Safe Guarding Our Food Supply And Little Girls

Guarding Our Food Supply AND Little Girls

I say Thank You to the bees on my squash flowers and am Grateful for the heirloom (non-gmo) seeds which grow such good food!  This is serious, friends.

I am writing to call for the urgent and immediate passage of the Save

America's Pollinators Act of 2013.

Save The Bees Action Page:

http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1131.php

This last winter 45 percent of all honeybee colonies in the U.S. died

off. The norm before 2005 was a 5-10% loss, but then the numbers shot

up dramatically to 30% a year or more. Without honeybees there would

be no fruits, no nuts and the loss of many vegetables.

The European Union recently put a ban in place on the new

neonicotinoid pesticides, the introduction of which strongly

correlates to these honeybee deaths. These chemical poisons were

never actually field tested before being released into the

environment, and were deployed under a conditional registration

loophole. What makes them so insidious is that they are systemic in

the plants, they are literally in the nectar on which the bees feed,

which the bees then concentrate.

This last season it took 60% of all functional honeybees in the

country just to pollinate California's almond crop alone. One more

yearly loss like this last year, which is now the EXPECTED new norm,

and there will be a catastrophic collapse of our food supply this

very next year. Indeed, the damage for next year has already been

done by the long enduring neonicotinoids already out there.

Our honeybees are dropping literally like flies. It would be nice if

our own Congress might one time have the foresight to implement good

public policy, without lurching from one monumental catastrophe to

the next. This literally may be our last chance to save our food

supply.

Save The Bees Action Page:

http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1131.php

Despite the growing consensus among scientists that neonicotinoids

are the big new factor, there will always remain a minority of shills

and deniers (think climate change), arguing that we can't exactly be

sure of the cause, and that therefore we should do absolutely

nothing. Ironically, we happen to agree that there are other factors,

not the least of which are GMO crops also engineered to put systemic

poisons in our foods.

And that is why at the same time we continue to fight for an end to

the reckless release of more and more GMO species, and full label

disclosure of GMO content so consumers can make informed market

purchasing decisions.

So please submit the action page above. And then after you do, if you

like you can also request one of our beautiful new "GMOs Are Poison"

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Girls Married Before Age Seven?

Change.org

The Nigerian Senate plans to eliminate the legal age requirement for marriage, putting girls as young as six at risk for child marriages. I'm asking the United Nations to intervene before it becomes law.

Sign E. Awa's Petition

Drinking, voting, driving and marriage are all things you can't do until you're 18

in Nigeria.

But that could change any day now as the Nigerian Senate plans to pass a law that

would allow girls to be married as early as six years old.

Many Nigerians have spoken out against legalizing child marriage but the Senate has

not taken any formal steps to allay their concerns. Without international pressure

they're unlikely to affirm protections for girls against underage marriage. That's

why I believe it's time for the United Nations to step in and intervene.

I started a petition on Change.org asking the United Nations to stop the Nigerian Senate from making child marriage legal. Click here to join over 30,000 other users and sign my petition.

Nigeria already has some of the highest rates of child marriage in the world -- 20%

of girls are married by the age of 15.

Eliminating the only legal protection for young girls from being married will only

make this worse.

 That's why pressure from an international authority like the United Nations is necessary

to convince the Nigerian Senate that this move is not worth the global criticism

or impact on young women.

My petition has the support of many Nigerians and thousands of expatriates around

the world, uniting behind the belief that girls should be allowed to be children,

not brides.

I'm presenting this petition to UN officials, and the more people I can show have

spoken up about this issue, the more likely they are to take action.

Click here now to sign my petition calling on the United Nations to intervene and prevent the Nigerian Senate from eliminating the age protection for marriage.

Thank you for your support.

E. Awa

USA

Sign E. Awa's Petition

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