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The Express-Star
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ARREST
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Resident encourages
no vote for SQ 777
Dear editor,
Its all about water. State
Question 777, with its misleading title, Oklahoma
Right to Farm Amendment will be on the Oklahoma November ballot.
It would remove all
rights of private land owners, local governments,
state agencies and the state
legislature to regulate agriculture in Oklahoma.
It seeks to permanently
change the Constitution of
Oklahoma, so that whatever agribusiness does with
or to animals, water, fertilizers, manure, herbicides,
pesticides or fossil fuels
will be beyond any future
regulation.
The right to farm and
ranch already exists in
all 50 states, including
Oklahoma (Statute, Title.
50, 11.1). The misnamed
Right to Farm legislation was first proposed in
1996 by a corporate agriculture coalition, including Monsanto Chemical,
who want no regulation of
megacorporation practices,
regardless of their impact
on land owners or natural
resources. Many of these
corporations are foreignowned. The law passed in
Florida has been accompanied by a huge increase in
BlueGreen Algae contamination of Florida lakes and
coastal waters.
In Oklahoma, agriculture today generates
around one percent of
state gross domestic product, but accounts for 53
percent of all water use.
What few jobs or income
could be created would not
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