Tim’s advice for independent business people is priceless and so I want to reach out to this community to let it know of a dangerous bill in Congress that aims to make life difficult or impossible for independent operators in the organic foods industry.
Even if you do not care about eating organic food or growing food in your home garden, the right to do so is very important and is at stake. What Congress is planning to do with the new Food Safety Administration is reduce choice and quality craftsmanship in the marketplace, intimidate small businesses to close, and squash the independent business person; all while creating another bloated, expensive, incompetent federal government agency to take away states’ rights to legislate and stick their noses into everyone’s kitchen.
This bill is written by big agricultural-industrial companies so that they they can effectively make their competition illegal. It is so broadly written that it could make gardens and home canning illegal. If you don’t want to just eat starchy foods, low quality meats and canned veggies at every meal, call your congressperson to vote against this bill. The chances are that they have not read it, will not read it, and will vote yes on it because it has a benign title. The language is confusing, yet insidious and dangerous. The organic foods economy is worth billions and produces healthy and delicious food — it must survive!

US House and Senate are about (in a week and a half) to vote on bill that will OUTLAW ORGANIC FARMING (bill HR 875). There is an enormous rush to get this into law within the next 2 weeks before people realize what is happening.

Main backer and lobbyist is (guess who) Monsanto – chemical and genetic engineering giant corporation. This bill will require organic farms to use specific fertilizers and poisonous insect sprays dictated by the newly formed agency to “make sure there is no danger to the public food supply”. This will include backyard gardens that grow food only for a family and not for sales.

If this passes then NO more heirloom clean seeds but only Monsanto genetically altered seeds that are now showing up with unexpected diseases in humans

The name on this outrageous food plan is Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 (bill HR 875).

THIS IS REAL, FOLKS! PASS THIS ALONG TO ALL CONCERNED ON YOUR MAILING LISTS & CALL YOUR SENATE REPRESENTETIVES TODAY! Get on that phone and burn up the wires. Get anyone else you can to do the same thing. The House and Senate WILL pass this if they are not massively threatened with loss of their position…. They only fear your voice and your vote.

The best thing to do is go to http://www.house.gov/writerep all you have to do is put in your zip and it will give you your congressperson and how to get in touch with them. When you call their office someone will answer the phone, just tell them (politely) that you are calling to express your views on HR 875. Tell them your views, they’ll take your name and address and pass your comments along to the congressperson. The following link http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm is a list of the U.S. senators and their contact info.

More revealing details at: http://www.campaignforliberty.co/blog.php?view=12671

This is the link to the insidious bill itself: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-875

Please forward this info and ask people to call their US representatives.

Thanks,

Joe

Great questions! I will definitely be including more info for downloadable products and models in the revised edition. I’m still thinking through the details, but most of your questions should be answered in there. Dowloadable products can be great, if even for testing, and a blog can help (as you’d expect me to answer), but not everyone is designed to be a writer. It’s a pain in the ass if you don’t enjoy it, so a video blog or other form of sampling your product could be the answer.

Thanks again!

Tim