NYT Show-Me State consideration and both sides of a confusing GOP effort: Missouri Weighs Unusual Addition to Its Constitution: Right to Farm
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ReplyDeleteDon't let them destroy our culture and turn Missouri into Berkeley!
This "right to farm" law gives foreign corporations the right to buy farmland in our state. I think our farmland should be kept in the hands of US citizens.
ReplyDeleteThis is a policy issue and should not be a constitutional issue. The constitution should not be messed with for partisan policy.
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ReplyDeleteNah, this is just a rah rah bill and does not mean much. It says Missourians have the right to farm unless other laws say you don't.
ReplyDeletescott wagner has been cultivating this thing with China for a very long time, I say he should be re-elected because he's such a swell fellow, not that he does anything for his constituents but he does know how to take advantage of a weak economy and people in general but also manages to somehow keep you smiling while he is slipping his dick in your ass without the courtesy of a reach around
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ReplyDeleteStop the so-called Right to Farm scam
Last year the Missouri legislature for the first time voted to allow a foreign corporation to own farm land in Missouri. Each foreign farmer "corporation" is limited to 1% of the total amount of farm land in the state. The corporation that started this is Smithfield Foods and was purchased by a Chinese based company Shuanghui, this company produces 1 out of every 4 pork chops sold in the US. This is a giant factory farm, there is no family about it. So why didn't the Missouri legislature and the Governor pass and sign a ballot question about allowing foreign companies to own farms in Missouri, because they know we would all overwhelmingly vote NO, instead they try to deceive us with this very bad Constitutional Amendment.
In addition, the main players in creating this ballot language in the Missouri Legislature all had their top donor as Monsanto. The global mega corporation who own over 90% of the crop patents in the world. Crops like RoundUp (a registered pesticide ) infused corn and soybean which resists massive chemical bombardment that kills all pests and weeds around it, but leaves the crops still standing. This company wants to corner the market on crop seed, and they do it by making farmers sign contracts that do not allow them to hold back seed for the next generation of crops, doesn't sound very family farm friendly to me. And there is more, if your Non-Monsanto crop is cross contaminated by Monsanto's Genetically Modified (GMO) crop because pollen from THEIR field drifted onto your crop, YOU get sued, you heard it right because you broke their patents, it's already happened. Nobody should be allowed to patent food crops, farmers that want to use non-GMO seed are now having a hard time finding alternative crop seed to GMO, Monsanto has monopolized the industry.
So why does Gary Wheeler, the head honcho for the group pushing the Missouri Right to Farm want this? Well Mr. Wheeler helped create the smoke and mirrors for the Right to Farm amendment, the Human Society, and he says they want to control the livestock in Missouri farms - what a crock. Mr Wheeler is currently director for the Missouri Cattleman's Assoc., but where did he come from, none other than executive communications director for the U.S. Grains council and is currently on the National Corn Board and is on the Monsanto advisory committee. His wife is the editor of Seed Magazine. He wants giant factory farms because he can sell them Monsanto GMO corn and soy. Rather than many free roaming grass fed cattle and small farm hog operations that don't use their feed. It comes down to protecting the big boys like Monsanto that control 95% of the corn crop and 98% of the Soy crop in the United States.
What is going to happen if Amendment 1 passes, the family farms will not be able to compete with the influx of mega farms and will be swallowed up, and instead of local farmers and their families running farms, you will have foreign corporations running these factory farms with their migrant labor.
Missouri Farmers have always had the right to farm, it's the foreign factory farmers that haven't, and Missourians have always had the ability to demand to know what food they eat, with this Constitutional amendment you will forever protect Monsanto from labeling their GMO food.
all one has to do is google Michigan right to farm or Monsanto Protection Act to see what harm this has done to the small farmer.
Vote NO
Update, it appears the group pushing this right to farm bill have been breaking the law with the money they are diverting from another source.