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Help save our friends in Agriculture

Tuesday, June 26 at 12:01 AM

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By Roni Bell Sylvester, LaSalle

As we continue to try and help save our friends in Agriculture, I question how affective we are. Attacks on American Agricultural Producers seem to rage on with even more determination.

Some examples include: In Wyoming, wolves are slaughtering livestock; water theft is common in every state; USDA attempts to force Premises I.S. and NAIS on U.S. cow-calf producers; Federal government refuses to enforce Country of Origin Labeling -COOL; a pending ban on horse slaughter (If that goes into law, about 90,000 horses will be left to die of starvation or illness, or dumped along country roads.); and the Army wants sixth generation Coloradans to leave.

Speaking of Army's interest in using the entire Southern third of Colorado for training, did certain elected officials forget to communicate to them that that won't be necessary because of their plans to end the war(s)?

Whether knowingly or not, President Bush, through the USDA, is choking the life out of ag production.

And why the refusal to correctly refer to the farm bill as The CONSUMER Farm Bill? We were recently told, "Can't change the name right now. The war in Iraq is our focus." Through lunch room and food stamp programs, consumers receive 51% of the Consumer Farm Bill budget. Integrity should dictate either separating it into two bills...The Farm Bill - The Consumer Bill, or amend the name to The Consumer Farm Bill. After all, who benefits from perpetuating the crude perception "farmers and ranchers are dumb red-neck welfare hicks?" Probably the same people who preach, "Cows make hummock...ruin land. Cows make gas..ruin air." Since hummocks are on the moon and Pluto's getting global warmed, errant cows must be jumping ON the moon then bouncing over to Pluto to relieve themselves.

As our 13 year old Granddaughter offered while listening to husband Chuck and I talk on these things, "That's messed up." If you think it's important that Agricultural Production continues on American Soil - and in a welcoming, unthreatened environment that will insure you safe, healthy, locally grown essential goods, please help.

How can you help? Call or fax President Bush and ALL of your elected officials...particularly your county commissioners...and tell them: "My local Agricultural Producers are under ugly, unnecessary, harmful assaults. The aggressors are violating human rights, and jeopardizing assurance of locally grown food products. Here are some ways you can stop these attacks against my ag friends."

a) Order the Army to withdraw its troupes from Southern Colorado.

b) Order the USDA to stop forcing mandatory Premises I.D. on our youngsters.

c) Activate Country of Origin Labeling- COOL. I demand the right to know where my food comes from.

d) You gave over a hundred million dollars to the Nature Conservancy last year. That's my money. So here are some ways I want them to spend it: Improve National Parks, Monuments and land surrounding every US Highway. Move Prairie Rat and Feral Horse villages off private property and onto federally owned land. Eradicate mosquitoes from all designated wetlands, and weeds from barrel pits everywhere.

e) Amend the Endangered Species Act so it can never be used to steal private water and land usage rights.

Tell them how much you treasure your American Producers of Agriculture, and that you want them and their habitats protected forever.

Help save our friends in Agriculture.

READER COMMENTS

JJ,
Why don't you quit your job (if you have one) and join the ranks of welfare recipients (checking the "black" race box ought to get you to head of the line). Then you couldn't complain of having to pay for the illegals, etc. Or you could go out and buy a farm and get on the subsidy list yourself (once again that Race box ought to help)

Posted by Tired of subsidizing on June 29, 2007 09:05 AM

Farmers have always relied on the governemtn to bail them out when they make poor business decisions.

We need to make farming just like any other high-risk investment activity. Basically, our philosophy should be "You rolls your own dice, you takes your own chances."

Posted by Republican Dude on June 27, 2007 03:23 PM

Cotton aka JJ, Can you get past the black thing?

Posted by on June 27, 2007 07:28 AM

I won't be in that number that rescues the ag industry. The federal politicians and rich white ag executives, have virtually banished blacks from any form of ownership in this "cash-cow" industry, funded by taxpayers. Bankers are just as racist. Blacks do get to contribute to their exclusion by paying for farm subdizies. It is a lot when I was kid behind the "Cotton Curtain" (SC/NC). I was refused medical treatments at hospitals. I was refused access to public univeristies and colleges. However, today, I get to pay for criminal illegal Mexicans medical treatment and for them to be educated.

Posted by [jjtenant] "Behind the Cotton Curtain" on June 26, 2007 08:02 PM