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IMPORTANT UPDATE:

The AP just uncovered a series of confidential commercial licensing agreements that give around 200 smaller companies the right to insert Monsanto's genes (resistant to Monsanto's Roundup herbicide) into their corn and soybean plans. These agreements outline the various practices that Monsanto employs to block out competition in the seed industry, compromising any choice that small farmers might have in the deicison not to grow GMO plants.

Now, more than ever, we need to make sure the Department of Justice recognizes that we won't stand for this any longer. Please sign the petition and spread the word to your friends and family to do the same.

You can read the AP article here.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2009-12-14-monsanto-practices_N.htm

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There is a monumental opportunity in 2010 for us to break the monopoly that is plaguing our food system.

President Obama's Department of Justice is finally looking into the stranglehold that a handful of huge corporations have on farms across the country.

These corporations - like Cargill and Monsanto - have monopolized huge swaths of our country's food and farms, resulting in tremendous negative consequences on our food security, on the ability of small farmers to compete and survive, and ultimately on consumer choice.

For farmers to survive and thrive, we need the government to take action that restores real competition to the farm economy - not the current situation where a few corporations in the grain, seed, dairy and livestock sectors hold excessive control.

In 2010, the Department of Justice will hold public hearings to discuss anti-trust issues in agricultural production. This could be the first step towards the government taking long-needed action to help break the corporate control in our farming and food system.

We'll deliver your signature and comments to the Department of Justice.

SIGN OUR PETITION

Department of Justice:

The current monopoly in our food system is threatening our food security, the livelihood of our small farmers, and our choices as consumers. 

We need to break up these corporations' total control on our food.  We support your decision to investigate the impact of the consolidation of our farm economy on our farmers and community and we urge you to then act to free our farmers and reinstate meaningful competition.

0-25 of 6892 signatures

Number	Date	Name	Add your thoughts or comments - we'll deliver them to the Department of Justice!
6892	July 28, 2010	Joel Ochsenreither	All we want is truly clean,healthy,local beyond organic food .
6891	July 27, 2010	Anonymous
6890	July 18, 2010	Anonymous
6889	June 20, 2010	Michele M
6888	May 25, 2010	craig walker
6887	May 25, 2010	nancy walker
6886	May 20, 2010	Lacey Donaldson	We do have a fundalmental right to produce, and choose what food we want to eat & feed out children. The FDA has become a puppet for the corporate farms.
6885	May 18, 2010	Kristen Williams
6884	May 13, 2010	Alicia Carberry	I want to show my wholehearted support for the little guys. Sincerely, Alicia Carberry
6883	May 09, 2010	Anonymous
6882	May 02, 2010	michele clark	NO GMO's!!!! Free our Farmers~~
6881	April 30, 2010	Russell Davis
6880	April 28, 2010	Satyra Oberfrank
6879	April 28, 2010	Barbara Richardson	Diversity is at the heart of ecological survival, and we have to maintain seeds and food products that have different characteristics. We risk catastrophe should weather, disease or pests destroy the Monsanto crops..
6878	April 28, 2010	Anonymous
6877	April 28, 2010	Anonymous	Anti Trust laws were designed to protect us from monopolistic forces exerting non competitive effect upon the market. We currently suffer from an absence of this protection. Please bring reason back to the discussion table. The impact statements evaluating this technological direction have not been well designed or evaluated to illuminate the dangers at hand.
6876	April 28, 2010	Celine Fischer
6875	April 28, 2010	Deanna Sanderson
6874	April 28, 2010	Stacy Russell
6873	April 28, 2010	Anonymous	Give farmers in the U.S. a fighting chance to supply us with local, fresh, organic food. We don't want Monsanto's crops! We have every right to know if our food has been tampered with!
6872	April 28, 2010	Cheryl Spencer
6871	April 28, 2010	Elizabeth Hingle	I don't eat meat because I'm scared of what's in it and what has been done to the animal before it has reached my dinner plate. I want the right to eat good, unaltered food, please.
6870	April 28, 2010	Travis Basham	Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.
6869	April 28, 2010	Anonymous
6868	April 28, 2010	Rosemary Scully

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