Rescue local and organic farming in the food safety bill
In the next few weeks, the U.S. Senate is expected to vote on a sweeping overhaul of federal food safety law -- S. 510. The House food safety bill passed last year (HR 2749) included several measures that threaten small-scale organic producers, including a registration fee of $500 and blanket application of complicated monitoring and traceability standards--regardless of one's farm size. Read more here>>>
Nanotech in our food?
The USDA National Organic Program's advisory panel, the National Organic Standards Board, will be meeting in California at the end of this month. OCA political director Alexis Baden-Mayer will be presenting testimony at the meeting. It is essential that we back up OCA's position to ban nanotechnology from organic production with as many letters from OCA members as possible. This is a huge public health and environmental issue. Will the USDA permanently ban nanotech ingredients from organic food and products, or will they leave the door open to this new, dangerous, unregulated technology, with the power to literally change matter at the atomic or electron level?
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The Boston Globe helps Monsanto with spreading lies
*The Boston Globe just printed a whopper: "Genetically engineered crops are more environmentally friendly than organic ones." This is the same lie we've been hearing from a long time, and it's coming from more or less the same source. In this case, the source is Elliot Entis, a former board member of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) - the biotech industry lobby group.
I know what this article says without reading it: organic yields less than conventional, GMO ag and therefore organic is worse for the earth. People who oppose GMOs and love organics are idealists who don't know the first thing about growing food. We need GMOs to feed the earth. And that is exactly what the article DOES say. None of it becomes any less of a lie just because the Boston Globe was hoodwinked into printing it. Honestly, this is outrageous and newspapers should be held to a higher standard. We expect them to give us the hard facts, not dumb lies. Read more here>>>>
5 comments:
Just another case of the media being used as a tool of monster big business! All with the full blessing of the government, I might add!
It just never ends, does it?
I always find it fascinating what people choose to believe and not believe when reading something in print and especially on the 'net.
Just because someone reads it somewhere does not make it true.
I especially enjoy how so many people love to tack the current government administration onto anything even slightly nefarious proving, once again, in their minds, that OMG it is all Obama's fault. It is hysterical and so sheeple like.
"Fortunately, Senator Tester (D-MT) is a certified organic farmer himself, and he's proposed an amendment to S. 510 that would exempt small-scale farmers and food processors from the most burdensome regulations."
I can tell you that is the ONLY thing Tester has done, he's worthless, as is our MT Governor Brian Switzer and guess what they and Max Baucus are all democrats, who all play the game of when they need to they meld and when they don't watch out!
Uh ...'sheeple' would be the ones with their heads in the sand thinking all is well as we drive off this cliff. And as I have asked before, at what point exactly does President Obama become responsible for the state of this union? He was elected over 17 months ago and was sworn in over 15 months ago. So I repeat, WHEN exactly does he become officially responsible for the destructive path we are on? Just wondering ...
I was quite disappointed to see a full-page ad for Monsanto in The National Geographic magaizine. It touted how genetically altered seed would feed more people with less water and waste. Feh! NatGeo used to be a magazine with standards...
Shade and Sweetwater,
K
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