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The USDA's denial of problems with our beef supply is just plain crazy!
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The many REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL after Election Day 2008
After casting her ballot for Barack Obama, Amanda Jones said simply, "I feel good about voting for him." Ms. Jones, of Cedar Creek, Texas (a town just south of Austin), is African-American, and what gives her vote some historic punch is that she's 109 years old. Her father was a slave. Her mother was born right after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. She's been through it all--Jim Crow segregation, women's suffrage, the Great Depression, the poll tax, FDR, the civil-rights movement, desegregation, 13 years of George W (five as guv, eight as prez), and now: Barack Obama. This last change fills her with joy, she says.
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The mendocino rebellion
Since the long-term effects of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) on our health and environment have not been tested, many nations have banned them.
Our own corporation-hugging government says that Monsanto and the other GMO—makers can mess with genes as much as they want —so We the People will just have to look after ourselves.
The good folks of Mendocino County, California, have taken the lead by passing a March 2 ballot initiative to ban all GMO crops and animals from being raised in their county. Proposition H was supported not only by consumers and environmentalists, but also by local merchants, farmers, and wineries.
The pro-Frankenfood forces were led by the bucolic-sounding CropLife America. Who? It's a lobbying front funded by (I'm sure you've guessed) Monsanto, DuPont, Dow, Bayer, and the other multibillion-dollar biotechies. These out-of-towners dumped half a million bucks into their campaign—which is a ton of cash in a county with only 47,000 people—outspending the local proponents of Proposition H by seven to one.
But, as campaign spearhead Els Cooperrider put it, "They had the money, we had the people." And the people poured it on, winning by a sweeping 12 percent margin.
To join counties proposing similar bans, call 218- 226-4164.