I'm in the UK, so I've been following this from a distance, but I thought a few of you in the US must be getting concerned about a couple of new bills going through right now. Basically the big corporations like monsanto are making a grab to control the food throughout the US. It's a scary thought that a few big companies can so quickly get into a position where they can get hold of a countries food supply & impose their ideas about food on everyone!
If you live in the US I would strongly suggest that you pop over to this site & fill in a fax (there are reasons for using a fax, snail mail is shredded, emails deleted, but faxes have to be catalogued & stored for several years, so it makes sense to fax). The faxes are free to send & the letter is done for you if you don't want to write.
As an example of how bad the laws being proposed are. If you grow, say tomatoes in your garden & go & buy fertilizer, now you want to give a few away to your friends...well actually my friend your garden is now classified as a farm & it is now your responsibility to keep records of who ate your fruit, how much they ate & how much you ate yourself, how big the crop was etc etc! Yep, even growing your own can cause you to be classified as a farm & have to fill out massive paperwork that will basically cripple any small farm & only support the big big agro-firms (who deal in bulk shipments to big companies). If this passes expect farmers markets to disappear, expect small farmers to follow (with the loss of a great deal of organic farm produce). It's a frightening scenario. On top of that it also takes the US closer to stopping your choices about vitamins & minerals available in health food shops - you want to lose higher potency vitamin & mineral pills - well they're on their way out if these bills get through as well!
So, if you're in the US I'd consider spending 1 minute of your time helping to make this bill go away.
To voice your opposition go here & take a moment to fax your representative if you're in the US.