If you believe in the right to produce and eat GM-free food, if you believe GM-free farmers should not be the ones responsible to pay the cost of GM contamination, add your name to this pledge and support Steve Marsh. He represents us all. #IamSteveMarsh
Steve Marsh is an Australian farmer who lost his organic certification on approximately 70% of his land when Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) canola blew onto his farm from a neighbouring property in 2010. He has been struggling for the past three years to decontaminate his land and get his organic certification back. Because Monsanto has a no liability agreement with GM farmers that prevent the biotech company from being sued when contamination occurs, the only way Steve could stand up to protect his rights was to sue his neighbour for compensation. The court case is due to start on the 10th February 2014 and it is a landmark case for the future of GM-free food worldwide. (See campaign video)
An Australian pro-GM organisation is paying for his neighbour's legal costs. Please consider making a donation via the Safe Food Foundation to help Steve pay his. If a farmer doesn’t get to choose what he grows, how do we choose what we eat?
The support for Steve is growing globally and public figures have voiced their support, including environmental activists David Suzuki and Vandana Shiva, surfing champion Mick Fanning, world champion boxer Danny Green, TV personality Matt Preston, famous landscape architect Costa Georgiadis and prominent activist Ian Cohen. What about you?
We need your help to protect our farmers, our food, our future.
