Re: Ralph Nader's Agriculture Policies

[Guest guest]

I read somewhere that Nader was behind the push to get the PMO

(Pasteurized Milk Ordinance) adopted in all 50 states?

....if this is true, he would not be my choice for a leader!

-Blair

> This Policy describes what we are all agreeable on when it comes

to

> politics. Why not Nader?!

>

> A Family Farm — Consumer Agricultural Policy

> American agriculture is being dominated by two contrary trends in

the

[Guest guest]

This wouldn't surprise me at all. Much of his work, though probably well meaning, is highly standardizing homogenizing and regulatory in nature. I'd much prefer a candidate that leaves all choices in the realm of food and health to the consumer, and to limit regulations to regulating the FDA, USDA(government interference), big business and advertising to insure greater freedom of choice for the consumer without having to slog through a morass of deceptive propaganda and false advertising based on fear and greed to promote big agri-business. So are we all on the same page or what.

Tonio

who is reforming and regulating himself back toward Raw Dairy related issues and still wondering what got into him. And who thinks he just found a candidate really worth voting for. But mums the word. Especially since he has not declared his long awaited position on the Raw Dairy issue, but I'm sure will be in the headlines soon enough for all to see ;-)

I read somewhere that Nader was behind the push to get the PMO (Pasteurized Milk Ordinance) adopted in all 50 states?...if this is true, he would not be my choice for a leader!-Blair

[Guest guest]

This wouldn't surprise me at all. Much of his work, though probably well meaning, is highly standardizing homogenizing and regulatory in nature. I'd much prefer a candidate that leaves all choices in the realm of food and health to the consumer, and to limit regulations to regulating the FDA, USDA(government interference), big business and advertising to insure greater freedom of choice for the consumer without having to slog through a morass of deceptive propaganda and false advertising based on fear and greed to promote big agri-business. So are we all on the same page or what.

Tonio

who is reforming and regulating himself back toward Raw Dairy related issues and still wondering what got into him. And who thinks he just found a candidate really worth voting for. But mums the word. Especially since he has not declared his long awaited position on the Raw Dairy issue, but I'm sure will be in the headlines soon enough for all to see ;-)

I read somewhere that Nader was behind the push to get the PMO (Pasteurized Milk Ordinance) adopted in all 50 states?...if this is true, he would not be my choice for a leader!-Blair