Bernie Sanders Vows to Protect Organic Farming, Calls Out Monsanto As Presidential Campaign Heats
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http://jbanews.com/2016/01/26/bernie-sanders-vows-to-protect-organic-farming-calls-out-monsanto-as-presidential-campaign-heats-up/
Like most of the top candidates, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has a long history of speaking out against big corporations, factory farming, and the Biotech giants. As early as 1994 he was fighting against companies such as Monsanto using chemicals that impact human and animal health.
He was also one of the few senators that introduced the Farm Bill that would require labeling of any genetically engineered ingredients in food.
Unlike another candidate running on the democratic platform Hilary Clinton who fully supports GMOs, Sanders believes that the biotech companies are “transforming our agricultural system in a bad way.” He says that he stands for the right of the people to know what is in our food (through mandatory GMO labeling that he helped pass in Vermont, an effort that the GMO giants are trying to block through the DARK Act) and supports family-owned and organic agriculture.
During a private dinner event on December 27th, Sanders spoke about how to make sure our food is healthy and our farming is ethical, as well as other big issues that his campaign stands for.
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K&R and thanks to both. 
Farming is a business.
There is nothing "mystical" or "traditional" about it, inefficient farmers go out of business.
One of the biggest reasons for the "farm crisis" of the 1980's was farm equipment salespeople were overselling "the latest thing."
They still do.
Organic farms are a PR invention.
There can be, and should be a limit on factory farms, particularly livestock.
Here in WI hog farms like in the South, are not allowed.
On the way to my Mom's house in northern WI, I pass by a quite large dairy farm, with barns that look more like warehouses.
And that farm is prospering.
Meanwhile I see on the way up there older family farms, where the buildings are literally falling down.
Like this:
