MI: SMALL FARMERS TARGETED BY BIG GOVERNMENT #tcot

FROM WATCHDOG WIRE – MICHIGAN

Changes to the Michigan Right to Farm Act

January 23, 2014

by Tony Lollio {EXCERPT}

State regulators want to raid that hen house, and proposed policy changes could turn you and your backyard flock into free-range fugitives.

The Michigan Right to Farm Act was intended to protect commercial farms, but hobbyists and small-scale ranchers have used this law as a defense against nuisance complaints and local zoning disputes. The Michigan Agricultural Commission is considering changes that could end this protection.

These changes would also grant the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) the power to deny private property owners the right to produce meat, eggs, and dairy for their own consumption.

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Gulf Fishermen Cry ‘War’ over Fishing Regulations #tcot

June 2, 2012 By Zayida Baker

Rep. Steve Southerland, R-Fla., and many Florida fishermen oppose restrictive federal fishing regulations they say are patterned after Agenda 21, the UN’s all-encompassing plan for globally centralized wealth-redistribution and environmental regulations.

Southerland, who serves on the House Natural Resources Committee’s Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs Subcommittee, marina manager Pam Anderson, and Captain Bob Zales, who runs boats for recreational fishers out of Panama City, discussed difficulties with current regulations under the 2007 reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act and planned regulations under President Obama’s National Oceans Policy.

They seek to reverse a “cap and trade” system that is governed by “catch shares,” or assigned percentages of the total allowable catch. Recreational fishermen must pay commercial fishermen for the right to exceed these allotments. The individual quota for red snapper, the region’s most popular species, is just two per day. Strict fishing-limits and severely shortened seasons hurt tourism-related industries, such as restaurants, hotels, marinas, shipbuilding, and sporting goods.

Southerland, who fishes in the Gulf himself, told Tea Party Patriots in a video interview that “There’s a real war going on right now, . . . a very sinister effort out there to cut off the fisheries, to shrink our seasons, and to use bad data and bad research to create the fear that our fisheries are dwindling.” 

Sustainable nightmare to plague Napa County

[Note - Jim Stack writes:

Friends,
       I was surprised that an actual newspaper printed an article about what Agenda 21 and Sustainable development are really all about.  The article is below.  The article contains the admission of public officials about the Agenda 21 plans for their local community and the origins of Agenda 21.  The article also notes the growing resistance against Agenda 21 by the Tea Parties and lists links at the page bottom.  Click and read the comments and you will see that the word is getting out.  Pass this article to everyone including your elected officials and media contacts… 

Regards,  Jim Stack

This is the type of documentation that is needed to convince the doubters. ]

By Kevin Eggers Napa Valley Register | Posted: Sunday, July 11, 2010 12:00 am

Sustainable nightmare to plague Napa County

It’s been over three years since Napa County Supervisor Bill Dodd told me Agenda 21 was the plan for Napa County. Agenda 21 is the blueprint for implementing the United Nations (U.N.) Sustainable Development goals for “Economy, Equity and Environment.” These U.N. goals are in the Napa County General Plan. The U.N. continues to sell Agenda 21 as a sustainable utopian dream for Earth’s future, but Agenda 21 will be a sustainable nightmare for Napa County.

When I researched U.N. Agenda 21’s website and read related documents and articles in 2006, it was obvious the laws and regulations to meet Agenda 21’s international requirements were going to gradually smother our freedoms. Thinking I was doing the right thing, I hand-delivered Michael Shaw’s “Understanding Sustainable Development (Agenda 2l): A Guide for Public Officials” to Supervisor Dodd’s office in October 2006. Shaw was a member of the Agenda 21 bureaucracy in Santa Cruz, and described the scope of sustainable development in his guide. I was warning Dodd because we were already conversing about stopping Measure I. Dodd wasn’t in his office when I arrived, but Shaw’s guide was left on Dodd’s desk with a note from me. The next morning when Dodd called, I was shocked when he told me Agenda 21 was already the plan for Napa County. Until Dodd told me, I had no idea Agenda 21 existed in Napa County. Since then, I’ve done more research and learned from citizens exposing Agenda 21 in other communities.

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 111th Congress - 2nd Session

as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

Vote Summary

Question: On Passage of the Bill (S. 510 as Amended )

Vote Number: 257
Vote Date: November 30, 2010, 10:09 AM

Required For Majority: 1/2
Vote Result: Bill Passed

Measure Number: S. 510 (FDA Food Safety Modernization Act )

Measure Title:  A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the safety of the food supply.

Vote Counts:   YEAs – 73  /  NAYs – 25   /   Not Voting -- 2

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