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03-30-2009, 04:00 PM
The Organic Consumers Association sends out a weekly e-mail entitled "Organic Bytes".
They are trying to down-play the whole HR 875 and other federal regulations, and instead are focusing on new state regulations, which are important, but not nearly as important as keeping out federal regulation.
Here is a story by BreakTheMatrix on HR 875:
http://lists.breakthematrix.com/link.php?M=33643&N=26&L=44&F=H
Here is a story by Glenn Beck on HR 875:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFPMoAAGO7Y
Now here is some leftist dribble on the topic from the Organic Consumers Association, a story by Alexis Baden-Mayer:
HR 875 Update: The Biotech Companies are Destroying Traditional Farming (Just Not in this Bill)
* By Alexis Baden-Mayer, Esq.
Organic Consumers Association, March 25, 2009
Rumor Update of the Week
HR 875
The following note is typical of the calls and e-mails Organic Consumers Association has been receiving this week:
"Do you know anything about HR 875, a 'food safety' bill that was written by Monsanto, Cargill and ADM? I've heard a few individual activists scream about this as the death of farmers markets, CSAs and local organic food, yet have seen no alerts from any of the reliable groups, including OCA. Any idea what's up with this?"
For the record, Organic Consumers Association does have an alert out on HR875. As OCA points out in our Action Alert, we cannot support a "food Safety" bill unless it provides protection or exemptions for organic and farm-to-consumer producers and cracks down on the real corporate criminals who are tampering with and polluting our nation's food supply--- such as Monsanto.
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.
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: Monsanto's gene-altered (so-called) drought-resistant corn, Epitopix's E. coli vaccine, and the ban on rBGH-free labeling that Monsanto's successor Eli Lilly is trying to push through the Kansas legislature. We need to keep working together to work towards positive alternatives, such as organic agriculture and the green economy.
Learn more
This type of rhetoric (in bold) is going to be what causes organic and small farms to be destroyed, so for this organization to be putting this type of stuff out obviously ticks me off quite a bit.
OK, I don't have youtube, so I can't put in the details.. which is why I can't write my own letter yet, but if you watch the BreakTheMatrix short clip up top, you can get the details about how the President of Peanut U.S.A. was in fact a head regulator for the USDA. If you are eloquently able to express your views I would really appreciate some help. Explain how the FREE MARKET shut down Peanut U.S.A. while government regulation did nothing, and will continue to do nothing. Government regulation only provides a false sense of security. If the individual were more vigilant, we could use free market tools to regulate the market much more effectively, and things like organic farming would never come under attack.
I would also point out that organic farming has been around for 5-10k years, so ask them why it has only been threatened in the last few decades SINCE government regulation of farming has been introduced..
You might also want to challenge their assumption that the banking crisis was caused by a lack of government regulation on the banks if you're into that.
Please be nice :)
E-mail:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/aboutus.cfm#contact
Phone:
218-226-4164
They are trying to down-play the whole HR 875 and other federal regulations, and instead are focusing on new state regulations, which are important, but not nearly as important as keeping out federal regulation.
Here is a story by BreakTheMatrix on HR 875:
http://lists.breakthematrix.com/link.php?M=33643&N=26&L=44&F=H
Here is a story by Glenn Beck on HR 875:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFPMoAAGO7Y
Now here is some leftist dribble on the topic from the Organic Consumers Association, a story by Alexis Baden-Mayer:
HR 875 Update: The Biotech Companies are Destroying Traditional Farming (Just Not in this Bill)
* By Alexis Baden-Mayer, Esq.
Organic Consumers Association, March 25, 2009
Rumor Update of the Week
HR 875
The following note is typical of the calls and e-mails Organic Consumers Association has been receiving this week:
"Do you know anything about HR 875, a 'food safety' bill that was written by Monsanto, Cargill and ADM? I've heard a few individual activists scream about this as the death of farmers markets, CSAs and local organic food, yet have seen no alerts from any of the reliable groups, including OCA. Any idea what's up with this?"
For the record, Organic Consumers Association does have an alert out on HR875. As OCA points out in our Action Alert, we cannot support a "food Safety" bill unless it provides protection or exemptions for organic and farm-to-consumer producers and cracks down on the real corporate criminals who are tampering with and polluting our nation's food supply--- such as Monsanto.
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.
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: Monsanto's gene-altered (so-called) drought-resistant corn, Epitopix's E. coli vaccine, and the ban on rBGH-free labeling that Monsanto's successor Eli Lilly is trying to push through the Kansas legislature. We need to keep working together to work towards positive alternatives, such as organic agriculture and the green economy.
Learn more
This type of rhetoric (in bold) is going to be what causes organic and small farms to be destroyed, so for this organization to be putting this type of stuff out obviously ticks me off quite a bit.
OK, I don't have youtube, so I can't put in the details.. which is why I can't write my own letter yet, but if you watch the BreakTheMatrix short clip up top, you can get the details about how the President of Peanut U.S.A. was in fact a head regulator for the USDA. If you are eloquently able to express your views I would really appreciate some help. Explain how the FREE MARKET shut down Peanut U.S.A. while government regulation did nothing, and will continue to do nothing. Government regulation only provides a false sense of security. If the individual were more vigilant, we could use free market tools to regulate the market much more effectively, and things like organic farming would never come under attack.
I would also point out that organic farming has been around for 5-10k years, so ask them why it has only been threatened in the last few decades SINCE government regulation of farming has been introduced..
You might also want to challenge their assumption that the banking crisis was caused by a lack of government regulation on the banks if you're into that.
Please be nice :)
E-mail:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/aboutus.cfm#contact
Phone:
218-226-4164