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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Maybe this guy isn't paying attention. Small farmers are harrassed and 
hauled into court a lot, for all kinds of stuff.

Lynn Wigglesworth

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bobf" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:59 PM
Subject: [Homestead] the most TERRIBLE day in the history of US 
farming--DailyKos- NAIS


> >From today's DailyKos-- USDA/ Amish? NAIS/ Vilsack
>
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> Excerpt:
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> Today is the most TERRIBLE day in the history of US farming
>
> by Scaredhuman
>
> Wed Dec 17, 2008 at 03:51:36 AM PST
>
> No, I am not referring to Obama selecting Vilsack for the USDA though it 
> is a blatant betrayal not only of his promise of sustainable agriculture 
> but of "change" and "grassroots" anything.  Vilsack is a Monsanto lackey. 
> http://www.organicconsumers.org/...
>
> and I believe the hand of the Clintons is heavy in this. 
> http://www.localforage.com/...
>
> Scaredhuman's diary :: ::
> No, the choice of Vilsack for USDA, though, casts an even darker shadow 
> over the day.
>
> For today the state of Wisconsin at the behest of the USDA drags an Amish 
> farmer named Emmanuel Miller to court for obeying his religious 
> principles.
>
> Perhaps this moment will begin to intimate how the USDA has been operating 
> and why the head of the USDA has become not a political choice but 
> actually life and death for American farmers.
>
> Mr. Miller is due in court today, this Wed. Dec. 17th, at 3:00 pm, at the 
> Clark County Court House, 517 Court St. Neillsville, WI, for his initial 
> court appearance
> Family Farm Defenders is encouraging food sovereignty advocates to appear 
> in court in Neillsville to express their solidarity with the Amish farmer 
> being targeted by the State of Wisconsin in its first effort to enforce 
> mandatory premises registration, stage one of the controversial National 
> Animal Identification System (NAIS).   ......................
>
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/12/17/63219/619
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