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Rep. Massie: PATRIOT Act Expiration is Good, But What About NSA Breaking the Law?
Rep. Massie delivers a floor speech on June 1, 2015 - the morning after three controversial provisions of the PATRIOT Act expired on why it is important for civil liberties.
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Man Gets Prison Sentence For Collecting Rainwater On His Property
Collecting rainwater on your own property can now lead to jail time, as proven by a man from Oregon who was sentenced to prison for doing just that. Who owns the rain? The
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Court Rules: Organic Farms Not Protected From Cross-Contamination
An organic farmer has lost a GMO lawsuit which supporters worldwide hoped would be a landmark victory for all-natural farming. Farmer Steve Marsh of Australia believed that genetically modified canola had drifted onto his land,
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FDA To Ban Organic Farming?
Farming methods that have been used in America and throughout the world for centuries are in danger of essentially being banned under proposed regulations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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Organic Farmer & Winemaker Faces Jail Time for Refusing to Spray Pesticides
The French agriculture ministry is prosecuting Emmanuel Giboulot, an organic winemaker, for failing to apply insecticide to his vines. The ministry wants insecticide to be sprayed to control the leafhopper Scaphoideus titanus—believed to be
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People Who Grow Their Own Food Labeled Extremist By Dept. Of Defense
If the founding fathers were reincarnated today, they’d probably start another revolution, this time to break away from an American government that has become far too imperial for its own good. And as such, they’d
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Farmers To Face Fines Or Prison Sentences For Selling Food Directly To Customers
This would seem to embody the USDA’s advisory, “Know your farmer, know your food,” right? Not exactly. For the USDA and its sister food regulator, the FDA, there’s a problem: many of the farmers are
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