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1. Ban gas drilling in Hector, NY 
Slick water, high volume, hydraulic fracturing has destroyed people's homes, communities, natural resources, air, and water in more than a dozen states, most recently in Pennsylvania. This is done so that corporations can sell gas world-wide, in the name of "freeing us from petroleum imports."
We believe our town should ban this practise, in the name of preserving our community. Our state protection agency, the DEC, has decided that certain parts of our state are not OK to drill in, but it's "OK" for the rest of us. "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
We need Hector residents and landowners to sign our petition.
PETITION
To: The United States Congress
And to: The State Legislatures of all 50 States
This petition proposes to restore democratic principles and freedoms via a constitutional amendment.
If more than half of the registered voters in the USA sign this online petition, a precedent will be established that demands the Federal and State Governments to acknowledge popular amendment by the people and to take appropriate action on the items mentioned is this 28th Amendment.
The peoples’ rights to popular amendment can not be denied, although this has not been attempted or tested nationwide.
The technology now exists (such as this online petition) to exercise this fundamental right of all US citizens. If more than 84.5 million registered voters sign this petition, history will be made.
We invite each of you who feel strongly about the provisions of this amendment to:
1. Sign this petition.
2. Enter "yes" in the “registered voter” field if you are a registered voter in the USA.
3. Help friends and family members who do not have Internet access to add their vote by sharing the use of your laptop, PC or other Internet device to obtain as many “registered voter” votes as possible.
Our heartfelt thanks go out to each and every one of you.
We the People Folk Group, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
3. Keep Ag Programs at Letchworth
Over the past years, there has been much turmoil and turnover in our Agriculture program. Positions are possibly being cut and budget cuts are being imposed.
Our County currently has more cows than people and is a thriving agricultural community. Cutting these agriculture education programs will terminate education about the very thing that keeps food in our supermarkets.
4. Australia, Don't Sell the Farm to China
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives:
The Petition of the undersigned draws the attention of the House:
to the significant community concern about the risk to national food security, and national security generally, posed by acquisitions by foreign entities of Australian agricultural, horticultural and other farming land.
Spent hens= hens from the egg-laying industry who are too old, weak, or sick to keep producing eggs and are rid of.
Spent hens are often heard of as being used in pet food, but no ordinary consumer would go out and purchase this meat which holds a different texture, and a different form of cruelty involved in the process.
But now the truth is circulating about where spent hen meat also ends up at- school lunches. That means elementary, middle, and high schools alike.
According to a USA Today article:
"From 2001 though the first half of 2009, USA TODAY found, the government spent more than $145 million on spent-hen meat for schools — a total of more than 77 million pounds served in chicken patties and salads. Since 2007, 13.6 million pounds were purchased. "
Campbell's Soup won't even purchase spent hen for their products, citing "quality considerations".
Though the USDA now purchases less than 10% of spent hen meat processed nationwide, they are still purchasing it. We would like to encourage them for the sake of the health of our school children, please stop purchasing the meat of spent hens!
To Learn More:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-12-08-hen-meat-school-lunch_N.htm
http://www.awfc.ca/english/works/pub/disposehens.htm
6. Help Us Protect the Health and Farmland of Our Communities!
Help Us Protect the Health and Farmland of Our Communities!
If you live in Alberta please help us and sign the petition below.
We are a group of farmers and residents living in and around Fort Saskatchewan which has been designated “the Industrial Heartland Area.”
Our group is called Citizens for Responsible Development. We are working to reduce the pollution to our air, water, and soil caused by tarsands upgraders and to protect the health of our families, natural areas, and some of the most fertile farmland in the entire country.
TOTAL E&P Canada has recently applied to the Energy Resources and Conservation Board to construct another upgrader for our area. This will be the 5th upgrader in our community.
We are participating in the hearing process to negate or reduce the impacts of industry on our families, our farms, and the communities in the region and to prevent TOTAL’s upgrader from adding more pollution to the air, water, and soils of our already saturated region, but we need your help.
