Help Preserve Organic Farming-Contact Congress

March 12, 2009

Hi Health Activists,

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.

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arnold

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