A Message from Vandana Shiva: Help Us Fight For The Truth

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Dear Jan,

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This Ad Makes

Us Sick – Help Us Fight For The Truth

 

Have you seen this advertisement? Couched deep within the green-washed

rhetoric of a recent Monsanto ad is an egregious claim:

Producing

more. Conserving more. Improving farmers’ lives. That’s

sustainable agriculture. And that’s what Monsanto is all about.

Oh, really?

While the mainstream media and

Big Ag pundits seem all too happy to watch how Monsanto and other

biotech companies spin and co-opt the term

“sustainability,” we at the Center for Food Safety (CFS)

are on the front lines fighting against the corporate take-over of our

food, farms, and future; advocating for REAL, sustainable, solutions to

the problems of the biotech industrial agriculture model.

Over the next month, CFS will be

bringing you videos from some experts with whom we work closely in the

trenches—Michael Pollan, Vandana Shiva, Anna Lappé, and

CFS’s Executive Director Andrew Kimbrell—to help us tell

you the real truth about the false claims put forth by Monsanto and

other biotech companies. We’ll share with you why these

leading activists support the work of the Center for Food Safety.

CFS has been fighting on your

behalf since 1997. We have accomplished a lot – we’ve

stopped GMO crops including wheat, rice, and alfalfa, and also

dangerous pharmaceutical-producing crops. We’ve beat Monsanto in

the courts, but they have the substantial resources to continue to

challenge CFS; just

this week, they asked for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider yet

another appeal of our successful lawsuit stopping GMO alfalfa.

We can only accomplish these

victories with the support of members like you. Please join Vandana

Shiva in supporting our work, to raise the funds we need to continue to

fight Monsanto in the courts, and to combat the twisted version of

“sustainability” biotech company marketers are trying to

foist on the world. We need your help, right now, to raise our goal of

$100,000 this Fall -- less than the amount Monsanto spent on just ONE

AD on the back page of The New Yorker (about $140,000), to support our

important work.

 

HELP US

FIGHT FOR THE TRUTH AND BUST THE BIOTECH MYTHS

In this week’s video,

Vandana Shiva, founder and director of Navdanya in India, leader in the

Slow Foods Movement, and author of the recently released book, Soil not Oil,

shares the tragic story of farmers pushed into intractable debt, and

some to suicide, by the economy of biotech crops, and why she supports

the work of the Center for Food Safety.

We cannot allow Monsanto to

“steal” sustainability, capitalizing on the hard work of

CFS, Vandana Shiva, and you, our members. We cannot sit back and watch

them co-opt our years of advocacy for sustainable, just, and healthy

food and farms to promote their unwanted, untested, and unlabeled

products!

Please help us meet our

goal of $100,000 dollars this fall by donating as generously as you can

and becoming a paid member of CFS today. Our members are our most

important asset, and we have provided you with cutting-edge research

and reports, timely and effective action alerts, and petitions to help

make your voice heard for free all of these years because of it. If you

appreciate all that you have received from the Center for Food Safety

and our True Food Network over the years, and want to help us continue

our important work, please show us with a generous contribution!

 

Help us show the world that

Monsanto’s vision is NOT our vision. Thank you for your support!

PS –

Don't forget to choose a thank you gift from our drop-down list when

you donate! Get a copy of Your Right to Know, Grub, Soil Not Oil, In

Defense of Food, the film " Food, Inc., " our Non-GMO Shopping

Guide, and more!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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