"HR 875" Myth Sows Terror Among Organic Gardeners


	"HR 875" Myth Sows Terror Among Organic Gardeners

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ae02aa85-d5e8-420b-8b50-1d02b362ff7c/563F248E-FFBA-43E8-8F2B-9AADCD5B832E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/09/hr-875-myth-sows-terror-a_n_185230.html" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/09/hr-875-myth-sows-terror-a_n_185230.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.huffingtonpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/09/hr-875-myth-sows-terror-a_n_185230.html"><H1><A id="title_permalink" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/09/hr-875-myth-sows-terror-a_n_185230.html">"HR 875" Myth Sows Terror Among Organic Gardeners</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/09/hr-875-myth-sows-terror-a_n_185230.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.huffingtonpost.com/img/8ADEA785-8503-4B97-B4B4-216AC3590F36" alt="Organicgarden" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/09/hr-875-myth-sows-terror-a_n_185230.html"><P>Rep. Rosa DeLauro knew she had a problem when her colleagues began asking her on the House floor about her bill that was going to put small farmers out of business. Her own offices in Washington and back home in Connecticut are getting bombarded with calls from angry constituents demanding she stop her assault on backyard organic farms. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/09/hr-875-myth-sows-terror-a_n_185230.html"><P>What, they want to know, does she have against organic heirloom tomatoes?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/09/hr-875-myth-sows-terror-a_n_185230.html"><P>"It was substantial and it wasn't just my office," DeLauro tells the Huffington Post. "All of my colleagues -- I have colleagues who come up to me on both sides of the aisle and they say to me, 'Rosa, what's this about 875?'" </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/09/hr-875-myth-sows-terror-a_n_185230.html"><P><A href="http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.875:">H.R. 875,</A> the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, has become an Internet phenomenon, the subject of alarmist e-mails warning gardeners that Congress is plotting against their plots, that the vote is coming any day, and we must take action! 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