Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 11:13 AM
Subject: ACRE Dead: Never Introduced
Friends,
Thank you for all of your help over the past several months to make sure that Rendell’s ACRE proposal was not adopted into law.
Apparently, Governor Rendell pulled the proposal from the legislature on Wednesday evening - we believe, due to the pressure that was exerted from municipalities, groups, and individuals across the State who were determined that ACRE’s Agricultural Review Board not become law. The Republican leadership made their usual noises, but backed off from introducing their own version of ACRE, before they adjourned for the session.
As most of you know, this struggle was the latest in a three and a half year effort by the agribusiness industry to strip away local control from municipalities dealing with corporate factory farms and land applied sludge. Again, an unlikely coalition was able to keep this legislation from becoming law, and faced down the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, PennAg Industries Association, and other trade associations for the agribusiness industry.
Thank you again for helping to protect and preserve local control over these important issues. Without you, the only leverage folks have against corporate factory farming would have closed long ago.
Best,
Thomas Linzey, Esq.
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