We believe this is much more than a local issue – the emissions, water use, and soil acidification will carry far beyond the borders of the project land. Our rights to a reasonable quality of life and our ability to protect our family and our farmlands are being compromised and we do not believe this is in the public interest.
Please support us in our efforts to protect our families and our farmland by signing the petition.
7. Meat Free Monday in Thailand
The connection between meat consumption or animal agriculture & environmental pollution is scientifically proven time and time again. What we eat impacts our health and the health of the environment.
According to a 2006 report by the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), entitled Livestock's Long Shadow: it stated that livestock production is responsible for 18 percent of all greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions which is more than all the cars, trains and planes combined.
Due to the impact that meat has on the environment, we need to reduce our consumption of this carbon intensive product as an effective solution to the climate change crisis. This petition calls for Thai Government to take action now that will show Thailand’s commitment to tackling Climate Change.
We urge the government to promote every Monday as a day when the citizens of Thailand will abstain from meat products in an effort to protect the environment and halt global warming.
We call on everyone’s support in expressing to Thai Government the need for Thailand to adopt and promote a meat free Monday.
So please sign this petition and forward it to your friends and family.
ความเกี่ยวเนื่องระหว่างการบริโภคเนื้อสัตว์กับมลภาวะสิ่งแวดล้อมจากการเกษตรปศุสัตว์ได้รับการพิสูจน์จากวิทยาศาสตร์ครั้งแล้วครั้งเล่า สิ่งที่เรารับประทานมีผลกระทบต่อสุขภาพของเราและสุขภาวะสิ่งแวดล้อม
สืบเนื่องจากรายงานขององค์การอาหารและเกษตรแห่งสหประชาชาติ (เอฟเอโอ)ที่มีชื่อว่า เงาที่ทอดยาวของ การปศุสัตว์ ซึ่งได้ย้ำเน้นว่าผลผลิตจากปศุสัตว์จะต้องรับผิดชอบการปล่อยก๊าซเรือนกระจกถึง 18 % ซึ่งมากกว่าที่มาจากรถยนต์ รถไฟและเครื่องบินรวมกัน
เนื่องจากผลกระทบของเนื้อสัตว์ที่มีต่อสิ่งแวดล้อม เราจำเป็นต้องลดการบริโภคผลิตผลที่เป็นคาร์บอนเข้มข้น ซึ่งจะเป็นหนทางที่มีประสิทธิภาพต่อสภาพอากาศเปลี่ยนแปลงที่วิกฤติ การร้องเรียนนี้เป็นการเรียกร้องให้รัฐบาลไทยเริ่มลงมือกระทำในตอนนี้เพื่อจะแสดงให้เห็นว่าประเทศไทยให้คำมั่นที่จะจัดการกับปัญหาสภาพอากาศที่เปลี่ยนแปลง
เราขอผลักดันให้รัฐบาลสนับสนุนโดยขอให้ทุกวันจันทร์เป็นวันที่พลเมืองในประเทศไทยละเว้นเนื้อสัตว์ ในความพยายามที่จะปกป้องสิ่งแวดล้อมและหยุดภาวะโลกร้อน
เราขอร้องให้ทุกท่านร่วมกันสนับสนุนเพื่อยื่นข้อเสนอต่อรัฐบาลไทยให้ยอมรับและสนับสนุนให้วันจันทร์เป็นวันปลอดเนื้อสัตว์สำหรับประเทศไทย
ดังนั้นได้โปรดลงนามในการร้องเรียนนี้และส่งต่อให้กับเพื่อนๆและครอบครัวของท่าน
8. Support the Fair Treatment of Gene Alexander, his farm, his cows, and his property rights
This is in support of the fair treatment of Gene Alexander, his farm, his cows, and his property rights. Mr. Alexander is one of the last farmers of his kind remaining in the U.S. At the age of 92, Mr. Alexander has farmed his land for close to 70 years. He has been an active part of the farming community of Iredell County for decades.
