As a brief follow-up to my post from last Wednesday about Issue 2 in Ohio, here's a fun video about the "lie" regarding this ballot measure.
The thumbnail is this: Issue 2 will amend Ohio's state constitution in order to create a small regulatory panel that will be responsible for all of Ohio's livestock. Of course, corporate agribusinesses love this idea because they'll be able to stack, lobby and control this small, vulnerable panel much more effectively than the monolithic federal Department of Agriculture.
Consequently, Issue 2 will crush family farms and allow corporations to further control how our food is produced.
If you live in Ohio, be sure to help the rest of us out on this one. Issue 2 is being billed as a model for other states, so what begins in Ohio could spread nationwide.
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I'm not an animal activist where we can't eat meat, but they must be treated humanely in their Nature 's Given Right, and not treated with all these drugs. You wonder why Americans are sick, well so are the animals. These animals, Pigs, Cows, Buffalo, Fish, Chickens, should be able to live in a comfortable Nature that they were suppose to be raised in, not in cages, filth, and against their given Nature, that MAN HAS CREATED, JUST LIKE CLIMATE CHANGE.
Who the hell else could have created the problems we have but Humans, what a riduculous argument. You think the Polar Bears got together one day and said lets distruct our habitat, so we can't exist.
BigAG is a grinding destruction machine. Anybody who votes in favor of this, seduced by smooth talk and reassurance, will live to deeply regret it.
http://nonais.org/2009/10/27/oh-issue-2-devils/#comments
and PETA are not functioning as humane sociteties. Can anyone check this out.
Farm Bureau and a half dozen other farm groups lost credibility with me when they did not oppose moving the animal disease research facility from Plum Island to the mainland. It will be put right in the heart of farm country, Manhattan KS, where any accident can cause the most possible harm. I figure, if they are all too stupid to figure out it was better off on an island(for obvious reasons) then they may be too stupid to figure out alot of other things.
Doesnt that say everything that needs to be said??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB-dgo5U3Uc
I'll vote with the farmers.
Don't take my word for it. Read the local papers.
The government exists to take care of such oversight. Bureacracy is only bad when it is corrupted; the state run board would be a FAR MORE LIKELY group to be corrupted because they would be cheaper, and access would be easier.
There is no possible way that a narrow, state government appointed board could possibly avoid being a shill for Agribusiness lobbying.
If you really are a small independent farmer in rural Ohio, I apologize for the tone, but you need to think harder about who you want holding the leash around your neck. Our federal government isn't the best of Big Brothers, but they sure are better than the mega corporations that want to put you out of business.