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Posted on 07/23/2009 5:11:36 AM PDT by FromLori
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This is ridiculous.
Did they ever stop to think about all the critters that live underground?
The nocturnal ones that nobody sees because they come out at night?
The birds that fly over everything and poop everywhere?
What’s wrong with our politicians? Is being certifiable now a requirement for holding political office?
No surprise that they’re all Communists.
| Food bill would hurt small farmers Kansas City Star - MO,USA If your friends farm, or if you were to take up farming for more than your family, you could be under a kind of FDA martial law with the passing of HR 2749, ... |
| 'Food' discussion highlights local farming Bangor Daily News - Bangor,ME,USA Panelists and some in the audience urged people to pay attention to HR 2749, a federal food security bill that they said could make doing business a lot ... |
| Farm Groups Say Food Safety Bill Would Make it Tougher for Farmers ... CNSNews.com - Alexandria,VA,USA “In recent weeks some concerns have been raised about HR 2749, many on the Internet, suggesting almost apocalyptic outcomes for farmers if the bill becomes ... |
| CONFER: The federal assaults on farms Tonawanda News - North Tonawanda,NY,USA HR 2749 would give the FDA almost unlimited power that would touch on every facet of ... HR 2749 is just another in a long line of attacks on capitalism and ... |
| Food Safety Bill Triggers Fight Farm Futures - Carol Stream,IL,USA Although there was much bipartisan support of HR 2749, a food safety bill, earlier this year, after several farm and livestock organizations testified ... New food safety bill needs to be stopped The Newark Advocate - Newark,OH,USA A new food safety bill is on the fast track in Congress -- HR 2749, ... HR 2749 gives FDA tremendous power while significantly diminishing existing judicial ... The high cost of cheap food Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA What the passing of HR 875 and 2749 could mean is a loss of organic, small-farm options and a reduction of both the shopper's autonomy and the good things ... |
| Muzzle FDA Northwest Herald - Crystal Lake,IL,USA Large corporate farming? A new law no doubt. Only genetically modified food can claim any health benefits. I'm opposed to this bill (HR 2749). |
| Letter: HR 2749 rejects 'choice' of foods St. Augustine Record - St. Augustine,FL,USA Editor: I urge Congress not to pass HR 2749, Food Safety Enhancement Act. I highly object to the take over of our food supply by corporations such as ... |
| NPPC: Resolve Issues Before Passing Food-Safety Bill CattleNetwork.com - Overland Park,KS,USA As written, the bill would change the standard to allow on-farm inspections if food is “thought to be adulterated, misbranded or in violation of HR 2749. ... |
This should definitely be of interest to your weekly gardening list, and anybody who eats!
Having followed these types of issues for years, I can explain what is happening.
The processors and distributors (often transnational corporations) want to put the onus for food safety on the farmer so they can cut corners and save costs on food safety and sanitation in their own plants.
In their warped world view, if the fields are made completely sterile of everything except the crop, then they don’t have to have a lab, a technician to check the facility and product for contamination, nor expensive pesky food safety procedures and equipment.
Before Bill Clinton signed an executive order for harmonizing our food safety laws with the WTO and UN sponsored rules and Codex Alimentarius group, companies had food safety engineers or technicians, which regularly tested the products. The county state and federal governments all had agencies and inspectors and working together with the Ag university extension offices, America developed the safest food supply in the world.
Under harmonization with international ‘rules’, the transnational corporations and in country producers became their own inspectors. Our government’s cut the FDA and Food and Ag inspectors keeping in line with the internationalist’s mantra that any prohibitions on the transnational corporations by the government was a ‘barrier’ to free trade.
So now we have a system, for example, where the company that produced the e coli tainted lettuce wasn’t properly maintaining the cleanliness of their system ostensibly for cutting costs. Because they are the only ones responsible for maintaining their sanitation at their site , no inspectors checked their site or process. THEY washed the spinach in e coli contaminated wash water but blamed a farmer and some wild hogs which have been living next to Salinas valley farms ever since farms were started there. However, the ‘crisis’ they created resulted in all row crop farmers having to sterilize their fields of all animal life. What do you think the effect on the environment is when you have poison bait traps every 50 feet around your fields to poison rodents which may enter the field? How do you think it affects the raptors and other animals that prey on the rodents? How do you think their water rules affect the crop and the land? Especially since they don’t want water to run off a farm, as it would do in a natural watershed? How do you think that it would affect the natural environment off the farm?
The ideas expressed here are purely communist, in that, these food dictators believe in the communist notion that every thing is a system that human beings with ‘perfect knowledge’, that is trained communists, can control to be the perfect producing machines to meet the ‘needs’ of society. Well their machine kills people and destroys the environment, and isn’t that what we have always seen is the result of communistic control?
