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THE DEADLINE FOR GIVING INPUT
TO THE USDA IS 11:59 pm
EST JULY 28, 2011


SUBMIT AND READ COMMENTS HERE
ON THE PROPOSED NATIONAL GREEN LEAFY MARKETING AGREEMENT

http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/leafygreensagreement


THERE ARE MORE THAN 2000 comments
as of 8:08 pm July 28.

I see one with more than 4000 attachments.

SIGN THE PETITION HERE
ON THE FOOD DEMOCRACY NOW SITE
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/leafygreens/?akid=350.183604.p29q-h&r...


MY FULL REPORT IS HERE
ON THE NEW PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOG
http://plantyourdream.net/?p=2541

MY SUBMITTED COMMENT

This is my comment to the AMS
That I submitted on July 27, 2011
Docket ID: AMS-FV-09-0029

I appreciate the USDA wanting to help us have safer food, however this Green Leafy Marketing Agreement is ill advised if we truly want a healthy economy and better health for our people. Serious education is needed to return to an organic and sustainable lifestyle, each of us being an Organic Uprising, Standing Up for Nature’s Original Technology. I urge all involved to continue to make contact with the USDA, FDA, USDA Codex Office, and the President about these important issues that will only be resolved through an honest Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Food. A serious reeducation is needed. I urge the AMS to drop these agreements. They will further lead us in a direction away from solving the inherent problem that we need many more local organic farmers, and less Big Ag monoculture centralized farms that are disease producers and contrary to the laws of nature. I sense that Big Ag, who wants this is threatened by more and more people supporting local organic farmers. They do not want to pay the price for the outbreaks of e coli and bacteria that come from a system of ag that cannot possibly work. Food is Sacred. It was not intended to make profit its primary purpose. We want Leafy Green Marketing Agreements that encourage nutrition per ace more than profit per acre. Be well, see you all on the Plant Your Dream Blog. Come visit us at the Hillcrest Farmers’ Market. Our farmers and shoppers will show you why we love good healthy food grown organically.
Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener


TO GET A GIST OF THE IMPACT OF THE LEAFY
GREEN MARKETING AGREEMENT ON CALFORNIA
ORGANIC FARMERS IN 2009 GO HERE

from an article by Carolyn Lockhead
in the SF Chronicle July 13, 2009

Invisible to a public that sees only the headlines of the latest food-safety scare – spinach, peppers and now cookie dough – ponds are being poisoned and bulldozed. Vegetation harboring pollinators and filtering storm runoff is being cleared. Fences and poison baits line wildlife corridors. Birds, frogs, mice and deer – and anything that shelters them – are caught in a raging battle in the Salinas Valley against E. coli O157:H7, a lethal, food-borne bacteria.

In pending legislation and in proposed federal regulations, the push for food safety butts up against the movement toward biologically diverse farming methods, while evidence suggests that industrial agriculture may be the bigger culprit.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/12/MN0218DVJ8.DTL#ix...

FOR AN IMPORTANT EXPLANATION OF THIS
GO TO THIS FACEBOOK NOTE
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150169153471606&comments


MORE EXPLANATION
FROM ORGANIC FARMING RESEARCH FOUNDATION
http://ofrf.org/action/ofan/110616_alert.php


SO DOES THIS FOOD NEED TO BE REGULATED???




Joe Rodriguez Jr, of the fifth generation
Rodriguez farming family and JR Organics,
holds up one of his micro-nutrient rich
local organic lettuces that are sold
healthyfully to thousands of shoppers
at the Hillcrest Farmers' Market and other
FM in San Diego. He and other San Diego local growers
such as Sage Mountain Farm, and Suzie's Farm
welcome all in Washington, the FDA, and
USDA to come out and learn how to grow
healthy Leafy Greens without the need
for further arm shackling red tape,
or going into more unholy
alliances with Big Ag and their USDA
backed Leafy Green Management Agreement
Agendas. Now is the time for 20,000 of us
to speak our minds on this issue before
July 29, 2011 at best, but for sure,
speak your mind now.


O.K. TEAM, RIGHT NOW
AND CALL NOW!

O.K. Team, All together now.
"Lettuce" Grow Together.

Can you hear the calling out, Two Leggeds?
Heathy organically grown Lettuce is talking loud and clear to us today.
It refuses to lose this battle. There is a battle.

Before July 29, 2011
contact our USDA Secretary of
Ag Tom Vilsack, the man who said
"Know Your Farmer. Know Your Food."

