A huge triumph of local democracy is about to get nullified because of a hugely undemocratic bill backed by Monsanto, passed by what some commentators are calling corporate corruption in the federal legislature.

Monsanto and other industry lobbyists convinced the Senate and President Obama to pass the “DARK” act: “Deny Americans the Right to Know.” It means that corporations can replace clear mandatory GMO labelling with 800-numbers or QR codes—even though that’s not at all what the people of Vermont, Connecticut and Maine expressly voted for.

Whatever we think of GMO foods, this move clearly overturns a clear democratic choice—and Monsanto’s involvement in the re-election campaigns of key senate votes smacks of corruption. The law is blatantly discriminatory and probably unconstitutional.

We all know that Trump will give Monsanto everything it wants if he ever steps into the oval office, so we are calling in Clinton to repeal the DARK Act if and when she steps into office.

If Hillary Clinton becomes the next president, will she stand up to Monsanto, support local democracy and revisit the DARK act?

More than half of America’s poor and rural communities—a disproportionate number of which are racialized or marginalized—don’t even have the smartphones or data plans they’d need to check up on these products. Even fewer seniors have them. At least 100 million Americans—likely far more—will not have access to the food information they voted to get because of the DARK Act. 

And if you think this fight is just about three little northeastern states, think again: 25 other states are considering similar labelling laws. And the DARK Act—most of it negotiated in secret in backrooms—was put over the edge by senators on both sides of the aisle who accepted campaign money from Monsanto and voted “yes” to this deeply undemocratic and discriminatory law.

Join us and the countless others who oppose the undemocratic DARK act and tell Hillary Clinton to commit to repealing it.

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