The following handouts are offered for those wanting information they can offer to others. Many of the provided materials, including the first five items about the lawsuit and the underlying issues are designed so they can be printed on two sides of a single sheet of paper.
Everyone is asked to help share information about the issues with all the people they know. The goal is to generate robust discussion and the illumination of the truth because everyone who eats has an ox in this arena. All of offered information backs up our arguments against Monsanto and their amoral pursuit of profit with equally amoral government support.
Handout Information About the Lawsuit and the Issues Being Raised:
A1. Poster about the lawsuit originally developed for use at the FarmAid concert in 2011. It provides a one page summary of the arguments being asserted in the lawsuit together with a full list of the plaintiffs. To Read the Poster Text in PDF, Click this First Link: FarmAid Poster Text about Lawsuit.pdf Click Here to Download a Copy of the Above PDF File.
A2. The Destructive, Genetically Compromising Story about Monsanto’s transformation from a chemical company into the world’s largest seed company imposing its control over the world’s seed marketplace and also over farmers, food, the environment, and the health of consumers. To Read the File in PDF, Click this First Link: The Story Behind Transgenic Ag.pdf Click Here to Download a Copy of the Above PDF File.
A3. “The Destructive, Moral, Political, Scientific, and Genetic Expediencyof Transgenic Food and Agriculture and the Myopic Culture Supporting It”laying out the cultural environment of the political decision to release transgenic food onto the market in 1992 and to persist with it ever since then without the needed attention to understanding the impacts. To Read the File in PDF, Click this First Link: The Expediency of Transgenic Food.pdf Click Here to Download a Copy of the Above PDF File.
A5. Ten Questions to Ask People about the Nutritional, Public Health, and Environmental Damage Resulting From Transgenic Agriculture” Designed to facilitate consumer discussion and activism on the issues. To Read the File in PDF, Click this First Link: Ten Talking Points.pdf Click Here to Download a Copy of the Above PDF File.
B2. Seed Giants vs. U.S. Farmers, a 2013 publication by our co-plaintiff Center for Food Safety and Save Our Seeds reviewing all the underlying issues and events related to the contentions asserted against Monsanto. To Read the File in PDF, Click this First Link: Seed Giants v U.S.Farmers CFS.pdf Click Here to Download a Copy of the Above PDF File.
B4. Gene Giants Seek Philanthrogopoly, March 2013 Report of from the ETC Group about the efforts of the leading biotech companies to circumvent anti-trust regulation and maintain market control through contracts even after their patents have expired. To Read the File in PDF, Click this First Link: Gene Giants Seek Philanthrogopoly ETC.pdf Click Here to Download a Copy of the Above PDF File.
B21. Brief Pesticide Action Network blog posting by Heather Pilatic explaining the reasons why the Stanford Meta-Study comparing organic and chemical food missed the point. Of course, it intended to miss the point because the study was designed to muddy the waters and the public thinking ahead of the vote on Proposition 37 in California in 2012 To Read the Document in PDF, Click this First Link: Stanford Food Study Missed Point.pdf Click Here to Download a Copy of the Above PDF File.
B27. Personal Statement by co-plaintiff Don Patterson in Response to the Announcement by Whole Foods that they will require labeling of transgenic food in their stores in 2018 (a letter from Whole Foods Texas neighbor, Fred Lundgren, to John Mackey is included in the statement). To Read the Document in PDF, Click this First Link: Response to WholeFood and JohnMackey.pdf Click Here to Download a Copy of the Above PDF File.
B31. Avaaz discussion of the Monsanto threat with their appeal for support to build an international network of citizens opposing the damage Monsanto has done and is still doing. A bibliography of articles is included. To Read the Document in PDF, Click this First Link: Break Monsanto’s Grip Avaaz.pdf Click Here to Download a Copy of the Above PDF File.
B33. The Organic Consumers Association answers “13 Lies from the Opponents of GMO Labeling Laws” as they have been circulated in Washington state against the ballot initiative I-522 and were also circulated against Proposition 37 in California in 2012. To Read the Document in PDF, Click this First Link: 13 GMO Lies Answered by OCA.pdf Click Here to Download a Copy of the Above PDF File.
