NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION JUN 22, 2011 - CALL WHITE HOUSE TO PROTECT FAMILY FARMS!

Tell the White House:
It's Time to Side With Consumers and Family Farmers!
Can You Help Get Some Calls in to President Obama for Fair Food?

June 1, 2011

President Obama: Stand up for Farmers and Good Food! Sign up to help generate phone calls for fair food on June 22nd!

As you MAY know, corporate interests have been dictating food policy in this country for decades. You've taken a stand against the status quo and signed on to our vision in support of better policies that will protect small farmers and consumers. Now, we need your help again. Will you take the next step and sign up to help generate phone calls to the White House on June 22nd?

These days, more and more family farmers are being pushed out of business, and consumers are facing fewer choices because of unfair rules that benefit big agribusiness. In February, we generated thousands of calls to the White House in support of Fair Farm Rules — a set of common-sense rules from the 2008 Farm Bill that would help level the playing field for small farmers in the face of pressure from the industrial farming industry. Despite our efforts, the Obama Administration has failed to implement these long-overdue protections.

June 22nd marks the one-year anniversary of the introduction of the Fair Farm Rules. It's absolutely ridiculous that it's been a year and the USDA and the Obama administration still haven't implemented these rules — so we're organizing a National Day of Action on June 22nd. Can you help generate phone calls to the White House and ask President Obama to stand up for consumers and fair food?

Corporate control of the food system is not a new problem. For the last two decades, the government has looked the other way while a few big companies have trampled on our local farmers and ranchers, paying them unfairly low prices or forcing them to sign exploitative contracts in order to sell their animals. Now we have a chance to change the policies that have benefitted the big guys for the past two decades, and shift more power back to small farmers and consumers. Sign up to help deliver this message to the White House.

The proposed Fair Farm Rules will:
- Stop secret preferential contracts granted to cattle and hog factory farms
- Prohibit retaliation against poultry growers who speak out about abuses
- Prevent companies from requiring poultry growers to make expensive upgrades to their facilities if they are in working order

Small farmers have waited long enough for policies that will protect them against blatant abuses by corporate agriculture. We need President Obama to finalize these long-overdue rules on June 22nd.

Sign up to join us here:
http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup?signup_page_KEY=6052

Thanks for taking action,

Katy Kiefer
Outreach Organizer
Food & Water Watch
goodfood(at)fwwatch(dot)org

 

Food & Water Watch is a nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food. We challenge the corporate control and abuse of our food and water resources by empowering people to take action and by transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink.