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Siddiqui would represent industry, not best interests of the American people
A broad coalition of groups delivered a petition today to the White House and Senate leaders opposing the nomination of Islam Siddiqui for Chief Agriculture Negotiator with the U.S. Trade Representative’s office. More than 77,000 people signed the petition calling for President Obama to remove Siddiqui’s name from consideration; another 14,000 people emailed their Senators directly; and over 80 organizations sent a letter to the Senate Finance Committee. Siddiqui, a former lobbyist for the pesticide industry, is one of a string of recent nominations who is raising concerns among the ad hoc coalition, which includes sustainable agriculture, family farm, farmworker, environmental, anti-hunger and trade groups.
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If you saw the film Food Inc., you heard Michael Pollan talking about the prosecution of farmers across the country by Monsanto for patent infringement. Starting several years ago, CFS discovered that Monsanto, the world’s leading agriculturalbiotechnology company, has used heavy-handed investigations and ruthless prosecutions that have fundamentally changed the way many American farmers farm. The agribusiness giant has sued hundreds of farmers over GMO crops, and has been awarded more than $20 million from these farmers. The result has been nothing less than an assault on the foundations of farming practices and traditions that have endured for centuries in this country and millennia around the world, including one of the oldest – the right to save and replant crop seed.
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GE crops increase herbicide use by 383 million pounds from 1996 to 2008, with 46 percent of the total increase occurring in 2007 and 2008
Genetically engineered (GE) corn, soybeans and cotton have increased use of weed-killing herbicides — a type of pesticide — by 383 million pounds in the U.S. from 1996 to 2008, according to a new Organic Center report titled “Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use in the United States: The First Thirteen Years” announced today by The Organic Center (TOC), the Union for Concerned Scientists (UCS) and the Center for Food Safety (CFS). In addition, GE corn and cotton have reduced insecticide use by 64 million pounds, resulting in an overall increase of 318 million pounds of pesticides over the first 13 years of commercial use.
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Bestselling author of Grub and Hope’s Edge, television host, and public speaker, Anna Lappé has devoted herself to ensuring a safe and sustainable food supply for both farmers and consumers, for this and future generations. Like you, Anna knows the value of an organic and truly sustainable food system, and that is why she supports the work of the Center for Food Safety.
Unfortunately, many in agribusiness stand in the way of our shared vision for a sustainable future and they continue to promote a one-size-fits-all, industrial view of food production. The Monsanto’s of the world dream of a completely industrialized food supply, one wholly dependent on pesticides, chemical fertilizers, artificial hormones, and patented genetically engineered crops and animals.
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