Words Can Be Confusing. Get The Facts Before You Decide What's Right.

Theatrical Release Poster for Soylent Green
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Movie produced by MGM in 1973 and poster design is by John Solie.
Excerpt description from Wikipedia:  Soylent Green is a 1973 American science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischerand starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, and, in his final film, Edward G. Robinson. The film combines the police procedural and science fiction genres, depicting the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman in a dystopianfuture suffering from pollution, overpopulation, depleted resources, poverty, dying oceans, and all year humidity due to the greenhouse effect.
Much of the population survives on processed food rations, including "soylent green".

When a person says "Right to Farm," you think it must be good, clean and green; something to support because it keeps food on the table and farmers deserve to have rights.  Right?  Wrong.  Don't be confused by the language - especially when it is written by politicians who don't have a clue to the Pandora's Box they are opening.

Missouri has a piece of legislation that is coming up for a vote on Tuesday, August 5 called Amendment #1, the so-called "Right To Farm"bill.  This bill is confusing, convoluted and totally outrageous in how it will lift the ceiling on the restrictions on foreign ownership of our beautiful farmland, open the door for Big Ag companies like Monsanto and Cargill to do whatever they want and wherever they want without any kind of local intervention because a Constitutional Amendment trumps any local control or individual ability to take action in a court when their rights are violated.

As someone who lives around the corner from a factory farm that is barely policed within the existing laws that do exist, poorly thought out and written legislation like Amendment #1 truly shows me that our politicians are not out to help us and are in the pocket for P.A.C. committees for the large agricultural concerns who want to do what they want without any kind of restrictions, controls or federal controls.  Reminds me of a sci-fi movie starring Charlton Heston called "Soylent Green," eh?  Eat it.  Don't ask what it is.  Don't label it.  Just be happy and eat it.  Learn more about this classic that is turning into reality in this country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green

GMO Labeling is so imperative and important for our food.  It will be the next target.   The next step will be for Corporate Ag to take away your ability to find out what you're eating.  If this "Right To Farm" legislation passes in this and other states, you may lose your control to know what you're putting in your body and feeding your family.

As my family member who still farms following sustainable agricultural method points out, we have clothing that has a Country of Origin labeling so you know where it comes from, care instructions so you know how to take care of it and materials listed in case you're allergic to wool or another fiber in its manufacturing.  Well, don't you want to know what  you're putting in your body and on your table?  As a person who has an autoimmune condition that makes it imperative that I know what I'm eating, it is essential and actually life threatening to me if I don't know what I'm putting in my mouth.  The same is true for others who suffer similar health issues.  If the corporate giants have their way, you won't know what country that meat came from or where your vegetables were grown.  You will be like the people in Soylent Green and eat what is given to you without any right to know where it came from, what the ingredients are or if it came from a place where you trust the agricultural practices.

It makes me so sad to see where things are headed with agriculture and farming.  My family has farmed for generations in Missouri and always practiced things that were good for the animals, protected the water like the precious commodity that it is and done things to help the land become rich and producing - not stripping the resources and taking from them until the land can't give anything back because its nutrients have been stripped dry.  Factory farms mess it all up.  They mow down stands of trees that have stood for centuries, only to irrigate the heck out of that barren land when the trees actually attract the rains that farmers find such a blessing.  A waste of water and resources because they think they are endless - and they are not.  Mother Nature will give and give until it is all gone.  And greedy men and women will take it until they can't take any more.

China has already messed up their own environment and, through the acquisition of one of the largest pork producers/distributors in the world, now own 50,000 acres of Missouri farmland.  Right now, there is a limit to what they can own by prior statutes.  With the passing of Amendment #1 in Missouri, those restrictions will go away along with the protections put in place by Proposition B in 2010.

What does someone do when they want to get something over on another person?  Well, they talk in such big terms with such convoluted, vague wording that people just agree to move on to the next subject.  Lawyers have made a living off of confusing people by twisting words and making them seem like the opposite of what is really happening.  Well, this is what is happening when you have an Amendment go on a ballot with different wording from the wording that was passed by the State Legislature.  Confusion that can turn the people into sheep being led to the slaughter.

Tomorrow, my time will be spent making phone calls to people encouraging them to vote against this dangerous and ill-thought-out legislation.  If you believe in keeping America beautiful, the food on your table safe and healthy, you should look into what you can do to stop "right to farm" legislation from becoming a "right to harm" after August 5th in Missouri.  And if you live elsewhere, look for this harmful effort to come to your State soon.  They're trying to feed us something that we won't like or might possibly make us sick when we find out where and how it was made.  And remember 2022 is only eight years away.

Blog Author's Disclaimer:  Please be advised that the comments written by this individual are made without any commercial endorsement or compensation.  If that changes, will certainly advise the readers.  This blog is intended to document my personal experiences living right next door to a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) or otherwise known as a Factory Farm.  And no other company, nonprofit or other organization has approved or endorsed these words. Everyone is constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech and their own opinion, thank goodness.  These words are my sole opinion and no one else is responsible for these remarks except me. Thanks for your thoughtful and kind responses in comments. Please keep language clean and our farmlands green. :)