The places that supply our tables and restaurants with produce are in danger of being bought out by entities with no concern for our citizens.
Protect Georgia brought this to my attention and asked for my help.
Would I please contact my elected officials and ask them to take a stand for the farmers?
Of course I would!
Vegetables and fruits are some of my favorite foods, and I prefer to buy local!
So here is a copy of the letter sent to the three electees.
Let's hope they look out for those that put them in office!
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Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R)
Sen. Lester Jackson (D-GA-002)
Rep. Edna Jackson (D-GA-165)
Dear Lt. Governor Duncan:
Dear Senator Jackson:
Dear Representative Jackson:
Stop the corporate takeover of Georgia's farms.
Stop the Bad Neighbor Bill, HB 1150.
Georgia-grown and Georgia-owned farms keep food on our tables. These local farmers and landowners need you to stop the Bad Neighbor Bill, HB 1150.
Since 1989, Georgia laws have protected our local farmers from frivolous nuisance lawsuits. These laws also protect Georgians' property rights.
But recently, these laws have come under attack from multinational meat corporations and insurance company lobbyists.
Mark Israel, a 6th-generation GA farmer from Sumter County captured the problem well in his letter to the editor:
"Farmers like me and my neighbors have farmed under the existing Right to Farm Law for more than 30 years. There's nothing wrong with the law we have, nothing at all, and no epidemic of lawsuits against farmers. . . The [effort to change Georgia's existing law] is about opening the floodgates for corporate animal feeding operations with giant waste lagoons. It's about immunizing these operations when they move into Georgia and harm you by taking away your more than 150-year-old property rights."
His full letter to the editor is linked here: https://tinyurl.com/y6xf7vvm
Sen. Lester Jackson (D-GA-002)
Rep. Edna Jackson (D-GA-165)
Dear Lt. Governor Duncan:
Dear Senator Jackson:
Dear Representative Jackson:
Stop the corporate takeover of Georgia's farms.
Stop the Bad Neighbor Bill, HB 1150.
Georgia-grown and Georgia-owned farms keep food on our tables. These local farmers and landowners need you to stop the Bad Neighbor Bill, HB 1150.
Since 1989, Georgia laws have protected our local farmers from frivolous nuisance lawsuits. These laws also protect Georgians' property rights.
But recently, these laws have come under attack from multinational meat corporations and insurance company lobbyists.
Mark Israel, a 6th-generation GA farmer from Sumter County captured the problem well in his letter to the editor:
"Farmers like me and my neighbors have farmed under the existing Right to Farm Law for more than 30 years. There's nothing wrong with the law we have, nothing at all, and no epidemic of lawsuits against farmers. . . The [effort to change Georgia's existing law] is about opening the floodgates for corporate animal feeding operations with giant waste lagoons. It's about immunizing these operations when they move into Georgia and harm you by taking away your more than 150-year-old property rights."
His full letter to the editor is linked here: https://tinyurl.com/y6xf7vvm
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