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[Steve Hart <stevenlawrencehart@gmail.com>]

Yepp..its all real..whats the solution ? ? Is "the problem the solution" We
must rely on grass roots activity and push hard, like this movement

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/159bfe00dd5f3c7d

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/159bbf9f33879dcb

A good recent article to this end in the latest "Resilience"

http://csa-india.org/what-we-do/open-source-seeds/

http://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-01-20/how-open-source
-seed-producers-from-the-us-to-indian-are-changing-global-food-production/


So lets advertise these as widely as possible and add as many more as we
can find



Steve Hart



On 22 January 2017 at 12:21, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com> wrote:

> 1)
> My view will not surprise anyone who has been paying attention: This
> another expected turn of the dialectical screw in the emergence and
> hegemony of industrial organic, in line with historical USDA goals. Toward
> this objective, the agency is using the same Act it has used to subsidize
> big agriculture and foster its monopoly control over every sector of the
> food system. Crumbs are dropped along the way to deceive and pacify small
> farmers. How depressing that so many are fooled. History repeats itself,
> first as tragedy, then as farce.
> --
> Karl North -  http://karlnorth.com/
> "Pueblo que canta no morira" - Cuban saying
> "They only call it class warfare when we fight back" - Anon.
> "My father rode a camel. I drive a car. My son flies a jet-plane. His son
> will ride a camel."
>  —Saudi saying
> 2)
> Agreed Karl, looks like another checkoff program that steals from the small
> producer and benefits many others like industrial organic and folks who
> like to move money around get paid and accomplish very little except for
> enhancing corporate profits..
> Rich Molini
> Atlanta, Indiana
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Karl S North <knorth@binghamton.edu>
> Date: Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 12:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [SANET-MG] USDA/AMS Organic Research, Promotion, and
> Information Order
> To: sanet-mg@googlegroups.com
>
>
> My view will not surprise anyone who has been paying attention: This
> another expected turn of the dialectical screw in the emergence and
> hegemony of industrial organic, in line with historical USDA goals. Toward
> this objective, the agency is using the same Act it has used to subsidize
> big agriculture and foster its monopoly control over every sector of the
> food system. Crumbs are dropped along the way to deceive and pacify small
> farmers. How depressing that so many are fooled. History repeats itself,
> first as tragedy, then as farce.
>
> --
> Karl North -  http://karlnorth.com/
> "Pueblo que canta no morira" - Cuban saying
> "They only call it class warfare when we fight back" - Anon.
> "My father rode a camel. I drive a car. My son flies a jet-plane. His son
> will ride a camel."
>  —Saudi saying
>
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 7:53 PM, Douglas Hinds <cedecor@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > Opinions have been quite diverse regarding the following.  Is there a
> > consensus within this group?
> > Organic Research, Promotion, and Information Order
> >
> > A Proposed Rule by the Agricultural Marketing Service
> > <https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/agricultural-marketing-service
> >
> > on 01/18/2017 <https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/18>
> >
> > https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/18/2017-00
> > 601/organic-research-promotion-and-information-order
> >
> >
> > AGENCY:
> >
> > Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA.
> > ACTION:
> >
> > Proposed rule.
> > SUMMARY:
> >
> > This rulemaking proposes the establishment of an industry-funded
> > promotion, research, and information program for certified organic
> > products. The purpose of the program would be to strengthen the position
> of
> > certified organic products in the marketplace, support research to
> benefit
> > the organic industry, and improve access to information and data across
> the
> > organic sector. The proposed program, the Organic Research, Promotion,
> and
> > Information Order (proposed Order), was submitted to the U.S. Department
> of
> > Agriculture (USDA) by the Organic Trade Association (OTA). Under the
> > proposed Order, certified producers (producers) and certified handlers
> > (handlers) with gross sales in excess of $250,000 for the previous
> > marketing year of certified organic agricultural commodities would pay an
> > assessment of one-tenth of one percent of net organic sales. Importers
> > importing greater than $250,000 in transaction value of organic products
> > for the previous marketing year would pay an assessment of one-tenth of
> one
> > percent of the transaction value of certified organic products reported
> to
> > the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (Customs or CBP). Producers,
> > handlers, and importers that fall below these thresholds could choose to
> > pay assessments into the program as a “voluntarily assessed” entity. The
> > proposed program would be implemented under the Commodity Promotion,
> > Research, and Information Act of 1996 (the Act) and would be administered
> > by a board of assessment payers and one public member appointed by the
> > Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary). An initial referendum would be held
> > among mandatorily and voluntarily assessed entities (*i.e.* domestic
> > producers, handlers, and importers) to determine whether they favor
> > implementation of the program prior to it going into effect. This
> proposed
> > rule also announces the Agricultural Marketing Service's (AMS) intent to
> > request approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) of new
> > information collection requirements to implement the program.
> > DATES:
> >
> > Comments must be received by March 20, 2017. Pursuant to the Paperwork
> > Reduction Act (PRA), comments on the information collection burden that
> > would result from this proposal must be received by March 20, 2017.
> >
> > --
> Lawrence F. London, Jr.
> lfljvenaura@gmail.com
> https://sites.google.com/site/avantgeared
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