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Continuing discussion on proposed Food Safety, Agriculture Legislation
LINN COHEN-COLE is an independent researcher and journalist living in Atlanta, who became alarmed at the mistreatment against American farmers and corporate lobbying for legislation that will squeeze the tradition of American farming out of existence. During the recent months, she has become one of the most vocal critics to the food safety bills seeking approval in Congress. www.OpEdNews.com
MARTI OAKLEY is a farm rights activist whose only credential she claims is the First Amendment. For the past five years she has educated herself in “reading into” the subtleties of legislation that affects farming and agricultural policies and bills. For two years Marti was a columnist for the St. Cloud Times in Minnesota and has founded a couple popular blogs among the small farmer community: the Proud Political Junkies Gazette and Farm Wars.
www.PPJG.Wordpress.com & www.FarmWars.info
PROF GAYLON FERGUSON is a Core Faculty member at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where he teaches Religious & Interdisciplinary Studies. He is also a senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition & has been leading meditation retreats for over thirty years. Prof Fergusson holds degrees from Yale & Stanford universities in cultural anthropology & was a Fulbright scholar to Nigeria & has written extensively on Buddhism & meditation. His most recent publication is “Natural Wakefulness: Discovering the Wisdom We Were Born With”