Farm aid: keep america growing
Dear Terry Welch,
Welcome to Farm Aid! All of us here at Farm Aid welcome you to our active community. Whether you're a farmer, a music lover, or someone who cares about good food and family farmers, Farm Aid has something for you.
Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews and I serve on the Farm Aid board because we believe that when family farmers thrive, we all do. Family farmers treat their land with respect and grow the kind of good, fresh food that we all want. And successful farms strengthen their communities—they are the true economic engines of our country.
We've come so far in the past 26 years — we've created and grown the Good Food Movement, and have helped countless family farmers survive and thrive through our programs and grants. Thanks to supporters like you, Farm Aid has inspired more people to care about where their food comes from and who grows it.
Here's what we've recently accomplished with the help of our members:
Demanding action on the dairy crisis. Dairy farms across the country are in a downward spiral – family dairy farmers aren't being paid what it truly costs to produce their milk due to a federal pricing system prone to manipulation, import loopholes, and other factors. Nearly 9,000 people like you have joined Farm Aid in calling on the USDA to set a fair price for dairy that will give farmers a decent shot at making a living.
Stopping factory farms. Factory farms pose a real danger to our communities, our natural resources, and the livelihood of hardworking family farmers. Thousands of people have already signed on to our letter telling Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to stop using taxpayer money to prop up factory farms.
Speaking out against corporate concentration. Corporate concentration puts the control of our food into the hands of a few companies and forces farmers out of business and off the land. Thankfully this issue, which Farm Aid has been working on for years, is finally getting attention.
But too many family farmers are still struggling. That's why I want to ask if you'll take the next step to help keep family farmers on their land by becoming a member of Farm Aid.
Thanks again for being a part of the Farm Aid community, and stay tuned — we'll be keeping you updated with farm and food stories, helpful news and ways you can help family farmers.
Stay strong and positive,
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Willie Nelson
PS: We're so glad you've gotten involved with Farm Aid. If you're able, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our work. Every penny makes a difference for family farmers. Thanks for your support.
Kathy Welch Storrs, Bridget Storrs Law Student Palos Heights and Mary Siska
Ethical behavior in society
This varies from place to place. The behaviors considered unethical in one society can be acceptable in another. For instance, it is an unethical social behavior to engage in favoritism in the public. Refusing to relate with others on the basis of their age, sex and race are also unethical social behaviors.
In the case of Bridget , Kathy Storrs , Mary Eileen Welch Siska , and Kurt husband of Wendy the problems lie in the fact that they play at being judge , jury and self proclaimed Doctors .
Through my research of seventeenth century source materials - many of which are reproduced here - a picture emerges of the Western world's first Civil War from the peoples' point of view. These sources show people and popular movements in crisis as they discovered the aim of all the anti-monarchical anguish, a Commonwealth, was not going to materialize after all. The people had been duped into usurping the king only to have him replaced by a corrupt 'rump' parliament of self-seeking capitalist merchants.
This civil war put the monied classes & land privatisers in a position of power which over subsequent years they used to great effect, legally tearing people from the land, evicting, right across the country and enabling the merchant classes, the winners of the bourgoise revolution, to find willing workers for the industrial revolution and build the biggest empire the world has ever seen.
Admittedly, Oliver Cromwell saw the error of his ways before he died . Here is one of his late speeches delivered to the House of Commons - it could erasily be delivered to the cabinet system of government, 'Tony's cronies', in the early 21st century.
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