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Met libertarian and conservative farmers and learned an incredible amount about farming and nature and science, as well as about government violations against them and against us all. The other side of the fence is nothing like what we've been taught to assume but great people with immense decency.
(63 comments) SHARE Monday, March 9, 2009 Monsanto's dream bill, HR 875
HR 875 is a Monsanto driven bill introduced by Rosa DeLauro whose husband works for Monsanto. Michael Taylor, a Monsanto lawyer, waits in the wings to take control our food again, but this time it would be with frightening power over our farmers, our only protectors of our food. This article contains quotes to give only a small idea of what is at stake in stopping HR 875, a dream bill for Monsanto.
(40 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Goodbye farmers markets, CSAs, and roadside stands
The "food safety" bills in Congress were written by Monsanto, Cargill, Tysons, ADM, etc. All are associated with the opposite of food safety. What is this all about then?
(20 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Monsanto bills being rushed through Congress, set to destroy organic farming.
Everything green, healthy, anti-global warming, local, decent, environmental, community building, independent, free thing that organic farming is, we need. But the corruption of our government and politicians by Monsanto and especially the Clinton influence on behalf of Monsanto, is bringing us horror.
(12 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 14, 2009 A solemn walk through HR 875
Food and Water Watch put out information on HR 875 to counter "myths" and "rumors" on the internet that the bill would criminalize organic farming and take over seeds. It gives no specifics to back up its "facts," so the following close up view of the bill and accompanying commentary offers the reader a chance to decide for themselves what is myth and what is fact.
(30 comments) SHARE Monday, December 15, 2008 Raids on Seeds (LIFE, itself) ... by Monsanto
The seed cleaner is the man who makes sustainable agriculture possible.
Monsanto is picking off seed cleaners now across the Midwest.
(9 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 8, 2009 Monsanto's Michael Taylor is BAAAAACC...KKK ... this time to control "Food Safety" from the White House
Michael Taylor, perhaps stowed away in Hillary Clinton's trunk as a nostalgic reminder of the good ole days when Bill put him in charge of the FDA and he approved rBGH, has reentered government along with her and is hoping to slip into an office ... in the White House, and Rosa Delauro, whose husband works for the Clintons and Monsanto, has betrayed every man, woman and child in country for Monsanto's sake.
(9 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 14, 2009 Monsanto and the Schoolmarm method of punishing farmers out of farming
NY legislators have just introduced HB814 and HB875 (which is "way bigger" a farmer said), deadly bills for small farmers and what looks like the old Clinton/Monsanto plan to centralize the USDA and FDA, bringing corruption together for a nearly complete now corporate lock on our food supply.
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 8, 2009 Food Safety Regulations: Intended quicksand for sustainable agriculture
Hidden inside regulations that are not voted on by any legislators representing the public are massive bars to all involvement in farming by small farmers. The monopolistic, unconstitutional, destructive reality of those regulations appear obvious when time is taken to look carefully.
(10 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 17, 2008 Today is the most TERRIBLE day in the history of US farming
The USDA, using the agriculture department of the state of Wisconsin, has attacked Emmanuel Miller, an Amish farmer, for not registering his "premises" under NAIS. He goes to court today. Why is an agency that will not inspect corporate slaughterhouses, feedlots, and animal factories going after non-corporate farmers with clean operations? What is going on?
(25 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 19, 2009 Seeds - How to criminalize them
Some cannot believe that HR 875 will criminalize seed banking. "The bill doesn't say any such thing," they say. "It says food safety," they say. And Bush said he "brought democracyto Iraq." Here's how what they say is "food safety" can make saving seeds a crime.
(16 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 23, 2008 During a world food crisis, Monsanto just raised the price of its corn seed $100 a bag.
"A $100 price increase is a tremendous drain on rural America," said Fred Stokes, OCM's executive director. "Let's say a farmer in Iowa who farms 1,000 acres plants one of these expensive corn varieties next year. The gross increased cost is more than $40,000. Yet there's no scientific basis to justify this price hike. How can we let companies get away with this?" continued Stokes.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Monsanto and industrial agriculture's darkening shadow over our food
Vilsack's nomination is dire for our country. Will the left wake up to what is happening to us and show up in force on behalf of our farmers and our own free access to food and to a real food supply?
(19 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 16, 2008 Ever heard of JBS Swift. You badly need to.
JBS Swift, a Brazilian outfit, is taking over control of most beef worldwide. Brazilian cattle ranchers are wiping out previously uncontacted Indians in the rainforests of Western Paraquay to make room for their cattle. Conservative organizations are battle to protect your food supply and democracy. And do you know about any of this and what a joke it makes of sustainable agriculture?
