Re: [compost_tea] Bush Considering Axing ATTRA funding

From: Robert Norsen <bnbrew_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:34:54 -0800 (PST)

Lets see now- We are going to increase the budget for military to win friends overseas.
Increase the budget for internal security to protect us from terrorists ?
 
But decrease the budget that does
Protect farm land from errosion, rivers and Gulf of Mexico from silt and poisonous anaerobic conditions.
Protect our drinking water, aquafers, streams rivers and lakes from poisons
Protect our food supply from further deterioration - even restore nutrient value, thus reduce our cost of medical care.
Protect world wide agriculture from what our major ag corporations are imposing on world agriculture and developing hatred against the USA by thier actions.
Protect US agriculture - and therby all of us - form the corporate ag predators that are more dangerous to us than any threat by lessor terrorists.
 
We need to pound some good judgement into this administration. NOW.
 We need an election !!!
The following message by Chris, Steve and Sanet are vital !

chriscreid <reidchris_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
Off topic, yet quite relevant.

This post from SANET is most disturbing. We have benefited from the
work of ATTRA's Steve Diver here on the list. ATTRA is an excellent
resource and cutting funding out would be a huge loss and blow to
sustainable agriculture.

If Steve or anyone else has suggestions as to the most effective
ways to protest (to whom, with what arguments, etc.), I'll do it and
I hope others will, too.

Chris Reid

Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 15:05:03 -0800
From: Jane Sooby <jane_at_OFRF.ORG>
Subject: Bush proposes to ax ATTRA!

--=====================_
Greetings:
We're well past the last straw by now; however, I am discovering a
renewed
capability of having my mind blown by the caprices of politics. No
doubt
everyone will receive organizing e-mails etc. on this issue, and the
other
egregious cuts in important sust/organic programs proposed in the
Bush
budget. Aargh, I'm getting a lump in my throat! How could anyone
even think
to X out ATTRA???

>From a press release by Teresa Opheim, Executive Director, Midwest
Sustainable Agriculture Working Group and National Coordinator,
Sustainable
Ag Coalition:

"The President's budget proposes eliminating the highly-rated and
effective
Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas or ATTRA program.
Currently
funded at $2.5 million, the program is the major source of
sustainable and
organic agriculture production and marketing information for farmers,
extension agents, and other agricultural professionals. The proposed
budget
also would scale back funding for the Sustainable Agriculture
Research and
Education (SARE) program by 22 percent to $13 million. The proposal
would
also reduce the research and extension program to help farmers
transition
to organic agriculture by 74 percent to just $500,000."

I encourage everyone to visit the MSAWG website at www.msawg.org
to find out what you can do about this, and to do everything you can
to get
involved in this year's presidential election so that we get someone
in
that office who is friendlier to farmers and to the environment.

I personally am participating in voter registration and get-out-the-
vote
activities, and encourage everyone who can to consider taking similar
action so that we can have a real election this time.

Peace,

Jane Sooby
technical program coordinator
Organic Farming Research Foundation

P.O. Box 440
Santa Cruz, CA 95061
831-426-6606
831-426-6670 fax
831-336-2392 home
www.ofrf.org
jane_at_ofrf.org



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