Rally for the Right to know

Rally for the Right to Know | The Non-GMO Project

There will be a "Rally for the Right to Know", if  GMO's are used in the food your eating. The "Millions Against Monsanto" rally is a nation-wide event scheduled for Saturday, March 26th., organized by the Organic consumer Association. The Rally is about demanding labeling of GMO's so one can make a conscious decision when buying their food.
The main rally will occur on the White House Sidewalk in Washington DC, with many demonstrations simultaneous across the country. There might be a Rally close to where you are. If you don't know if one is happening close to where you live you can find out on the page I have linked above. You also can find out more at the Facebook page from 'Millions against Monsanto' they have an Events Linked List at their discussion site.
I will be at the Rally in Salem, Oregon and I hope some of my readers will be joining us in telling this White House
"We have a right to know what is in our Food"

Is a Food Revolution brewing?

So, as I hear the White House is going to give the extra produce grown at their Kitchen Garden to Miriam's Kitchen, which serves the homeless in Washington, DC. Good for them!

This Administration seems to have a more receptive ear for the many advocates of organic and locally grown food movement who are trying to encourage the White House to change our agricultural policies to encourage a more nutritious and sustainable food supply.
Even tough their voices being more heard at the White House and there has been some small positive changes like more federal dollars for organic research and helping farmers convert to organic methods, unfortunately it still will be an uphill battle getting big changes through Congress where many members even some Democrats are hostile to policy challenges in the agricultural department.

But then every little step, get's us a bit further to a more sustainable agricultural policy.

From the New York Times

Business

Is a Food Revolution Now in Season?

By ANDREW MARTIN

Published: March 22, 2009

Advocates of organic and locally grown food have found a receptive ear in the White House, which has vowed to encourage a more nutritious and sustainable food supply.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/business/22food.html

Victory Garden at the White House

A Victory Garden is coming to the White House

White House guests will be munching on vegetables grown in the White House's own vegetable garden.

After the Grassroots campaign 'Replant a Victory Garden at the White House' signed so far by 100,00 people and the efforts of Roger Doiron's Eat the View campaign the White House made an announcement they will dig up a part of the South Lawn at the White House for a Vegetable Garden. Making this a great victory for the sustainable-food movement.
Michelle Obama and elementary Students will break ground in a Ceremony today on Friday, March 20, 2009 for the vegetable garden project.

My wishes for this project:
'Please Michelle and Obama, don't be to timid. Think big. You have so much space to grow lot's of food. Think about the food banks and people hungering in Washington, plant many rows for the poor.'
What better example could be there, the White House feeding the poor!