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 12, 2009 Monsanto in Illinois: Homeland Security and USDA plan attacks against animals
If any of you is as disgusted with the "business as usual" behind closed doors running of the Illinois Government as farmers are, they encourage you to contact the new Governor Pat Quinn to ask "What is the problem with small Livestock Owners being involved with Agriculture?"
(43 comments) SHARE Monday, April 13, 2009 PA Church Ladies Raided by 'Food Safety' Cops
A church in Pennsylvania gives an early warning sign of the absurdity and injustice and threat to all community tradition when the state controls "food safety." The "food safety" bills in Congress pushed by industry, covers the entire food supply, and add warrantless entry, surveillance, monitoring, taking of all records, million dollar fines and prison terms, no judicial review, and Monsanto.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 13, 2009 NAIS, bogus Avian Flu epidemic, and biotech (Monsanto as one) plans for our animals
NAIS appears to be a corporate plan to eliminate real farming and take over total control of our food supply through wiping out normal animals (as is being done with seeds) and replacing them with genetically engineered animals that are patented and wholly owned by multinationals.
(43 comments) SHARE Friday, July 18, 2008 People are concerned about FEMA camps.
There is a report out that Congress was informed in a secret meeting of the imminent collapse of the US economy and government and the institution of martial law, with internment camps being built in this country to hold "insurgents." What is being done to object?
(10 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 7, 2008 More raids against horse and buggy Mennonite in Pennsylvania
Raids against farmers are occurring across the country. A significant one occurred on April 25, 2008, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, when Mark Nolt, a Wenger Mennonite (Horse and Buggy Mennonite) dairyman, threatened for months with arrest for selling raw milk without a permit was removed from his property by state troopers.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 14, 2009 HR 875 - the death of freedom in America
It's been obvious to farmers and cattlemen that stopping NAIS is about preserving the most basic freedoms necessary to farm, but if people will take time to read the bill (and there are comments to help them along), they will see stopping those bills is fundamental to freedom for all of us to even exist. WRITE THE SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIR. HR 875 is more dangerous to this country than even the bailout.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 4, 2009 Distinguishing MONSANTO's totalitarian "use of science" from its claims to science
In the anti Gm agitation in India they constantly come across a refrain from American scientisits, the companies and their own Agri university scientists (many of whom are funded by these agri business corporations to develop and sell Gm crops) ... that Americans have been eating Gm foods for more than a decade and there is no adverse effect.....
SHARE Tuesday, November 25, 2008 Dear Wellesley College, my alma mater, and Robert Paarlberg, a professor there
Wellesley College professor, Robert Paalberg, knows what is best for Africa - genetic engineering. The author, who attended Wellesley and seeing it deeply involved in promoting genetic engineering for the world, is ashamed they miss the reality of it - massive corporate control through patents and devastation economically and debt and destruction of farmers.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 11, 2009 How can you keep kosher when your rice pudding has human DNA in it?
GMOs threaten all four major religions. For Hindus, outrage over contamination (through pig and cow fat used in British cartridges) was the trigger in 1857 for a massive rebellion against the British in India.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 25, 2009 No win for the left. Merrigan as the show, Monsanto behind the curtain.
HB 875, HB 814, SF 425 and HB 759 (to be introduced later) are the death of organic and independent farming in America. Merrigan's appointment is meaningless except as dressing - like an organic label on genetically engineeered food.
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 21, 2009 Defining "food safety" and thanking cowboys
Some don't believe the "food safety" bills would establish control over farmers, farmers markets, CSAs, road side stands, small food processors, our gardens and our own kitchens. But why are people taking any chance by simply denying? Why not make sure? What needs to be included in the bills to ease the worried and to protect even the nay-sayers.
(15 comments) SHARE Monday, December 22, 2008 Liberal fear of diseases and trust in science. A totalitarian's dream.
ut it is not easy reaching urban liberals who have such a blind faith in "science" they miss the politics altogether as well as the suffering of other human beings who are being wiped out by the liberal desire for 100% certainty they won't get sick when they eat a sandwich.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, February 20, 2009 Vilsack, Monsanto, and what that ham sandwich really costs.
The bills in Congress that will industrialize farming and eliminate organic food are not identical. Each is different and each bad in its own special way and they are still coming.
(9 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 31, 2009 Organic farming booby trapped: An overview in outline form
Liberals, eager for an organic future in farming, have not seen the carefully-crafted traps that, this year, are criminalizing and dismantling most aspects of farming. And there are ones still coming
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 19, 2008 Bill C51 in Canada
Time to watch what is going on with farmers and food and natural substances like a hawk. All of them seem so basic and boring politically but all of them need serious attention and protection right now because CORPORATE police state control is coming down on all of them. The banning of healthy real milk and NAIS - global tracking info of EVERY move or EVERY farm animal into a CORPORATE data bank - are happening now.
