Be sure to get your comments on the 2007 Farm Bill in before the 12/31/2006 deadline.
Go to:
House Ag Survey
Some topics might include:
- NAIS - Just say No.
- Farm Subsidies - Let’s stop paying the big guys to not farm.
- Corporate Welfare - Do we really need to support Monsanto, McDonalds & Walmart?
- Exports - If sellers want to export, let them do it at their cost but don’t burden the US consumers and small producers with costs that benefit foreign markets and exporters.
- Conservation - Helping farmers keep land in agriculture and scenic.
- Taxes - Over taxation of real estate is a primary threat to agriculture.
- On-Farm Slaughter - Ask for it to be allowed for small farms just like with poultry.
- Buy Local - Do you know who raised your food?
- Slow Food - Less miles means less fossil fuels.
- GMOs - Do you know if those genes fit? Labeling should be a required. At minimum “GMO-Free” labeling needs to be explicitly allowed.
- Clones - A dead end for breeding if nothing else. Also easily over propagates hidden bad genes and produces mono-genetic herds both of which are bad. Labeling should be a required. At minimum “Clone-Free” labeling needs to be explicitly allowed.
- Patenting Life - Baahhd Idea! We do not want corporations locking up the blueprints of life.
Speak up now so you’ll be heard!
Thank you, Walter, for your faithfulness in this fight to preserve our freedoms in this nation. We have used your above post to send out an alert email to all of our members in the Arkansas Animal Producer’s Association and to all of our family and friends around the nation.
May God deliver us from this evil.
Comment Anita Messenger — December 30, 2006 @ 12:50 pm
we might tell them not to use our hard earned tax dollars to fund the very program that will put most of us out of business.tell them that the small farmer and rancher are the backbone of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA, and without us the UNITED STATES of AMERICA will become more dependent foreign meat imports.we are swiftly becoming a country that imports everything. we can tell them lots of things,but we must tell them something,make them feel like the heel that they realy are,but in a nice sort of away.
Comment nick lecompte — December 30, 2006 @ 5:47 pm
I left my comments. I just hope real people read them.
I do admit I find the cloning technology interesting but very scarey. Who knows what bizzare genetic switches will get turned on and off just by the process. Even some hidden defect duplicated by the thousands. The quarter horse Impressive and his kin are a perfect example of a deadly hidden danger and it was done all without cloning. Big beautiful stallion with a hidden deadly gene that stretches across several breed registries and has cost millions if not billions of dollars. Multiply that now by what ever Agri-biz whacks out. Have a prize Holstein and you clone her and clone her but hidden in her genes is some defect. Instead of 4 to 10 offspring you have thousands of identical cows all carrying the same defect. They all have calfs or clone….
Way too close to bringing B rated Sci-Fi movies to life.
Comment Sue F — December 31, 2006 @ 4:13 am