17 Jul Sat 2010
A Community Garden gets an Involuntary pesticide spray and is asked to remove sprayed fruits and vegetables by you know who!.Will the Food Safety bill affect/take away your backyard vegetable garden and your green /farmer market stand?
A local community garden that does not allow its members to use synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers , gets an INVOLANTARY pesticide spray and is asked to remove fruits and vegetables from the garden.
Thus,raising questions about the "who" has the right to grow and harvest and spray on a private property and stirring disgruntled emotions among some of the community garden members, who grow their own organic food to survive after they lost jobs and you name it.. Now some of them are losing their own grown FOOD , after they have been denied FOOD STAMPS previously and now offered FREE PESTICIDES on their organically grown food! Imagine this happens to you.What would you do?
This is being done while the Safety S 510 is still -not approved as LAW yet- but waiting on the floors of the House and the Senate .Imagine what will happen when it is APPROVED becomes LAW?Where have you been all this time ?Just chit chatting about the weather and which chicken is laying eggs and which one is not?Have you had a chance to check it out?Do you know who are sponsoring and who are opposing it?
Is the S 510 Food Safety Bill going to make you -your food/ farm/garden/farmersmarket- more safe at growing or marketing your own produce ?Here is a chance for you to get all the answers and post all the questions that are in your mind.Check out the below web link.Be proactive and do not procrastinate about your rights. You know what to do!
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-510
Small farmers :Wake up NOW and speak up for your rights .Make your voice COUNT this coming NOVEMBER!