[listenhillary]

Republic of Dave blog

Draconian Food Safety Bill Passes the House
August 1st, 2009

http://www.fontcraft.com/rod/?p=1354

[FromLori]

Thanks lays out the problems well hope all who have questions look it over and call the Senate and keep calling what a disaster if this fascist regime controls our gardens.

[autumnraine]

• A mandatory annual fee of $500 for any facility that “holds, processes, or manufactures food,” a category defined so broadly that it would impact most of the small scale producers who sell things like cheese, bread, eggs and vegetables at farmers markets with a fee sufficiently high to shut many of them down.

Well, I guess that answers my question on the market on the town square every Saturday morning.