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Regarding No More Backyard Farming, Home Gardening,
Farmers Markets, Fruit or Vegetable Stands
Information Provided as a Courtesy
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Update 6:32 PM 3/9/2009 – Chart of Representatives Below

Please read the bills yourself and draw your own conclusions. We have not read the bills in their entirety, so we cannot accurately comment as to the veracity of those who are either for or against these bills.

However, if there is any terminology the impedes free market growing and raising of natural organic produce in home back yards or small farms, please let us know.

We have provided links below to the full text of the bills as they currently stand. These links are for your convenience.

The information below has been collected by friends and colleagues. If you have anything to contribute or advise us on, please email us at cdin.org@gmail.com.  Thank you!

The following bills propose increased regulation on all farming, growing and producing of foodstuffs to the degree that many, if not all small farmers and growers will be unable to afford and/or meet said guidelines.

This would essentially allow for large agra-businesses to take over full production and eliminate small local growers.

This could potentially also affect "backyard" growers and gardeners as well.

Please draw your own conclusions. We look forward to hearing from you with your input.

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Links to the Actual Bills with Complete Text

HR 875
http://cdin.us/01files/hr-875-bill.html

S 435
http://cdin.us/01files/s-425-is-bill.html

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Update: 5:46 PM 3/9/2009
 
Information Provided by
the National Independent Consumers and Farmers Association
http://www.nicfa.com/

WHAT: Congressional Hearing on NAIS
WHEN: Wednesday, March 11
WHERE: Washington, DC

The U.S. House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry will hold a hearing on NAIS on March 11. Bills to put NAIS into law, HR875 and companion Senate S814, are being pushed through Congress, as well as an Appropriations Bill with funding for NAIS. This hearing is critical to blocking mandatory NAIS.

ACTION: Please call and fax all members of the subcommittee (below). 1. When you call, ask to speak to the legislative aide for agriculture. Form a positive relationship with the aide. Become his or her source of knowledge for NAIS. Be RESPECTFUL and POLITE. Remember, who would the aide rather speak with, someone who is courteous or someone angry and resentful?

2. Please send this to everyone you know, ESPECIALLY to people in the states with members on the subcommittee. Members need to hear from their constituents–the people who vote them into office.

If you are in one of these states, please arrange a meeting with the district representative of the Congressman. That makes a big difference. We need to be real people to the legislators, so that when they think "farm" or "food" they think of us, not Monsanto, Cargill, Tyson, etc…

If your state is not listed below, click HERE to easily find your representatives: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt

State	Party/ Dist	Representative	Phone	Fax	Website email form
AL	R-13	Mike Rogers	202.225.3261	202.226.8485	Go to Form
CA	D-18	Dennis Cardoza	202.225.6131 800.356.6424	202.225.0819	Go to Form
CA	D-20	Jim Costa	202.225.3341	202.225.9308	Go to Form
CA	D-43	Joe Baca	202.225.6161	202.225.8671	Go to Form
CO	D-4	Betsy Markey,	202.225.4676	202.225.5870	Go to Form
GA	D-13	David Scott (Chair)	202.225.2939	202.225.4628	Go to Form
IA	D-3	Leonard Boswell	202.225.3806	202.225.5608	Go to Form
IA	R-5	Steve King	202.225.4426	202.225.3193	Go to Form
ID	D-1	Walt Minnick	202.225.6611	202.225.3029	Go to Form
MD	D-1	Frank Kratovil	202.225.5311	202.225.0254	Go to Form
NE	R-3	Adrian Smith	202.225.6435	202.225.0207	Go to Form
PA	D-17	Tim Holden	202.225.5546	202.226.0996	Go to Form
TN	R-1	David P. Roe	202.225.6356	202.225.5714	Go to Form
TX	R-11	K. Michael Conaway	202.225.3605	202.225.1783	Go to Form
TX	R-19	Randy Neugebauer, Ranking Minority Member	202.225.4005 888.763.1611	202.225.9615	Go to Form
VA	R-6	Bob Goodlatte,	202.225.5431	202.225.9681	Go to Form
WI	D-8	Steve Kagen	202.225.5665	202.225.5729	Go to Form

QUOTED:

Get in touch with local farmers and food producers by attending a local farmers market and asking them how business is.

Attend a local WAPF meeting, this is a good start to learning about what is going on in farming and local & state initiatives .

The website is http://www.westonaprice.org/localchapters/index.html

Check out the Farmers Legal Defense Fund at http://www.ftcldf.org/index.html

Find out who sits on your states agriculture and farming committee and contact them with your concerns. Continue to contact your elected officials and let them know your position on legislation and why. Get active at the local and state levels; this is the quickest way to initiate change.

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March 8, 2009 at 9:36 pm

 

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Ruthlessly, the wolf is being hunted down and destroyed.
It could be a costly and devastating mistake.

The Dog Files has done an excellent online video about wolves.
Meet their beautiful white wolf who “sings,” and learn about
the magnificence of and our kinship with, wolves.

You can click on the image above to go to their website.

Their wolf episode video is below:

From Aldo Leopold:

“We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes.” I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view. Since then I have lived to see state after state extirpate its wolves. I have watched the face of many a newly wolfless mountain, and seen the south-facing slopes wrinkle with a maze of new deer trails. I have seen every edible bush and seedling browsed, first to anaemic desuetude, and then to death. I have seen every edible tree defoliated to the height of a saddlehorn. Such a mountain looks as if someone had given God a new pruning shears, and forbidden Him all other exercise. In the end the starved bones of the hoped-for deer herd, dead of its own too-much, bleach with the bones of the dead sage, or molder under the high-lined junipers. I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. And perhaps with better cause, for while a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail of replacement in as many decades. So also with cows. The cowman who cleans his range of wolves does not realize that he is taking over the wolf’s job of trimming the herd to fit the range. He has not learned to think like a mountain. Hence we have dustbowls, and rivers washing the future into the sea. We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap and poison, the statesman with pen, the most of us with machines, votes, and dollars, but it all comes to the same thing: peace in our time. A measure of success in this is all well enough, and perhaps is a requisite to objective thinking, but too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run. Perhaps this is behind Thoreau’s dictum: In wildness is the salvation of the world. Perhaps this is the hidden meaning in the howl of the wolf, long known among mountains, but seldom perceived among men." ~ Aldo Leopold, Thinking Like a Mountain Thanks to Suzanne Stone, MyYellowStone Wolves http://myyellowstonewolves.typepad.com/myw/2009/02/wolf-makes-it-all-the-way-to-colorado.html More Information: http://www.westernwolves.org/

 

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