Community | November 01, 2009 | 20 comments

Government to ban organic farming?

source: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=12671

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This bill is sitting in committee and I am not sure when it is going to hit the floor. One thing I do know is that very few of the Representatives have read it. As usual they will vote on this based on what someone else is saying. Urge your members to read the legislation and ask for opposition to this devastating legislation. Devastating for everyday folks but great for factory farming ops like Monsanto, ADM, Sodexo and Tyson to name a few.

I have no doubt that this legislation was heavily influenced by lobbyists from huge food producers. This legislation is so broad based that technically someone with a little backyard garden could get fined and have their property siezed. It will affect anyone who produces food even if they do not sell but only consume it. It will literally put all independent farmers and food producers out of business due to the huge amounts of money it will take to conform to factory farming methods. If people choose to farm without industry standards such as chemical pesticides and fertilizers they will be subject to a vareity of harassment from this completely new agency that has never before existed. That's right, a whole new government agency is being created just to police food, for our own protection of course.

DO NOT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT, READ THIS LEGISLATION FOR YOURSELF. The more people who read this legislation the more insight we are going to get and be able to share. Post your observations and insights below. Urge your members to read this legislation and to oppose the passage of this legislation.
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20 comments // Government to ban organic farming?

  • amandapandalol
  • JanforGore
  • JanforGore
  • kellypope
  • jubal
  • eskimoe
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      eskimoe  

    • Pesticides are so archaic. Let's get with the times and realize what we put into our bodies is one of the most important things to mind. Let's excel and think outside the box.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ricky84
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      Ricky84  

    • Organic farmers already use "chemicals" and pesticides to grow food. So unless the government demands organic farmers to use chemicals and pesticides outside the accepted or defined list of organic chemicals than nothing is really going to change.

      The idea that a farmers (or businessmen with tractors) don't use chemicals to boost their yields and profits is so ridiculously utopian that it makes me want to throw up.

    • 2 years ago
  • good_stuff
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      good_stuff  

    • I can't beleive anyone would fall for this, as it is clearly as big of a lie as fox news programs.

      Even if government "could" pass a law that prevented individual gardening practices, There is no way in hell that they would ever be able to regulate all the farms no less all the individuals.

      Could anyone provide an estimate on how many jobs this would create? 442 million acres of commercial crop land would take some serious manpower to regulate.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ares
  • urbanwolf
  • benway
  • resolute
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      resolute  

    • Ya know, our fore fathers were against taking away land from citizens which is why there used to be no property taxes.
      Owning land was part of the American dream.

    • 2 years ago
  • AlGores_Uncle
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      AlGores_Uncle  

    • I just read the house and senate bill and I don't see anything about organic, it says that if someone mislabels/mishandles food then they can be fined. It also says that person is not the consumer....How this has anything to do with organic food I don't know?

    • 2 years ago
  • Sam_Rodriguez
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      Sam_Rodriguez  
    • AlGores_Uncle:

      The bill states that there will be requirements for growing all types of food. How to grow it, how much to water it, when to water, which chemicals, and how much chemicals, etc etc. Which means farmers will be required to buy chemicals to put into our food for our consumption, for our "protection." Meaning all natural foods will be illegal in United States of America, making even minor farming "charges" could land you 8 years in prison (who ever thought we'd see the day for farming charges.) Destroying organic, independant farms. Along with our health,

    • 2 years ago
  • Incredulous
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      Incredulous  

    • I am so f'ing sick of Big Brother government and their countless laws for our "protection"

      these lame-ass morons who call themselves our representatives need to get a real job.

    • 2 years ago
  • Tyrannous
  • jubal
  • lookatmypix
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      lookatmypix  
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    • "Having said that, OCA supports aspects of HR875 that call for mandatory recalls of tainted food, increased scrutiny of large slaughterhouses and food manufacturers, and hefty fines against companies that send poisonous food to market. The now discredited ultra-libertarian notion that companies or the "market" will regulate themselves is not only ludicrous, but dangerous, whether we are talking about the banking system or the food and farming sector.

      When researching this issue, Organic Consumers Association turned to trusted sources within the organic farming community. We suggest the following resource for further reading:

      An Integrated Approach to Food Safety
      Russell Libby, Executive Director
      Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
      http://www.nationalorganiccoalition.org/MOFGAFoodSafety.pdf

      Letter from the Farmers Market Coalition on HR 875
      http://graysriver.grange.wahkiakum.info/grays_river_grang...

      Organic food healthier and more intensively inspected—but not magically protected from humans or pathogens
      Rodale Institute
      http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/Bowman/20090306a

      To get a sense of the food safety issues that Congress is trying to deal with, read Jill Richardson's (La Vida Locovore) write-up of a March 19, 2009, hearing in the House Energy & Commerce subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations on the salmonella peanut butter outbreak :
      http://www.lavidalocavore.org/showDiary.do?diaryId=1241

      Of course, Monsanto and large corporate agribusiness are out to destroy traditional farming. Unfortunately, while many people have been distracted by HR 875, the biotech companies have been hard at work pushing their agenda (see below). We need to keep working together to work towards positive alternatives, such as organic agriculture and the green economy."
      http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_17355.cfm

    • 2 years ago
  • lookatmypix
  • lookatmypix
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