National Coalition of Organized Women
Representative Mark Kuhn (D-Floyd) is playing the part of David in a behemoth battle play against the Giant Biotech industry, directed by Governor Vilsack, who seems to be the first cloned governor of the nation. Written by the U.S. Corporate-ruled government; executive producer: The World Totalitarian Octopus (WTO)
A nationwide initiative, in the form of the bill Iowa HF 202 (amended to HF 642) and SBS 1144 (now SF 259) has quietly and quickly passed out of the House and Senate agricultural committees destined now for a suppressed debate on the House floor, perhaps in as little as 72 hours, unless we can wake up the media and our legislators to our OUTRAGE. The March 2nd, Des Moines Register gave a mere 2 by 6 column to the globe-shattering takeover by Agribusiness of the seeds of Iowa and the State of Iowa's usurping of all local rights over seeds.
“What 202 really is is an attempt to prevent, in Iowa, what has happened in California, where counties have banned the growing of genetically engineered crops. It is basically a front for the biotech companies to try to push the biotech agenda and disallow local control,” said Jeffrey Smith, author of the bestselling book Seeds of Deception.
This national State model bill, rolling rapidly across the nation, completes the final takeover of God's seed by private corporations and gives the thumbs up to a technology that, in effect, sterilizes the procreative value of Mother Earth. “The terminator technology,” says Eileen Dannemann, director of the National Coalition of Organized Women, which was founded in Iowa in the early 1990’s, “is an audacious move against all members of all species; all kingdoms; all classes of the female gender. . . . This technology can only result in a spontaneous abortion by Mother Nature, depression and scarcity. . . . Having been cauterized, sterilized and chemicalized was not enough,” Ms. Dannemann continues. “The corrupted, weak and powerless politicians, the greedy executives, the ungodly ones, the egotistical scientists and victimized farmers who have lost the knowledge of true land stewardship, have relentlessly implanted Mother Nature's womb with genetically engineered mutant alien life forms.”
Dannemann calls this travesty “the global agricultural holocaust (GAH) or the imminent agricultural collapse (IAC). That is . . . GAH and IAC, the choking sounds of the great Mother as she struggles to survive this final assault.”
In a private battle in the agriculture committee, Tuesday, March 1st, Representative Kuhn introduced an amendment that would define genetically engineered seeds. The amendment, which would put a definition in the Iowa State Code, was summarily defeated 14 to 7.
“The State Code defines all other agriculture seed: hybrid seed, vegetable seed, weed seed,” explains Rep. Kuhn, but not genetically engineered seed. Why the resistance and obvious omission? In lieu of a definition, Mona Bond, the lobbyist for the Biotech Industry, in her discussion papers, refers to GE seeds simply as It. “How can we regulate a seed when we can't even define it?” questions Rep. Kuhn.
”To invest 90% of Iowa's agricultural portfolio in an untested technology that has already demonstrated risk, like the StarLink debacle, is irresponsible,” said Rep. Kuhn in his final remarks to the agricultural committee. He continued, “What would you say about your financial advisor if he invested 90% of your stock portfolio in one stock and it crashed?”
URGENT ACTION
*Please call and/or email today, tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday, the Des Moines Register's assistant managing editor, Randy Essex, and demand that he cover, on the front page, one of the most historically significant events in the history of mankind: the takeover of agricultural seed by agreement between the State, the Federal government and the agribusiness and biotech industries.
Randy Essex: 515 284-8461
Email: ressex@DMReg.com
*You can contact your own Iowa legislators at this site, or call in Des Moines at 515-281-5566. It is best to call them at home due to the enormous number of e-mails they get with many going un-read.
*You can also contact your County Board of Supervisors. Their state organization is lobbying against HF 202, but, locally, many of them are actually unaware of their imminent loss of power.
Submitted by Larry Hanus of Waterloo.
