The Most Hated Woman in Marin

 

After the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from Drakes Bay Oyster Farm, opponents paraded out the abrasive Amy Trainer to offer sneering and chiding public responses. A graduate of "mean-girl" tactics who offers disturbing reminders of 7th grade playground hair-pulling bullies, Trainer managed, once again to offend an estimated 85 percent of Marin folk - the ones who support the oyster farmers and truly care about the farm workers who are about to lose their homes, jobs, schools and friends. These images are from yet another Amy-gloat while she discussed the fate of the farm workers. It's time for Amy to ride off in her kayak to create a disturbance in yet another community. She's unwelcome in Washington and Colorado. Her alpaca farmer-father in Kansas must be ashamed of what she's become.
Really, non-profit corporations, is this who you want as the face of environmentalism?

"Our government and its corporate sponsors have created a system of subsidies that has to be abolished. They turned the lands into a commodity. We have to get public land users off this welfare system. It is not a simple thing to break those chains." - Kieran Suckling, Founder, Center for Biological Diversity

For a well-documented overview of how the Center for Biological Diversity, with roots in Trainer's San Juan Islands, manages to kill off over 4,000 farms, most of them multi-generational family farms without a hint of guilt, skip on over to sister-site, trojanheron.blogspot.com. Succinct summary there.

Time to protect Pt. Reyes farms!