CALLING OUT SUMOFUS.ORG: Sharing amazing PR stuff to read. Its from a group called SumofUS asking that you support the shareholders of Monsanto ? Is this devious PR or what ? These guys are pro - probably expensive and very effective. I am concerned that many people including anti Monsanto activists will fall for it and actually vote to support Monsanto. Please share this widely with the warning insidious and effective. Subject: 4 days: Monsanto From: [email protected] To: lindacheu@hotmail Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 13:18:38 +0000 Monsanto is refusing to come clean to its own shareholders on the risks of GMOs. With all of our support, SumOfUs organizers are heading to St Louis to support the crucial shareholder vote. Now, we need to show all the big shareholders and the Monsanto board of directors that we’re watching. Sign the petition now to demand Monsanto stop hiding the costs and risks of GMOs from its own shareholders. It’s business as usual for Monsanto: insist it’s doing nothing wrong, while opposing any request to be open about the risks of GMOs. But this time, it’s Monsanto’s own shareholders who are asking questions. Their simple request is that Monsanto stops keeping them in the dark on genetically-modified food -- and they need our support. After over 6,000 of us chipped in, SumOfUs organizers are headed to St Louis for the crucial shareholder vote -- working tirelessly to win the support of the big investment funds. But unless Monsanto and its shareholders feel the massive community opposition to their agenda, they’ll conclude they can ignore us and vote against GMO transparency. That’s why we need to act now. Sign the petition to tell Monsanto: don’t hide the costs of GMOs from your shareholders and the public. We’ll deliver our voices at Monsanto’s annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday. The brave group of shareholders who will present this resolution at Monsanto’s annual meeting want the company to be straight with its shareholders. They’re asking Monsanto to report on the costs and business risks of GMOs -- from the contamination of non-GMO crops, to the effect on bees and other “non-target” organisms, and more. These are real risks and costs, and it’s a sensible proposal -- for anyone other than a corporation that thinks that suing family farmers and fighting truth-in-labelling laws is business as usual. Monsanto is trying to defeat this shareholder vote -- using the same tactics it uses to defeat all opposition to its agenda. Its business model is based on keeping us all in the dark. It has fought against every effort to label genetically modified ingredients, spending $15 million to defeat laws in California and Washington alone. Monsanto can feel the tide turning against it -- already, numerous US states and countless countries have restrictions on GMOs and rules about their labelling. But instead of recognizing the community sentiment and business risk, Monsanto is still fighting. And now, its shareholders are starting to wake up to the risks. That’s why it’s crucial that we support these shareholders who are taking a stand at Monsanto’s annual meeting, and demand that Monsanto study the risks and costs of GMOs and come clean to their shareholders and the public.Unless they know we’re watching, many of Monsanto’s biggest shareholders will feel free to support Monsanto’s management and vote against the shareholder resolution. Sign the petition now to demand that Monsanto come clean on the costs of GMOs, and support the brave shareholders behind this proposal. Thank you, Lisa, Marguerite, Paul and the team at SumOfUs.org ********** More information: Shareholder Resolution calls on Monsanto to Disclose Financial Risks from GMO , Harrington Investments January 7th, 2014. SumOfUs is a world-wide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. You can support our work by donating here. Was this email forwarded to you? Click here to add yourself to SumOfUs. If you dont want to receive emails from us anymore, you can remove yourself lindacheu@hotmail from our list by clicking here. But just know, well miss you!
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