H.R. 875 the Congressional Death Knell to small farmers in
America
To begin reversing
GM contamination will require ending the power biotech companies such as
Monsanto exert over our government and through that, over our food. HR 875, was
introduced by Rosa DeLauro whose husband Stanley Greenburg works for Monsanto.
The bill is
monstrous on level after level - the power it would give to Monsanto, the
criminalization of seed banking, the prison terms and confiscatory fines for
farmers, the 24 hour GPS tracking of their animals, the easements on their
property to allow for warrantless government entry, the stripping away of their
property rights, the imposition by the filthy, greedy industrial side of
anti-farming international "industrial" standards to independent farms - the
only part of our food system that still works, the planned elimination of
farmers through all these means.
The corporations
want the land, they want more intensive industrialization, they want the end of
normal animals so they can substitute patented genetically engineered ones they
own, they want the end of normal seeds and thus of seed banking by farmers or
individuals. They want control over all seeds, animals, water, and land.
Our farmers are good
stewards. That is who is threatened by Rosa DeLauro's bill (and because of
that, we all are). At a time in this country when wise stewardship and the
production of anything real - especially good food - is what is most needed, it
is our best stewards whom Rosa DeLauro threatens, under the cruelly false name
of "food safety."
And now Monsanto wants
its own employee, Michael Taylor back in government, this time to act with
massive police power as a "food safety tsar" from inside the White House. This
is the man who forced genetically engineered rBGH on us (unlabeled, and without
warning) when the Clintons placed him over "food safety" in the 90s. HR 875
would give him immense power over what is done on every single farm in the
country and massive police state power to wield over farmers and punishments to
break them at will.
The following quotes
show Monsanto and its biotech ilk are not "stewards" at all. Their inhuman
focus on profit has led to inhuman, insane, sickening products that require
intense corruption of democracy and science institutes and media, to foist them
on country after country which don't want them.
It is our farmers
who stand between us and this outrage which masquerades as science, as food, as
normal business, as government. And it is our farmers who need not only
protecting but actual
freeing from government intrusion, control and harm. Vegetarians and
vegans do not identify with farmers who raise animals but what is at stake here
is critical for all of us. "First they came for the Jews" is an apt reminder of
what matters in standing with each other because the overwhelming bureaucratic
burdens, the record requirements, the warrantless inspections, the end of
farmers' markets, the criminalization of seed banking, the ten years in prison
for stepping out of line in any way -- this will next be applied not to animals
breaking out of fence onto a neighbor's farm, but for such things as not
spraying pesticides on an organic farm to eradicate earthworms (now listed as an
invasive species) because the government's "food safety tsar" has deemed it
necessary. HR 875 is the
beginning. This time, it is about handing over control of our food supply to
enhance profits of the chemical industry. This time it is aimed with ferocity at
farmers who keep animals. Next time it will be totalitarian control. Rosa DeLauro and
Stanley Greenburg have a great deal to account for in attempting through a
mislabeled bill with hidden intent to wipe out our farmers and harm all of us.
HR 875 gives Monsanto greater power and opens doors wider to the following ...
It is time that we, every one of us, write to
our congressmen and women and tell them that this bill is an outrage.