Talk:Farmer Assurance Provision

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HR 933
when checking the citation for the information pertaining to president barrack Obama, I saw nothing on the page, just a blank white page telling you how to stay connected via twitter and Facebook. "The Farmer Assurance Provision, also referred to by critics as the “Monsanto Protection Act”, refers to Sec. 735 of US HR 933, a bill signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 26, 2013 " it is a false citation, leading to a page with nothing on it, so that information is NOT verifiable information from that source, and it may have been put there to mislead Wikipedia users. in fact if you search up HR 933 on the http://www.loc.gov/search/?q=HR+933&sb=Date_desc this site, (Library of Congress) the newest HR 933 is about Veterans(2012-2013), then family protection(2009-2010). So in actuality HR 933: Farmer Assurance Provision doesn't exist and this is a BS Propaganda Page. (with Monsanto leading the Propaganda, and people on the internet giving information about it based on speculation) and if you check here, http://beta.congress.gov/congressional-record/2013/03/21/extensions-of-remarks-section/article/e351-2/?q=Sec.+735+of+US+HR+933 the only thing relating to HR 933 was a remark on the affordable care act led buy a delegate from Illinois. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.27.53.175 (talk • contribs) 18:32, 30 March 2013‎ UTC
 * Correct link fixed now. Petersam (talk) 20:46, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Reliable Sources?
The citation for the language in the article, "and slipped it in last minute, anonymously, giving Monsanto more power than the USDA and the courts," is apparently a letter to the editor. Are newspaper readers' letters to the editor considered reliable sources? The quoted statement is a bold claim, which should either be sufficiently sourced or removed. --Danthe4th (talk) 12:16, 8 May 2013 (UTC)


 * I don't know, but more than that, it doesn't seem to be an accurate claim. The provision was included in the bill for a very long time prior to its passing in late March, since at least June of 2012.


 * A sentence that has been added in the criticism section, "The bill exempts biotech companies from litigation" is not true either. In the same edit that added this sentence, the following sentence was reworded to make the statement that makes biotech companies immune from the courts appear as absolute.


 * These additions really seem like POV pushing by a single user, User:USchick. This user's contributions to this page are highly opinionated and factually inaccurate and warrant either deletion or heavy revision to adhere to Wikipedia's neutrality policy. ComfyKem (talk) 08:19, 10 May 2013 (UTC)


 * The source for the sentence "...and slipped it in last minute, anonymously, giving Monsanto more power than the USDA and the courts" is an opinion piece, and since it isn't accurate and the majority of it is a rant about Senator Blunt, I'm deleting it and reverting much of the biased POV content that was added in instead of having this article skewed in favor of a particular ideology. I will check back on this article periodically to see if this occurs again. ComfyKem (talk) 12:27, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Lock this article
As well as all GM articles. And stop allowing people in tin foil hats to be able to edit these pages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.171.165.82 (talk) 07:30, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Not quite in the spirit of Wikipedia is it, to corral all folks with opinions different from yours as the tinfoil hat crowd? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.40.86.151 (talk) 19:04, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

March Against Monsanto
As part of the protest against this provision, there was the "March Against Monsanto". If someone could find some reliable sources (ie not coming from websites ideologically/financially motivated to oppose GMOs [Infowars, Natural News, et al]) about the march and include it in the "Criticism" (or "History") section, that would be great. ComfyKem (talk) 17:28, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
 * March on over to March Against Monsanto and grab some links. None are from POV sources.  petrarchan47  t  c   00:50, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Found one and added it.--Canoe1967 (talk) 21:42, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Snopes
Please bring to Reliable Sources Noticeboard. As a self-published source, it's doubtful but needs to be determined along with the proposed text.  petrarchan47  t  c   03:24, 30 May 2013 (UTC)


 * It's been done. Site is good for saying the truth about urban legends.  Snopes addressed the rumors swirling around the MPA.
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_141#Snopes.com_again
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_25#Snopes.com
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_127#Snopes.com Jytdog (talk) 12:47, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

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Some of the links are out of date, such as "Letter to Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Dicks" (PDF). June 12, 2012. Retrieved April 30, 2013. , which is no longer a page on Monsanto’s website.Lmpenix (talk) 07:06, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Add Information
It would be helpful to add what the bill does within the first paragraph of the article. This could be done by stating “This bill barred legal action against growers and seed producers while legal challenges to the safety of those crops would still be underway.” Lmpenix (talk) 07:03, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Who exactly opposed this bill
It is clear that those in support of this bill are “agricultural trade and technology organizations” while a mix of both Democrat and Republican sources seem to oppose it; however, if the opposition is non-partisan I am curious how the bill was allowed to be signed into law in the first place. Lmpenix (talk) 07:03, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

More Support to match Criticism
There seems to be more sources that oppose the bill than support it. The "Criticism" section of this article is also larger than the "Support" section. It would be helpful to add additional arguments in favor of the bill such as the one brought up by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) stating,

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture called the provision redundant...in the sense that all it did 'was repeat authority that the secretary in a hearing the other day, before the Agri[culture] Approp[riations] committee the other day, said he already had.” “And it didn’t require the secretary to do anything that the secretary thought was the wrong thing to do,” Blunt continued. “Which is one of the reasons I thought it was fine. I checked with USDA, or my staff did, and USDA said, ‘You know, we don’t think you need to do that because we can already do it.’ The other view of that was, well, if you can already do it, then it makes everything come together, it’s OK to restate authority they already had.”

This argument states that the provision essentially repeated the authority that the secretary previously held.

"House Republicans Push To Include Monsanto Protection Act In New Spending Bill". HuffPost. September 11, 2013. Retrieved November 14, 2017. --Lmpenix (talk) 02:35, 15 November 2017 (UTC)