No (all alliteration aside),
it isn't funny... and it isn't just about rBGH in your milk.
Please read up on the ongoing opposition to Kansas Senate Bill 595 (aka SB 595) - reach out and get in touch with your Kansas legislators to let them know how much truth-in-labeling means to you. (The CFS has an automated page, linked below, to help simplify the write-in process - a list of Kansas legislators follows, below, if you wish to write-in ad hoc)
From the Center for Food Safety:
"... the broad language of SB 595 could affect other food labeling that provides you with key information on foods beyond dairy, such as "cage free" and "free range" products..."
http://ga3.org/campaign/KSrbgh?rk=97sziVSqEE8zE
NOTE: Even the KLA (Kansas Livestock Association - usually in lock-step with most of Kansas big-Ag and (thus) the KS Senate Ag committee) is against the language of this pro-Monsanto bill.
For more background and updates on this issue, including testimony given last week from local eaters, growers and others in opposition to SB 595, see:
Monsanto Tries to Ban rBGH Labeling in Kansas -- we'll provide action updates as this bill is worked through the legislature.
Please contact these senators on the Agriculture Committee:
R - Mark Taddiken – Chair
taddiken@senate.state.ks.us
(785) 296-7371
R - Roger C Pine - Vice Chair
pine@senate.state.ks.us
(785) 296-7372
D - Marci Francisco - Ranking Minority
francisco@senate.state.ks.us
(785) 296-7364
R - Stephen R Morris – Member
morris@senate.state.ks.us
(785) 296-2419
D - Janis K Lee – Member
lee@senate.state.ks.us
(785) 296-7366
R - Terry Bruce – Member
bruce@senate.state.ks.us
(785) 296-7300
R - Tim Huelskamp – Member
huelskamp@senate.state.ks.us
(785) 296-7359
R - Derek Schmidt – Member
schmidt@senate.state.ks.us
(785) 296-7374
R - Ralph Ostmeyer – Member
ostmeyer@senate.state.ks.us
(785) 296-7399
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