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October 11, 2005 10:55 AM Subscribe
Sign petition to prevent "rider" to 2006 Agriculture Appropriations Bill. The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) needs your immediate help to stop Congress and the Bush administration from seriously degrading organic standards. After 35 years of hard work, the U.S. organic community has built up a multi-billion dollar alternative to industrial agriculture, based upon strict organic standards and organic community control over modification to these standards.
This week, acting in haste and near-total secrecy, the U.S. Senate will vote on a "rider" to the 2006 Agriculture Appropriations Bill that will reduce control over organic standards from the National Standards Board and
put this control in the hands of federal bureaucrats in the USDA (remember the USDA proposal in 1997-98 that said that genetic engineering, toxic sludge, and food irradiation would be OK on organic farms, or USDA suggestions in 2004 that heretofore banned pesticides, hormones, tainted feeds, and animal
drugs would be OK?).
This post was deleted for the following reason: link doesn't work, the vote was three weeks ago, and online petitions... not so much
http://www.democracyinaction.org/oca/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1242
posted by goalyeehah at 10:59 AM on October 11, 2005
posted by goalyeehah at 10:59 AM on October 11, 2005
Your link is broken. Also, the vote was three weeks ago. See the timeline from the OCA for more information on the current status of the rider.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 11:05 AM on October 11, 2005
posted by monju_bosatsu at 11:05 AM on October 11, 2005
Sorry. Organic farmers don't donate to the GOP, corporate farmers do, therefore, organic farmers don't get an input into the standards regulating the industry. Next time, they should charge more, and get those checks into the GOP coffers before the election, and maybe they'll get to write the legislation. Well, unless they donated to democratic candidates or hired lobbyists who worked with dems. That's an automatic "No representation whatsoever" foul.
That's how things work in the US.
posted by eriko at 11:06 AM on October 11, 2005
That's how things work in the US.
posted by eriko at 11:06 AM on October 11, 2005
Remember when people used to care that there was flouride in their water?
posted by ChasFile at 11:10 AM on October 11, 2005
posted by ChasFile at 11:10 AM on October 11, 2005
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