Take Action Now for Home Grown Food! - Democratic Underground

kimmerspixelated

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Wed Nov-17-10 05:26 PM
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Take Action Now for Home Grown Food!

Urgent!!! sign petition:

ACTION ITEM: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

They want to take your right to grow your own food away!

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slackmaster

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Wed Nov-17-10 05:35 PM
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1. I have never heard of S.510 before. Could you please explain what it has to do with homegrown food?

TIA

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kimmerspixelated

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Wed Nov-17-10 05:49 PM
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3. From the site.

09.14.10 - Yesterday, in the waning days of the 111th Congress, as We the People prepare to throw the rascals out, Big Agra Biz' friends in Congress have taken the unusual late-session step of introducing a criminal penalty bill.

The bill reintroduces a 10 year jail term for anyone who sells what the govt later decides was "adulterated" or "misbranded" food, a provision which had been removed from the House-passed (sic)

"Food Safety" version last year (HR.2749). The political insiders plan, our contacts tell us, to add S.3767 to S.510 so the penalties can be in the final bill approved by the conference committee, if We the People allow S.510 to pass the US Senate!

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slackmaster

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Wed Nov-17-10 07:01 PM
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4. Neither I nor anyone I know has ever sold homegrown food

We either eat it, can it and eat it later, or give it away.

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Pisces

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Wed Nov-17-10 07:06 PM
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6. WHat about farmers markets??

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slackmaster

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Wed Nov-17-10 07:23 PM
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8. They're already regulated, at least where I live

http://www.sdfarmbureau.org/BuyLocal/Farmers-Markets.php

Nobody can just show up with their backyard produce and offer it for sale.

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HCE SuiGeneris

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Wed Nov-17-10 07:05 PM
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5. This will fill you in on Monsanto and S.510

Edited on Wed Nov-17-10 07:06 PM by HCE SuiGeneris

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9573997

and here http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9573997&mesg_id=9577194

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Brickbat

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Wed Nov-17-10 05:37 PM
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2. Is that this bill?

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/organic.asp

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Bluenorthwest

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Wed Nov-17-10 07:13 PM
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7. So sad...

legitimate debate on this bill was fucked by hysteria. Yes, hysteria. Fucked the actual conversation. So tired of it, so tired of it.....

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