Reply #125: Not a friend of family farms [View All]

[Critters2]

"Vilsack was the origin of the seed pre-emption bill in 2005, which many people here in Iowa fought because it took away local government's possibility of ever having a regulation on seeds- where GE would be grown, having GE-free buffers, banning pharma corn locally, etc. Representative Sandy Greiner, the Republican sponsor of the bill, bragged on the House Floor that Vilsack put her up to it right after his state of the state address."

The same thing happened on Vilsack's watch regarding factory "farms" of hogs, chickens, and turkeys. Local communities have no say as to where such atrocities are built. County boards are not allowed to make decisions concerning zoning where factory "farms" are concerned. Vilsack seems to have some problem with grassroots democracy.