Is the Death of Organic Upon Us?

Why the bills in Congress must be stopped. The bills in Congress (HB 814, HR 875, SB 425?) look innocuous to the public and are cast as “food safety” but they mention two things (and thus make regulations buried elsewhere, operative) which will destroy the competition to industrial agriculture and/or take over control of all farms and thus of the US food supply: “tracing” which triggers this: www.organicconsumers.org “best farming practices” which triggers a series of regulations that industrialize farming – allowing the government (indistinguishable from industry) to impose * what feed to give the animals (the GMO feed they sell), * what medical regimen (the drugs they sell), and * what spray and where and when (the pesticides they sell). These “best” practices would prevent farmers from raising animals on farms where crops are also grown and a series of things that are equally absurd to anyone who knows the least thing about farming or wishes to farm themselves and have chickens and vegetables, or a horse and fruit trees or ducks and grow corn to feed them or … The implications for organic farming and all independent farming are clear. This, however, is quite legal and growing: www.sierraclub.org Meanwhile the largest chicken CAFO in the US is being planned for Ohio. A small sample of how the regulations in just HB 814 will control any farmer into futility and oblivion and are horrifically misapplied to people who are producing good food on clean farms away from CAFOs …

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