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"As a practical matter, a stand operator or small farmer can't guarantee where the stuff they're selling will be used once the customer drives away...so that basket of cherries that winds up in aunt Millie's pie two states away can throw you in hot water. I suppose the vendor could require each customer to sign a release guaranteeing the goods won't ever cross state lines, and simply refuse to sell to anyone with out of state plates and that might get them off the hook of this odious legislation".
"But then again, who operating a micro-business like this would risk the potential $1,000,000 fine? (Sec 405(a)(1)(A)"
Is that not freaking beautiful??!! The Democrats must lay awake at night in agony knowing there are still people somewhere in the nation smiling, happy and content, well fed and living their lives in peace!!! This Democrat controlled congress has gone insane! They would shut down fruit and vegie stands,, the one place where farmers can make a quick buck from their labors and people can pick up cheap fresh vegetables and fruits!!
If I write anymore I might start to swear!!Libertas
Big Brother reaches even farther.
This will impact sidewalk vendors in NYC
People would ignore most of this BS.
Their wicked fingers are reaching very deeply into our freedoms that have made us who we are. We have to stop this insanity!
God bless America!
Meanwhile, they’ve thrown out DECADES of reasonable health and sanitation controls on imports, so third world diseases are now pouring into our country from the south. Marvelous.
What would you expect from folks who come out of the Chicago machine. Chicago is run by payola and the “inspectors”.
They are picking small targets in order to gauge how much power they can safely seize while avoiding too much backlash.
Hopefully the vegetarian, organic flakes who voted for Obama will understand this.
As a former farmers’ market manager, I can tell you with a fair degree of certainty that at least half of the people - vendors and customers - at farmers’ markets are heavily port listing. In fact many are outright socialists (think the whole foods movement isn’t co-opted? Think again.) so this is especially sweet. Kill freedom, grow weeds.
Where I come from sales by shade tree vegetable vendors are a way of life. There would be riots is the govt. banned them....
Did these dipwads ever hear of STATES?????
A relative of mine was recently on vacation in new mexico and told me that there are laws telling you what you can and cannot grow in your vegetible garden there.
And a fresh ripe tomato is one of my greatest joys in life! I have some growing but I also love buying fresh ones!
I just googled it - the treehuggers are furious. Now this is a way for bipartisanship!
Food to be controlled - Right to eat real food now to be non-existant.
this will destroy the local food and organic food movements that liberals love so dearly.
I don’t think they even have a clue.
Was this covered earlier in a thread?
Would some of our lawyers weigh in here.
WTH kind of provision is this? What gives the state the right to presume something for which there is NO EVIDENCE? What is next ... the right of the state to presume that your DNA is at a crime scene?
It is ridiculous to assume that the local farmer's market is involved in interstate commerce. It might have brought in items from out of state, but it's just as possible that everything was grown within state lines, and therefore, theoretically free from the jurisdiction of federal busybodies.
Let’s name names here. The sponsors:
Ms. DELAURO (for herself, Ms. ESHOO, Ms. DEGETTE, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. ENGEL, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut, Ms. SUTTON, Mrs. LOWEY, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. SCHAUER, Mr. NADLER of New York, Mr. BISHOP of New York, Ms. LINDA T. SANCHEZ of California, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Ms. GIFFORDS, Mr. FILNER, Mr. HALL of New York, Ms. LEE of California, Ms. PINGREE of Maine, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, and Mr. DEFAZIO)
Basically the leftiest of the left in Congress; in other words, the Communists.