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Which Way will the USDA Go? Codex, Urban Garden, or Both?
Which Way will the USDA Go? Codex, Urban Garden, or Both?
Date: 7/28/2011 12:06:26 AM ( 13 y ) ... viewed 1288 times
SIGN THE PETITION HERE
ON THE FOOD DEMOCRACY NOW SITE
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/leafygreens/?akid=350.183604.p29q-h&r...
COMMENTS DUE
BY 11:59 PM JULY 28, 2011
SUBMIT AND READ COMMENTS HERE
ON THE PROPOSED NATIONAL GREEN LEAFY MARKETING AGREEMENT
http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/leafygreensagreement
10:05 pm
July 28, 2011
July 27, 2011
GO HERE TO TO SEE
A PHOTO OF THE CITY HEIGHTS
FARMERS' MARKET
AND READ A GREAT STORY
PUBLISHED JULY 27 ON PBS.ORG
BY TOM FUDGE
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/jul/27/urban-farms-try-feed-inner-city/
FROM THE STORY BY
TOM FUDGE
The City Heights Farmers' Market has become a model for outdoor markets that offer fresh produce to low-income immigrant folks in the inner city. July 23, 2011.
SAN DIEGO — The Bayside Community Center sits on the edge of Tecolote Canyon amidst a landscape of rental housing, abandoned lots and strip malls. This is Linda Vista, a destination for many immigrants. It's also the kind of low-income neighborhood that can become a food desert, for its lack of fresh produce and good grocery stores. That's one reasons why the community center wanted to build the Linda Vista Neighborhood Garden.
"It was a dump. We had containers and leftovers of everything," said Jorge Riquelme, the executive director of Bayside Community Center, as he described the plot of land where people decided to create the community garden.
WHICH WAY WILL THE UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (USDA)
GO?
This is one trend that is coming head to head against another national trend, a clampdown on Leafy Green, inspired by a proposed Leafy Green Marketing Ageement, that stems from a more centrist plant that would like to see food controlled internationally and dolled out by seeds that do not reproduce themselves, but one one or a few large companies. In the middle is the USDA that is cut in half, a little bit of it leaning toward organic people's gardens, and a bigger part wanted to be part of international trade agreements that favor the Codex Alimentarius Commission approach. Where do you stand? You have 24 hours to tell the USDA here.
FOOD DEMOCRACY NOW,
A NON PROFIT, CALLS FOR
20,000 TO SIGN A PETITION AGAINST
THE LEAFY GREEN MARKETING AGREEMENT
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1839576
READ ABOUT THIS AND MORE
ON THIS PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOG
http://plantyourdream.net/?p=2541
FOOD DEMOCRACY TALKING POINTS
AGAINST THE LEAKY LEAFY GREEN MARKETING AGREEMENT
CAN BE FOUND HERE
ANOTHER FOOD DEMOCRACY NOW
PETITION I LIKED CALLED FOR
A GOOD UNDERSECRETARY
OF AG UNDER TOM VILSACK.
We did get one in Kathleen Merrigan
http://eco-chick.com/2008/12/1916/food-democracy-now-petition-sustainable-cho...
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