Remind Tom:

We already have a perfect technology for
growing leafy greens and lettuce of all kinds;
it is Nature's Original Technology
applied by caring growers who are more interested
in nutrition per acre than profit per acre.

Now is the day for an Organic Uprising.
By the end of Thursday, July 28, We the People,
please speak up!

We will not allow healthy lettuce, a basic tossed
salad ingredient we love, to be tossed out
of our lives by shackling small and midsize organic
farmers with One Size Fits All draconian regulations
coming from places so high that they may even
be beyond our borders. These forces
reflected in our own USDA, our FDA Office of food,
our USDA Codex Alimentarius Office; and from
the White House itself through the will of
our respected President Barack Obama, are
attempting to shove onto our plates
severe unneeded red tape, that many
are concerned will harm and hamper
diversity of farms and healthy organic
growing practices. Our local organic farmers
already have enough red tape. They do not need more!

We, all of us, together today, respectfully say
no to unwieldy E. coli producing BIg Ag that wants now
to further dictate how we, as believer's in
America The Beautiful, will grow our
lettuce seeds and our "Amber Waves of Grain"

PLEASE REVIEW THE LYRICS
TO THE SONG AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL HERE


O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!

http://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/americathebeautiful.html



PROCLAMATION
FOR ALL WHO LOVE OUR EARTH
AND A HEALTHY ECONOMIC
FOUNDATION BASED ON SANE
SPENDING AND SANE HEALTH PRACTICES:

"ORGANIC RULES ARE THE FOOD RULES
FOR A HEALTHY PLANET!"

Organic yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

The future belongs to all our kids and you,
dear Big Ag, are requested now to join us
in remaking a true healthy earth-based American Dream.
Please reinvest in American ideals.

THE DOCUMENT IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER IS
HERE FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO READ IT

http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELPRDC5090647

Cc your input to Michael R. Taylor, our Commissioner of Foods,
and our Respected President Barack Obama.

THEIR ARE TWO SISTER BLOGS IN THIS
SERIES THAT WERE WRITTEN YESTERDAY
WITH EXTENSIVE TIME INVESTED

I encourage you to read them.
I worked on this all day July 26, 2011!!!

HERE ARE THE OTHER TWO LINKS

20,000 SIGNATURES AGAINST BIG AG
GREEN LEAFY MARKETING AGREEMENT WANTED!!!

Will you be one of them?

http://plantyourdream.net/?p=2541


THE OTHER PLANT YOUR DREAM
BLOG IN THIS SERIES REPRINTS
THE ORIGINAL EMAIL FROM DAVE MURPHY
OF FOOD DEMOCRACY NOW

http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1839576


This is the email that sparked my wake up
call that the Green Leafy Marketing Agreement
was in a comment period before the USDA
that was going to end at 11;59 pm EST on
July 28, 2011.

I want to encourage you to read these blogs
and get updated on this important issue.
Although there is/was a time date to make comments,
the need to educate continues here on the Plant Your Dream Blog
about the underlying issues here.

The issues are not going away,
until this education happens.
We are in a food emergency,
and as of July 27, 2011,
I am convinced most members of the USDA,
FDA, House of Congress mean well, but
we do not understand the fundamentals of
growing healthy food nor healthy people.
I see us looking back 1000 years from now
at a time in the History of Peace on Earth
when we realized a Shift had occurred.
I am convinced we will make the right decisions.

A sound economy is based on little children
and parents, and other grown people
being able to Plant Your Dream.

It takes whole, pure, natural food, fresh and organic
to have this building materials for dreams to come true.

I am willing to go to Washington if needed to help
explain why we need to invest in the Bank of Compost
if we want to get out of our current economic mess
and health mess.

Offering Friendship to All,

Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener

8:46 am
July 27, 2011


I have been working on it all day.

It is here.

http://plantyourdream.net/?p=2541

MY COMMENT SUBMITTED TO THE USDA SITE

9:34 am
July 27, 2011

I appreciate the USDA wanting to help us have safer food, however this Green Leafy Marketing Agreement is ill advised if we truly want a healthy economy and better health for our people. Serious education is needed to return to an organic and sustainable lifestyle, each of us being an Organic Uprising, Standing Up for Nature's Original Technology.

I urge all involved to continue to make contact with the USDA, FDA, USDA Codex Office, and the President about these important issues that will only be resolved through an honest Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Food.

A serious reeducation is needed.

