Posted on 03/10/2009 9:31:17 AM PDT by fightinbluhen51
This is unbelievable. Yet another way to get the people on the government dole and subject to corporate corruption.
More can be found here too.
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=12671
This bill is sitting in committee and I am not sure when it is going to hit the floor. One thing I do know is that very few of the Representatives have read it. As usual they will vote on this based on what someone else is saying. Urge your members to read the legislation and ask for opposition to this devastating legislation. Devastating for everyday folks but great for factory farming ops like Monsanto, ADM, Sodexo and Tyson to name a few.
I have no doubt that this legislation was heavily influenced by lobbyists from huge food producers. This legislation is so broad based that technically someone with a little backyard garden could get fined and have their property siezed. It will effect anyone who produces food even if they do not sell but only consume it. It will literally put all independent farmers and food producers out of business due to the huge amounts of money it will take to conform to factory farming methods. If people choose to farm without industry standards such as chemical pesticides and fertilizers they will be subject to a vareity of harassment from this completely new agency that has never before existed. That’s right, a whole new government agency is being created just to police food, for our own protection of course.
DO NOT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT, READ THIS LEGISLATION FOR YOURSELF. The more people who read this legislation the more insight we are going to get and be able to share. Post your observations and insights below. Urge your members to read this legislation and to oppose the passage of this legislation.
Pay special attention to
* Section 3 which is the definitions portion of the bill-read in it’s entirety.
* section 103, 206 and 207- read in it’s entirety.
Red flags I found and I am sure there are more...........
* Legally binds state agriculture depts to enforcing federal guidelines effectively taking away the states power to do anything other than being food police for the federal dept.
* Effectively criminalizes organic farming but doesn’t actually use the word organic.
* Effects anyone growing food even if they are not selling it but consuming it.
* Effects anyone producing meat of any kind including wild game.
* Legislation is so broad based that every aspect of growing or producing food can be made illegal. There are no specifics which is bizarre considering how long the legislation is.
* Section 103 is almost entirely about the administrative aspect of the legislation. It will allow the appointing of officials from the factory farming corporations and lobbyists and classify them as experts and allow them to determine and interpret the legislation. Who do you think they are going to side with?
* Section 206 defines what will be considered a food production facility and what will be enforced up all food production facilities. The wording is so broad based that a backyard gardener could be fined and more.
* Section 207 requires that the state’s agriculture dept act as the food police and enforce the federal requirements. This takes away the states power and is in violation of the 10th amendment.
* There are many more but by the time I got this far in the legislation I was so alarmed that I wanted to bring someone’s attention to it. (to the one person who reads my blog)
Didn’t Stalin nationalize farming methods that enabled his administration to gain control over the food supply? Didn’t Stalin use the food to control the people?
Last word...... Legislate religion and enforce gag orders on ministers on what can and can’t be said in the pulpit, instituting regulations forcing people to rely soley on the government, control the money and the food. What is that called? It is on the tip of my tongue..........
I haven’t read any of the Senate’s version of the bill as I have been poring thru the House’s version. Here is the link and I hope some of you can take a look and post your observations and insights below. One thing I am pretty sure of is that very few if any Senator’s have actually read the legislation and when it comes up for a vote they will more than likely take someone else’s word on how they should vote. The other thing I am pretty sure about is that the legislation was probably written by lobbyists and industry experts.
Companion gambit to the NAIS. Folks, this is notable as to the degree of intention it betrays, not because the grubbamint is setting up the usual and predictable witless food safety bureaucracy in the name of subsidizing corporate agribusiness while forcing small farmers out of business, but because a food distribution control system is being put in DHHS.
This is a chess move.
FDR did something like this in ‘35 or so. A farmer was growing wheat for his family’s own consumption and FDR passed a law requiring farmers to engage in interstate Commerce and so be subject to the Commerce clause.
History repeating itself. I bet all of the farmers who have been existing off the democratic tit all these years will be outraged.
Then again, they’re democrats, they probably won’t even notice.
Time to simply defy them...
Can anyone tell me what FDA means ??? (sarc)
PING!
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I was just doing research on this bill. It’s making it’s way around the forums.
It reminds me of the the CPSC lead testing law Congress passed last year that would have put all small clothing manufacturers and work-at-home-parents out of business. Luckily a grass-roots movement got them to postpone enforcement of that one.
Control the food, control the people.
F*** Dem Americans?
Less revenue for the Federal Government too.
I’m sure the people that are sending them tea bags are getting laughed at because in the end, the Federal Punks get their cut.
That’s part of the plan, FRiend. Pretty soon, we are all go to be engaged in some form of crimianl activity. Whether it is growing a few tomatoes or grilling outdoors, or consuming tobacco, or driving “too much” or offering a few generic comments on an internet “hate site”, your government intends to make sure you are properly yoked in some way.
We are about five decades tardy in making liberal use of rope and lamposts in DC, universities, foundation offices couthouses, and statehouses. Pun intended.
This will whack domestic food producers, and favor foreign ones.
And once most of our food is sourced offshore, we’ll be at the mercy of whoever controls shipping.
Ukraine famine part II if our overlords so desire.
Yup. I wonder how many liberal lackeys are willing to take grap-shot over grape tomatoes?
grap-shot = grape-shot.
“at the mercy of whoever controls shipping.”
Shipping, along with all other things involved in business, will adjust to existing business levels.
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