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Breezy Hill Update 22710

2/27/2010 11:56pm by Art Ozias

The following was sent to me by RP, a local lawyer in Warrensburg.  Thanks RP.

Thank YOU for alerting everyone. I lived in Iowa for 15 years and saw what was happening to family farms, to country folks living near the hog confinement factories, to the workers at IBP, to the animals themselves.

If passed, the constitution would prevent people near or downwind from hog confinement facilities from getting laws passed to clean the air and the stink. Thus far, scientific support is tentative for the claim that these air pollutants are the cause of the headaches and other illnesses plaguing folks living near these things. Until such evidence is "established," the Missouri Constitution will prohibit our representatives from making laws to protect us. This will be a triple-whammy for family farms - struggling against these behemoth agricorporations, losing the fresh air and environmental quality that's part of family farm heritage, and watching the value of one's land plummet in the cloud of pollution.

People need to understand that a constitutional amendment is pretty tough to change once passed. It puts handcuffs on our elected lawmakers, constraining them. That's sometimes a good thing (life, liberty, etc). But it's an extreme measure where ordinary legislation should be the venue of choice.

Myself, I don't want corporate greed enshrined in my state's constitution.


This is in reponse to my recent request for assistance in stopping HJR 86.  If you need to refresh, check the last update.  RP also provided the following link http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills101/bills/hjr86.htm

News Update.   Check out the pasture requirements for organic dairies.  http://www.cornucopia.org/category/cornucopia-news/   

 

Factory Farms in the Ocean? 

http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2359

 

Here is a good video for Vit B12 and Vit D3 and many other health items.. 

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/02/13/david-wolfe-interview.aspx

 

The Weston A. Price Foundation has issued the following press release about the "Health Starts Here" low-fat, mostly vegetarian marketing program at Whole Foods Markets.

 

http://www.westonaprice.org/WHOLE-FOODS-PROMOTES-MILITANT-VEGETARIAN-AGENDA.html

Remember to call on Monday.

that's it from the hill.  Art and Debra

2 Comments »
Amy said,
3/6/2010 @ 9:32 pm
Do you not realize that if our state does not step up and protect our rights to own animals then we are all going to end up losing them all! Do you not own animals? From what I get reading this that you do raise cattle? You of all people should be supporting this, I find it odd that you are not!!
Amy said,
3/6/2010 @ 9:32 pm
Do you not realize that if our state does not step up and protect our rights to own animals then we are all going to end up losing them all! Do you not own animals? From what I get reading this that you do raise cattle? You of all people should be supporting this, I find it odd that you are not!!
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