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fasttense

(17,301 posts)
5. The TPee-Pee will make farmer's markets illegal.
Sun Dec 9, 2012, 09:28 AM
Dec 2012

Or at least make them open to litigation by foreign corporation because they encourage local produce and NOT foreign made products as well.

In the eyes of multinational corporations, farmer's markets are everything that they hate. They keep the money in local communities. They encourage local purchases over foreign or corporate purchases, they give local communities self determination and control.

If the TPee-Pee passes, any state or country which in anyway encourages farmer's markets can be brought to tribunals for litigation to determine what amount of possible future profits the farmer's market may have taken from the corporation. If the corporations wins, which they probably will because what local farmer's market has the money to defend itself against an army of lawyers, then farmer's markets will have to go away or the state or country will face a huge fine. Then the people will have no other choice but to buy Monsanto poison laden crops and their monstrous GMO products.

The TPee-Pee will give our sovereignty to corporations and the Teabaggers are all in favor of it.

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So Let Me Get This Straight dballance Dec 2012 #1
That sums it up nicely. Bibliovore Dec 2012 #7
Exactly! nt Mojorabbit Dec 2012 #21
K & R AzDar Dec 2012 #2
This where the phrase "corporate shill" comes into play. n/t djean111 Dec 2012 #3
K&R ReRe Dec 2012 #4
The TPee-Pee will make farmer's markets illegal. fasttense Dec 2012 #5
So, evidently, is Obama. djean111 Dec 2012 #9
That's horrible but.... FredStembottom Dec 2012 #11
When do they come after backyard gardens? IDemo Dec 2012 #18
They're coming after them in California right now. Trillo Dec 2012 #19
Strongly encourages outsourcing of US jobs. annabanana Dec 2012 #6
k/r marmar Dec 2012 #8
From what I've read TPP is worse than NAFTA(which is horrible). Why give up control over byeya Dec 2012 #10
One can NOT be FOR more "Free Trade", bvar22 Dec 2012 #12
Tell that to FDR who lowered tariffs and set up the low-tariff trading system for pampango Dec 2012 #22
THAT is a bit-of-a-leap bvar22 Dec 2012 #24
Anonymous have been shouting against the TPP for months and months. Fire Walk With Me Dec 2012 #13
DURec leftstreet Dec 2012 #14
Chairman Harper is trying to ram through a similar agreement arikara Dec 2012 #15
K&R for the latest shit sandwich we're all supposed to take a big bite of with a big smile. Egalitarian Thug Dec 2012 #16
I'm afraid the coup has been successful progressoid Dec 2012 #17
oh my. limpyhobbler Dec 2012 #20
The Koch Roaches won't be satisfhied until they're supreme overlords of the universe. Initech Dec 2012 #23
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