I urge the AMS to drop these agreements. They will further
lead us in a direction away from solving the inherent problem that we need many more local organic farmers, and less Big Ag monoculture centralized farms that are disease producers and contrary to the laws of nature.

I sense that Big Ag, who wants this, is threatened by
more and more people supporting local organic farmers.
They do not want to pay the price for the outbreaks
of e coli and bacteria that come from a system of ag
that cannot possibly work. Food is Sacred.
It was not intended to make profit its primary purpose. We want Leafy Green
Marketing Agreements that encourage nutrition per ace more than profit per acre.

Be well,
see you all on the Plant Your Dream Blog.

Come visit us at the Hillcrest Farmers' Market. Our farmers
and shoppers will show you why we love good healthy food grown organically.

Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener

http://plantyourdream.net/?p=2541


WE ARE ALL HUMANS

After writing all day on this blog,
I decided to call the Sec of Ag Tom Vilsack
at the USDA. I wanted to include his phone number.

I spend a long time waiting for someone
to pick up. Finally, someone did.

Then they put me on hold.
This is obviously a very busy phone to call.

The lady was kind.
She was apologetic that it took so long to get back to
me. Then she directed me to another man who works
at USDA who was extremely helpful.

I asked him how the weather was.
He said about 110 degrees.

I asked him about the USDA organic garden that grows
there. He told me it was right outside next door.

I asked him how long he worked for the USDA.
He said two years, and that he had worked in Washington
21 years, long enough to become part of the problem.

I felt that was so endearing.

I asked if he knew Kathreen Merrigan, the assistant
to Sec Tom Vilsack. He said he did.

I had kind words for her.

I know she is part of the inspiration behind the
Know Your Farmer. Know Your Food, UDSA project.
She has leanings toward organic.

It was wise for Sec Tom Vilsack to have someone there
who can shore up his weak point.

I told the gentleman on the phone that I might be in
Washington at the end of September. I told him
I wanted to visit the USDA garden.

He was welcoming.

He gave me his direct line.

He told me to call back if I had any other questions.

He spent ten minutes with me.
He helped me look up the link here to the
actual information in the Federal Register.

Then he gave me the phone of the person
and email of the person who I could direct by
comment to about this National Leafy Marketing Agreement.

I had been writing on my high horse all day,
but I was stopped in my tracks.

It goes back to my basic philosophy of life.
If we can just make friends, we can work anything out.

I know that Washington is broke now.

All the money is in the pockets of Monsanto Corp,
and so they are paying the bills to some extent.

Money does talk. The president looks to them
because this is where the money is.

I believe he is a good man, but even a good man
may not know the right answers unless he is surrounded
by friends and allies who can help and point out a better way.

I am naive enough to believe I can serve such a role
in Washington.

What other choice have we got?

I am not a fighter.

I do not like to attack.
I like to build up.

I feel all the things I said here and in the sister
blog is true, but if we do not talk and get on the same page,
we are all living in different worlds.

I have planted seeds with Robert Fraley, Phd,
the father of Round Up Ready herbicide.
I have been press at the AAAS, the most important
conference of science in the US.

I know that GE is accepted as safe by the White house.
The White House is not only under the influence of
First Lady Michelle Obama. It is also under the influence
of Michael R. Taylor, our Commissioner of Foods.

I look forward to meeting Michael R. Taylor who
I consider one of the most influential men in
the history of food in the last 25 years.

It makes me think.

If we want to win over our point of view,
we need to close the gap and talk.

That is what I said to Dr. Robert Fraley of
Monsanto.

He agreed with me.

We need to lessen the tension so we can hear one
another.

Leslie

5:58 pm
July 26, 2011

ORIGINAL BLOG

Some of this is repeated here

20.000 NEEDED NOW TO HALT
BIG AG'S NATIONAL LEAFY GREEN MARKETING AGREEMENT

http://plantyourdream.net/?p=2541







WE ARE CURRENTLY IN
A ROCK YOUR SOUL OPERA ON
PLANTED EARTH

A shift has happened.

The Super Stars in the opera
are Big Ag and the Forces behind it,
and the rest of us, who are here
to enjoy Peace on Earth.

That is the opinion
of Keep The Beet Media Star,
The World's First Talking Beet Plant,
who first came to public view on
the Huffington Post in December 2008.

She is headed for Hollywood where
she will further Green up the place.


MORE BACKGROUND

HEALTHY LETTUCE
FROM MY LOCAL ORGANIC FARMERS
MAY BE TOO "SEXY" FOR BIG AG

Aliveness of local foods is driving
Big Ag out of business.

