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Your voice can make a difference –
Support Sustainable Agriculture
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Do you care about equitable access to
healthy food? Protecting farmland, soil, clean water, and wildlife
habitat? Ensuring the economic viability of farmers and rural
communities? Treating farm workers fairly? Providing opportunities
for new farmers and ranchers?
An excellent way to stay informed about these issues and ensure that
you know when action is urgently needed to support them is to join
the sustainable agriculture movement’s electronic mailing list,
managed by the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture. This
list makes it easy for you to speak out when your voice is needed
most and turn your personal concerns into simple, effective advocacy
for national change.
The National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture is a non-profit
organization that unites a diverse nationwide network of hundreds of
groups and individuals to shape national policies that foster a
sustainable food and agricultural system -- one that is economically
viable, environmentally sound, socially just, and humane. It works
with extraordinary advocates in Washington who follow legislative
details so that sustainable agriculture supporters nationwide don't
have to. It provides grassroots groups and individuals with timely,
crucial information on how they can change history by a simple phone
call or letter.
This movement has created a record of successes.
For example, every year, they coordinate a grassroots campaign to get
maximum funding for federal programs crucial to the sustainable
agriculture movement. They help protect the meaning of the term
organic. They fought in the 2002 Farm Bill for programs that encourage
and reward farmers for sustainable practices.
With a new Farm Bill coming in 2007 your voice is needed now! So
go online to
http://www.sustainableagriculture.net/signUpAA.php to join the
movement’s e-mail list and learn more. |
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