UPDATE
3:22 pm

I CALLED AND SPOKE TO SOME
EMPLOYEES OF THE USDA TODAY

They were very helpful.
I do not believe the FDA is the enemy
or that Washington is the enemy.

This is the note I wrote
on the Petition site for
Food Democracy Now

I spent the day writing about this unexpectedly. This is a very important issue. I am sorry I just heard that this was coming up in the last few days. I have been studying and writing about this for a number of years.

I am in support of the USDA, and FDA working with us to protect local organic farmers. This is the basis of a strong agricultural and economic future for our nation.

As a consumer and a popular internet writer, I strongly oppose the National Leafy Green Marketing Agreement.

I do agree that this agreement, that I have read about for two years is not the way to handle food safety. It is contrary to the laws of nature.
That is why we are having problems with Food Safety in the first place.

You can read my Plant Your Dream Blog here:

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


I called the USDA today and I appreciate that I was able to speak
to some helpful employees, one who guided me to the Original Document in the Federal Register.

I feel we all live in different worlds.

If we can sit down and enter into a authentic Dialogue on Science,
Ethics, and Food. We will get somewhere.

Get up the good job of wanting to do the right thing.

Let's talk more.

Here is the initial Blog I wrote today.

I appreciate many things that USDA does.

Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener

PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOG
http://plantyourdream.net/?p=2541


I do believe that this is flawed
and we need to sit down and talk.

I stand by what I wrote here.

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
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.



WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT JULY 29?

THE FDA POETRY OF MICHAEL R. TAYLOR
OUR COMMISSION OF FOODS, FDA,
ON JULY 29, 2009

QUOTE FROM MICHAEL R. TAYLOR
JULY 29, 2009 BEFORE THE DENNIS KUCINICH
HEARING THAT DISCUSSED LEAFY GREENS


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 this link:

http://groc.edgeboss.net/download/groc/domesticpolicy/testimony.of.mr.michael...

CAROLYN LOCKHEAD ARTICLE
RELATED TO THE LEAFY GREEN MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

July 13, 2009

"In the verdant farmland surrounding Monterey Bay, a national marine sanctuary and one of the world's biological jewels, scorched-earth strategies are being imposed on hundreds of thousands of acres in the quest for an antiseptic field of greens. And the scheme is about to go national."

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



LESLIE GOLDMAN
YOUR ENCHANTED GARDENER
FROM THE HUFFINGTON POST
October 7, 2010

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.


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



FROM FOOD DEMOCRACY NOW

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


DAVE MURPHY OF FOOD DEMOCRACY NOW
WRITES IN THIS PETITION CALLING FOR 20,000
SIGNATURES BY JULY 28, 2011

FROM FOOD DEMOCRACY NOW

Today the USDA and Big Ag are conspiring to implement a set of rules that favor giant industrial growers while placing small, diversified farms at risk. Known as the National Leafy Green Marketing Agreement, this set of rules was designed by industrial growers to protect their market share while harming their main competition, the growing local and organic food movement. The Leafy Green agreement, drafted by the largest vegetable growers’ lobbyists in an effort to whitewash their growing food safety problems, would implement draconian practices that saddle farmers with one-size-fits-all rules and would drive local and organic farmers out of business with expensive regulations.






ACTION STEPS

WHERE TO WRITE AND WHO TO CALL

#1

SIGN THE FOOD DEMOCRACY PETITION
TODAY.

Circulate this immediately.
We have less than 48 hours to get this job done.
Keep calling, even after July 28 to make sure
you are being heard!

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


USDA ON FACEBOOK
MAKE A COMMENT HERE
http://www.facebook.com/USDA





#2

LET OUR COMMISSION OF FOODS,
ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT
VOICES IN MODERN FOOD STRATEGY
KNOW HOW WE WOULD LIKE HIM
AND HIS ALLIES TO WORK TOGETHER
WITH US

QUOTES
FROM THE OFFICE OF FOODS

Overview and Mission
"We need to work together to build a unified FDA Foods Program
that can best achieve the agency’s public health mission."
--FDA Foods Program Executive Leadership Team
FDA Foods Program


FDA ON FACEBOOK
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Food-and-Drug-Administration-Office-of-Foods/14...


11,000 or more "Likes."
10:38 am
as of July 26, 2011

OFFICE OF FOODS,
SEC OF HEALTH MARGARET HAMBURG,
ON FACEBOOK
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Food-and-Drug-Administration-Office-of-Foods/14...


