As regular readers have been warned already, having a high profile in Glyphosate Awareness can be dangerous. This is a timely link everyone can use to sign a group petition that will be forwarded to your State governors. If you just sign the form with your screen name and e-mail address, the only risk is that you'll be asked to send money to organizations working on the issue.
Not to me. Never to me. You're welcome to send money to support this web site, buy hard-to-find books, commission blog posts on topics of your choice, ask me to proofread and/or review book manuscripts, ask me to ghostwrite books or contribute to anthologies, etc. As a movement publicly led by me, Glyphosate Awareness does not want your money. We want your talent. We want your time and energy. We want you to have a high profile and speak out publicly about the cause if, and only if, you can say:
"My name is ......
I am [specific age over 50] years old.
If I live another fifty years, I'll still have a long list of things to do.
If I die tomorrow, I'll still have had a longer and better life than most of humankind.
I am not afraid of Hell."
If that's where you are, you probably have done or are doing other things for the cause as well as rewriting the basic petition text to add facts your Governor needs to know. You probably have your own favorite links to documents your Governor and staff need to see, about the toxicity of glyphosate and the why-insult-weasels character of Bayer; you can search this web site or MomsAcrossAmerica.org for more links.
If you are or could become a parent, we want you to avoid buying or using glyphosate, avoid buying or using Bayer products, buy and eat food that is "clean" of "pesticide" residues, sign this kind of mass petitions when they circulate, and vote for people who support these petitions too, but not call attention to yourself. Your children come first. People whose income is based on products that kill human beings aren't always scrupulous about harming human beings in more direct ways.
Whichever tier of activism you belong on, you should sign this group petition:
A form will pop up asking for money. You decide whether to use it or close it. USPIRG will stop sending you e-mail if you want them to. I think their e-mail is interesting--most of it gives information and doesn't ask for money.
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