Organic Farmers in the sights of Congress

Examiner.com ^ | 7-8-2009 | Dianna Cotter

[Danae]

Over regulation in the name of safety.

How much do you want to bet some "Crisis" is manufactured to push this through congress?

[handy old one]

Next thing to go will be home cooked meals because they might not be cooked the right way or with the right foods!!

[razorback-bert]

I have mixed emotions about this, it will stick my liberal ex-wife’s organic farm in the butt.

[MtnClimber]

This could also give the government the power to withhold food from dissenters. It worked well for Stalin.

[KarlInOhio]

To make us safer they'll destroy local farmers' markets which have never been the problem. The problem seems to be domestic farmers who don't have enough bathrooms for their migrant workers or else Mexican farms. Local farmers don't pee on their own tomatoes.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Your government wants you cold, hungry and utterly helpless.

Dead or rotting in jail also works fine for them.

[Pinkbell]

I can’t see that going over with the “green” liberal base. Don’t they like organic stuff because it is better for the environment?

[Oldexpat]

This is the route the EU followed. It is supported by corp interests in order to monopolize the food supply. Next..they will tell you you can’t raise and eat your own chickens, pigs, cattle.

[dblshot]

I guess I’ll be planting marijuana to hide my tomatoes

[tbpiper]

Your government wants you cold, hungry and utterly helpless.

Its what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn called the Gulag principle.

[spodefly]

Complete control over the masses will not be achieved until the Department of Food is put in place.

This bill has Monsantos fingerprints all over it. Use their seeds and their fertilizers only or suffer the consequences, courtesy of Rosa Delario and her Monsanto lobbyist husband.

[Danae]

LOL.... if it gets legalized... the pot will be regulated too. So... no escape for you! LOL

Might be worth a try anyway.

What ARE they going to do with all those topsy turveys!

[WackySam]

I can see the day coming when even your home garden Is gonna be against the law-.

Bob Dylan's "Union Sundown" from the 1983 Album "Infidels"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khVOIcA2W7o

[Danae]

Yep, the bill includes “Quarantine powers”. I feel so safe now.

[Osage Orange]

LOL!!~

[RadiationRomeo]

The EU uses their rules to keep frankenfoods out of Europe. I’m afraid that here the government will mandate the use of GMOs in order to get kickbacks from Monsanto and Cargill.

[Danae]

Exactly.

Not to mention requiring farmers to purchase goods for their industry from government “okayed” sources.

Now I really feel better.... not

[Fred Hayek]

With the current government’s obsession of pushing pseudo-science (as in global warming), are agricultural disasters resulting from lunatic policies (re: Trofim Lysenko) on the horizon?

[griswold3]

Makes sense if you’re a ‘progressive’. How can any market be ‘outside’ government control when your goal is ‘central planning’?
Gotta get rid of those pesky small businesses. They’re too hard to manage because of they’re just too damned ‘independent’.
Corporations are easier to deal with.