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Don't forget to contact the Ohio Dept. of Agriculture, who was behind the raid:
Ohio Department of Agriculture call: 614-728-6201 email: administration@agri.ohio.gov,enforcement@agri.ohio.gov
From NowPublic.com.
We need a petition to Obama to commit to putting someone at the head of the USDA who has a history of working well with small farmers and who will be maximally PROTECTIVE of the very few farmers we have left, as well as of all of their local outlets.
Meanwhile, Monsanto is picking off seed cleaners across the Midwest, our last hope for sustainable agriculture. More on this later but it should be noted that the USDA and Monsanto are both moving in tandem and aggressively to destroy our rural communities and to make sustainable agriculture just a naive dream.
Amnesty International is now asking for human rights events across the country in the first 100 days after Obama's inauguration in order to roll back all the constitutional violations that were put in place under the excuse of the war on terror. NAIS is the rural counterpart to NSA-spying only MUCH worse because not only is our chance at a normal and sustainable and non-global warming alternative to industrial agriculture at stake but our human rights to grow food we wish and to choose that food for ourselves without police state actions on behalf of multinational corporations taking over all food and making sure there is no alternative whatsoever - particularly not a better one.
We need to sign on to Amnesty's program
Click here to support human rights events across the country now - on behalf of our farmers and ranchers, on behalf of our Mennonite and Amish brothers and sisters, and on behalf of our own right to the food we wish to eat. NAIS, the attack on real milk dairy farmers, Monsanto's eliminating seed cleaners across the Midwest and putting laws into place to criminalize saving seeds, the use of Homeland Security to allow for raids on farmers land without warrants to seize all crops and animals and dispose of them immediately, etc, etc, etc. These changes in law, by the way, are promoted by Monsanto, to whatever degree it can actually be distinguished from those in the FDA and USDA.
Those who are members of Amnesty International should reach them immediately and ask for their FULL participation is protecting American farmers from attacks by their own government, most especially our Amish and Mennonite who are most helpless to defend themselves from either SWAT teams or totalitarian laws using "food security" and the threat of diseases just as NSA has used "homeland security" and the threat of terrorists attacks.
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