Oh, great! More government regulations! It’s not as if there is a reason to do this - our food products, farms, etc. are the best in the world. But NO!! “Without the government, what would we poor worms of humans do?” The farmers will LOVE the NE city academic elitists telling them how to do their farming.
No, it will make food more expensive, more difficult to acquire and more difficult to grow yourself.
It’s all about control. Nothing else.
Color me skeptical.
The sooner the ruling-class elite can starve the peasants to death, the sooner they can live in the Walden paradise they deserve.
More regulations being shoved up our butts. What is this going to cost us.
First they tax us to death then they fugg over our food sources.
New rules will make farming more expensive, forcing family farms out of the competition and handing yet further advantages to corporate interests.
I would love to see the cost/benefit analysis on this one. How many billions of dollars are spent treating food-borne illness every year? What is the cost of caring for someone who has been permanently injured by food poisoning? What is the cost of the lives lost from contaminated food? Versus the cost of the legislation.
I was very happy to see that the legislation is being based in science, and that the food producers have a say in it. Trying to write regulations to govern an activity without introducing unnecessary burdens for those engaged in the activity is a real challenge. I know, I've been part of that process.
We would not need any of this if the Luddites had not stopped the irradiation of food.
The goal is not just food safety which provides a convenient foot in the door, the goal is to centralize the food system and put more layers of government between the consumer and the food source.
Big corporate industry farms will just pass this cost onto consumers and retailers. Small farmers who rely on farmer’s markets and other direct sales will bear most of the brunt of the increased costs themselves. Since they do not have the ability to distribute the increase amongst a large group of retailers or consumers. They have to be more careful of their price increases so they don’t lose customers.
Ugh. I’m not even going to go there. Destroy every last shred of the US economy & force *unregulated* foreign garbage down our throats at the same time.
The red states need to secede & get out from under this crap.
One of not so comedic George Lopez' routines is illegals wiping their butts on the vegetables they pick for gringos.
I don’t want my food safer. I want my government to get out of my business.