Mr. Alexander’s property is not within the Mooresville City limits. However, the town of Mooresville (in Iredell County, North Carolina) is condemning the farmland to construct an obtrusive sewer line through the most prime area of Mr. Alexander’s farm. The construction of the sewer will come through with 20 raised manholes as high as 3-4 feet tall, which the town has refused to provide flush and vented to the creek bank (aka ground level manholes). Nor will they compensate for the interruption of farming during construction. The line will very much obstruct both the cows’ feeding and water supply.
The town promised 4 taps (to the sewer line) in negotiation, but then went straight into condemnation without any consideration of previous negotiation agreements. Further, the sewer line was already engineered before Mr. Alexander was even notified, thus ignoring the actual property owner’s requests. Requests were made that the sewer line be moved from the middle of the field. The town said this was possible all at Mr. Alexander’s sole expense which would be in excess of $73,000.
The costs to Mr. Alexander, his property, his cows and business prove astronomical and will permanently harm the aesthetics and beauty of his property and the environment of this land. Any requests for help in keeping this business intact during the two years of construction have been refused. This unfair treatment of Mr. Alexander and taking of his farmland provides no benefit for Mr. Alexander, but is only detrimental to his business, land and beloved animals.
We should not allow this unfair treatment and lack of consideration to be shown by our elected officials.
9. Reduce or eliminate harmful agricultural subsidies
The US government spends approximately $25 billion per year on agricultural subsidies and supports. This is corporate welfare which is helping millionaires and corporations, hurting poor farmers in poor regions such as Mexico and Africa, and negatively impacting the environment, while neither helping low-income family farmers in the US nor substantially reducing food prices.
There are NO GOOD REASONS for agricultural subsidies (see http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/the-illogic-of-farm-subsidies-and-other-agricultural-truths/)
Agricultural subsidies in the US result in dumping low-price surpluses on the world market, thus depriving farmers in poor countries of their livelihood. The developing world faces trade barriers costing them $200 billion per year - twice as much as they receive in aid. In poor West African countries where cotton accounts for more than 1/3 of export earnings, the losses represent three times the savings provided through debt relief. http://www.mindfully.org/WTO/Subsidies-Hurt-Poor-Akande19oct02.htm )
The majority of subsidies go to commercial farms with average incomes of $200,000 and net worths of nearly $2 million. Subsidies harm family farmers by excluding them from most subsidies, financing the consolidation of family farms, and raising land values to levels that prevent young people from entering farming. (http://www.heritage.org/research/agriculture/bg2043.cfm)
Agricultural subsidies cost Americans billions each year in higher taxes and higher food costs. (http://www.heritage.org/research/agriculture/bg2043.cfm)
Ending subsidies would have almost no effect on commodity food prices (maybe 1%), price stability, or productivity. ( http://www.aei.org/article/26197)
Healthy foods are generally not the ones that are subsidized. ( http://www.pcrm.org/magazine/gm07autumn/health_pork.html)
Ending corn subsidies would allow for the import of sugar ethanol, which is cheaper to produce, more efficient, better for the environment, and doesn't result in food price increases (http://www.cigionline.org/articles/2008/05/its-time-kill-corn-subsidies-and-go-brazilian)
10. Canadian "Day of the Honey Bee"
Honey Bee populations all over the world are mysteriously dying and scientists do not understand why. There are many theories ranging from microbes, pesticides, genetically modified crops, to cell phones, to mites, to radiation not to mention water and air pollution. Why are so few concerned by this??
Bees are responsible for the production of a large majority of our food crops. WE EAT VEGGIES BECAUSE OF BEES!!!
Albert Einstein predicted that if something eliminated bees from our planet, mankind would soon perish.
We need to raise awareness of this problem - WHY ARE THE BEES DYING? The Honey Bee feeds the entire world and The Honey Bee is in trouble. All over the world they are dying from unknown causes (Colony Collapse Disorder). There are many theories but we just don't know. Some sources suggest that up to 70 percent of the food crops are pollinated by Honey Bees!!
If the honey bee Dies, There will be BILLIONS more starving people!
