I copied and pasted the following from an email someone sent me:

CALL THE WHITEHOUSE AND DEMAND CONGRESS WITHDRAWS HR875 & HR5425 FROM THE FLOOR:

Educating Congress: Do Not Supress Organic and Small Farmers and Ranchers; Natural Food Products

Farmers Under Attack...


This urgent message is from our correspondent, Linn Cohen-Cole on February 17, 2009:

We have less than two weeks to stop the take over the farms and ranches.

H.R. 875 and S. 425


We need to rally people immediately.


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.


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.


Schoolmarm approach to punishing farmers out of farming.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Monsan ... 4-935.html



Bills being rushed through Congress, set to destroy organic farming.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Monsan ... 7-758.html


Linn Cohen-Cole is a dedicated researcher and "Paul Revere" of health freedom. At her urging, 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, including Dietary Supplements.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/56 ... _KEY=26714


The U.S. House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry will hold a hearing on NAIS on March 11. Bills to put NAIS into law, HR875 and companion Senate S814, are being pushed through Congress, as well as an Appropriations Bill with funding for NAIS. This hearing is critical to blocking mandatory NAIS.

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WHAT: Congressional Hearing on NAIS

WHEN: Wednesday, March 11

WHERE: Washington, DC



The U.S. House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry will hold a hearing on NAIS on March 11. Bills to put NAIS into law, HR875 and companion Senate S814, are being pushed through Congress, as well as an Appropriations Bill with funding for NAIS. This hearing is critical to blocking mandatory NAIS.


The following link will take you to a page that will send a personal message on the issue to your local daily newspaper as a Letter to the Editor - http://www.usalone.net/cgi-bin/oen.cgi?qnum=7232


Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQvGBljw ... r_embedded