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White House Arrests GMO Petitioner
March 5, 2013 by kristalklear
[color=#000000]1 Votes
Who knew that Alexis Badden Mayer of the Organic Consumers
Association would be arrested outside the White House when she attempted
to deliver a DVD Petition with over 200,000 names asking Michelle Obama
to ask her husband to fulfill a campaign promise to label GMO food
products?
There is no more basic American right, than to petition the
government, to speak up and have your voice heard as a citizen by your
elected representatives – but not if you don’t have the money to buy
access to officials who have become more responsive to the interest
groups that finance their elections then the people who elected them.
And so it was with the petition that called for the truthful labeling of
foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs). People want to
know what they are eating and want food labeling to indicate if the food
has been genetically modified.
In this Instant Film, the story gets sidetracked when a couple of
Jewish “missionaries” coincidentally roll up at the White House and ask
to see the President, then perform the Jewish Tefillin ritual which
consists of strapping a small box containing Torah verses to the head
and arm of Adam Eidinger, one of demonstrators. While Adam is strapped
he begins whispering about how GMO foods are not Kosher and how the
insecticides, genetically engineered into corn, are killing the bees.
All this does not go unnoticed by the uniformed Secret Service, who
become increasingly impatient, with a demonstration, now blocking an
entrance, that seems to be spiraling out of control. Instead of
arresting those blocking the entrance, they arrest the person trying to
deliver the petitions, Alexis Baden-Mayer from the Organic Consumers
Association.
by E Becker with minor editing by OM
Thanks to: http://theinternetpost.net
March 5, 2013 by kristalklear
[color=#000000]1 Votes
Who knew that Alexis Badden Mayer of the Organic Consumers
Association would be arrested outside the White House when she attempted
to deliver a DVD Petition with over 200,000 names asking Michelle Obama
to ask her husband to fulfill a campaign promise to label GMO food
products?
There is no more basic American right, than to petition the
government, to speak up and have your voice heard as a citizen by your
elected representatives – but not if you don’t have the money to buy
access to officials who have become more responsive to the interest
groups that finance their elections then the people who elected them.
And so it was with the petition that called for the truthful labeling of
foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs). People want to
know what they are eating and want food labeling to indicate if the food
has been genetically modified.
In this Instant Film, the story gets sidetracked when a couple of
Jewish “missionaries” coincidentally roll up at the White House and ask
to see the President, then perform the Jewish Tefillin ritual which
consists of strapping a small box containing Torah verses to the head
and arm of Adam Eidinger, one of demonstrators. While Adam is strapped
he begins whispering about how GMO foods are not Kosher and how the
insecticides, genetically engineered into corn, are killing the bees.
All this does not go unnoticed by the uniformed Secret Service, who
become increasingly impatient, with a demonstration, now blocking an
entrance, that seems to be spiraling out of control. Instead of
arresting those blocking the entrance, they arrest the person trying to
deliver the petitions, Alexis Baden-Mayer from the Organic Consumers
Association.
by E Becker with minor editing by OM
Thanks to: http://theinternetpost.net
