Amish vs the FDA?

Hey folks!
I was reading a great post by the amazing @papa-pepper about going
to the annual Spring Planting Festival which is held in Mansfield MS
every year, it's all about using Heirloom seeds and plants. In other
words non-engineered food.

That reminded me about the Amish and how they have thrived for
generations by working with nature and not fooling around with
hybrid seeds and such but I remembered some of them being
harassed by the FDA so I looked it up.

The feds have made things difficult for different members of the
Amish around the U.S. which always gets me riled up but in
Kentucky a federal judge actually sentenced an Amish man to
6 years in federal prison for growing and selling herbal remedies.

Of course that's a big problem with the feds because he didn't
go through the FDA for approval. Another problem is that the
judge didn't like him because he "is stubborn." In other words
he refused to fall down at the feet of the feds and FDA.

I was thinking "my God, if he don't like stubborn don't come to
Texas!" He never met stubborn until he meets Texas stubborn.

Anyway this photo is the best I've ever seen illustrating the food
supply situation in the U.S. The top photo is what we all want
and the bottom is what corporate agriculture like Mansanto want.
Big Food is what I call that consortium.

Natural News had this photo on their site dealing with another
case where the FDA forced an Amish farmer to stop his raw milk
business. I guess he wasn't as stubborn so he shut it down. God
only knows what would have happened if he'd refused.

I know this is depressing stuff but there is good news! Things are changing
and there is a growing movement among the citizens to push back against
Big Food. The festival that I mentioned at the top is one of the ways that
regular people are pushing back... growing their own real food with no
chemicals, toxic pesticides or herbicides.

There are also groups which are becoming very powerful especially when
they work together. Two of them are The Center For Food Safety and
Vani Hari AKA the Food Babe at foodbabe.com.

I think it's fascinating that even with Big Food working hand in hand with
Congress and multimillion dollar lobbyists pressuring Congressmen
that corporate ag is still being forced to start making changes.

The organic foods movement is huge and people are demanding cleaner,
less toxic food and additives. Major companies are being forced to change
ingredients in their products. Check out this list of companies which
Vani Hari and her army has forced to make healthy changes:

1. Subway
2. Kraft Foods
3. General Mills
4. Chick-Fil-A
5. Chipotle
6. Panera Bread
7. Anheuser-Busch
8. Miller Coors
9. Whitewave
10. Starbucks
11. In-N-Out Burger

Details are available on her site as to what as to what she and her army
did to force changes and what those changes are.

Most campaigns are through social media and are extremely effective
because companies hate bad publicity.. so there is alot to be hopeful
about my friends. I have faith in the people and I believe we are going
to force even the corporate giants to go organic and clean. It's an
uphill battle but I think we are already winning.

Thanks for reading my friends!
-jonboy Texas

ps- you might be a redneck if:

that jar of hair gel on your bathroom sink is a can of axle grease!