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.
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=12671
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Here is one link to sign the petition.
You sign your name and you send it, easy and quick."If you can grow food, it's empowering, it's powerful, in fact I would say that growing food is one of the most dangerous occupations on the face of this Earth because you are in danger of becoming FREE"
By DervaesI feel this is extremely important to safeguard our freedom.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714-
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- lookatmypix
- 24 days ago
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An other take action recommended by the Organic consumers association.
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- lookatmypix
- 24 days ago
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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.pdfLetter 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/20090306aTo 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=1241Of 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-
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- lookatmypix
- 24 days ago
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things like this make me sad.
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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.
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- Incredulous
- 23 days ago
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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?
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- AlGores_Uncle
- 23 days ago
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Ya know, our fore fathers were against taking away land from citizens which is why there used to be no property taxes.
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I think if most lawmakers had to spend 10 minutes in the real world, they'd quickly be eaten by wolves.
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This is wrong on so many levels.
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Organic foods are just as dangerous as non-organics.
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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.
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- good_stuff
- 23 days ago
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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.
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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.
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I will still farm organically and sell to my friends. Fuck MONSANTO
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- JanforGore
- 23 days ago
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More on this bill, with my viewpoint.
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- JanforGore
- 23 days ago
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BULLLLL
They want to ban it so that we keep eating crap, so we all die. POPULATION CONTROL-
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- amandapandalol
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