Defend Michelle Obama's organic garden from pesticide lobbyists? Really?!?

This is something that I almost can't believe we actually have to take action on!  Help the First Lady defend her organic garden?!?  The attacks are so extreme from pesticide lobbyist than the US people must intervene? Seriously...are the pesticide lobbyists THAT bored or desperate to show some sort of results to their clients that they're attacking the First Lady's organic garden?  I think I'm going to email MACA's clients and suggest they divert their funds elsewhere during this economic crisis...  =-)

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		The pesticide peddlers are not happy with Michelle Obama. We support organic gardening. 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. The Mid America CropLife Association (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 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. Click here to tell the MACA board that we support Michelle Obama's organic garden, and we'll thank them to keep their propaganda out of it. Thank you for working to build a more organic world. Kate Stayman-London, Campaign Manager CREDO Action from Working Assets P.S. CREDO is the phone company that fights for the environment and prints all of its bills on recycled paper. When you join CREDO, we'll give you a free phone, buy out your contract*, and give you $10 off your bill for a year! Click here to get the details. *Up to $200. Offer valid with 2-year contract after credit approval.

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