The Daily Croissant |
Eclectic Perambulations in the Noosphere |
WELLINGTON - Grant Family Farms has grown its business over the years through word of mouth. In the last few weeks, as a nationwide egg recall sparked fears of salmonella, that word of mouth has grown louder.
Dear Friend of Liberty,
Power-hungry statists are never satisfied.
Now they’re attempting to use a massive egg recall to shove S. 510, the so-called "Food Safety Modernization Act," down our throats.
S. 510, through a patchwork of rules and regulations on the food "industry," will throw America’s heartland under the government-subsidized corporatist bus as it crushes local and community producers of healthy food.
"Manual labor is becoming more and more difficult for Japan's aging farmers, prompting a Tokyo professor to devise a high-tech solution: mechanize the bodies of the farmers themselves." (physorg)
"Join Leo, the young pig who wonders if he is "the one", Chickity, the feathered family farm defender, and Moopheus, the trench-coat-clad cow with a passion for green pastures as they expose the problems with factory farming while making the world safe for sustainable family farms."
"Genetically modified (GMO) sugar beets are already planted on more than one million acres of farmland, spanning 10 different states from Michigan to Oregon. In fact, the Roundup-resistant gene is present in 95-percent of U.S.-grown sugar beet plants."
"After a harsh winter that threatened to stunt China’s winter wheat, June brought a welcome reprieve. Warm, sunny weather nurtured the developing plants, allowing them to mature quickly. As a result, northern and central China expected a bumper crop of winter wheat in 2010, reported the United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service."
"small farmers aren't getting much more than the crust of this pie. Seventy-five percent of all farm subsidies go to just 10 percent of recipients"
Investigate. See who gets farm subsidies at the Environmental Working Group's state-by-state database farm.ewg.org/farm
Speak up. Contact the House and Senate agriculture committee chairs, Representative Collin Peterson (202-225-2165) and Senator Blanche Lincoln (202-224-4843), and tell them to stop the wasteful spending.
Help out real family farmers. For 25 years, Farm Aid (farmaid.org) has provided funds and services directly to family farmers in crisis.
