Organic Consumers Association call to block Vilsack

[Stephanie S.]

Stop Vilsack's Confirmation as Secretary of Agriculture

Despite a massive public outcry, including over 20,000 emails from the Organic Consumers Association, President-Elect Obama has chosen former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack to be the next Secretary of Agriculture.

While Vilsack has promoted respectable policies with respect to restraining livestock monopolies, his overall record is one of aiding and abetting Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) or factory farms and promoting genetically engineered crops and animal cloning. Equally troubling is Vilsack's support for unsustainable industrial ethanol production, which has already caused global corn and grain prices to skyrocket, literally taking food off the table for a billion people in the developing world.

The Organic Consumers Association is calling on organic consumers and all concerned citizens to join our call to action and block Vilsack's confirmation as the next Secretary of Agriculture. Please help us reach our goal of 100,000 petition signatures against Vilsack' nomination. Sign today! Your email will be sent to your Senators and the President-Elect's office.
https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1783

from the Organic Consumer Association website https://www.organicconsumers.org/

[SandBar]

I, too, sent out this note and signed the petition. tonight I got a call from a permaculture buddie who told me though there's lots of reasons to try to get rid of Vilsack, there turns out to be a lot of good to his nomination. I haven't yet got all the background material to support that he would be a good Ag Secy, here's a link to the Huffington Post that talks about some of the positives. So perhaps we need to rethink and not be so ReActive. Anyway, this is my two cents or two sense.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rose-haydensmith/advice-to-new-agriculture_b_153226.html


Stop Vilsack's Confirmation as Secretary of Agriculture

Despite a massive public outcry, including over 20,000 emails from the Organic Consumers Association, President-Elect Obama has chosen former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack to be the next Secretary of Agriculture.

While Vilsack has promoted respectable policies with respect to restraining livestock monopolies, his overall record is one of aiding and abetting Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) or factory farms and promoting genetically engineered crops and animal cloning. Equally troubling is Vilsack's support for unsustainable industrial ethanol production, which has already caused global corn and grain prices to skyrocket, literally taking food off the table for a billion people in the developing world.

The Organic Consumers Association is calling on organic consumers and all concerned citizens to join our call to action and block Vilsack's confirmation as the next Secretary of Agriculture. Please help us reach our goal of 100,000 petition signatures against Vilsack' nomination. Sign today! Your email will be sent to your Senators and the President-Elect's office.
https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1783

from the Organic Consumer Association website https://www.organicconsumers.org/

[SandBar]

More info - Iowa, under Vilsack, has the most or 2nd most wind power in the country. and this is another link to information to read and make another assessment about him.

https://www.alternet.org/environment/114544/maybe_tom_vilsack_isn't_the_agricultural_antichrist_after_all/


I, too, sent out this note and signed the petition. tonight I got a call from a permaculture buddie who told me though there's lots of reasons to try to get rid of Vilsack, there turns out to be a lot of good to his nomination. I haven't yet got all the background material to support that he would be a good Ag Secy, here's a link to the Huffington Post that talks about some of the positives. So perhaps we need to rethink and not be so ReActive. Anyway, this is my two cents or two sense.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rose-haydensmith/advice-to-new-agriculture_b_153226.html