I ask that you take a stand for what is right!

President Obama,

I am an American who is concerned that my desire and interest to eat and grow healthy, non GMO foods is never going to be something that your administration will ever take an interest in.  I would like to know, why there is an organic garden at the White House?  Can it be that you and your family consider that eating organic healthy foods important but not for the rest of the country?

Last Thursday the USDA announced a policy that supports the interests of Monsanto and big biotech and deals a major blow to organic farming.  Please take Big Ag out of my government.  Please put my choices and safety first.  I am asking for the freedom to choose what I grow and to choose to know what I buy.  Support our local farmers and support better politics in this area.

In your Blueprint for Change you said.. "[Obama] will also provide tax incentives to make it easier for new farmers to afford their first farm. Obama will increase incentives for farmers and private landowners to conduct sustainable agriculture and protect wetlands, grasslands and forests."

Now you need to take a stand.

Monsanto has been seen as a foe to family-based agriculture, the backbone of America, by introducing dangerous changes to plants and animals and by using strong-arm legal tactics against farmers for decades.   Naturally occurring plant and animal species are permanently threatened by the introduction of DNA and hormonal modification, Monsanto's core businesses.

Your legacy of supporting Monsanto to have free rein in U.S. food policy is a nightmare scenario that is against the interest of all Americans and world citizens.  Monsanto's objective to use biotechnology to change the world's food supply is the opposite policy direction your administration should pursue.

President Obama, I oppose your appointment of Michael Taylor, a former VP and lobbyist for Monsanto, the widely criticized genetically modified (GM) food multinational, as senior advisor to the commissioner at the FDA. Taylor is the same person who as a high-ranking official at the FDA in the 1990s promoted allowing genetically modified organisms into the U.S. food supply without undergoing a single test to determine their safety or risks. This is a travesty.

Taylor was in charge of policy for Monsanto's now-discredited GM bovine growth hormone (rBGH), which is opposed by many medical and hospital organizations. It was Michael Taylor who pursued a policy that milk from rBGH-treated cows should not be labeled with disclosures. Michael Taylor and Monsanto do not belong in our government.

This unthinkable linkage between food safety and corporate interests that have little regard for the public health must be stopped.  Please take a stand for something that is meaningful in any part of anything related to (Truth-in-Labeling, Unlimited commercial planting of GE Roundup Ready Alfalfa

We need to unite in action to restore sanity to our food system, protect farmers, and preserve consumer choice.