Barack Obama's Lack of Vision

I was as thrilled as the next person that the citizens of the United States of America finally elected a president who wasn't a white male. I was also thrilled we didn't elect the "old guy" and the "prom queen,", but really Mr. Obama, what's up with supporting big agriculture after all your talk about main street? Main street is organic food. Main street is small family farms. Main street is having local sources of food and maintain food security not putting more profits into the hands of big agri-business. It's not continuing the rush to patent the very food we eat. It's not expanding the level of genetically modified food eaten by our children when we don't understand the consequences.
Take a stand today.

Thankfully I am a member of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) and we are taking a stand against agri-business as the future of America's farms. Join us in taking in telling Mr. Obama know that big business as usual isn't change. Putting corporate profits over family farms isn't change.

Just say no Vilsack!

This in from the OCA:

Despite a massive public outcry, including over 20,000 emails from the Organic Consumers Association, President-Elect Obama has chosen former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack to be the next Secretary of Agriculture.

While Vilsack has promoted respectable policies with respect to restraining livestock monopolies, his overall record is one of aiding and abetting Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) or factory farms and promoting genetically engineered crops and animal cloning. Equally troubling is Vilsack's support for unsustainable industrial ethanol production, which has already caused global corn and grain prices to skyrocket, literally taking food off the table for a billion people in the developing world.

The Organic Consumers Association is calling on organic consumers and all concerned citizens to join our call to action and block Vilsack's confirmation as the next Secretary of Agriculture. Please help us reach our goal of 100,000 petition signatures against Vilsack' nomination. Sign today! Your email will be sent to your Senators and the President-Elect's office.

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