Wednesday February 18, 2009, 9:14 pm
The new administration is pushing new farm controls through Congress as fast as possible and have coordinated the bills so there will be no debate and the committee meetings are closed. VISIT SITE TO SEND LETTER.

Transparency, change, undoing Bush's regulations, giving the public time to comment, grassroots anything? Our entire food system and thus our health is being decided without the public knowing and those who do know have zero access and the media is absent and they are moving at warp speed to sew this up.

Would you put these out, in this order, showing the article as you do so people are more likely to read it? They are imperfect but the closest I've come to explaining how the game is going to be played. No direct, frontal assault on organic farming but an insidious process of "infecting" organic farming...

Example: imagine Joel Salatin's wonderful organic farm under the direction of the USDA, with detailed instructions on what he must feed and when, how he must medically "treat" his animals and with what, what he must "spray" and when, ... you get the picture. These bills will industrialize all farms and insure the farmers are forced to buy chemicals and drugs. Organic is dead. As well as human control over the food supply. As well as health.
(Bills being rushed through Congress, set to destroy organic farming.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Monsanto-bills-being-rushe-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-090217-758.html)

we've set up an Action Item for you to send an unmistakable message to your representatives in the Senate and the House. We must educate Congress that you do not want organic and small farmers regulated out of existence. You do not want "Big Agra" regulations, perhaps necessary to protect the public when dealing with large scale agra business, applied to organic and small family farms and ranches or to natural and organic food products,
SEND LETTER ON SITE

Wednesday February 18, 2009, 9:57 pm
This is really bad, thanks for the heads-up. Noted, signed and forwarded.

Friday February 20, 2009, 9:39 am
I just read about this yesterday. It is horrible! I am disappointed about this kind of action from the new administration.

Friday February 20, 2009, 9:40 am
Oh I forgot I had already signed:-)

Friday February 20, 2009, 9:56 am
"Thank you for taking part in this Action Item. "

Noted and action taken with thanks Jackie.

Friday February 20, 2009, 1:10 pm
Action taken and noted with thanks Jackie.
Thank you for taking part in this Action Item.

Friday February 20, 2009, 2:38 pm
Noted, action taken and signed the petition.

Congressmen often think with the wrong head. They should be using the one attached to their shoulders, and not the one between their legs.

Friday February 20, 2009, 3:06 pm
I am disappointed to see this happening. Some change. Noted, signed and sent. :(

Friday February 20, 2009, 4:13 pm
Thank you Jackie! Noted, signed, and forwarded.

Friday February 20, 2009, 6:13 pm
noted and signed

Friday February 20, 2009, 6:41 pm
noted and sign

Friday February 20, 2009, 6:50 pm
noted and signed

Wednesday February 25, 2009, 6:01 am
Thank you...noted and signed and sent to everyone I know!!! Lets hope for the best..

Wednesday February 25, 2009, 7:20 am
Signed and noted. What a mess !

Friday April 3, 2009, 3:20 pm
Well, the supermarket lobbyists and food processing plants obviously have hired canvassers; they were in our Farmers Market, here in NYC, today and said they'd be there tomorrow, too. They're interviewing and videotaping statements from Farmers Market vendors and customers.

Now, they don't want us to grow our own "organic" food!!! THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS ... how did they slip this one by us?

Spread the word.

This bill has already passed the House and Senate and is sitting on President Obama's desk awaiting his signature.

You can write to the President and give him your feelings about this "food safety bill" that they're trying to slip by us ... tell him not to sign it ... tell him to send it back to those crook$ and liar$ in Congre$$ and demand food inspections and organic foods rather than all those antibiotics, hormones and additives they're giving us now.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

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Friday April 3, 2009, 3:43 pm
I have once again written the president about this matter.

Tuesday September 29, 2009, 8:28 am
The link in the story is a message to be sent to your specific representative. There is a petition here on Care2 against this bill. Please sign and share this petition with others to sign and comment as well. The petition may be found by going to the Petition-site under the Action Tab and doing a search for HR2749. Thank you so much for support and actions. We need to protect our food, our freedoms, and our right to choose what we eat without GMOs, pesticides, added hormones and antibiotics and other questionable Factory Farm/Ranch processes.