Please Sign: Dump Trump’s Monsanto Man! #NoPerdue! No #SwampCabinet!
Ronnie Cummins- Organic Consumers Assoc.
Dear Friend,
Remember the DARK Act vote last summer? When your Senators had to decide whether or not to block state laws requiring labels on genetically engineered food?
There’s a vote coming up in the Senate that’s even more important. It’s the vote on whether to confirm Sonny Perdue as the next Secretary of Agriculture.
SIGN THE PETITION: Dump Trump’s Monsanto Man! #NoPerdue! No #SwampCabinet!
Former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue is a Monsanto-funded politician who made millions selling fertilizer and gaming the farm subsidy system. He earned his political capital inflaming xenophobic, racist, misogynist and homophobic sentiments by focusing on immigration, the Confederate flag, limiting access to reproductive healthcare, and opposing gay marriage.
Perdue is a climate denier who couldn’t think of anything to help Georgia’s drought-stricken farmers other than to pray for rain. Perdue’s guide to God’s wisdom? Serial sexual predator Bill Gothard.
SIGN THE PETITION: Dump Trump’s Monsanto Man! #NoPerdue! No #SwampCabinet!
How your Senators vote on Sonny Perdue will tell you where they stand on everything related to food and farming, from GMOs and pesticides, to soil health and climate resilience, to farmer contracts and workers rights, to animal welfare and water pollution, to local control and community food security.
Will the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) rubber stamp every GMO and pesticide Monsanto comes up with, even when they’re making us sick and killing off the pollinators?
Will the USDA let Tyson use tricky contracts that cheat family farmers and operate slaughterhouses that risk the lives of workers?
Will the USDA help Chinese-owned Smithfield expand its factory farms that torture animals and pollute our drinking water?
Will the USDA turn a blind eye to the fact that our soil is disappearing so fast that it could be gone in decades? And ignore the fact that regenerative organic farming and grazing is the solution to climate change?
If your Senators don’t vote NO on Perdue, the answer will be YES to all of the above.
The USDA sets food and farm policy—and it’s clear that Perdue isn’t going to make food and farming policy “great again.”
SIGN THE PETITION: Dump Trump’s Monsanto Man! #NoPerdue! No #SwampCabinet!
Thanks!
Alexis & the OCA team
P.S. If you don’t think Congress can do anything to stop Trump’s cabinet picks, read “Senate Democrats Have the Power to Stop Trump. All They Have to Do Is Use It.” Please sign our petition