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Death of "organic" farming?
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by car1edb | March 9, 2009 at 12:17 pm
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More craziness from the Obama house of cards. Plan to outlaw family farms and alike in the US. Someones gonna make a lot of $ from it as per usual.
"And how did they get this far with such a scheme to apply insane industrial standards to every farm in the country? Through fear of diseases and of outbreaks of food borne illnesses" - false flag anyone?
Seriously same old bus, different driver.
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From PP: Bill is to long to post, so I linked to a .gov pdf of it (HR. 875, S.425)
Pay special attention to
* Section 3 which is the definitions portion of the bill-read in it’s entirety.
* section 103, 206 and 207- read in it’s entirety.
What it Does:
* Legally binds state agriculture depts to enforcing federal guidelines effectively taking away the states power to do anything other than being food police for the federal dept.
* Effectively criminalizes organic farming but doesn’t actually use the word organic.
* Effects anyone growing food even if they are not selling it but consuming it.
* Effects anyone producing meat of any kind including wild game.
* Legislation is so broad based that every aspect of growing or producing food can be made illegal. There are no specifics which is bizarre considering how long the legislation is.
* Section 103 is almost entirely about the administrative aspect of the legislation. It will allow the appointing of officials from the factory farming corporations and lobbyists and classify them as experts and allow them to determine and interpret the legislation. Who do you think they are going to side with?
* Section 206 defines what will be considered a food production facility and what will be enforced up all food production facilities. The wording is so broad based that a backyard gardener could be fined and more.
* Section 207 requires that the state’s agriculture dept act as the food police and enforce the federal requirements. This takes away the states power and is in violation of the 10th amendment.
....fooled again!
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at 13:34 on March 9th, 2009
The US legislation to restrict organic farms deserves great concern and needs to be opposed.
Similar doings are afoot in Canada. Why we even changed the name of the federal department tasked with overseeing food production and farming from Agriculture Canada to Agriculture and Agri-food Canada.
That wasn't because government was worried about the agri-food industry. It was because it wanted to promote it!
at 17:07 on March 9th, 2009
Thank You very much for posting this . I am a farm girl and a gardner. Recently I moved home to take care of my parents and have experienced observing the operation of the farm as an adult. It is grueling work. We have no really intelligent representation. Farmers are not 'warriors". They are salt of the earth souls.
The slick politicians sold them out a long time ago. Family farms left operating now are usually only ones the family really "owns" and have not over extended themselves to live and outbeat the Jone's. My brother heard dear ol Al Gore say a long time ago at a meeting in a very pompous way., "oh well, the farms are going to be run by corporations period>" People do not care until it is too late. We already receive unregulated , unhealthy foods from other countries but we are going to have to sell ours to them for less. The whole marketing scheme the government has created for one of the few products we can always PRODUCE in our country has been a failure for our well being.
It is ridiculous what they put in Farm Bills too which people do not realize have nothing to do with Farms. I could rant and rant on this one.
Can I imagine not being able to plant my Garden as I please? No wonder they want to take away our guns. It is a matter of time.
at 14:09 on March 10th, 2009
This is so silly - I don't know why he would pass this.
at 07:40 on March 12th, 2009
It's all about money and lobbyists. Monsanto has a huge lobby and huge impact around the world. None of it good, despite their propaganda
at 02:45 on March 18th, 2009
Your first statement is "More craziness from the Obama house of cards. " I fail to see the connection between this story and the Obama administration. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro introduced HR.875 on February 4th, 2009 and Senator Sherrod Brown sponsored S.425 on February 12th. Other than being a Democrat, I cannot see how Obama is directly involved...
As far as the issue itself, "food and water watch" sums it up nicely: http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/background-on-h-r-875
An excellent source on information is The Congress' own website: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s425/show
If you would rather see more trolling on the issue, go to: http://www.breakthematrix.com/Property-Rights/Banning-Organic-Farming-Regulating-Home-Gardening-HR-875-S-425 I found this link on The Congress's website oddly enough.
at 10:11 on March 18th, 2009
thanks for the links!
- Don't democratic members work on behalf of the government/the president? like a company employee who represents the company and the boss -who is responsible for steering that ship? Ie. democrat's = the current government, who is headed by president Obama?
at 18:26 on March 18th, 2009
Politicians do not work on behalf of the government/the President, they work primarily for themselves and and occasionally for their constituancy. The President has his hands on a lot of things, but he is not omnipresent, he cannot be involved in every issue all of the time.
at 17:54 on March 20th, 2009
Well, if he signs it, then he IS responsible.