Interested in seeing who in your city receives farm subsidies, and how much they have gotten....
Indiana Farm Subsidy Search || EWG Farm Subsidy Database
Good for these folks! Here's hoping that the courts tell the USDA to go **** up a rope and that they stop this thievery. Where are the democrats and republicans that could put a stop to this nonsense? Oh, that's right...they're busy raking in the money from the stolen produce and the big...
A farmer from Porter County, IN, is facing off against agri-giant Monsanto in a Supreme Court case. The company is suing the 75-year-old farmer for planting cheap-grade soybeans that are typically used for feeding livestock.
Monsanto asserts the power to copyright lifeforms and control what...
Not sure WHY this would be illegal. The article even says this came about because someone recorded the farm on their phone. Really? What a waste of time. If the person doesn't belong there, trespass them. But whatever a person can see with their own eyes is legal to record...video, pics...
Milk prices may double in the New Year - Dec. 21, 2012
Wow. This is why we are in trillions of dollars of debt and we are never going to pay it back.
Does anyone else see how perfectly insane this is?
Raw milk/fresh milk debate is coming back to the General Assembly soon after the Indiana Board of Animal Health issued a report earlier this month.
http://www.jconline.com/article/20121217/LIFE03/312170022/raw-milk-debate
This one isn't quite as sensational as the Baker's Green Acres (vs. the MI DNR) story, but it still might be interesting to a few folks here:
Shady Grove Farm, owned and operated by the Buchler family in Gwinn, MI, is in a legal battle with the Forsyth Township over zoning regulations and the...
Summer time brings up images of leafy green gardens . . . all in violation of some ordinance or another.
Reason magazine examines the struggles of keeping food legal:
I Say Tomato, You Say No - Reason.com
Animal Rights Legislation Would Make Eggs a Luxury Food
"With food prices already increasing due to high grain and fuel costs, extraneous so-called animal welfare regulations are being imposed on U.S. food producers, large and small, by the animal rights powerhouse known as the Humane Society...
Amazing. Well, not really, considering the usual stances by most of the senate. Rand Paul introduced a bill that would have required the FDA to get warrants prior to raiding farms and food establishments and would have prevented them from carrying firearms. Nothing bad here, but Indiana's...
Check out this article. Looks like the .gov is butting into more peoples lives. Now they have decided that it is too dangerous for teens to work on farms.
NWI farms face stricter federal rules that ban many tasks for minors
Unfriggin' believable! Read the links and prepare for outrage.
NaturalNews exclusive: Michigan government unleashes armed raids on small pig farmers, forces farmer to shoot all his own pigs
Michigan unleashes armed raids on small pig farmers, forces farmer to shoot all his pigs | Libertarian...
Pink Slime For School Lunch: Government Buying 7 Million Pounds Of Ammonia-Treated Meat For Meals
7 Million Pounds worth! I would say just pack you kids lunch but since they are now confiscating those....
While no doubt organic food can be dangerous, the Southern Nevada Health District really goes out of its way to tick a lot of people off all over the Internet over freedom of food choice.
Health department raids community picnic and destroys all food with bleach | A Distinctive World...
A Wisconsin judge has ruled that there is no fundamental right to choose what food you consume in a raw milk decision. I thought it would be of interest to INGO.
WI Judge to Zinniker, FTCLDF: No "Fundamental Right" to Own a Cow, or Consume Its Milk...Am I Making Myself Clear? - Journal - The...
If they have their way we'll all be eating Government Food Supplement Number 12 from a tube. These politicians just can't find it in their hearts to leave people the hell alone. And they can't seem to wrap their heads around the idea that their stupid recommended diets have got us to the point...
About time someone went after some of the outrageous farm subsidies out there. It's not much, but it is a start. Of course, the republicrats and some of their dem buddies will likely be against it to protect their ADM money.
Obama wants to end $5 billion a year US farm subsidy - Yahoo! News
Food Criminal gardening
He actually stopped farming, got the property re-zoned and 2 weeks after his rezoning they took the charges off hold and started prosecuting again.
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