I see that Missouri Farmers Care has moved on from fighting for the puppy mills and is now fighting for genetically modified foods. I expect next we’ll see an article about the healthful benefits of CAFO manure lagoons. Governor Nixon signed SB 161. That’s all that’s happened. He signed a bill that gutted Proposition B. Oh, […]
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The money game
One of the problems I kept running into when preparing stories for this site is the fact that Missouri’s Department of Agriculture seems to have abysmal data systems. Every Sunshine Law request, no matter how small, exceeded whatever amount of money I had set as a cap for the request. Now it would seem the […]
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Politics
The bill we fought so hard for, Proposition B, was killed today. It was killed by the state legislature, and it was killed by Governor Nixon. It had the honor of dying in a bi-partisan fashion, killed by Democrat and Republican alike. I have found there is one thing that can bring both parties together: […]
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I can only imagine
Susan Redden in the Joplin Globe on Governor Nixon’s “solution”: I can only imagine how the lawmakers must feel after passing legislation and then seeing the governor turn around and propose his own plan. They must feel like the voters who passed Proposition B.
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Nixon’s Agreement
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Governor Nixon just came out with an “agreement” supposedly between animal welfare people and the agricultural groups. Press release Letter of Agreement (PDF) Legislative Text (PDF) I’ll have more to say on these later.