National Sustainable Agricultural Association has this action alert up on the latest fight for your food, family farms, and organic farms. Again, we have corporate interests battling against….well, stuff that benefits the average person…..like clean air, water, and chemical free food.
Not to mention the diseases sure to come with the filthy practices of the factory farms. (A side note~ chicken manure IS worth some money, if left to season. It’s one of the best fertilizers out there. And natural to boot.)
From the link:
Carole Morison: Perdue showed up on the farm when the Food, Inc. film crew was here. When the company finally figured out who was visiting, we received a letter threatening contract termination for “violating bio-security.” Their threat stemmed from me not having people sign a log book that the company had placed on our farm to monitor our visitors.
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Oh.My.God. Can you say Big Brother? I knew that you could. Violating bio-security? Seriously? bwahahahahaha, that’s rich! How do they figure “security” is involved? “Security” is the new “cloak” word—something to hide behind when you want to coerce people to do something against their better instincts….
And this is yet another example of the Too Big Too Fail as a way to monopolize a market–the detrimental aspects are seen with bullying these farmers to give into their demands “or else”, to unhealthy practices that most folks would find appalling if they knew, to the environmental impact of upsetting the ecology by having so many chickens crammed into such a small space.
And speaking of monopolizing the market, my blog here on Senators who voted against GMO labeling, links to gut inflammation, etc.