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Isnt this the “Monsanto” bill? This is the bill brought about by Monsanto to protect their GM==Genetically Modified==grains isnt it? If this is allowed to pass, it will give Monsanto almost total control over all crop seed, and possibly even prevent you from having a home garden unless you use Monsanto seed. This is a dangerous bill and must be stopped.
Thought this would be of interest.
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Who gives a damn? Vegetables are what Food eats.
Anything from Waxman has got to be bad. He’s an enemy of all that is good in America.
About a year ago, I talked to a young man on a flight who was just returning from an agriculture conference and shared some of the details of new regulations affecting the way that farmers small and large will have to conduct business. In many cases, the new regulations are so draconian, most small farms will have to close because the added expense CANNOT be recouped through higher market prices.
The new agriculture regulations in this bill should help make America into a Robert Mugabe-style agricultural paradise (/sarc). The big problem will be, though, when WE can’t produce enough food to feed ourselves, how will ANYONE be able to stop the looming world famine!!
This is madness!!
This must be Obamas grand secretive plan on controlling Americans.
Control the food supply.
Its not Obamacare, brownshirts or Acorn we should fear.
Its Obamas grand plan to control Americas farmers, dairy and poultry providers.
People cannot live without food. The depths of hatred towards white America must be so severe with Obama I have no doubts he will next target the farmers of America.
I have an idea - enforce the borders and don't employ illegal aliens who poop in the fields where they work. This is an easy fix that helps our economy, school system, health care, and security without damaging the environment. It's just a thought...
These are the same idiots that restrict the growth of real sugar - sugar cane but yet, corn syrup permeates almost all of our foods, therefore, why do we have a lot of obesity, diabetes. Along with it, a coming disorder - fatty liver. It is because of the big money from the big corporate farms. Just like the war on trans fats, we need to have war on corn syrup. Not too many people know but corn syrup is hard on the liver !Fatty liver use to just come from excessive drinking but it is coming from poor diet as well - a lot of food with corn syrup.
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The problem does not lie squarely in the lap of the farmer, where this legislation places it. It lies in the processing that happens after the produce leaves the farm.
This legislation pronounces a death sentence on all small farmers, organic growers, and our nation’s very health as well, yet fails to address the real problem. “Industry rules won’t stop lawsuits or eliminate the risk of processed greens cut in fields, mingled in large baths, put in bags that must be chilled from packing plant to kitchen, and shipped thousands of miles away” (Marler, B).
It won’t be any big deal, we already use food as fuel in our vehicles. The country will bend over backwards to carry out the federal government’s bidding.
I’m thinking it’s already too late.
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This is ridiculous.
Did they ever stop to think about all the critters that live underground?
The nocturnal ones that nobody sees because they come out at night?
The birds that fly over everything and poop everywhere?
What’s wrong with our politicians? Is being certifiable now a requirement for holding political office?
Think this is too far fetched? Think again!
This is absolute madness.
Dick Peixoto planted hedges of fennel and flowering cilantro around his organic vegetable fields in the Pajaro Valley near Watsonville to harbor beneficial insects, an alternative to pesticides. He has since ripped out such plants in the name of food safety, because his big customers demand sterile buffers around his crops. No vegetation. No water. No wildlife of any kind... The question that must be asked is, do we really want to destroy our local organic farming industry by poisoning ponds, bulldozing crops and killing wildlife all in the name of food safety?
Let’s starve out the idiots and cleanse the earth of this rodent vermin called congress.
I suppose China will issue a written guarantee that their food exports will be compliant?
But what does written word matter since congress cannot read anyhow!!!!!!
Idiots! Idiots IDIOTS!!!
Just read on Steny Hoyer’s website this bill is set to come up for a vote as early as tomorrow, July 28, Tuesday. The complete bill has not been released yet, there will be no amendments allowed, with 40 minutes divided by each side for debate.