That in essence, is what behind
Trade regulations and Marketing
hopes that underpin failing Big Ag
and its attempt to survive in the face
of growing popularity of a comeback of
real foods.

There is no competition.

Anyone who shops a local farmers market
will chose to shop this way, not buy
supermarket food.

That is the take of
Keep The Beet Media Star
The World's First Talking Beet Plant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7o_M8I9lcQ





TAKE ACTION THIS VERY MINUTE

PRESS RELEASE
FROM BEET KEEPERS, RETURN
issues July 26, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

for further info
write keepthebeet AT cox.net


ACTION ALERT

Write to Sec of Ag Tom Vilsack,

Make sure Michael R. Taylor,
our noted Czar of Foods, and the FDA,
hears from you.

ABOUT MICHAEL R. TAYLOR
http://www.fda.gov/aboutfda/centersoffices/oc/officeoffoods/ucm196721.htm


FDA CONTACT LIST



and our Respected President
Barack Obama also are cc'ed.

Make additional calls to
to the White House
and USDA Codex Alimentarius Office.

FROM

Members of the public may access the meeting agenda, submit written comments electronically, or request copies of documents by contacting Kenneth Lowery, U.S. Codex Office, by mail, phone, or e-mail per the following: Kenneth Lowery, 1400 Independence Ave., Room 4861, Washington, DC 20250; 202-690-7760; kenneth.lowery@fsis.usda.gov.

http://www.ift.org/food-technology/daily-news/2011/march/29/usda-announces-pu...



HISTORY OF THIS LEAFY GREEN
MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT

July 28, 2011
is close to the one year anniversary
of the Dennis Kucinich hearing on
Leafy Greens who Michael R. Taylor
Announced:




All hands, feet, and healthy
lettuce eaters on deck now.
We are in a Healthy Leafy Green
emergency and you are asked to
Take Action this very minute!!!!

Don't Wait, the future
of your healthy Tossed Salad
containing Leafy Greens of
this quality is at "Steak!"

All vegans, vegetarians, pasture fed
meat eaters, raw butter eaters,
European Style Pasteurized pasture fed
butter eaters, Farmers' Market Lovers,
Pregnant loving mothers, future possible mothers,
Fathers, grandfathers, grandmothers,
and Uncle Sam, please raise up your hands now
and say, "Lettuce" Grow Together.

We can do this!

Write and call the Honorable Sec of Ag
Tom Vilsack now.

CC your Noted Food Czar, Michael R. Taylor;
and our Respected President Barack Obama
who wants you to reconsider him for President.

Tell them No on the Leafy Green Marketing Agreement
of Big Ag.



FROM FOOD DEMOCRACY NOW

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/leafygreens/?akid=350.183604.p29q-h&r...

FROM CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE

http://www.cornucopia.org/2011/06/action-alert-big-agusda-could-run-organic-l...



SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS

Freely distribute
with Blessing from
the US Czarina of Foods
Keep The Beet Media Star
The World's First Talking Beet Plant






RELATED

THE PLOT THICKENS
JULY 28, 2011
BE A PLAYER IN THE THE
FINAL ACT!

THE CHOICE IS IN YOUR HANDS!
SING A SONG OF LIBERTY AND
FOOD JUSTICE FOR ALL INCLUDING
HEALTHY ORGANIC LEAFY GREEENS!


WE ARE NOW IN A ROCK YOUR SOUL OPERA
ACT FIVE--AND WE ARE EACH HERE NOW
TO DETERMINE THE OUTCOME

http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1690034


MAKE YOUR VOICE KNOWN NOW
SAYS KEEP THE BEET.
TURN YOUR BEAT WITH NATURE
AROUND NOW


DO THIS IN BEHALF OF THE
THE LA MILPA ORGANIC OPEN UNIVERSITY





What????

Read this about Barry Logan of La Milpa
Organica Farm, a small farmer no longer
farming now.

EXCERPT FROM
THE HUFFINGTON POST BLOG
CHEWING ON FOOD SAFETY
October 6, 2010

What Washington knows about food has no ground from a beet's point of view. The cornerstone of authentic food safety is first of all, growing some of your own food, and second, having a personal relationship with the farmers growing the rest of your food. This is an ideal. How many of us live in places like San Diego where we can grow food 12 months of the year and get to know more than 100 local farmers by name?

