Week 34 | Fall 4 Sneak Peek Tu-Th | Oct 22 & 24

DELIVERY SCHEDULING NOTE!

It's a long way off, but mark your calendars that Thanksgiving Week deliveries will be on Monday, Nov 25, instead of Tuesday and
Tuesday, Nov 26 instead of Thursday that week.

Help protect small-scale organics from one-size-fits-all farming regulations!

From The Cornucopia Institute
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The FDA's new food safety rules have the real potential to force some of the safest local and organic farms out of business!

In response to deadly outbreaks Congress acted decisively three years ago to pass the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Giant factory farms and uninspected imports are, literally, poisoning U.S. citizens. Better oversight is needed but it looks like regulators and corporate agribusiness are using the FSMA to competitively crush the organic and local farming movements at the same time.

Unfortunately, the FDA's draft regulations designed to implement the new law appear to ignore the will of Congress. Instead, the regulations would ensnare the country's safest family farmers in burdensome regulations. A second FDA guidance proposal, with the intent of controlling salmonella in eggs, could force local and organic farms to confine their chickens - just like the factory farms responsible for causing massive disease outbreaks.

Rather than lay out the litany of ill-conceived proposals, I'll direct you to Cornucopia's white paper on this issue that makes the case strongly against the proposed regulations.

What can you do? The FDA has set a brief comment period for these proposed regulations--and the window is closing fast. Cornucopia makes it easy for you to register your concern by signing a proxy letter that they will hand-deliver to the FDA before the comment period ends. And to make it even easier for you, they'll be mailing you a letter (from us and them) with a copy of the proxy letter to sign and mail back to them. We hope you'll consider taking a moment to let your voice--as a consumer and supporter of local and organic foods--be heard. Thank you!

-- Robin