(19 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 28, 2009 Mr. Obama, a black man, is preparing to colonize Africa
The USDA did not suddenly become pro-black farmer (or any small farmer). "[I]nvesting in programs that alleviate hunger and suffering overseas" is Monsanto-speak. It is code for forcing genetic engineering and patents over seeds onto Africa (and India and others).
(15 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 20, 2008 Obama may choose Monsanto's GE-nightmare over an organic human vision
The Obama people ask us all to express our "vision." Meanwhile Obama is putting together a literal nightmare for the American people by considering appointing Tom Vilsack to head the USDA and Monsanto's guy.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, January 30, 2009 Wisconsin steps up attacks against its own farmers
Wisconsin is forcing farmers onto "Premises ID" which appears to strip them of ownership of their farmland, and is charging those who resist.
(14 comments) SHARE Friday, December 12, 2008 Thinking about 9/11 in light of the bailout
Thinking the unthinkable. Bush wrote a hell of a book in only 8 years. Destroying the constitution was the story, the bailout is his ending. What was his opening?
(14 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 1, 2009 Inside Cargill - knee deep in blood
Cargill wants those food safety bills. Do you really think they suddenly found religion and are now interested in food safety? And if not, then what is in those bills they want to so dang much that the bills are being pushed through Congress as fast and as silently as possible?
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 5, 2009 The CAFO stench is killing babies while the USDA laughs at farmers
A new study out of Wellesley proves babies are dying from CAFOs. Please, put this into the context of the "it's a lie it's about food safety" bills currently in Congress, and realize that the industrial ag corporations causing these deaths are the very ones promoting "food safety." .
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Agriculture as a dangerously unrecognized human rights issue. A letter to Obama from Sally Fallon
Sally Fallon, president of the Weston A Price Foundation, asks Obama to intercede on behalf of Illinois prisoners being tortured by a soy-based diet. It is time for Amnesty International to help those fighting for human survival who are up against multinational corporations taking over agriculture and food, yet without an adequate paradigm that defines the profound human rights issue involved - SURVIVAL itself.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 15, 2008 How to Rig a Monsanto GM trial. Take a look at Australia's latest.
Media has devoted attention to the Andrew Weidermann's GM trials in Australia but has failed to notice that the trials had been manipulated in a series of ways to make the GM-canola look as though it outperformed normal canola. Julie Newman, reporting on these trials, asks "Why has there been so much promotion of GM trials but little attention to detail?"
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 3, 2009 The New York Times and the missing story of milk
There are two stories happening about farming in this country - one of failure at a global level and one of success at a local level. The USDA is wiping out the latter - the sustainable agriculture Obama promised.
(10 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 26, 2009 The literal enslavement of the American farmer
In the simplest terms, the "food safety" bills now in Congress enslave our farmers to an industrial system - having to do its bidding or face penalties and prison so severe they function as whips.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, November 14, 2008 NAIS protests draw attention internationally
Lost in Bush's last minute push to get through one terrible anti-regulatory action after another, is a SUPER-regulatory one that is linked to Monsanto and threatens every farmer in the US and sustainable agriculture's very existence. Wake up, people. Help the farmers who are fighting for their lives, and now, for yours.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Has Reuters become a PR agency for Monsanto?
The following is an article put out by Reuters. What follows it is the response of a farmer. Who is asking pertinent questions? Or perhaps more seriously, who is asking any questions at all?
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 1, 2008 Bush agenda moving into place as you are distracted by the election
A group of people in this country are being singled out for true totalitarian control and for personal destruction by corporations (using the government to do it) - a group we all depend on for our own survival - and no one has any idea. And the USDA is moving fast to get it in place (and as silently as possible) before any change in government.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 22, 2008 Global warming - pill by pill, and seed by seed.
We have had such a fractured view of things that we miss the obvious, even around something we are desperate to fix.
First, the choice between drugs and natural supplements is a global warming choice.
Second, the choice between genetic engineering and organic is a global warming choice.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Guessing at Michael Pollan's take on NAIS and industry's "fake food safety" bills.
A quote from Michael Pollan. What does it tell us about NAIS and these bills? And where are green progressives who admire him so much as CSAs and organic farming and farmers markets (to say nothing of farmers themselves) are being stolen out from under them?
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 10, 2008 Standing up to terrorists, standing up to tomatoes.
The Bush administration is using the salmonella/tomato scare to pass the Food and Drug Administration Globalization Act of 2008. Liberals should no more be fooled into giving more control to the FDA, than conservatives should be fooled by terrorism scares to allow more surveillance. The bill is a huge threat to small farmers and ranchers and to our non-corporate, and thus vital, alternative health movement.
(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 18, 2008 Oil Crisis. Oh, really? They are hiding oil offshore.
