[Vision2020] Illegal Gardening -- Not!

[Robert Dickow]

Someone told me today that Congress is about to pass a bill that would make
backyard gardening illegal, and organic gardening would be prohibited,
slapped with 500,000 dollar fines, etc. I laughed a good one. But I peeked
around the web and the notion seems to have taken some root in some corners.
So, I read the Bill HR 875 which one forum site cited as the source of these
perceived threats to our favorite heirloom tomatoes and string beans. Lo and
behold, there is not ONE snip of anything in this particular bill which
could be skewed to mean that backyard gardens are in any way threatened, nor
are organic farms under attack by a nefarious plot to eliminate the
practice. The whole notion is utterly hilarious. One of the sites that
mentioned this legislation (which is dated Feb 2009, but who reads bills
these days?) was aligned somehow with Rand Paul, but I've lost the URL now.
Are some folks going totally bonkers?

 

Bob Dickow, troublemaker

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