Tina Turbin » organic farming

Pesticide Peddlers Unhappy with Michelle Obama

Tina Turbin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:23:00 +0000

Would you like to be told you cannot have your organic garden in the back of your yard or that you need to us pesticides on your little strawberry bush or even your non-organic vegetable garden? Me either. I am sure you believe that having a choice is the American way and our right as homeowners or even renters.

Well get this! The Mid America CropLife Association (MACA) represents chemical companies that produce pesticides, and they are angry that Michelle Obama isn’t using chemicals in her organic garden at the White House. Wow!

Over 50,000 people have joined our campaign against the pesticide company lobbyists attacking Michelle Obama’s organic garden. MACA went on to publish a letter it had sent to the First Lady asking her to consider using chemicals – or what they call “crop protection products” – in her garden.

Michelle Obama has done America a great service by publicizing the importance of nutritious food for kids (she’s growing the garden in partnership with a local elementary school class) as well as locally grown produce as an important, environmentally sustainable food source. She is promoting the American “choice”, as I call it as well as the mere subject of nutritious foods and sustainable foods.

Please help and take action and then tell your friends.

And thank you for working to build a more organic world and an America with choices at the bare minimum

Join the fight against pesticide company lobbyists by clicking here.

Outlaw Organic Farming

Tina Turbin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:58:59 +0000

Certain issues come up which I just need to write, share and vent my opinions or am asked my opinions on, but this one is not one to vent my o but rather to spread the word and elicit some awareness, help and action to put an end to this bill. Please share my interest in getting quickly and better informed on this bill and at now.

The US House and Senate are about to vote on a bill that will OUTLAW ORGANIC FARMING (HR 875).

There is an enormous rush to get this into law within the next 2 weeks before the public realizes what is happening. The main backer and lobbyist is the Monsanto Corporation (along with Cargill, ADM, and about 35 other related chemical and genetic engineering giants).

This bill will require organic farms to use specific fertilizers and poisonous insect sprays dictated by a newly-formed agency to “make sure there is no danger to the public food supply.”

This will include backyard gardens that grow food only for a family and not for sale. If this passes there will be NO more heirloom clean seeds but only Monsantos genetically-altered seeds.

The name on this food plan is: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 (Bill HR 875).

Please contact your local Congressional Representative by phone or e-mail and express your concern about HR 875.

Go to http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/officials/ to enter in your zip code and find your Congressional Representative.

I urge you to get involved and at least express your concerns and share this post with others!