a result organic farmers may be feeding their cows genetically modified food.
Just like its corn and soy, Monsanto’s alfalfa is designed to tolerate its leading herbicide: Roundup. We can’t allow Monsanto’s greed to take-over one more crop. The consequences to our choice as consumer, to biological diversity, to the survival of our small and organic farmers depends are too dire.
Monsanto’s domination of our food must stop. For the USDA to shrug it off like nobody cares is to add insult to injury. We only have two weeks to submit our comments.The fight for FRESH food will continue, and with your help we’ll make it clear that people care about the food they eat.
Let’s show the USDA and Monsanto that people want food free from Monsanto’s modifications. Write your comments to the USDA now and say no to genetically modified alfalfa.
The fight for FRESH food will continue, and with your help we’ll make it clear that people care about the food they eat.
Thanks for all you do.
ana Sofia joanes
FRESH the Movie
I just got on here for the evening. What do you mean you beat me?
You strike me as someone who needs a place to work out some problems. It isn’t here.
There are many sites out there who would welcome your attempts to derail and personalize their chat lines. We aren’t one of them. This isn’t a contest.
I can say anything I want…..this is my site. If you roam through our comments you will find an absence of chat line wars. We don’t do them. You are free to agree, disagree or propose something else entirely but you are not free to come here and try to incite a war of words.
I don’t care if you like me, you don’t like me, agree, disagree….whatever. But save the flames for other sites that depend on them for traffic.
I didn’t censor you…..we have six editors….it could have been any one of them. IF your most recent comment is indicative of what you say was censored …I have no doubt one of the editors bounced it off here.
Either way….that is our choice. Please go vent somewhere else. I’m asking you nicely…for now. Marti Oakley
I just beat you! You censored me but left conspiracy freak nutball lugnut nedlud on. How can you say your are neither democrat or republican? The democrat party probably seems like a right-wing kleptocracy to you.
Here is some more ‘progress’ for mr longfellow, check this one out, Marti:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02/pentagon-looks-to-breed-immortal-synthetic-organisms-molecular-kill-switch-included/
I just recently learned how to copy and paste. I’m not quite ready for wordpress!
Okay I won’t make any more comments on this article, but I had to send you the above link.
I’m not really interested in meeting any of these beasts ‘half-way’. No way is the only way.
Frankenstein just doesn’t get it.
nedlud
Nope! they are generated thru WordPress. Ichose them rather than the geometric shapes which I don’t care for. You can upload your own gravatar when you post. Or…one of those little critters will just pop in there.
Marti~
Did you draw those little figures that appear in the right hand corner of comments?
I don’t know anything about this ‘wordpress’ stuff.
Again, I liked your response to mr. longname.
nedlud
You preach to the choir, and then you attack ad hominem. Fine. Look at who I am (I’m a writer, my literary agent is a former Carter intern and press spokeswoman for the Mondale campaign. She represents the journalist Helen Thomas and US Congresswoman Barbara Lee, both rather liberal, and though I am independent my core leans left).
I don’t think you are really kookburgers and conspiracy theorists, but man, you certainly are convinced about yourself. Didn’t I half agree with you? I’m simply quantifying my arguments existentially and not universally.
Why call me names? Will that win you more respect?
Marti~
The guy with the long name is a tool, a plant. Both being names for someone who is stupid. They cannot think for themselves, rather they busily promote ‘product’. I have no such patience, as you display, for them.
In former times, such stupidity was mostly a danger to only themselves. Now they threaten us all….
your friend,
nedlud
I have a bullshit detector too…..
When you can produce one…just one….peice of non-corporate evidence that tampering with, altering, or recombining genes, proteins, and dna is beneficial we will gladly publish it. Unfortunately, when you dig into these issues, what you find is intentionally manipulated data and testing. If in fact, any is done. The FDA nor USDA does any testing and takes the documents provided by the same companies who are buying access from them, and says …..oh yeah! This is just dandy!
I am neither republican nor democrat. I don’t subscribe to either party or their ideaologies. I don;t support any of their candidates or contribute to any of their campaigns.
I’m curious as to how my points could al be valid….but one sided? i am not at all against technological advances. I am however against the practice of “altered functions”. This is where we create something that should be and could be a great benefit to mankind and instead it is used to the detriment of all.
I am not required to be non-biased. This is my blog. It has my name on it. And nothing appears here which hasn’t been thoroughly vetted. For every article we publish, we turn down at least five. Many times, what appears here is in diametric opposition to what I think or believe personally. But! IF the author has a well reasoned argument and supporting documentation….we publish.
Let me ask you this: If genetic modification of seeds is the answer to everything…….if in fact it is beneficial…..why then, does the Artic seed vault contain nothing but heritage and traditional non-gmo seeds? Why is gmo seed prohibited in that vault if it is in fact the answer to the worlds problems?
As for wind farms……I think we should be building them where ever and whenever possible.
Solar panels should be made not only accessible but affordable.
Do you complain to Fox news or any MSM for that matter about their lack of balance? Or the fact that they routinely refuse to broadcast anything other than pre-approved content?
The balance you speak of is determined by where you are standing on the beam. Marti Oakley
(Mankind not manking) In answer to that, fine, all your points are valid. But they are one-sided. There needs to be regulation, but to dismiss a technology because there are negatives including the chance for abuse is sort of primitive, wouldn’t you say? Your argument could be used against any great discovery, whether the car, the airplane, penicillin, air conditioning, the assembly line…in every case (well, w/Salk maybe not, but w/pharmaceuticals yes) people were exploited, predatory corporations profited, and misuse of the inventions caused harm to humans and/or the environment. So? So why don’t we give up?
Right wing nutballs are making the same (in a sententially illogical manner as you) protests against technology such as wind farms and solar panels, simply because they enter the discussion with a bias that trumps reason.
Norman Borlaug is a Nobel Prize winning researcher and expert on the subject. I’m not, though I’m always skeptical of authority. I am aware when someone knows vastly more about a subject than me, and I have a Bullshit detector when it comes to bias. Borlaug is an expert. You are a biased provacateur (judging from your blog, which is not balanced). Prove me wrong.
Caleb
Genetic modification is not the answer to anything, it is however, a grand way to make billions in profits to the detriment of man kind.
You can not call it “progress” when it contaminates, land, water and life. And no one has come up with a valid reason for modifying anything…..don’t you find it strange that we all survived just fine before they tampered with everything?
Now we have Morgellan’s disease where celluous fibres are now growing out of lesions on the skin and multiple studies have documented the damage to human internal organs. Animals fed GMO suffer from inflammatory distress and infection as a result of genetically modified feeds which also by necessity contain massive amounts of chemicals and toxins.
so please….tell me how these thefts of life forms and the subsequent alteration into unnatural creations is “progress”. This isn’t progress…..
I can’t take your side here…genetically modified is progress and science. It needs to be regulated…but not closed to the possibilities of how it can benefit manking.
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