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Farm Bill - Vote YES on Amdmts 934, 952, 969, 972, 978, 1025, 1027, 1033, 1042 & 1083

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[112156:060716] M.L., Sacramento, CA
All of these amendmentsites are so important to all our lives.
These should have been in place and part of our lives long ago.

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[113418:052014] B.L., Veyo, UT
We have the right to freedom of choice in whether we wish to consume GMOs or not. It should be labeled at the very least. Monsanto's GMO"S are VERY detrimental to our health, our farmers that our trying to produce healthy food and our environment!!!

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[214923:061113] J.F., Cornville, AZ
As a mother and a healthcare professional I value the ability to have and recommend healthy food choices. I believe it is a fundamental freedom to be able to knowledgeably choose the foods I chose to eat and encourage others to eat to maintain or regain health. Please protect the fundamental right to know what we are eating, choose who we obtain our food from and be able to support family farming again.

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[193141:061113] V.D., Leadville, CO
Stop or label GMO's - we want to know what we're eating! Enough too of all the chemicals on crops and fields, you're poisoning the soils and the very Earth we live on - protect the Earth and it's life forms or we will die with them!

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[174751:061113] d.s., Powell, OH
Eventually, everyone in your family, neighborhood, and country will be adversely affected by GMO's. It has been proven in Europe that they can cause autism, not to mention many diseases. Please stop them. Does Monsanto totally own the USA?

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[172800:061113] B.C., Harvard, MA
I am a homestead farmer and keep sheep, goats, and chickens. Most legislation these days is damaging to small farmers because it originates from giant agribusinesses and their lobbyists, who are working to defeat their smaller competition - small farmers. I urge you to support these bills. Thank you.

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[104855:061113] J.T., Pittsford, NY
It may be too late of the vote has gone through, but it is never too late to revisit the issue of protecting what remains of our bee population and labeling GMOs which is the right of all Americans to have. Thank you for protecting Americans over the industries that are hurting our food supply.

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[102109:061113] R.O., Two Rivers, WI
As an Integrative Family Physician for over 35 years, I can testify that food in it's purest, most unadulterated form is THE most important 'medicine' we have. Any food may give energy to the body, but to begin or keep or rebuild and maintain a body in or to a robust state, we must feed it at a cellular level, and only clean, natural foods grown in clean, natural environments (air, water and earth) can do this. Man made chemicals hinder this process and have caused great decline in the general health of our Nation.

I have seen and continue to see the ravages of poor diets and chemical toxicity, even in newborns. Once damaged, bodies are difficult to restore. The way to health and life is to be preventative. The way to health and life is to honor and protect our earth and every living thing that grows, swims, flies or roams here.

We must be good stewards of ALL life. We MUST eliminate chemicals and adulterated foods. We must choose life over profit.

We must cherish our earth, water and air as if our lives depend upon it, because they DO.

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[100150:061113] D.B., Gilbert, AZ
I urge you to think of the health of people not the profits of large corporations. Even Europe and Asia have denied these.

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[094902:061113] J.M., Silver City, NM
I am quite concerned about the direction food production is going. Mother Nature provides food seeds capable of nourishing humans in the best possible way, whereas chemical companies care not about nutrition, but rather the sale of their toxic herbicides and pesticides. GMO plantings have been shown to contain formaldyhyde, among other poisons, and I really don't want to see this in our food chain. At least give us the option to op-out by labelling GMO infused food items.

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[092812:061113] J.S., Lehi, UT
I am an active mother of a 6 year old boy and we drink wonderful raw milk and enjoy pastured eggs from Real Foods Market in Orem, Utah! I feel that my son, and husband, and myself are so healthy due to our ability to purchase fresh, clean dairy, meats, and produce among other things from Real
Foods! If we don't support and get these bills passed my family and many others will suffer!!! Also all of the health of our community will suffer with the horrible unnatural GMO's and added hormones and chemicals to our foods!!! Please take time to be informed and thoroughly educated on what's happening to our food in America and why we have so many higher rates of heart problems and cancers and other diseases now that our ancestors NEVER dealt with in the past because of what's been deteriorating our health through our food!!!! Thank you, Julie Smith: nutrition and health activist, mother, wife, and Latter-day Saint!

