Tucson and other Southern Arizona towns will be part of the worldwide marches against Monsanto happening Saturday.
Aside from the usual demands for a global ban of the company’s seed monopoly and toxic herbicides, some of the protests happening on U.S. soil hope to influence “no” votes for a bill in Congress— which has been nicknamed the DARK Act—that would prohibit states from creating and implementing their own GMO labeling laws, giving the U.S. Health and Human Services sole discretion on the issue. If it passes, it would overturn legislation in places like Connecticut, which became the first state to require GMO labeling. The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act (critics call it the Deny Americans the Right to Know Act) is up for a vote next month.
Anti-GMO advocates have tried passing labeling bills for years. Another was introduced this legislative session, but went nowhere.
The Tucson march is hosted by GMO-Free Tucson and Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage. If you’re down, head down to the Pima County Public Library, 101 N. Stone Ave., at 4 p.m. There will be music and healthy eats from Food For Ascension Café and other food trucks (all GMO-less, of course).
If you’re up for a road trip, the demonstration in Sierra Vista starts at 10 a.m. at the Veterans Memorial Park, 3105 E. Fry Blvd.
This article appears in May 21-27, 2015.
Tucson – No Growth, No Jobs, No Future.
But, if you want to go back to the cave and live in a cult, Tucson is for you.
Dumb!!! Absolutely stupid!!!! Better said – evil!!!!
I wager that not one of these anti-GMO types has stood next to a person dying of starvation – needless starvation, because GMOs could be planted where nothing else can survive the pest and/or weather conditions. I have been there and seen the suffering, even the death of many because of ill-informed, emotion-based beliefs.
By way of example, the outlawing of DDT has caused the death of millions, yes millions for the same reason. I have personally buried children, with their parents, in the malaria- infested jungles of Africa that would be alive if not for the banning of DDT.
Banning of GMOs is equally evil, yes evil as it will kill people – GMOs will not.
I’m sorry, but what does that comment have to do with the post you’re commenting on? I realize that you’ve only got one card to play, so you’re going to play it until it wears out, but you might get more traction for it if it is used where appropriate.
Also, most, if not all, cult members live in houses, not caves. Some live in very nice houses, like the ones lived in by Tom Cruise and John Travolta.
When food makes you sick, and idiots and corporations won’t allow labels on food you just got to wonder why. So why no labels, you can sell all that you want (to idiots) but label it. Or do you know something about it, that you don’t want to label. The European Union labels it so any not here?