If this is true, then I really wanna know what those green motherearth lefty hippies think. Muhahah.
The food safety bill, HR 875, in Congress was written by Monsanto, Cargill, Tysons, ADM, etc. All are associated with the opposite of food safety.
In the simplest terms, organic food and a rebirth of farming were winning. Not in absolute numbers but in a deep and growing shift by the public toward understanding the connection between their food and their health, between good food and true social pleasures, between their own involvement in food and the improvement in their lives in general, between local food and a burgeoning local economy.
Slow Food was right - limit your food to what comes from your region and from real farmers, and slow down to cook it and linger over it with friends and family, and the world begins to change for the better.
And as we face an unprecedented economic crisis, and it is hard to be sure what has value, one thing that always does is food. Which is why the corporations are after absolute control over it. But what obstacles to a complete lock on food do they face? All the people in this country who are banking on organic farming and urban gardens and most of all, everyone’s deepening pleasure in and increasing involvement with everything about food. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Goodbye-farmers-markets-C-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-090303-287.html
Farmers markets. Local farmers. Real milk. Fresh eggs. Vegetable stands.
Those are things we not only all want, but things we are actively getting involved in, and things we very much need. And where they are truly good, they are growing.
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2096
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Goodbye-farmers-markets-C-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-090303-287.html
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/HR875andS425organicfarmingban13mar09.shtml
Now they want to bad organic farming and regulate our gardens? What the heck is next????
meant *Ban* not bad
Don’t get me wrong
The oil spill is a enormous disaster that will hurt for decades. I HATE it!
I live 4 hours from the Gulf coast and we go there every year.
I given donations to several environmental groups many times over the past 30 years, including just last week.
I shop at the Farmers Market every Saturday AM
most days we shop at Sprouts.
I do not use pesticides and have an organic lawn and garden.
Still, I work 60 hours a week because it takes 2 jobs to get by after the mass layoff from the place I worked 10 years,. All the work was shipped outside the USA.
Now the house next door has 10 to 14 people living in it
including 6 kids and I know several are probably not here legally. They park 3 cars on the front lawn
and the place is trashed.
All the administration and the President seems interested in making sure everyone hears its not his fault, He seems to be running for re-election instead of solving problems
At least BP can administrate, run a large organization and actually DO something instead of posturing.
Its time for major Change!
There is no comparison
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http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.realbollywood.com/news/up_images/carla-bruni1336.jpgimgrefurl=http://www.realbollywood.com/news/2010/08/carla-bruni-offered-role-csi.htmlusg=__S72eh1DtIsDTHLESiee3QbEvWbM=h=462w=430sz=47hl=enstart=0zoom=1tbnid=4r5uPz_Tm14pDM:tbnh=120tbnw=120prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcarla%2Bbruni%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1366%26bih%3D575%26tbs%3Disch:1um=1itbs=1iact=hcvpx=120vpy=91dur=839hovh=233hovw=217tx=90ty=128ei=jryiTNWKIJKesQPE6pX7Bgoei=mruiTNaFD4X0swOQ6f35Bgesq=19page=1ndsp=28ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0
http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92869?fp=1
Various sources within the Buzz are reporting that Michelle Obama’s organic garden has been besieged by icky goo in the ground. As a result, the veggies aren’t quite what the first lady had in mind. According to Daily Finance, the National Park Service tested the soil in the vegetable patch and found highly elevated levels of lead due to sewage used as fertilizer.
So the question is: Who to blame? While dumping sewage into the ground sounds like a crime worthy of Mr. Burns from The Simpsons, the actual perpetrators were none other than the Clintons.
Found it… the GOP’s ‘Pledge to America’
I grew up in the most liberal environment imaginable and this wasn’t going on in my upbringing. The term organic was limited to the science class.
When did the liberals that infest our cities start to think that they were gardeners?
Hell no I was never a liberal!
Wait…they don’t like toxic chemicals? I have trouble believing that.
Signed,
Methamphetamine
Cocaine
Anti-Depressants
Michelle had wanted the role as First Lady to be a regular government paid position. It turns out that she’s getting all the perks at our expense anyway. Leadership by example for sure.
Material girl Michelle Obama is a modern-day Marie Antoinette on a glitzy Spanish vacation
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/08/04/2010-08-04_material_girl_michelle_obama_is_a_modernday_marie_antoinette_on_a_glitzy_spanish.html#ixzz0w7OlVEoX
For a couple that has sharply criticized former President George W. Bush so widely, they could stand to follow his example for once and select a more low-key locale, as Bush regularly did in his Texas vacations.
Instead, Michelle Obama seems more like a modern-day Marie Antoinette - the French queen who spent extravagantly on clothes and jewels without a thought for her subjects’ plight - than an average mother of two. While she’s spent her time in the White House telling parents they should relieve their chubby kids’ dependency on sugar and stressing the importance of an organic veggie garden, hopping a jet to Europe to meet with Spanish royalty isn’t the visual the White House probably wants to project. Perhaps they’ve forgotten the damning image of John Kerry, on the eve of the 2004 election, windsurfing off the coast of Nantucket?
I don’t begrudge anyone rest and relaxation when they work hard. We all need downtime - the First Family included. It’s the extravagance of Michelle Obama’s trip and glitzy destination contrasted with President Obama’s demonization of the rich that smacks of hypocrisy and perpetuates a disconnect between the country and its leaders. Toning down the flash would humanize the Obamas and signify that they sympathize with the setbacks of the people they were elected to serve.
In January, President Obama insisted that everybody in the country is going to have to sacrifice something, accept change for the greater good. Everybody is going to have to give. Everybody is going to have to have some skin in the game.
If sacrifice is the precursor to change, what will the family that ran on change offer up? Elitist doublespeak won’t cut it.
No oil spill in Spain!
Marie Antoinette is NOT the Change I Hoped for.
I realize that you can live a long, long time without organic food and people were even living on this planet before eating organic food was the cool thing to do.
Well, as we know, liberals are a different species that need organic food to survive. How long can they go without it?