At the bottom end of the scale of food growers are the micro farmers -- small food growers -- and everywhere now, from New York City to the West, people are returning to food growing. Micro farmers, in a truly healthy food safe economy need to be encouraged, yet currently they are falling between the cracks. For authentic food safety, we need more food growers, more gardeners and farmers, not less. We are being called to be a nation of gardeners. This is essential if we want to return to true food safety.

Micro farmers and gardeners growing on less than a few acres live by other codes. They grow food that is labor intensive. The 15% of people who still micro-farm are part of that tradition. Modern conventional food and its PR are ensuring a growing climate in America that is not good for small growers.

Take as an example the case of Barry Logan, who had a final harvest celebration September 18, 2010. Barry Logan, with the help of his live-in community, served San Diego for seven years with fresh food. I am talking about food that can turn health around. He sold food at three farmers' markets. His customers were his regulators. He had been running La Milpa Organica Farm as a social experiment, as an open university. He farmed on a small field, organically. His workers were from around the world. His customers became friends and he would invite them to the farm for potlucks and pizza each month. That life does not exist any more on that land.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lesliex/chewing-on-food-safety-a-_b_750967.html



SAY I PREFER NOT...





BEET KEEPER, RETURN ALLIES!

GREEN FIX ORGANIC SMOOTHIE

Please see photo of health leafy greens.
These leafy greens are grown out by
JR Organic of Escondido, CA,
a relatively small size organic farm.

We need 1000's more smaller size farms of
this size, free from undue regulation
to truly sign our song America The Beautiful!

http://www.greenfixsmoothie.com/

Intelligent shoppers are lining up at the
Hillcrest and other local San Diego Farmers' Markets
for these healthy grown greens, prepared raw and with love.
No one gets sick. This is true authentic Food Safety.
FDA and USDA, and Washington: Send us money
and your research team. We will show you how
to implement true Food Safety by our examples
in San Diego.


HISTORY OF THE LEAFY GREEN MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
AS STUDIED ON THE PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOG
JULY 29, 2009


7:59 PM
July 31, 09

MICHAEL TAYLOR
BEFORE the DENNIS KUCINICH
Hearing JULY 29:

"In addition, FDA is leading an effort
through the Codex Alimentarius Commission,
the international food safety standards body,
with support of the Food and Agriculture
Organization/World Health Organization,
to develop commodity-
specific annexes to the Codex hygienic code
for fresh fruit and vegetable production,
starting with an annex for fresh leafy
vegetables and herbs."
--Mr MICHAEL TAYLOR
Our Food Czar for the FDA
Senior Adviser to the Commissioner on food issues

The above quote is from the written testimony
of MICHAEL TAYLOR July 29 at the
REP DENNIS KUCINICH
SUBCOMMITTEE ON DOMESTIC POLICY
COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT
AND GOVERNMENT REFORM
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

The Subcommittee Hearing was Titled:
"Ready to Eat or Not? It Examined
the Impact of Leafy Green Marketing Agreements.

You can read Michael Taylor's complete
testimony at the above link.

Here is another great story that
discusses the contribution of this
highly successful man who
achieves many of his goals.

MICHAEL TAYLOR TO TACKLE
FOOD SAFETY at FDA


Small Farmer Warns “HR2749 Will Put Me Out of Business”
By Kimberly Hartke | Published: July 24, 2009

NOTE
THE JOHN TESTER AMENDMENT
TO S 510, THE FOOD SAFTY MODERNIZATION ACT,
HELPED A BIT, BUT WE ARE STILL IN A FOOD EMERGENCY
REGARDING THE FUTURE OF SMALL FARMERS
IF THE USDA, FDA, AND WHITE HOUSE
CONTINUE THEIR CURRENT STANCE
OF GE DEREGULATION, AND GMO FAVORED
AGRICULTURE


7:50 PM
July 30, 09

I first heard these words HAACP
a few days ago for the first time
in this article:

HR2749 (The Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009) which is currently making its way rapidly through the House of Representative will put us out of business.

HR2749 calls for:

a yearly registration with the FDA with a $500 fee

full HACCP plan for every type of produce sold or processed, for us that mean one plan for the dairy, one one for cheese making, one for transporting and retailing at the market, one for the fruits and vegetables, and another one for the nuts

FDA approved methods by which crops are raised and harvested. The most likely outcome will be along the lines of the leafy green ordinance, scorched earth and exclusion of any wildlife.

http://hartkeisonline.com/2009/07/24/small-farmer-warns-hr2749-will-put-me-ou...


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