Obama signs Monsanto Protection Act! It's Time to Label GMOs!

[BigBearJohn]

Obama signs Monsanto Protection Act! It's Time to Label GMOs!

We regret to inform you that President Barack Obama has signed H.R. 933, which contained the Monsanto Protection Act, into law. President Obama knowingly signed the Monsanto Protection Act over the urgent pleas of more than 250,000 Americans who asked that he use his executive authority to veto it. President Obama failed to live up to his oath to protect the American people and our constitution.

Today we’re calling on President Obama to issue an executive order to call for the mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods.

Not only is GMO labeling a reasonable and common sense solution to the continued controversy that corporations like Monsanto, DuPont and Dow Chemical have created by subverting our basic democratic rights, but it is a basic right that citizens in 62 other countries around the world already enjoy, including Europe, Russia, China, India, South Africa and Saudi Arabia.

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/obama_signs_monsanto_protection_act_time_to_label_gmos/

[yourout]

1. The thought of Republican President Obama for the next two years scares the hell out of me.

[TheNutcracker]

3. Indeed....

[Nite Owl]

4. Me too. Nt

[840high]

9. ....x10

[TheNutcracker]

2. This is a total slap....just ugly from the president.

[msongs]

5. get over it, the TPP will turn control of all this stuff over to international corporations anyway n

[Fearless]

6. But it's chess I tells ya!

[uppityperson]

7. Snopes link about it prior to now, summary and the text of the bill

This snopes link showed up in a search, looks like some info on the original bill from a couple yrs ago. It was the first thing I saw on search so am including it.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/mpa.asp

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr933/summary
I am not sure if this is the right section, the entire summary is way long, too long to post. This bit had "plant protection", only time I found it in the summary.

Section735 -
Directs the Secretary, if a determination of non-regulated status under the Plant Protection Act has been invalidated, to authorize movement, introduction, continued cultivation, or commercialization for the interim period necessary for the Secretary to complete any required analyses or consultations related to the petition for non-regulated status.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr933/text
Same section, the text.

735.In the event that a determination of non-regulated status made pursuant to section 411 of the Plant Protection Act is or has been invalidated or vacated, the Secretary of Agriculture shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon request by a farmer, grower, farm operator, or producer, immediately grant temporary permit(s) or temporary deregulation in part, subject to necessary and appropriate conditions consistent with section 411(a) or 412(c) of the Plant Protection Act, which interim conditions shall authorize the movement, introduction, continued cultivation, commercialization and other specifically enumerated activities and requirements, including measures designed to mitigate or minimize potential adverse environmental effects, if any, relevant to the Secretary's evaluation of the petition for non-regulated status, while ensuring that growers or other users are able to move, plant, cultivate, introduce into commerce and carry out other authorized activities in a timely manner: Provided, That all such conditions shall be applicable only for the interim period necessary for the Secretary to complete any required analyses or consultations related to the petition for non-regulated status: Provided further, That nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting the Secretary’s authority under section 411, 412 and 414 of the Plant Protection Act.

[Doctor_J]

8. at last free to show the world the real Obama

Who will be the last BOG er to wake up to the truth?

[SoapBox]

10. Obama...WTF happened to you?

There were a few good things but this...this will never, ever be forgotten.

[awoke_in_2003]

11. The TPP president

named an industrial insider as chief of the department of agriculture. We shouldn't be surprised

[cui bono]

12. If only there wasn't an obstructionist Republican congress stopping him

from doing what he really wants to accomplish.