Sunday, July 29, 2007

Local Food & Food Democracy

"Consumers, farmers, environmentalists, and other sane people don't want the Monsantos to use us as their guinea pigs, so they have already gotten more than 100 local governments to ban GMO crops within their area. This has infuriated the corporate powers, who have spent tons of money to defeat these local bans... but lost. So, for the last couple of years, they've been sneaking off to state legislatures to pass laws (often with no debate) that take away our local control over this health issue."
- Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower


http://www.environmentalcommons.org/local-food.html

The quote that i posted above is a farmer speaking out about the current laws that protect big company's GMO cross contamination of farmers crops. The largest part of this article is about farmers and people that support them are going to there local governments to make it so the farmers are not responsible for big companies cross contamination. The farmers are also protected from big companies trying to claim there crops because of contamination.

Riam Fox

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