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Tell Pesticide Peddlers: We support Obama's organic garden.

Dear Friend,The Mid America CropLife Association (MACA) has a bone to pick with Obama. MACA represents chemical companies that producepesticides, and they are angry that - wait for it - Obama isn'tusing chemicals in her organic garden at the White House.I am not making this up.In an email they forwarded to their supporters, a MACA spokesman wrotehttp://www.lavidalocavore.org/showDiary.do?diaryId=1309, "While a garden is a great idea, the thought of it being organic made [us] shudder." MACA went on to publish a letter it had sent to the First Lady asking her to consider using chemicals -- or what they call "cropprotection products" -- in her garden. Obama and has done America a great service by publicizing the importance of nutritious food for kids (she's growing the garden in partnership with a local elementary school class) as well as locally grown produce as an important, environmentally sustainable food source.I just signed a petition telling MACA's board members to stop using Obama's garden to spread propaganda about produce needing to besprayed with chemicals. I hope you will, too.Please have a look and take action.http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/wh_garden/?r_by=-1982597-6N7syKx & rc=mailtoThanks!

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> I just signed a petition telling MACA's board members to stop using

Obama's garden to spread propaganda about produce needing to be

> sprayed with chemicals. I hope you will, too.

>

Only it's not really a petition. You're just signing on to their email spam

machine.

Lenny