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Emergency Legislative Alert: Action Needed Now; Food Freedom

Bill — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:20:04 +0000

UPDATED ALERT FOR JAN 29-FEB 4:

For many of you this may not be an issue directly, but it is an example of how pervasive government involvement in our lives has gotten. It strikes to the core of a private property, the free market, and we as citizens being able to make choices for ourselves, particularly healthy food choices.

Right now there is a piece of legislation that initially allowed for the outright sale of raw milk/real milk in Kentucky. That bill while a good start, despite being talked about for years had some concerns. First the Health Department hated it, and secondly it was too vague in dealing with regulation.

However, a better piece of legislation has come of this as we had success in the Senate Agriculture Committee with an 8-2 vote for the Sen Schickel’s Committee Substitute as detailed below.

SB 47. The primary sponsor of the bill entered a Senate Committee (SCS) Substitute in the Agriculture Committee. This SCS will protect shared livestock (herdshares/cowshares) and products from regulatory agencies. This bill is a very important step in the direction of food sovereignty.

Before the law was silent on cowshares/herdshares but that did not stop the Health Department from raiding these legal operations. This will now protect those operations. Some of you at this point may be asking what is a cowshare/herdshare, it is essentially a group of people getting together to take ownership in a cow and all the responsibilities there of in a private contract so that they can have raw milk/real milk.

While this bill passed committee there are influential organizations that would rather this bill not see the light of day let alone get out of committee for a vote, which could happen Monday.

Now that you have the background, here is the action you need to take

Call the legislative line in Frankfort and tell them you would like to leave 2 messages:

1-800-372-7181

First Message is to thank Sen. Schickel for sponsoring SB 47 and introducing his Committee Substitute to protect cowshares/heardshares, and the protection of private contracts, and preserving family’s rights to make healthy food choices.

Second Message is to All Senate Leadership, and YOUR Senator asking them to Support SB 47 protecting cowshares/heardshares and the protection of private contracts and preserving family’srights to make healthy food choices.

IMPORTANT: These messages must be received before 2:00 PM as that is when the Senate will meets to possible discuss voting on this bill. The reason these calls are so imperative is the Health Department still hates it and the Kentucky Farm Bureau as well as the Dairy Association have issues with it. We cannot let these large bureaucracies and organizations dictate to us how we should feed our families and take care of our health.

The lines are open until 11PM Weekdays, so if it does not pass Monday afternoon you need to keep calling the rest of this week.

ALSO….

You may want to make e-mails to the legislators tonight and tomorrow morning. Look at the examples in the contact legislator section of our e-mail in the left hand column that method should work.

A LOT OF EFFORT WENT INTO THIS LEGISLATION AND RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS UP TO THIS POINT, LET’S NOT SQUANDER THIS OPPORTUNITY!

2 Important Alerts: Industrial Hemp/Sudafed Bill

Bill — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:21:22 +0000

Industrial Hemp

Click Here for an Action Alert for the Senate

Also add to the alert to support Agriculture Commissioner Jamie Comer an his report to the Senate Ag Committee and his efforts for Industrial Hemp.

Industrial Hemp Event at the Capitol:

KY Ag Commissioner James Comer will hold a press conference this THURSDAY Jan. 19th at 3:30pm in support of Industrial Hemp Legislation.

Location: TBA (Tentatively Rm 110 in the Annex) Email to follow as soon as location is confirmed.

Commissioner Comer will be joined by Rep. Richard Henderson (D- Montgomery Co.) and Sen. Joey Pendleton (D- Christian Co) (Invited) in a press conference as complete proponents of Henderson’s bill in allowing Industrial Hemp to become once again a viable crop in Kentucky. If this bill is passed thousands upon thousands of jobs in our Commonwealth will be created.

Commissioner Comer has made news recently because of his recent actions calling for a sweeping audit of the Department of Agriculture to address the mess that was handed to him by former Commissioner Richie Farmer. For him to take on the Industrial Hemp bill this early on in lieu of everything that he could be addressing should be very commendable to our new Commissioner.

We have pledged to Commissioner Comer to have 200 community supporters to show up for this press conference on Thursday at 3:30.

If we have 5 people show up, the media will not cover it. If we have 200 people then the media will have to cover it.

PLEASE send this to everyone you know that supports the bill to legalize industrial hemp.

CLICK HERE: SUDAFED BILL ALERT AKA THE SNOT TAX!

There was a hearing today (JAN 18) in the House, and there will be a hearing tomorrow (JAN 18)

TBK Opposes SOPA and PIPA

Bill — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:07:28 +0000

This post is to inform our visitors that tomorrow Jan 18th, 2012 TBK will be blacked out (if the plugin/code works like it should) in the largest online protest. We are protesting SOPA and PIPA which are anti-piracy laws but are way too broad in that they allow the government to just shut your website down without due process. In other words giving the government the kill switch on internet freedom of speech.

For more information go to sopastrike.com

House Industrial Hemp Legislative Alert

Bill — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:48:07 +0000

House Industrial Hemp Legislative Alert

Jamie Comer is the new Agricultural Commissioner and he is following through on his promise to try and get Industrial Hemp in Kentucky. If you don’t know about Industrial Hemp and would like more information please check out our resources HERE and HERE.

There is a Senate Bill for Industrial Hemp (SB 61), but there is not a House Bill. Comer intends to approach this from all angles, so he is going to the Capitol this WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11TH, 2012to speak to the House Agricultural Committee about getting Industrial Hemp Legislation introduced and passed. Nest week he will be supporting Industrial Hemp in the Senate and we will send an alert about that at a more appropriate time. For now this is the action you need to take.

Call the Legislative Message Line in Frankfort 1-800-372-7181

TTY Message Line 1-800-896-0305

Tell the operator you would like to leave a message:

Message: Is for YOUR Representative, House Leadership, and the House Agriculture Committee: “Please support Agriculture Commissioner Jamie Comer in his efforts to put Kentuckians back to work with Industrial Hemp and make Kentucky a leader in Economic Development”

MAKE THIS CALL TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY

Also…

So that Comer knows we are supporting him in this effort please make a rare call to the Kentucky Department of Agriculture thanking him for his efforts on Industrial Hemp.

General Line 502-564-4696

Commissioners Office 502-564-6099

The office is still in transition but these numbers should work.

Get involved in the GOP

Bill — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:28:04 +0000

Take Back Kentucky is non-partisan organization; however, we encourage involvement in the political process. Therefore we would like to make our subscribers aware of a grassroots event geared at getting people more involved in the Republican Party.

There will be a meeting that is being put together by the NKY TEA Party on December 28th @ 6PM @ the Old Union Firehouse in Union Ky.

For more details about this event please contact Mike Stephens via e-mail @ chimneyrock@insightbb.com or call at 859-621-4928.