Send a letter to CA Senate Comm on Food & Ag

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Hi,

 

CA's drought gives a timeliness to FLOODing the media & our elected bodies with

e-letters.

 

I just sent the below e-letter to the CA Senate Comm on Food & Ag

(www.californiasafefood.com). I encourage others to do the same, even if it's

just a simple note that " I agree with the Feb 10 letter you received from my

friend, Mitch Cohen. "

 

If you write the committee, be creative, but not too wild. For example, I also

submitted a similar letter to the SF Chronicle that isn't appropriate for the

senate. I altered a point to make it more likely to be selected: " CA houses

reek of urine & body odor as

we do our part to minimize our surcharged 5c toilet flushes, 8c showers and 55c

laundries to feed subsidized 99c burgers to states whose legislators want

President

Obama’s vision & leadership to fail? NO!!! "

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mitch

 

Mitch's e-letter submitted to CA Senate Comm on Food & Ag 2/10/2009:

 

I write to ask your committee to shut CA's grain-fed cow business. It couldn't

exist without subsidies. In a time of deficits, global warming & expensive

health-care, CA should not enable it to continue.

 

Grain-feeding cows is the most egregiously unsustainable deployment of our

limited water, grain, energy and topsoil. Far too much grain & water yield 1

pound of beef or gallon of milk. 99c burgers contain over 99c of water at

residential rates.

 

California faces severe drought, water-rationing, depleted fish-populations and

overly-thirsty wildfires (SF Chronicle, 1/30). Dairymen struggle (SF Chronicle,

1/11). Agriculture Secretary Vilsack wants " $200 million a year to subsidize

the exports of American dairy products " (Merced Sun, 2/7).

 

CA houses reek of urine & body odor as we do our part to minimize our surcharged

5c toilet flushes, 8c showers and 55c laundries to export subsidized burgers to

other nations & states. Please join me in saying " NO!!! " .

 

Grain-fed beef has that juicy, marbled fat agribusiness ads have folks craving.

It is unsustainable, and it contributes to obesity and high health costs. Move

the industry out of dry California.

 

If it's profitable to pharmaceutical companies pushing cholesterol pills &

clogged-artery, erectile-dysfunction pills, let them bail-out the farmers:

SOMEWHERE ELSE!

 

Limit CA's cattle to purely grass-fed operations: more than enough to feed

Californians. Reduced herds will reduce supply and increase prices for the

remaining, more-sustainable farmers. Give career-transition assistance to

farmers who'll cultivate sustainable cholesterol-free crops: protein-rich

grains, calcium-rich vegetables (e.g. collards, bok choy, kale, broccoli),

biofuels, wind-turbines or solar-arrays.

 

Use our desperate water situation as a catalyst to let a revised, sustainable

Farm Policy flow as a mighty river.

 

Thank you.

 

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