Petitioning to Secede & Supporting Wind Energy

Petitioning to Secede & Supporting Wind Energy plus Food Forethought. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.

Last weeks election has a whole lot of people upset to the point they are signing petitions asking that their state be allowed to secede from the U.S. One petition actually has enough signatures that the White House has promised to respond. Some 200-thousand people in 34 states have signed petitions some even quoting from the Declaration of Independence. Interestingly a couple other petitions on the “We The People” website are calling the U.S. to deport of strip the citizenship of anyone petitioning to secede. This just might get interesting.

One thing the election did prove was that a lot of politicians are in favor of growing wind energy. American Wind Energy Association Denise Bode.

BODE: It’s important to remember that this industry is driving tens of billions of dollars in private investment in the U.S. every year. 75-thousand Americans are now working in wind power and farmers and ranchers across the country are getting hundreds of millions of dollars each year in this new cash crop.

Now with today’s Food Forethought, here’s Lacy Gray.

Proposition 37 failed in California, but some food activists are not giving this one up without a fight. They have begun a “Label It Yourself” campaign. On their website they offer GMO labeling guidelines and a list of ingredients that may contain GMO’s. Interested food activists can then use the provided printable GMO warning labels, consisting of a skull with ears of corn growing out of it, to put on products at their local grocery stores themselves. Sounds illegal doesn’t it, as well as just a wee bit over the top. When asked about the legality of the whole thing one of the supporters stated they were pretty sure it was illegal, if done beyond your own cupboard. Anyone else find that statement funny? Food activists against GMO’s putting homemade warning labels on food they themselves have purchased and put in their own cupboards. Talk about irony. As a defense they claim that labeling the food that “the person who does the shopping in the household brings home” is a good way to start a conversation about what’s in the food we eat without doing anything illegal. Frankly, if I was the one doing the shopping, I would tell the person doing the “labeling” to buy their own food and keep it in their own house.

Thanks Lacy. That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.