[Dr. Thorne]

Organic and local produce farming and buying must be unnerving Monsanto, ADM and the rest who own much of Congress.

Remember that most regulations are written by the huge food conglomerates themselves. These regs seem to put many restrictions on those conglomerates, but they can afford to comply with them. Small farmers can't. That's the strategy.

They are not trying to protect us. They are protecting themselves from competition.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Ahhh, yes.

[maine yankee]

Here in Maine the number of new small farms is four times the national average.

With only 1.3 million people, the FDA has opened it’s third regional office.

There is no other state with 3.

[Organic Panic]

Bingo.

I think everyone in these federal power poaitions was a former board member of one of the big 3 ag conglomerates. ADM owned Bush and they sure aren’t about to bash Obama with his love of ethanol mandates.