You first, LOL!
Posted on 03/20/2009 2:32:07 PM PDT by truthfinder9
What this will do is force anyone who produces food of any kind, and then transports it to a different location for sale, to register with a new federal agency called the “Food Safety Administration.” Even growers who sell just fruit and/or vegetables at farmers markets would not only have to register, but they would be subject inspections by federal agents of their property and all records related to food production. The frequency of these inspections will be determined by the whim of the Food Safety Administration. Mandatory “safety” records would have to be kept. Anyone who fails to register and comply with all of this nonsense could be facing a fine of up to $1,000,000 per violation.
I’ve bought food at several farmers markets for years and I have yet to meet any vendors who are fond of the government. I think it’s pretty safe to say that most vendors at farmers markets won’t go along with this. The problem will be that the people who run the farmers markets will be forced to make sure that vendors are “registered” with the government.
Is this Change we can believe in? Maybe it is for Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture, Tom “I Fly with Monsanto” Vilsack.
For the rest of us, this is a nightmare.
What is the legislation called? H.R. 875: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009:
They were probably under the delusion that we are going to grow green; therefore we will be one big happy family; until they found out and are still finding out; there is a heavy price to pay.
LOL... I miss the 50’s and early 60’s. Heck, I miss any time that isn’t now.
Those on the dole are going to be pretty p*ssed when The One makes them ‘hoe a row’ for their benefits! ROFLMAO!
I can’t wait! And Michelle is the PERFECT Sharecropper’s Wife. Or Fishwife. Or... LOL!
“And therein lies the problem...”
Yep. This bears watching. No doubt.
I had a lot of fun today cleaning out the freezer and making up a ton of meals from HOME GROWN PRODUCE and our own meats (Venison, Canada Goose, Lake Trout, etc.) (I’m ‘cooking ahead’ for the week because it’s going to be a killer week at work.)
*SIGH* When home-grown veggies and wild game are outlawed, only outlaws will have home-grown veggies and wild game. Count me in! :)
You are so right. I love what you said; but she will have every gardner at the WH doing the growing. Only for photo ops will she look like she is doing something.
Me too.
Here in Pennsylvania, we have many roadside stands selling fruits and vegetables.
What gives me hope for humanity is that so many are unmanned with a cash box and an honor system.
A garden for me, but not for thee.
My daughter is a corn baby. I had 250 bushels of corn on my flat-bed trailor from Yuma County to Colorado Springs when my wife lost her water and the baby was born. FREE CORN that weekend!
Heck, I'm starting to miss Bill Clinton! :/
Put down the peppers and step away slowly! This is a fruit stand raid! Up against the semi and no talking!
A new source of jobs for the useless leftists; federal employment harassing anyone who does any kind of business without the mark of the beast.
Hopefully they’ll get treated like “revenooers” in the hills and hollers; shot at a lot. Might make it hard to get recruits!
One more step on the path toward total government control of all of the means of production. See the communist manifesto.
I just saw Michelle O on the news digging her new White House garden. They said that the White House will use some of the produce and that the rest would be given to local soup kitchens. Hmmmm....wonder if the Dept. of Ag will make them get registered and inspected. LOL
Our growers market in Grants Pass, OR is already up and
running, a very popular and crowded place when open. Our
town voted for Sarah.
I'll have to swing by and visit sometime.
(It's too bad Sara would've come with McCain - and with him the same 'comprehensive immigration reform' we're now hearing from Marxist Odumbi - though perhaps Palin could've talked some sense into him, unlike Biden.)
I’m having a hard time deciding who is MORE worthless...she or her Empty Suit husband.
What IS it with Democrat women? Good Lord. Look at any of them and they, if married, are married to total dead weight.
Maybe we need a new slogan? Remember the one about, “A Republican is a Democrat who’s been mugged?”
How about, “A Republican is a Democrat who has shed her Dead Weight!” LOL!
You first, LOL!
They would fit right in at the Mos Eisley Cantina. Mos Eisley: "wretched hive of scum and villainy."
What abouth Obama’s new White House garden???????
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