HR 875 The food police
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Posted on Mon Mar 09 2009 07:32:17 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) by modhom
HR 875 The food police, criminalizing organic farming and the backyard gardener, and violation of the 10th amendment
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.
S 425 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:s425:
Things you can do
1. Contact your members at 202-224-3121 and ask them to oppose HR 875 and S 425. While you are at it ask them if they personally have read the legislation and what their position is? If they have not read the legislation ask them to read it and politely let them know that just because other representitives are not reading the legislation and voting on it does not mean they can do the same.
2. Get in touch with local farmers and food producers by attending a local farmers market and asking them how business is.
3. Attend a local WAPF meeting, this is a good start to learning about what is going on in farming and local & state initiatives. The website is http://www.westonaprice.org/localchapters/index.html
4. Check out the Farmers Legal Defense Fund at http://www.ftcldf.org/index.html
5. Find out who sits on your states agriculture and farming committee and contact them with your concerns.
6. Continue to contact your elected officials and let them know your position on legislation and why.
7. Get active at the local and state levels, this is the quickest way to initiate change.
mplsconservative said: “39 co-sponsors and they all have a “D” by their name. This is one scary bill.”
HR 875 The food police
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I have been skipping the sites that told how to grow marijuana, and in the future it may be that we have to study their methods, in order to grow vegetables.
There was a recent bust on a house set up for growing marijuana, as the local beat cop, while walking the alley noted the high electric being used on the meter of a vacant house...sure tip off to gro-lights.
The jihadi and illegals on the borders of Mexico dig fancy tunnels, those of course would make good growing units for vegetables, if you were not on the border and they did not cave in and take the cops car with them.
Now I understand what the hidden gardens are all about, “survival”.
For the past couple years, there has been a movement going on, asking people to plant food plants in forrests, at springs, etc, any place that potatoes or beans or any other food seed could be planted.
Is that where we will be next year?
granny
>>>HR 875 The food police<<<
I quickly read this late one night when I couldn’t sleep...
The thought has occurred to me that this reinforces the rationale for raising rare heirloom seeds...
Just think... Don’t hide your garden, post a sign - ‘Federally Protected Habitat! - Endangered Species Growing Here!’
As my Grandfather always said... ‘There are other ways of killing a cat besides kissing it to death.’
My Thessalonica Tomatoes only grow in proximity to cabbage, carrots, beets and various other vegetables, and require freshly composted chicken manure to survive...
LOL Let them provide the Million Dollar Environmental Impact Study to disprove it..... Then 3 or 4 years later, after they research it, change to the Peruvian Mangel... That appears to have started as a volunteer (hmmm well I may have bumped the seed packet and it accidentally spilled seeds and they grew...) But, as the only known habitat supporting it in this State... That Judge would probably apply the ESA standards prohibiting them from destroying it...
Danged if I wouldn’t try to turn their madness against them!