Call to Action!- Stop Vilsack's Confirmation as Secretary of Agriculture

[Orwellian_Ghost]

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.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1783

[Fearless]

1. I'm sorry... We're on Warren at the moment...

Please take a ticket and wait in line...

:eyes:

[Ron Green]

5. Ain't that the GOT-damn truth?

Mass hysteria over symbolism and nonchalance about substance.

[Fearless]

6. A toast to sanity!

:toast:

[bertman]

2. Recced and signed.

[Orwellian_Ghost]

3. Vilsack's positions

Sign the petition here:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/t/8516/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1783

Vilsack¹s business as usual positions have included the following:

-Vilsack has been a strong supporter of genetically engineered crops,
including bio-pharmaceutical corn:

-The biggest biotechnology industry group, the Biotechnology Industry
Organization, named Vilsack Governor of the Year. He was also the founder
and former chair of the Governor's Biotechnology Partnership.

-The undemocratic and highly unpopular 2005 seed pre-emption bill was
Vilsack's brainchild. The law strips local government¹s right to regulate
Genetically Engineered seed.

-Vilsack is an ardent support of corn and soy-based biofuels, which use as
much or more fossil energy to produce them as they generate, while driving
up world food prices and literally starving the poor.


http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_15573.cfm

[John Q. Citizen]

4. Vilsack isn't Change I can believe in.

[stillcool]

7. Done

[lazyriver]

8. Done and a K&R...this appointment is terrible and seems almost

like something Bush would do in his "fox in the hen house" way...there, I said it and I mean it.

I'm going to send a letter to Obama too.

[Creideiki]

9. Bullshit

Support my human rights and I'll support your petty, one-issue, small-minded, political concerns.

[Ron Green]

10. LOL!

For you to call the food supply a "petty, one-issue, small-minded political concern" makes me wonder if you even need human rights. Do you eat?

[Orwellian_Ghost]

11. Could you elaborate?

I'm not one to focus on single issue politics so your point is well taken. I see them as all connected.

I'm not sure what you are saying here.