FDA OFFICE OF FOOD PHONES
AND ADDRESSES

Contact Us
Office of Foods
Phone 301-796-4500
Fax 301-847-3535
Food and Drug Administration
Office of Foods
10903 New Hampshire Ave
White Oak Building 1
Silver Spring, MD 20993

http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/CentersOffices/OC/OfficeofFoods/default.htm


Call these FDA phones and write.
Let's request Michael R. Taylor interact
with us and give us a fair listening.

(No info yet...
as of July 26, 2011
10:37 am)

#3





ACTION STEP #3
Reach out and touch
the USDA Office of the Codex Alimentarius
Commission.

Let them know your opinion.

"I am not against the Codex Alimentarius
Commission or Food Rules. I just want to
help dictate them." --
Keep The Beet Media Star,
The World's First Talking Beet Plant



FOR AN EDUCATED INTRODUCTION
TO THE CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION
THAT MAKES UP OUR INTERNATIONAL
FOOD RULES NOW IN VOGUE
PLEASE READ SCOTT TIPS,
ATTORNEY, ON THE NATIONAL HEALTH FEDERATION
SITE

http://www.thenhf.com/page.php?id=197


QUOTE FROM

Why is Codex seeking to restrict the quality and potency
of vitamins and minerals?
Why is Codex restricting health claims
for nutritious foods and supplements?
Why is Codex applying a toxicological regulatory
model to foods that have been a part of the human diet
for millennia?
As you will see, there is an agenda here and Codex
is the vehicle that has been 'carjacked' by special interests.
This is something that should highly concern you
as it directly and profoundly affects your personal health
and the health of your loved ones.

http://www.avll.co.uk/viewpage.php?page_id=22




USDA CODEX ALIMENTARIUS OFFICE

FROM
USDA announces public meeting
for Codex Committee on Fresh Fruits and Vegetables

FROM THE STORY

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...






#4

"The last shall be first,
and the first, last."
Matthew 20:16

WITH ALL DUE RESPECT:

CONTACT THE WHITE HOUSE
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact


You can also call or write to the President:
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Please include your e-mail address

Phone Numbers
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461


HOW TO REACH THE WHITE HOUSE
ON FACEBOOK
http://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse


1,108,275
people like this on Facebook


RELATED LINKS TO STUDY
FOR SHOW ME THE MOVEMENT UPDATE
ON THE NEW PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOG
http://plantyourdream.net/?p=1686


Spring, April 2011

MORE BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND

I got word from my ally Dave Murphy a day or two
ago that the proposed Leafy Green Management Agreement
sponsored by Big Ag.

I have been following this Leafy Green Management Agreement
here on the Plant Your Dream Blog
since 2009 when Food Safety Modernization
began to be dictated from the international
Codex, and influenctial multi-national corporations
through the US Legislators.

Many legislators were sincere in their desire
to implement better food safety; however,
the underlying infrastructure behind Food Safety
Laws now on the goods is ensuring safety
for a dying mode of agriculture that cannot
sustain itself in our emerging world
of return to sustainable living practices.

RELATED PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOG

COMTEMPTIBLE LEAFY GREEN MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
NEEDS TO BE PUSHED BACK TODAY!

Deadline is July 28, 2011!!!!

http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1839202

CAROLYN LOCKHEAD ARTICLE
RELATED TO THE LEAFY GREEN MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

July 13, 2009

In the verdant farmland surrounding Monterey Bay, a national marine sanctuary and one of the world's biological jewels, scorched-earth strategies are being imposed on hundreds of thousands of acres in the quest for an antiseptic field of greens. And the scheme is about to go national.

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...


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



LISTENING TO BARRY LOGAN
MICROFARMER WHO WAS SUCCESSFULLY
DRIVEN OUT OF MICROFARMING IN
AUGUST 2009

Hear him call on Big Ag and Food Safety
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XvF3SKLxM8&feature=player_embedded


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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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







MORE BACKGROUND
AND INFO ABOUT KEEP THE BEET MEDIA STAR
THE WORLD'S FIRST TALKING BEET PLANT,
THE US CZARINA OF FOODS

She would like a position in the Office of Foods,
working for the new FDA and its revised
upcoming USDA Codex Alimentarius Commission
office.



MORE HERE

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