[SEL] Should Farming Be A Right?

[Richard Knapp]

It's scary to me when large, key parts of our food system are owned by 
foreign corporations.  That's what this amendment is setting us up for. 
I'm not imagining this.  It is well known that deals with foreign 
corporations are waiting in the wings. But the most frustrating part of 
this for me (I'm a very small farmer in Missouri) is that our state 
legislators deceived us in the way the amendment was presented on the 
ballot.  The language on the ballot said "Missouri citizens shall have 
the right to farm". Who can argue with that? The language on the 
amendment itself, however, said nothing at all about citizens. In other 
words - anybody has the right to farm in Missouri. And that right shall 
not be abridged even if the air and soil and water of our state are 
being poisoned by some outfit that is taking the profits it makes from 
it's rapacious behavior half way around the world. The amendment 
language is actually shorter than what is presented on the ballot so 
what reason could our legislators have for this switcheroo except to 
slide something crooked by an unsuspecting citizenry? I didn't know 
about the difference in the two paragraphs - that's all they both are, 
two short paragraphs - until after I voted.  I think most people 
naturally assumed that what was on the ballot was what they were voting 
for.

Richard

On 9/10/2014 8:44 PM, David Rotigel wrote:
> See: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/10/missouri-battles-over-amendment-granting-right-to-farm/
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