Our country is being brought to its knees based on the rise in oil and gas prices, and the oil, coal and nuclear industries are rising up to demand things they have been pushed back on for years - drilling in ANWAR, off shore drilling, building new coal and nuclear power plants. The "crisis" opens those doors. A look at the "oil crisis," itself.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 27, 2009 The politically correct Vilsack: Lipstick on a ...
Vilsack lays out his priorities in nice liberal politically correct language. Politically correct is fine but what we have here is code for a continuation and even ramping up of what agribusiness has been doing to destroy small, local and organic farming.
(14 comments) SHARE Monday, July 7, 2008 Raw milk and the government/corporate effort to crush it
Raw milk is being attacked in a number states across the country - most heavily right now in California and Pennsylvania. And yet the milk is not only safe but healthier than pasteurized milk, and far healthier than milk from cows with Monsanto's rBGH (genetically engineered bovine growth hormone). So, what is going on?
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, July 28, 2008 A sinful view of Ann Veneman, Obama's possible choice for VP
Obama is considering Ann Veneman as VP. Veneman is Monsanto. To try to adequately convey how hellish a choice that would be for anyone on earth, this article applies the Catholic Church's new seven mortal sins to Monsanto.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, February 20, 2009 America the beautiful and holding onto it.
There are Monsanto-influenced bills in Congress that will destroy organic and small farming. Here is a link to protest.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 21, 2009 Back story on the take over of the US food supply
This excellent back story on NAIS will catch you up well on many things, including the absurdity and lie of any of this being about "food safety."
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 16, 2009 Seek justice for those now in prison, not only justice to put Cheney there.
While Cheney remains free and all of us are being stolen blind by people who will likely never see a day in prison or even fines, let's take a moment to seek justice for those at the other end of the stick
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 27, 2008 From 9/11 to NAIS
The fears of conservatives led to NSA-spying. The fears of liberals are leading to NAIS. Both are about monstrous centralized systems spying on us, taking freedoms and allowing for corporate control of our democracy and resources, including animals. Time for both to see how they are being manipulated and the freedoms to exist they are sacrificing.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 17, 2008 Badly Need Your Help - Today, Now - To Reach MoveOn
Your help is badly needed to get word out on this and to reach MoveOn. The urban left has missed the biggest attack on this country, perhaps ever. The farmland itself is being stolen out from under us, under the guise of "food safety." Reach MoveOn then reach every single news outlet you can possibly find.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 14, 2008 Justice for black people in Georgia? Help stop Troy Davis' execution
Troy Davis is a black man accused of killing a policeman in Savannah, Georgia. Nine eyewitnesses testified.
In a case that was lacking evidence and surrounded by questions, seven of those witnesses have now recanted and even said that one of the witnesses actually did the murder. Georgia would not allow an appeal. The Supreme Court stopped the execution in Septemeber but now has refused to hear the case.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, July 21, 2008 Tomatoes and Osama
Are tomatoes the problem or jalapenos? Or is something else going on that is more worrisome? Between terrorists scares and food scares, the Bush Administration is used to creating hysteria and getting bills pushed through Congress to give more power to itself and its corporate friends. They are still at it.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 14, 2009 Monsanto and the Schoolmarm method of punishing farmers out of farming
NY legislators have just introduced HB814 and HB875 (which is "way bigger" a farmer said), deadly bills for small farmers and what looks like the old Clinton/Monsanto plan to centralize the USDA and FDA, bringing corruption together for a nearly complete now corporate lock on our food supply.
(8 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 12, 2008 The death of the sustainable agriculture movement and its twin, the alternative health movement
While we are assuming the millions of burgeonings of awareness and interest in sustainable and alternative health will continue to grow and come together into a better world, other plans are being laid, right now, that are capable of destroying both in a second. No one is looking. NAIS is a dagger pointed at the heart of all we value on the land, and the FDA and USDA's "protection" of us removes what we need to survive.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 19, 2008 What is happening to farming - and to your world.
Farming is in terrible trouble. When you hear talk of NAIS or banning of real milk and farmers pleading for no more regulations, please hear with a different ear. It is your world that is being lost.
(12 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 16, 2008 Where is the ACLU?
The endless things being done to farmers in this country by the USDA and FDA on behalf of corporations they have come to represent, are serious constitutional violations, but the ACLU is nowhere to be found in defending small conservative farmers. If the ACLU shows up to defend the civil rights of farmers, that would go a great distance toward uniting liberals and conservatives. I'm asking the ACLU to save our family farms.
SHARE Monday, July 28, 2008 Paul Krugman, tomatoes ain't straightforward. Watch out for how you grab hold.
Paul Krugman wrote an article in the NY Times pushing for regulations to deal with food safety issues. This article reminds him that those who deregulated things are running the show now, suddenly pushing for regulations. The FDA is full of them and is not more to be trusted than the wolf in grandma's clothes. The FDA Globalization Act of 2008 and NAIS are wanted by corporations. Mr. Krugman, there's your tip off.