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URGENT: House to Vote Today on 2007 Farm Bill - Act Now to Support

Family Farms!

 

* URGENT: Take Action on the Farm Bill

Organic Consumers Association, July 25, 2007

Straight to the Source

 

On July 26, 2007, the US House of Representatives is expected to vote

on a new Farm Bill, legislation that will determine agriculture policy

for the next five years. The current version of bill is mostly more

corporate welfare for polluting industrial agriculture with few

incentives to make healthy food more widely available or protect labor

rights or the environment. Please write your Member of Congress today

to urge them to vote for important amendments for sustainable agriculture.

 

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/oca...

 

Here's the full text of the Farm Bill, H.R. 2419, as reported by the

House Agriculture Committee on July 19:

http://agriculture.house.gov/inside/Legislation/110/FB/h2...

 

The following documents provide a detailed summary of provisions for

organic and sustainable agriculture (or the lack thereof) in the

current version of the Farm Bill:

 

From the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition:

http://www.msawg.org/ActionCenter/Weekly_Update_Special_E...

 

From the National Organic Coalition:

http://www.agmatters.net/attachments/FARMBILLSUMMARYlette...

 

The House will consider several amendments to the Farm Bill before its

final vote. Amendments that the Organic Consumers Association supports

include:

 

• The " Fairness in Farm & Food Policy Amendment " (Kind/Flake) to

make farm spending more equitable and fiscally responsible, and

reinvest the savings in rural America through conservation, nutrition,

and rural development.

 

• The " Mad Cow Disease Voluntary Testing Amendment " (Kucinich) to

allow conscientious slaughterhouses like Creekstone Farms to conduct

universal testing for BSE, a practice that has been blocked by the USDA.

 

• The " GMO Economic Loss Amendment " (Kucinich/Holt) to require the

Government Accountability Office (GAO) to assess the economic losses

suffered by farmers as a result of contamination from genetically

engineered organisms. This study would assess the economic losses

experienced by farmers and food processors due to the effects of

genetically engineered organisms on conventional and organic crops.

 

• The " GMO Risk Research Amendment " (Kucinich/Kaptur) to boost

funding for the USDA Biotechnology Risk Assessment Grants program. The

USDA Biotechnology Risk Assessment Grants program receives 2% of all

appropriated funds for biotechnology research in the USDA. This

amendment would boost that funding to 10%.

 

For more information, please go to the Organic Consumers Association's

Farm Issues page: http://www.organicconsumers.org/farm.cfm

 

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_6270.cfm

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