Posted on 11/20/2010 4:46:25 AM PST by don-o
It is most definitely anti small business in scope. I was discussing this with some Minneapolis lefties who are big on “sustainable local organic” farming, and they were outraged, as well as a bit surprised that they were agreeing with someone on the right. There are a lot of organic farms in Minnesota, and nearly all of them are small family owned businesses. The scale of these farms make the requirements of the tracking paperwork an impossible burden. Using the free market viewpoint, I called this the government using excessive regulation in order to reduce marketplace choice, in order to favor big agribusiness (which recieves most of the agricultural subsidies, BTW). The Food Safety Bill has nothing to do with food safety.
Yikes, I’m sounding like Jason Lewis!
It amazes me that we need a bill to protect food. If the food comes from outside the borders of the US, then it should be checked for safety.
When I think about this, I have to wonder why we worry about food safety when the US government allows people to cross the borders bringing in a resurgence of communicable diseases that we had under control or wiped out.
We have whooping cough back, drug resistent TB, polio, MRSA, to name a few.
Odd times we live in.
“If the food comes from outside the borders of the US, then it should be checked for safety.”
It does - by giving lots of money to the originating countries.
This is the same Congress that gave is Obamacare. Trust ‘em?
Food has always been a weapon of dictators, against their own people. This gives BOZ that structure.
ping to the Agenda 21 list you’re keeping.
This bill is part and parcel of agenda 21: codex alimentarius. Research this if you don’t know what these are. NWO.
Who wrote the Bill?
Henry Kissinger declared in the 1970s, If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.
It’s quite simple really. Control the food, control the people.
I agree with your first statement, but as concerned patriots we make a mistake in granting Obama too much power and villainy.
Eventually Obama will be gone, but what remains are his statist allies, both new and extant. We cannot ever let our guard down regardless of who is POTUS or in power.
Just another in a long line of un-American and un-Constitutional bills to stamp out our freedom and liberty and usher in the New World Order...all controlled by the U.N. and the cronies of those who are in office...
These Progressives are the worst.
Toll-Free number to the Congressional Switchboard
(866) 338-1015
Controlling the food supply isn’t in my copy of the Constitution. This is bad.
Help me out here. Are you saying trying too kill the bill when the House votes reconciliation is wrong?
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Please add me too, thanks don-o
Done.
Of course.
Thanks and for coming up with an action plan.
Nancy the wicked witch has pledged to pass S510 unamended as-is.
“Don’t be fooled by the name- it’s a naked power grab”.
Absolutely. No backyard gardens. You are in violation if you grow tomatoes, for example, and give some to your neighbor. It is a way of CONTROLLING what we eat and the ability to grow our own food. Bad, bad, bad. As a frequent consumer of front yard stands with tomatoes, cucumbers, etc... that were picked that morning from their own garden, I am outraged. Control the populations food and you control the population. Just a thought.
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