I propose that the Govenment of Canada, Canada and the people therein recognize May 29, 2010 as the first annual "National day of the Honey Bee" to help raise awareness of CCD.
11. Stop the sale of Plastic Bags within University Premises
Earth Day -- April 22 -- each year marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.
There are too many plastic bags being thrown away when they are only used once.
Besides, plastic bags cannot be broken down easily and contributes to global warming.
We should ban the use of plastic bags and start appreciating reusable bags!
The property commonly known as the Southlands has been used for farming since the nineteen-thirties.
This is the only use the property has ever known.
Development proposals for the land in 1971, 1974, 1975, 1981, 1983, 1989 and 1992 have all met with failure.
After the lengthy and exhaustive public hearings of 1989, the entire property was zoned agricultural, designated agricultural in the community plan and placed in the green-zone as part of Metro Vancouver's Livable Region Strategy.
Additionaly, learned and established experts (B.C. Institute of Agriculture, Professors Art Bomke, Jan de Vries, Marshall Cronkite George Cruikshank et al) have determined through many studies that most of the land in question is at least as good as or better than agricultural land in West Delta in general.
Despite all these protections, the Southlands is now slated for a 2,000 unit mixed-density property development that will bring 4,000-5,000 new residents to South Delta.
Due to the constant development pressure that the land has been under since 1971, and due to the fact that the present protections have not been enough to dissuade developers from speculating on the land, ALR designation is needed to preserve this property.
It is fully within the rights of the municipality to petition the Agricultural Land Commission for inclusion.
Citizens Against OLF is an organization dedicated to stopping the Navy from building an OLF (outlying landing field) in northeastern North Carolina.
Why is the OLF bad for Gates County?
ECONOMY
- damage to property values
- loss of money already spent by taxpayers to preserve native habitat
QUALITY OF LIFE
- extremly loud jets flying over night
- land taken away
- hunting and fishing threatened
- the OLF will detract from our natural beauty
ENVIRONMENT
- bald eagle threatened
- wetlands destroyed
- The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge harmed
- fish and hunting game driven away
SAFETY
- wetlands destroyed, which are natural barriers to flooding caused by major storms and hurricanes
PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION TO SHOW OUR ELECTED LEADERS THAT GATES COUNTY IS WORTH FIGHTING FOR!!!
See our website on how you can help and for more information: citizensagainstOLF.com
14. Religious Tolerance and Cultural Diversity
December 17, 2005
An American Hindu family living in a rural Village in Western New York State is appealing a Court Injunction banning their Family Cow.
The Village allows a Commercial Beef farm to operate across the Street from the family's home.
The Local Courts have reufused to address the First Amendment issues, saying the case has nothing to do with Religion. The Judge did not give the family a chance to testify at their trial.
The family wants to keep a cow and her calf on their 14 1/2 acre Village property in order to demonstrate humane and responsible care of cows and to promote vegetarianism, sustainable agriculture and locally grown food as the first steps towards a socially responsible diet.
They advocate Ahimsa (non-violence) and work to promote peace, gratitude and mercy in human society; all of which are symbolized by the cow in their religion.
Although the practice of protecting cows is unique to Hinduism, the principles of responsible and humane treatment of cows represents the Free Speech interests of a broad spectrum of Americans concerned with animal rights, vegetarianism, sustainable agriculture and nonviolence, (Ahimsa).
The Village of Angelica does not forbid farm animals and other residents keep cows, goats, sheep and chickens for commercial purposes and as pets.
Please sign the petition to the US Commission on Civil Rights and let them know the US Courts should give serious consideration to cases involving Free Speech and Religious Expression.
15. Planing and Zoning Board Case # 1605
The undersigned are against the developement of Planing Board Case #1606 request to rezone from A-1 Agriculture district to RR-1 Rural residence district.
Location 7802 North State Highway H, Springfield, Missouri.