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| Food bill would hurt small farmers Kansas City Star - MO,USA If your friends farm, or if you were to take up farming for more than your family, you could be under a kind of FDA martial law with the passing of HR 2749, ... |
| 'Food' discussion highlights local farming Bangor Daily News - Bangor,ME,USA Panelists and some in the audience urged people to pay attention to HR 2749, a federal food security bill that they said could make doing business a lot ... |
| Farm Groups Say Food Safety Bill Would Make it Tougher for Farmers ... CNSNews.com - Alexandria,VA,USA “In recent weeks some concerns have been raised about HR 2749, many on the Internet, suggesting almost apocalyptic outcomes for farmers if the bill becomes ... |
| CONFER: The federal assaults on farms Tonawanda News - North Tonawanda,NY,USA HR 2749 would give the FDA almost unlimited power that would touch on every facet of ... HR 2749 is just another in a long line of attacks on capitalism and ... |
| Food Safety Bill Triggers Fight Farm Futures - Carol Stream,IL,USA Although there was much bipartisan support of HR 2749, a food safety bill, earlier this year, after several farm and livestock organizations testified ... New food safety bill needs to be stopped The Newark Advocate - Newark,OH,USA A new food safety bill is on the fast track in Congress -- HR 2749, ... HR 2749 gives FDA tremendous power while significantly diminishing existing judicial ... The high cost of cheap food Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA What the passing of HR 875 and 2749 could mean is a loss of organic, small-farm options and a reduction of both the shopper's autonomy and the good things ... |
| Muzzle FDA Northwest Herald - Crystal Lake,IL,USA Large corporate farming? A new law no doubt. Only genetically modified food can claim any health benefits. I'm opposed to this bill (HR 2749). |
| Letter: HR 2749 rejects 'choice' of foods St. Augustine Record - St. Augustine,FL,USA Editor: I urge Congress not to pass HR 2749, Food Safety Enhancement Act. I highly object to the take over of our food supply by corporations such as ... |
| NPPC: Resolve Issues Before Passing Food-Safety Bill CattleNetwork.com - Overland Park,KS,USA As written, the bill would change the standard to allow on-farm inspections if food is “thought to be adulterated, misbranded or in violation of HR 2749. ... |
No.
Some of us recognize that our plants actually produce seeds, save them, and use them the next year.
There's a difference between buying fresh seeds annually because it's convenient vs. because government has prohibited not doing so.
Is “fatty liver” easily diagnosed? Just wondering. I imagine some of my relatives who are FATTIES have fatty livers....but, I’m wondering if less fat people have fatty livers too?
Think this is too far fetched? Think again!
This is absolute madness.
Plants produce seeds? Wow.
Uh, I’m an Ohio State University Master Gardener and I teach homeowner classes.
My curiosity comes from the fact that all seeds aren’t necessarily easy or convenient to save and store. It’s often just much easier to pick up fresh seed each season, especially for the home gardener who plants many varieties, albeit in smaller quantities. Nothing quite like sitting at home with the snow piling up outside, flipping through the next year gardening catalog.
I see this as being a far bigger problem with farmers; the inability to save seed. That could indeed be a large problem.
That said, just watching these clowns deciding how much of our health care they are going to take over makes me wonder how excited they are going to get over seeds. meh
Where are the environmental nutjobs on this?
This seems like their one chance to do something useful.
Ask a silly question...
Anyway, there’s a huge difference between buying seeds out of simple convenience vs. the alternative being illegal.
Will be a sad, dangerous day when it is illegal to collect homegrown seeds for next year’s use.
Dick Peixoto planted hedges of fennel and flowering cilantro around his organic vegetable fields in the Pajaro Valley near Watsonville to harbor beneficial insects, an alternative to pesticides. He has since ripped out such plants in the name of food safety, because his big customers demand sterile buffers around his crops. No vegetation. No water. No wildlife of any kind... The question that must be asked is, do we really want to destroy our local organic farming industry by poisoning ponds, bulldozing crops and killing wildlife all in the name of food safety?
Not sure how much truth there is to this article or if it’s more scaremongering.
Not the part about the seeds but the part about having bare ground surrounding fields/crops. In most states it’s illegal to do that, esp close to waterways—creeks and rivers and stuff. Farmers are required to plant/sustain buffer zones.
Sounds like a damned if you do damned if you don’t situation for the farmers.
“Sounds like a damned if you do damned if you don’t situation for the farmers.”
It’s been that way since we came out of the ‘Dust Bowl Days’ when Mother Government stepped in and was hell-bent on ‘helping us’ all the way back then, wasn’t she?
And yet we’ve survived and thrived. ;)
‘In, around, under or through.’ Works for the Marines, works for me. ;)
Nice thing about journalism is, with a press-release / talking-points based story like this, it isn’t likely to ever have a follow-up by another journalist.
What’s wrong with our politicians? Is being certifiable now a requirement for holding political office?
Perhaps, not, but being an ignorant, arrogant, lying, cheating, stealing, crook and womanizer certainly seems to be.
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