Who controls our food supply?
We believe legitimate, natural market forces should drive the supply chain, not political agendas.
We are alarmed by what we see happening in countries like Sri Lanka, the Netherlands, and Ireland, where entities are using climate politics to take control of the food supply. Unfounded claims of climate emergencies and arbitrary metrics claiming to demonstrate threats to health and safety are being used as justification to cull hundreds of thousands of cattle or to ban fertilizer by declaring it a pollutant, to name just a few scenarios. Governments claim that monetary compensation to farmers or ranchers mitigate the impacts of these policies, and that people must change their eating habits (e.g. stop eating meat). We beg to differ.
We believe Utah needs to get out in front of this issue and actively protect its local food supply. We are supporting a bill in the 2024 Regular Legislative Session that will protect local food from the use of emergency powers and administrative rule making to advance political agendas.
Please take a look at the bill and join us in protecting our local Utah food supply.
Stories from around
the globe
Click on a headline below in order to navigate to the associated article.
Sri Lanka declares chemical fertilizer a pollutant, bans . . .
The U.N. war on fertilizer began in Sri Lanka . . .
Ireland set to cull 100’s of thousands of cattle . . .
Netherland’s war on nitrogen . . .
Dutch farmers revolt against Green elites . . .
Flashback – EU policy report circa 2018 – meat is bad . . .
What’s happening
here in Utah
Note that the local health departments linked to below are, at the moment, concerned primarily with air quality and its affect on human health, not on the “impact” of chemical fertilizer and cattle. We post these links simply to demonstrate that the concept of there being a nexus between “climate” and “public health” already exists here in Utah.
Salt Lake County health department is focused on climate change as a significant public health issue . . .
“Climate Change is a threat to public health” – Salt Lake DOH publication “Climate Adaptation Plan for Public Health”, circa 2017 . . .
Utah Health and Human Services report on Climate Change and Health . . .
The Legislation
The Utah Food Security bill draws a legal fence around food grown, processed, and sold within the state of Utah, whether from a ranch or a farm. (“Local food”)
The bill prohibits the use of emergency powers and/or administrative rule making as a mechanism to control any aspect of local food.
What does this mean? It means that neither the Governor nor our state and local health departments can take control of local food under a declaration of emergency. No agency may make a rule that takes control of local food.
Further, it makes explicit existing law by stating that local food is exempt from federal jurisdiction, thereby protecting it from potential draconian regulatory overreach by the federal government.
About Our Group
We are regular Utahns concerned about protecting our local food supply and ensuring that legitimate market forces, not political manipulations, drive the supply chain, from source to sale price.
Our Approach
We are regular, every day people working together on an issue that impacts all Utahns. We believe in truth and transparency and hope that Utahns will take some time to look at the bill and support this very important legislation. If you would like updates on how the bill is progressing through the legislative process, please subscribe to our newsletter.
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