Vicki,
Sorry but I feel you are wrong about hr 875, and you are wrong telling people not to
worry about it, take a look at the words actually used in the bill and their
broad meanings when monsanto brings us all in to court ( and they can afford
it, but we can't afford to defend it).
The rep that introduced
the bill is the wife of a major monsanto executive, the wording was broad
intentionally so that later they can bring tens of thousands of lawsuits to
force their issue in the name of the food safety act,
It is not the government
we need to worry about here , it is what
the multinational ag companies can do with the language in the bill to shut
others down, if you don't think they will do it start googling monsanto court
cases, they have already been doing it for over ten years and have shut down
hundreds of farms leaving the property to be snapped up out of foreclosure by other multinational ag corps who use their
systems .
The wording is so broad
that monsanto could sue and close down any farm caught saving seeds and not
following the mandated paperwork for organic foods, or any of dozens of other infractions that could be
construed from the broad language in the bill.
Please apologize to the
people and have them read the bill and call their legislators before its too
late, local organic food would
also see a demise if this bill were
to become law in the present form.
You will now see the
organizing small farm militias in many regions where farners will start banding
together to vow to defend each others properties from monsanto, adm and
others.
We are trying to
encourage the formation of a lobby group to draft a referendum in Michigan - " A
small farm, family farm, and organic farm protection act" that if passed by the
voters could provide state protection from the Federal acts.
People need to take this
seriously, this is not about food safety, this is about certain economic groups
bent on cotrolling the worlds power through food versus the common man, Wake up
and smell the roundup.
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