Wanna know what's been going on in the legislature, quietly, while everyone was either crying about the same sex nuptials or planning formerly not possible weddings? HR 933 was passed and signed into law, as a measure to avert a government shutdown over and maintain the status quo for just a bit longer....say, six months. One of the items buried within HR 933 is the Monsanto Protection Act, which guarentees biotech companies, who genetically engineer seed, to sell the seed to farmers and grow and sell crops from genetically engineered seed that has not been tested for health hazards. Also, labels for the food thereby produced are not required to bear appropriate warnings for the consumers. The rider is only in effect for six months, but it just seems awfully strange that the definition of a type of marriage that will never be enjoined by those who do not approve should take precedence in national discussion over the safety of the food we purchase in grocery stores.
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