OUTRAGE OF THE WEEK

It's funny how easily we can get stirred up by something we hear or read on the internet. The other day I heard that a bill had been introduced in the House that would ban organic farming and could even impact gardeners growing vegetables in their own back yard. The story was that a Connecticut representative, whose husband was a lobbyist for Montsanto had introduced a bill called the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, which would make it impossible for small organic farms to stay in business and would require that everyone use pesticides. I was getting ready to post a blog about this outrage when I decided to find out if the story was true. I went to Fact Check . org and got the true story.

It turns out that the bill would separate the food part of the FDA from the drug portion so that there would be more emphasis on checking food for contamination. Also, the husband of the Congresswoman was a pollster, not a lobbyist, who had conducted a poll for Montsanto as well as Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela. But the hysteria continues on the internet unabated, describing a plot by food nazis to force back yard vegetable growers to stop growing food for themselves or from sharing with their neighbors. Of course, the government is so effective in their enforcement efforts that they have managed to stomp out every pot grower in the country over the past 40 years. You just know they would be very efficient in going after the tomato growers! They might have to let the war on terror go for awhile, however while they focus on this much more important task.