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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:20.0pt;text-align:center;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Horrific Results of New GMO Food Study Reveal Obama Has Abandoned FDA
Regulation to Chemical Industry Profits</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:center;text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Increases in Tumors & Disease in Rats Fed GMO Food Discovered in
First Long Term Peer Reviewed Study</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">WASHINGTON, DC</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial"> – Occupy Monsanto, a decentralized network of food activists who
organized 65 protests at GMO manufacturer Monsanto facilities across the globe
this week, is calling on the Barack Obama Administration to clean house of
appointed former Monsanto executives who intentionally ignore the serious
health impacts of eating genetically engineered food due to their conflict of
interest. A new GMO food study released today gives alarming evidence of
GMO-induced lethal health complications in rats. The data casts an ominous
shadow on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) where imperative consumer
regulation of GMOs is handled by former Monsanto executives. Read the new
European GMO study at <a href="http://research.sustainablefoodtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Final-Paper.pdf" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://research.sustainablefoodtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Final-Paper.pdf</span></b></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Occupy Boston and the Occupy Monsanto Do Wop Chorus will be meeting at
8:00 a.m. at the corner of Athenaeum and W. Kendall, Kendall Sq., Cambridge, on
Sept. 24, 2012, to prepare to serenade the employees of the nearby Monsanto offices
starting at 8:30 and continuing until we just can’t croon anymore. All welcome!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">“Activists are renewing
their push for the FDA to review the long term safety of GMO food prior to its
introduction to the food supply,” says Occupy Monsanto spokesperson Gene Etic.
“European researchers confirmed today rats fed GMO food developed tumors and
other serious health problems at an alarming rate compared to the control
group. It isn’t too soon to pull GMO’s out of the food supply based on today’s
news. The FDA has an obligation to protect people from unhealthy food but as
long as former Monsanto executive <a href="http://occupy-monsanto.com/tag/michael-taylor/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Michael
Taylor</span></b></a> is running food safety for Obama nothing will be done to
protect Americans.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Absent a new approach by
the Obama Administration, the new study will fuel more GMO protests that are
increasingly becoming disruptive as demonstrated last Wednesday, September 12,
when activists calling themselves the <a href="http://occupy-monsanto.com/genetic-crimes-unit/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Genetic
Crimes Unit</span></b></a> (GCU) shut down shipping and receiving access points
at Monsanto’s massive <a href="http://occupy-monsanto.com/tag/oxnard/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Oxnard,
California GMO seed factory</span></b></a>. By peacefully blockading the exit
and access points at the factory, the group <a href="http://occupy-monsanto.com/tag/oxnard/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">shut down</span></b></a> the
distribution of genetically engineered (GMO) seeds for a day.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">“If the government refuses
to stop the distribution of deadly GMO seeds in the food supply, more and more
activists will engage in acts like last week that stopped GMO seed distribution
for about 6 hours in the state of California,” says Ariel Vegosen who was
arrested with 8 others in Oxnard and charged with trespassing.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Monsanto is the largest
producer of GMO seeds. Actions officially started on September 17, a year since
Occupy Wall Street movement began and took place throughout the world including
the 45 protests in the US alone and many others in Germany, Canada, India,
Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Argentina, Australia, Spain, Russia, Peru and
Japan. More info as well as video available for media use with credit of the
GMO protests can be found at <a href="http://Occupy-Monsanto.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://Occupy-Monsanto.com</span></b></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Spokespeople for Occupy
Monsanto are available by email <a href="mailto:gmo@occupy-Monsanto.com" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">GMO@Occupy-Monsanto.com</span></b></a>
or calling Adam Eidinger at <a href="tel:202-744-2671" value="+12027442671" target="_blank">202-744-2671</a></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>"Our goal is a society that prioritizes the needs of all before the profits of the few." passed by Occupy Boston General Assembly 11/29/11</div><br>
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