16. Autoroute 30 sur la 132 (tracé Nord) (tronçon Candiac / Ste-Catherine)
Updated April 19th, 2006
Considérant que les terres agricoles équivalent à 2% du territoire du Québec et pour assurer la sécurité alimentaire des Québécois, nous, signataires de la petition,citoyens des villes de Candiac, Delson, Sainte-Catherine, St-Constant et du Québec, demandons la construction de l'autoroute 30 dans l'axe de la 132.
Depuis plus de trente il est prévu de construire l'autoroute 30 dans l'axe de la route 132. Le ministère des Transports est propriétaire des terrains nécessaires à la venue de l'autoroute dans cet axe routier.
Nous demandons au gouvernement de réaliser la 30 dans l'axe de la route 132 pour préserver les terres agricoles si rares au Québec et économiser plusieurs centaines de millions en acquisition de terrains (Compagnie de ciment Lafarge) L'argent serait plus utile pour le secteur de la santé et de l'éducation.
POUR SIGNER, CLIQUER SUR SIGN THE PETITION APRÈS LE TEXTE DE LA PÉTITION
17. A Call to Action: HALT CPF Use by the Tobacco Industry, it kills 150,000 Americans each year!
The American Computer Scientists Association has discovered that ALL Tobacco grown in cheap "Calcium Phosphate Based Fertilizers" (CPFs), which were adopted for Tobacco fertilization in use since the late-1940's, contain sufficient radioactive Polonium 210 isotope in them to be the agent responsible for the nearly 100% tumor (benign and malignant) rate found among almost all smokers, leading to the vast majority of Smoking-related Lung Cancer that occurs in later life. The rise of Smoker's Lung Cancer in the 50's, 60's and after mirrors the usage of CPFs by the Tobacco Farmers.
A glitch in the human bio-physiology allows Nicotine in Cigarettes to promote these cancers by blocking "apoptosis" and "apopto-genesis": that normally removes damaged tissue, replacing it, but in the Lungs of Cigarette Smokers and Passive Smoke victims it is inhibited by Nicotine. Over 1.5 million people die every year of cigarette smoking related Lung Cancer globally, 150,000 IN AMERICA ALONE. Lung Cancer is a slow, painfully traumatic disease that results in death.
To HALT the progression of Lung Cancer from smoking, the Tobacco Farmers and Tobacco Industry must REPLACE CPFs and use only Safe Fertilizers in growing Tobacco, and CLEAN up the polluted lands of the Growers...
18. Halt Tobacco-related Lung Cancer! End the Use of Polonium 210 bearing Fertilizer: Calcium Phosphate!
The American Computer Scientists Association has discovered that ALL Tobacco grown in cheap "Calcium Phosphate Based Fertilizers" (CPFs), which were adopted for Tobacco fertilization in use since the late-1940's, contain sufficient radioactive Polonium 210 isotope in them to be the agent responsible for the nearly 100% tumor (benign and malignant) rate found among almost all smokers, leading to the vast majority of Smoking-related Lung Cancer that occurs in later life. The rise of Smoker's Lung Cancer in the 50's, 60's and after mirrors the usage of CPFs by the Tobacco Farmers.
A glitch in the human bio-physiology allows Nicotine in Cigarettes to promote these cancers by blocking "apoptosis" and "apopto-genesis": that normally removes damaged tissue, replacing it, but in the Lungs of Cigarette Smokers and Passive Smoke victims it is inhibited by Nicotine. Over 1.5 million people die every year of cigarette smoking related Lung Cancer globally, 150,000 IN AMERICA ALONE. Lung Cancer is a slow, painfully traumatic disease that results in death.
To HALT the progression of Lung Cancer from smoking, the Tobacco Farmers and Tobacco Industry must REPLACE CPFs and use only Safe Fertilizers in growing Tobacco, and CLEAN up the polluted lands of the Growers...
19. Allow access to Polish agriculture areas for Dutch citizens
This petition is to create special status for the Kingdom of Netherlands to access Polish agriculture areas. Holland is suffering severe shortage of agriculture area as trying to cultivate the ocean.
