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  • From: robert schuler <sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Re:Food quality /start here
  • Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:12:18 -0500

You can start here HR 3242. The Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act.
Go to www.house.gov/ose/specialtycrops. you may need to type in
specialty crops
in the search box...Bob.

Jill Bussiere wrote:

> Pat,
> This is an excellent list - I would add to it, "Buy fair trade
> products".
> Jill Bussiere, Wisconsin
>
> Inform yourself on the issues, then VOTE. Write to your
> senators and congressional representative and tell them
> *why* they will/will not have your vote. Keep writing!
>
> Also write to your state legislators and tell them that you
> support efforts to aid small farmers within your state. Ask
> them what, specifically, they are doing to help.
>
> Protest if any relevant protest marches are held near you.
> Organize a protest if you can.
>
> Oppose GMO crops.
>
> Support organizations that are working to change this
> situation.
>
> One really good place to learn about the issues:
>
> http://www.foodfirst.org
>
> More places to inform yourself:
>
> http://www.factoryfarm.org/
>
> http://www.newfarm.org
>
> Buy local food whenever you can. Buy directly from farmers
> whenever you can.
>
> Request that your supermarkets carry local food - talk to
> the managers. Get all your friends to request that the
> supermarkets carry local food. Request that health food
> stores carry local food and get your friends to request this
> also.
>
> Patronize farmers markets. Grow what food you can. Cook
> basic foods from scratch (thereby giving less of your money
> to the giant corporations that make and sell highly
> processed foods).
>
> Join a food coop if there is one near you. Start one if
> there isn't.
>
> Educate others.
>
> Stop buying meat or eggs produced on factory-farms. I think
> most Americans can locate a local egg producer.
>
> Consider becoming a vegetarian if you can't locate or can't
> afford locally grown meat that is NOT produced on factory
> farms.
>
> If you're a church-goer, try to involve your church in your
> efforts - maybe organize a mini-farmers market at your
> church for local gardeners to sell and swap their products.
>
> Get your church or your public schools or your town to start
> 'community gardens' if you can.
>
> Try to get your church, town, and schools to 'landscape'
> with edible plants: shrubbery, fruit trees, etc.
>
> It all comes back to 'globalization' and control of our
> economy and our government by giant multi-national
> corporations. This is especially easy to see in the field
> of agriculture.
>
> Free your mind from no-longer correct 'facts' about the free
> market and capitalism. Globalization has *broken*
> capitalism as we knew it: historically, capitalism depended
> upon a balance of power between workers and management. Now
> companies are engaged in a 'global race to the bottom' -
> seeking the lowest wages, lowest safety standards, lowest
> environmental standards around the globe.
>
> When we had that balance of power, the free market economy
> worked well for the citizens, the ordinary people. Now that
> all the power is in the hands of the giant multi-national
> corporations, unregulated capitalism is no longer working to
> the advantage of the citizenry.
>
> The standard of living of *all* countries will be driven
> down to the lowest possible common denominator if we, the
> people, don't take back power from the giant corporations.
>
> Pat
>
> --
> "Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of
> supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
> live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry
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