[OKC] Internet myth of the week -- congress to pass bill that will outlaw organic farming

[Shauna Struby]

>From the Organic Consumers Association ::: http://www.organicconsumers.org/
:::

 

Internet Myth of the Week: 
Congress To Pass Bill That Will Outlaw Organic Farming?

 

This week, we received numerous calls and emails from OCA supporters who
came across alarming YouTube videos and emails circulating on the internet
that claimed a new food safety bill (HR 875) introduced in Congress would
make "organic farming illegal." Although the Bill certainly has its
shortcomings, it is an exaggeration to say that is a secret plot by Monsanto
and the USDA to destroy the nation's alternative food and farming system. In
actuality, HR 875, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, is a
limited-vision attempt by moderate Democrats and Republicans to craft food
safety legislation to address the out-of-control filth and contamination
that are inherent in our industrialized, now globalized,
"profit-at-any-cost" food system. 

 

This being said, OCA does not support HR 875 in its present form, given the
fact that, if the Bill's regulations were applied in a one-size-fits-all
manner to certified organic and farm-to-consumer operations, it could have a
devastating impact on small farmers, especially raw milk producers who are
already unfairly targeted by state food-safety regulators.

 

 Although the OCA deems this Bill as somewhat well-intentioned, we are
calling on Congress to focus its attention on the real threats to food
safety: globalized food sourcing from nations such as China where food
safety is a joke and domestic industrial-scale and factory farms whose
collateral damage includes pesticide and antibiotic-tainted food, mad cow
disease, E.coli contamination and salmonella poisoning. And, of course,
Congress and the Obama Administration need to support a massive transition
to organic farming practices.

 <http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_17194.cfm> Click here to
learn more and take action

 

 

::: shauna lawyer struby

 

 

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