photo by Barack Obama
This just in! I receive campaigns from CREDO action and the one I received today made me happy and sad! Go Michelle for going organic and teaching our children organic is best! That delighted me. However, the fact that The Mid America CropLife Association (MACA) has a problem with an organic garden at the whitehouse, well that’s darn sad!
Here is the scoop from CREDO
The Mid America CropLife Association (MACA) has a bone to pick with Michelle Obama.
MACA represents chemical companies that produce pesticides, and they are angry that – wait for it – Michelle Obama isn’t using chemicals in her organic garden at the White House.
We are not making this up.
In an email they forwarded to their supporters, a MACA spokesman wrote, “While a garden is a great idea, the thought of it being organic made [us] shudder.” MACA went on to publish a letter it had sent to the First Lady asking her to consider using chemicals — or what they call “crop protection products” — in her garden.
Michelle Obama and has done America a great service by publicizing the importance of nutritious food for kids (she’s growing the garden in partnership with a local elementary school class) as well as locally grown produce as an important, environmentally sustainable food source.
MACA’s letter is part of a larger propaganda effort to convince people that chemicals are a necessary part of produce growth – when we know that’s not true.
Sign this petition today to tell the board members of MACA (virtually all of them big chemical executives) that we don’t appreciate their telling Michelle Obama (or any of us) to use pesticides in our gardens. We support Michelle Obama’s organic garden, and we’ll thank them to keep their propaganda out of it.
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We can all use this opportunity to stand up for organic gardening and healthy food. Plant your own organic garden. Urge your local churches and schools and community centers to do the same. Every community could find space to grow produce for local food pantries. Make it organic. Show it off online. Write about it. Spread the message….organic gardening is for everyone.