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NEW PAGE ! - MORE INFO
Photo, left, from CredoWelcome to the first post of our Actions Page - This is where we will list news from out of our region that affects us all, and actions you can take right now to help!We will be...
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----- Hi Graduates - Looking for something more than a career? The Practical Training/Farm and Garden Apprenticeship program is taking app's for 2009-2010 (until 10/1/09 for U.S. and Canadian students...
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USDA Says Biotech Is Compatible with Organic - What You Can Do
Please read this story from the Organic Consumers Association. Especially important is reading the sidebar on the story which explains where the push on GMO's (genetically modified organisms) is coming...
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YOUR VOICE IS NEEDED: NOW
Photo, top : Becky Bolt. San Juan Island Farmers MarketFrom the "Small Farmers. Big Change." web page of Equal Exchange comes this important message, below. It's important that our voices are heard...
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"FOOD SAFETY ENHANCEMENT ACT" SENATE BILL 510 and House Bill 2749 (updated 12/3)
Please go to the FTCLDF web site to read about Senate Bill 510, the “Food Safety Enhancement Act”.One bill has already made it through the House as SB 2749. It includes the National Animal...
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Food Safety & Good News (updated 12/15 with news from Food & Water Watch))
Read very Good news below, coming from California, Hawaii, France, and Ireland -First - quite important "food safety enhancement" House and Senate bills 510 & 2749. Please read the updated info in...
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OH YES, YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE - THE DEPT OF JUSTICE WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU
LINK The DOJ will be holding antitrust hearings and workshops in 2010 all over the country on the subject of the control of US food and food production by 3 or 4 multinational corporations. Justice...
View ArticleWA Senate Bill 6349 - Give our small (unsubsidized) farmers a chance to stay...
Most of our small farmers hold two or 3 other jobs just so they can stay in business growing safe and healthy food.Here's a letter from Matt Marinkovich talking about giving them a fighting...
View ArticleUSDA ABANDONS PLANS FOR THE NATIONAL ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM!
Hi USDA Announces New Framework For Animal Traceability!On February 5, 2010, the USDA announced that it was dropping its plan for the National Animal Identification System, (NAIS) and turning its...
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Sen. Ranker's (SJI ARC originated) farm internship bill passed WA Senate 46-0
Dear Everyone,Kevin Ranker just sponsored a bill which will help farmers on the island and throughout the state by changing inappropriate Labor and Industry restrictions for farm interns--this will be...
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Safeguard Organic Alfalfa - This is Not Just a Rural Issue
Alfalfa is a very important crop, high in nutrition needed by dairy and beef cattle and other livestock. Because it absorbs nitrogen from air - instead of from soil like most other grasses, including...
View ArticleFarm Internship Bill 6349 needs your help this morning!
The Farm Internship bill passed the state Senate last week unanimously. For 6349 to get to the Governor's desk to become law, it has to now get through the House committees and back to the Senate.This...
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WA State Gov. Gregoire Signs The Farm Intern Bill, 6349 Into Law 3/21/10!
Great coverage on this news on the Island Guardian, here, and SJ Journal, here, online.Way to go Kevin Ranker, Agricultural Resources Committee (ARC) of San Juan County, and people who called and wrote...
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There are two things we hope you will do.Taking action is easy. One action takes one click of a mouse on the link below. The most critical action takes a simple phone call.Critically important is...
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COMMENT TODAY TO USDA, ON ALLOWING FACTORY FARMS TO CARRY "ORGANIC" LABEL. GO HERE TO REGISTER YOUR COMMENT.Take action to insure USDA "organic" doesn't mean factory farm.The USDA recently put out new...
View ArticleEND OF THE SCHOOL YEAR - LOOKING FOR MEANINGFUL WORK?
Here's a fantastic site - Sustainable Food Jobs -It's a simple, streamlined site - very helpful. They list by state with descriptions and links.Here are Washington state current listings as of 5/12/10....
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We have to say how much we appreciate the every day efforts of the San Juan Conservation District. These hard working people usually do their jobs without much attention, but the amount of services...
View ArticleSupreme Court Rules 7-1 GMO Alfalfa Is "Regulated Item" - Planting of...
Information from an editorial by the Center for Food Safety's Andew Kimbrell 6/21/10:It should be no surprise that Monsanto's PR machine is working hard to spin the truth in this morning's decision in...
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GATES FOUNDATION INVESTS IN MONSANTO
"Both will profitat the expense of small-scale African farmers."TAKE ACTION HEREOr Go to SeattleGlobalJustice.Org. Contact info for the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation here, (the Gates Foundation...
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Tell the FDA You Won't Eat GMO Salmon!
photo: Wild caught salmon. Courtesy Marinkovich familyKeep the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) from ruling to approve engineered (GMO) salmon as the first animal manufactured for human...
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