House and Senate bills to kill all organic farms (FAST track bills in 2 weeks)
Food Safety Modernization Act (HR 875): Criminalization of Organic Farms
Bills are:
House H.R. 875 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/ bill.xpd? bill=h111- 875
Senate S 425 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/ bill.xpd? bill=s111- 425
There is an enormous rush to get this into law within the next 2 weeks before people realize what is happening. Main backer and lobbyist is (guess who) Monsanto.
This Bill will require organic farms to use specific fertilizers and poisonous insect sprays dictated by the newly formed agency to “make sure there is no danger to the public food supply”.
If this passes then NO more heirloom clean seeds will be allowed, only Monsanto genetically altered seeds that are now causing unexpected diseases in humans. Here is a short video on the subject: http://www.voteronpaul.com/newsDetail.php?Food-Safety-Modernization-Act-HR-875-Criminalization-of-Organic-Farms-222
Lets get real folks! This has NOTHING to do with food safety. This is only about TOTAL CONTROL by the feds in our lives. So, get on that phone ASAP and burn up the wires. Get anyone else you can to do the same thing, by sending this message far and wide.
The House and Senate WILL pass this if they are not massively threatened with loss of their position…. . they only fear your voice and your vote.
LET THEM KNOW YOU OPPOSE THESE BILLS: HR 875 and S 425
If you want to track the progress of these outrageous bills, click on the links below:
The Law Makers in Washington D.C. make laws – Because they are paid to make laws (lobbying, bribed, Pay-Ola) by the corporations that will profit from those laws being put on the books.
This current attack on Organic Farmers immediately reminded me of one they did before this.
I did not know about this, until I read it in my Sociology book at junior college.
Get this,
The American Alcohol Companies lobbied (Bribed, Pay-Ola) Congress to make marijuana illegal.
This had nothing at all to do with the government’s concern for our health.
This was totally focused on the American Alcohol Companies loosing millions and millions of dollars by folks getting high on what’s growing in their back yard rather than buying booze at the markets and quick stops.
I brought this up NOT, because I am on a Legalize Pot Campaign, no, not at all.
I brought it up to show how they work in D.C.
They work for the companies that make them rich PERIOD.
They do not work for the American People.
I have no faith at all, in anyone in Washington D.C.
“If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.” – Russell Means
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I read the bill in question.
Can you (or anyone else) point out which parts of the bill are the scary parts?
I have been trying to figure it out for a while now. If anyone can show me, then I can show our reps why it is bad.
When I did a word search, the word “seed” doesn’t even show up in the bill.
Paul,
What is so scary is what it does not say. The bill is so broad in language that every type of farm is included. This means a small farmer who grows produce for a local farmers market will need to meet the same standards as as a large corporation farm. The financial burden will be so heavy most small farms ( aka organic farms) will not be able to operate. Though it does not address farmers markets it does speak about transporting of food and how if you produce or transport food you would need to follow minimum guidelines (yet to be set) for using pestisides, fertilizer, ect. Because the local farmer’s market would be a “distribution” place for the food it would need to verify that everyone is meeting the new guidelines. Can you imagine the burden on them? Like everyone I am concerned with food safety. However, we need guidelines for large corporate farming operations, foods imported from other countries, ect. I am not worried about the foods I purchase from local farm stands, farmers markets, ect. The food I buy there is the same food the farmers are feeding their families.
Thank you Tamara, you expressed exactly what I came to respond to Paul. I am always cautious when language is as broad as these bills are. It leaves far too much open to interpretation. I’m not willing to risk the health of my fmaily over someone else’s interpretation of my growing practices.