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[092747:061113] B.F., Ravenwood, MO
We bought 10 hives of honeybees in 2011. We had a good first year, then in 2012, all the bees just disappeared except one hive. We do not use any chemicals on our six acres, just sea mineral. It is fairly easy to assume that there is something in the environment that is harming our natural pollinators. Please vote yes on these amendments to the farm bill. I completely support each and every one of them and expect you to do the same. Thank you.

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[091236:061113] M.M., Fort Lauderdale, FL
I have, as does every citizen, a right to choose what I eat. Implicit in that is the need for small farmers and their way of life to be protected. They provide the avenues to the most basic, healthy food available, with centuries of breeding for sustainable products and yields.

Small farmers know what "responsibility for ones actions" means. The interests of both Monsanto and large food corporations are most definitely at odds with any semblance of this. GMOs eliminate the farmer's control of what they plant and how it is processed--once those modified genes are released, there's no getting them back.

GMOs themselves AND the pesticides and herbicides they are designed to withstand still have unproven consequences. The companies developing and marketing these products MUST be held responsible for any of their "fallout".

I buy as many of my groceries as possible from small farmers and producers because they are fulling-disclosing of their practices. Please help ensure that my options to do so remain open. Thank you for your attentions to this matter.

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[082638:061113] S.I., Warwick, NY
It is time to stop giving our FOOD RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS away to corporations and chemical companies. We want labeling and the right to grow chemical and GMO free foods all over this country. YOUR OWN HEALTH needs this and it is important that you become more sensitive to these issues!

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[075638:061113] T.7., Taylor, TX
Please require the labeling of GMO food and protect our freedom to choose the food we want to eat. I don't consider genetically modified and industrialized farm foods safe.

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[074615:061113] K.C., Excelsior, MN
The Non-GMO Agriculture, Small Farmers and Food Freedom in Farm Bill is very important to me as a Minnesotan. As my representative in Washington I would expect you to vote for it passing. Monsanto must be stopped, the overwhelming majority of US citizens DON'T WANT GMO food and want to see it labeled. Please stop ignoring the citizens you have sworn to serve. The Obama's won't eat GMO in the White House, they eat nothing but organic food (at our expense) yet they don't seem to care that we get it forced on us!!

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[073701:061113] C.Z., Sausalito, CA
I have had many health issues caused by poor quality of food created by our industrialized agricultural complex, that only looks out for itself. I have to avoid all GMO foods, as they have been found to be quite toxic. If Monsanto and Co. think they are so great why do they feed organic only to their employees? GMO farming is even destroying the earth itself, as now plants grown in the Round Up environment are succumbing to diseases that never were threats to crops. The FDA needs to protect us and not Monsanto and other chemical companies out to keep us all sick so they can make obscene amounts of profits. It's disgusting. I buy only from small farmers who grow organic healthy food and it is not fair or ethical to put them out of business.

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[071603:061113] K.E., Montrose, MN
We the People demand to be heard! It's past time to stop bowing to corporate interests!

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[070143:061113] D.J., Ventura, CA
Monsanto must not be allowed to poison us and our children for profit. Please pass these amendments.

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[061457:061113] S.H., Portland, OR
Food is medicine. GMO's are poisoning our food and us. Please help keep our food nutritious and healthy.

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[060411:061113] B.B., Alcoa, TN
Allowing MONSANTO to have special favoritism of protection is discrimination--- NO matter how much they have lobbied or contributed to the campaigns of various congressmen who are apparently 'for sale to the highest bidder.'

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[055709:061113] K.G., San Jose, CA
I am a professional business woman with a family who is sick and tired of over regulations that restrict my choices. Government should return to its core reason for existing which is to serve the "people's" best interest and not those who want to profit at the expense of my family's health.

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[055340:061113] K.P., Linden, NC
These amendments are simply the right thing to do. Please vote yes.

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[053836:061113] r.w., Tampa, FL
These amendments are absolutely critical for farmers and consumers to thrive. Please vote yes to this list of amendments.

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[045224:061113] S.B., Whitmore Lake, MI
I have a small 82 acre direct to consumer fruit and vegetable farm in Whitmore Lake, Michigan. Farmers like me have never benefitted from farm subsidies, direct payments, and insurance programs in previous farm bills. Please level the playing field. Help farmers growing actual healthy food more.

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