if you have the time and the inclination I'd appreciate your taking a mo and sending on the email and calling if you happen to live in the state of one the cmmt members. Conceivably this could even go so far as to trump local zoning laws that currently don't allow CAFO (factory farm) operations because of the pollution from the manure lagoons and such. thanks.
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original-OCATell Congress to Repeal Provision Removing Local Rights to Regulate Food and CropsSince 1988 the biotech industry and industrial food corporations have unsuccessfully tried to take away local and states' rights to ban or regulate genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and other controversial foods and crops. For example, OCA and other public interest groups successfully generated a mass outcry in 2006 that blocked the passage of the National Uniformity for Food Act. This highly unpopular bill would have nullified 200 food safety and food labeling laws across the U.S.
Failing to suppress grassroots control over food safety laws and labels in the last session of Congress, industry has now called on their friends in the House Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry to slip a similar poison pill into an obscure section of the voluminous 2007-2012 Farm Bill. The provision would give the White House appointed Secretary of Agriculture the power to eliminate local or state food and farming laws, such as those in four California counties banning genetically engineered crops, and set an an ominous precedent undermining states' rights.
Take action by sending a letter to the entire subcommittee by scrolling to the bottom of this page, and if any of the following subcommittee members are from your state, please call or fax them directly:
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