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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Yes: some people are going totally bonkers. I’ve been working among people I know to dispel the fear mongering tactics that have been used to target HR 875 & more recently S 510 for over a year, and some people seemingly are more willing to trust huge agribusinesses to give us safe food – something they’ve failed at miserably – than update our antiquated food safety laws & enforcement because that’s “evil government.” You know, it’s really just the same kind of illogical thinking of those who scream for small government all the while wanting the kind of things only government can adequately provide like national defense and getting tough on “illegal aliens.” <shaking my head> And food safety.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Even though the Senate recently passed S 510, desperately needed meaningful food safety reform isn’t a done deal yet:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/health/policy/01food.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/health/policy/01food.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>For those interested in reading a little more, I recommend checking out:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/opinion/25schlosser.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/opinion/25schlosser.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It's written by the guy who did "Food, Inc." so he's a hero of mine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>“EVERY day, about 200,000 Americans are sickened by contaminated food. Every year, about 325,000 are hospitalized by a food-borne illness. And the number who are killed annually by something they ate is roughly the same as the number of Americans who’ve been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Also check out:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.consumersunion.org/campaigns/notinmyfood/newsroom.html">http://www.consumersunion.org/campaigns/notinmyfood/newsroom.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://sustainableagriculture.net/category/food-safety/">http://sustainableagriculture.net/category/food-safety/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>(I don’t agree with all of the NSAC’s comments on this, but they do have some good discussion nonetheless).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>HTH,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Saundra Lund<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Moscow, ID<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>~ Edmund Burke<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>***** Original material contained herein is Copyright 2010 through life plus 70 years, Saundra Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce outside the Vision 2020 forum without the express written permission of the author.*****<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Dickow<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 05, 2010 2:50 AM<br><b>To:</b> vision2020@moscow.com<br><b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] Illegal Gardening -- Not!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bob Dickow, troublemaker<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>