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I am a health activist in Vernon Hills, IL and desire to feed my family healthy nutritious organic foods that are grown locally.

In addition, I am the organizer of a community based organization called the Women's Health Imperative. Our mission is to educate women about health, food and nutrition.

I am finding it difficult to locate local growers that offer home delivery in my area or mail delivery of meats and vegetables. Many people would be interested in buying and eating local if they knew the names and contact information of local growers.

Can anyone help me locate local growers in my area that provide home delivery or ship overnight? If so, please contact me at nle62@msn.com

Warm regards,

Necie E.]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:04:11 -0800 http://organicconsumers.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=3489 http://organicconsumers.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=2528 homes and businesses. Sometimes at Gunpoint, sometimes with a Warrant,
and sometimes with nothing more then the burly bodies that intimidate
those about to be oppressed.

Recite the Names below:

Stowers, Greg Niewendorp, Hixon, Miller, Griepentrog, Palmer

Now add your name.

Don't shrug aside if you are a businesses that provides goods and
services to Livestock owners. If we don't own Livestock – you have
nothing we need or want.

Today, Thursday of course, H.R. 1105 is awaiting assignment to Committee
in the Senate. It stands poised to allocate $289 million to APHIS for
the implementation of the National Animal Identification System. It also
outlines the time frame to implement in 2009 the tracking of 33 species.

An example: Poultry – “By July 1, 2009 – achieve 98% traceability in the
Commercial Poultry Industry...

That means if Murray McMurray sends you a chick – it had better be
traceable from their end and you better trace it when it gets to your
homestead. Think the cost of a Broiler is bad now? Think what it will be
when every chick that leaves that plant will be accounted for.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR01105:@@@X

The House managed to pass this “Omnibus 2009” in 24 hours and we have no
reason to believe that the Senate will not as well.

What are your going to do? We as living human beings do not go to the
polls to elect officials to represent Multi-National Corporations or
Lobbyists paid by groups attempting to get their piece of the pie.

THE LARGEST UNPAID LOBBIEST GROUP IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS
SITTING IN THAT CHAIR IN FRONT OF THE KEYBOARD – YOU BELONG TO IT.

Contact the following Organizations – as many as you can this evening.

The first person to contact is AgSec@USDA.gov, then your personal
Legislator. A partial list of email contacts is below to get you
started.

The message is simple :

We don't want, nor will we comply with the National Animal
Identification System. We do not want H.R. 1105 out of Senate Committee.
We want it stopped and stopped Friday 27, 2009.

Tomorrow is Freedom Friday – make it count.

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American Livestock Breeds Conservancy
http://www.albc-usa.org/tellus.php
EquusSurvivalTrust@yahoo.com
Slow Food : info@slowfoodusa.org
Natural Solutions: editor@naturalsolutionsmag.com
One America Rising: Info@oneamericarising.org
Small Farmer's Journal: agrarian@smallfarmersjournal.com
Country Side: csyeditorial@tds.net
President Obamas Office http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Farm Show mark@farmshow.com
http://www.mynaga.org/
North American Game Birds 800-624-2967 or Email: info@mynaga.org

Center For Rural Affairs:
Chuck Hassebrook chuckh@cfra.org
Executive Director,

GrassFire.org http://grassfire.org/email.asp?ind=2
National Family Farm Coalition:

Executive Director
Katherine Ozer
kozer@nffc.net

Policy Analyst
Irene Lin
irene@nffc.net

FarmAid:
farmhelp@farmaid.org

Cattle Associations Links:
http://www.cattletoday.com/associations.shtml

Llamas and Alpacas:
http://www.gentlespiritllamas.com/html/links.htm

Paragon Foundation:
info@paragonfoundation.org
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