Comments on: Will Allen: We Need Food and Farming Regulation NOW! http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/will-allen-we-need-food-and-farming-regulation-now/ The Politics and Practice of Sustainable Living. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:50:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Don’t Play the Player Hate the Game! - Ted Auch http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/will-allen-we-need-food-and-farming-regulation-now/#comment-4532 Don’t Play the Player Hate the Game! - Ted Auch Thu, 21 May 2009 21:07:09 +0000 http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/will-allen-we-need-food-and-farming-regulation-now/#comment-4532 [...] Operations (CAFO) would probably lend some insight into how the latest swine flu mushroomed (http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/will-allen-we-need-food-and-farming-regulation-now/). Treating animals this way will eventually cost us dearly just as treating our farmers as if they [...] […] Operations (CAFO) would probably lend some insight into how the latest swine flu mushroomed (http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/will-allen-we-need-food-and-farming-regulation-now/). Treating animals this way will eventually cost us dearly just as treating our farmers as if they […]

]]> By: Will Allen http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/will-allen-we-need-food-and-farming-regulation-now/#comment-4466 Will Allen Tue, 19 May 2009 00:40:35 +0000 http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/will-allen-we-need-food-and-farming-regulation-now/#comment-4466 Pete: Where have they really tried to regulate meat and dairy, maybe finally in Europe, certainly not here. Who is regulating CAFOS? Many folks are stuck buying food from supermarkets, since currently there is not enough local food to supply everyone. Should we just blow those folks off because they don't live in Vermont or California or Wisconsin? The food is poisoned, it should be regulated--and we, not Monsanto should determine the kinds of regulations we need. Louise: The Center for Disease Control and Prevention statistics are dated but they are all we have at this point--not surprising considering the Government's complicity with the factory farm chemical corporations and the food processing industry. You can Google any of the citations I listed and find the same information I used for the article. Best, Will Allen Pete: Where have they really tried to regulate meat and dairy, maybe finally in Europe, certainly not here. Who is regulating CAFOS? Many folks are stuck buying food from supermarkets, since currently there is not enough local food to supply everyone. Should we just blow those folks off because they don’t live in Vermont or California or Wisconsin? The food is poisoned, it should be regulated–and we, not Monsanto should determine the kinds of regulations we need.
Louise: The Center for Disease Control and Prevention statistics are dated but they are all we have at this point–not surprising considering the Government’s complicity with the factory farm chemical corporations and the food processing industry. You can Google any of the citations I listed and find the same information I used for the article.
Best, Will Allen

]]> By: Louise McClure http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/will-allen-we-need-food-and-farming-regulation-now/#comment-4363 Louise McClure Wed, 13 May 2009 21:08:25 +0000 http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/will-allen-we-need-food-and-farming-regulation-now/#comment-4363 I'm rather disappointed by the citations. #9 is of particular interest to me, as it seems fairly related to statistics quoted by anti-raw-milk and anti-small-farm activists. It would be nice if the citation really led readers to the source of information so we could attempt some analysis of the original information. I’m rather disappointed by the citations. #9 is of particular interest to me, as it seems fairly related to statistics quoted by anti-raw-milk and anti-small-farm activists. It would be nice if the citation really led readers to the source of information so we could attempt some analysis of the original information.

]]> By: Will Allen: Agriculture Is One of the Most Polluting and Dangerous Industries : Chelsea Green http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/will-allen-we-need-food-and-farming-regulation-now/#comment-4320 Will Allen: Agriculture Is One of the Most Polluting and Dangerous Industries : Chelsea Green Tue, 12 May 2009 19:20:42 +0000 http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/will-allen-we-need-food-and-farming-regulation-now/#comment-4320 [...] Week's Popular News Will Allen: We Need Food and Farming Regulation NOW! “If I Can Understand This Crap, So Can You”: The Looting of America Is Now Available [...] […] Week’s Popular News Will Allen: We Need Food and Farming Regulation NOW! “If I Can Understand This Crap, So Can You”: The Looting of America Is Now Available […]

]]> By: pete http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/will-allen-we-need-food-and-farming-regulation-now/#comment-4205 pete Sat, 09 May 2009 02:17:06 +0000 http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/will-allen-we-need-food-and-farming-regulation-now/#comment-4205 Federal regulation will not fix our problems! Who has the power in Washington? Monsanto, Cargil, etc. Those are the outfits that will drive the laws and regulations. To stop that we must break their power, and their power solely comes from the willingness of people to buy products from the grocery store instead of local farmers. If you try and regulate farming you will get the same result as we had with meat and dairy regulation: the entrenchment of dirty players and dirty practices and the significant loss of small family operations (the very ones leading the change to safe organic farming). Federal regulation will not fix our problems! Who has the power in Washington? Monsanto, Cargil, etc. Those are the outfits that will drive the laws and regulations. To stop that we must break their power, and their power solely comes from the willingness of people to buy products from the grocery store instead of local farmers.

If you try and regulate farming you will get the same result as we had with meat and dairy regulation: the entrenchment of dirty players and dirty practices and the significant loss of small family operations (the very ones leading the change to safe organic farming).

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