Posted on 07/31/2009 1:03:55 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
With this being a Rat plan, there has to be at least a hundred things done wrong in it.
Here they go again.Another bad bill.
If vague memory serves, this plan was going to kill farmers’ markets and other small time local operations that can’t tag each apple and cucumber or buy the specialized tracking software.
As well as raise the price of everything in the supermarket
Any government powerful enough to protect you from all perceived ills is also powerful enough to do whatever it wants to you, including kill you. And once the corrupt politicians have that power, THEY WILL USE IT.
Anyone who thinks that is paranoia is an abject moron with no understanding of history. Thanks again, NEA...
Just another socialist power grab by the rats in the name of the good of the people...
Has anybody sat down and figured out how much food borne illness would be stopped by these schemes, best case. I’d wager that almost all food borne illness comes not from a contaminated source but from mishandling at point of use. One possible plus is that this (if done right) would make it easier to combat attempts to sabotage a major food source, as in terrorism.
There goes the local food movement, mostly liberals loved the local food movement.... organic farms? buh bye to most of them.
“With this being a Rat plan, there has to be at least a hundred things done wrong in it.”
Undoubtedly. How many pubics voted FOR this?
Probably part of the Health Kill Bill.
Unbelievable.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-2749
His poll numbers will be -40 by Monday.
You know, large agri-businesses are in bed with the government as they can absorb the costs of regulations and pass those costs on, while destroying their local competition; in turn the government gets a more dependent populace.
Because this bill will put great financial burdens on small farmers and producers, local food sources will quickly stop selling and growing. Food will be controled by large ‘ag groups’ (monsanto,adm,con-agra). Food is now a commodity like oil,gas,and water.
Every major food problem concerning safety in recent years has come from major ‘factory farms’, sent through nationwide distribution systems. This bill will increase that risk.
Local food produced and sold in regional rather than nation-wide systems would greatly reduce the risk of national risks to our food supply. (drought, germ infestations,terrorism. This bill will do just the opposite.
By the way; The congresswoman who sponsored the bill was Rosa deloro. Her husband is the leading lobbyist for Monsanto.
They can have my zucchini when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!
prisoner6
All this shows is that even with 30 agencies, the Gov could not manage food safety, but it could kill an industry with paperwork. We do not a DMV of food.
If the people of the US want a food safety agency, so be it. But if 15 can't get it done, 16 is not the answer. The answer is firing the fifteen and starting over with one that had better get it right with a small team and efficient methods, or it will join its 15 friends on the unemployment line.
How much cost will this add to our food? Isn't food expensive enough already?
I can already hear it now, 6 months or a year, or whatever amount of time when this has had it's chance to be implemented and food costs rise as a result, members of congress will get up and start complaining about gouging as if they are innocent bystanders.
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