Posted on 05/03/2010 11:01:50 AM PDT by Windflier
Critics say a bill pending in the U.S. Senate would do for Americans' food supply what "Obamacare" is doing to the nation's supply of health-care resources.
And it's generating a surge of alarm among small-farm operators and natural food advocates.
"S. 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the U.S.," writes Steve Green on the Food Freedom blog. "It is to our food what the bailout was to our economy, only we can live without money."
The plan is sponsored by U.S. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich. ...
...Shiv Chopra, a Canada Health whistleblower, who concluded S. 510 "would preclude the public's right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Not mine. I will never give up my garden!
Hey, look on the bright side. Dingell-berry is old....it’s only a matter of time before the communist old bastard assumes room temperature....when that happy day arrives, our liberties will be safe.
As for me, I have lots of seeds stockpiled. If everything falls apart, I’ll plant them and have a harvest. If Dingell-berry and his ilk don’t approve, ‘eff ‘em.
I have raised a garden for years, my parents raised a garden and my grandparents did too going back several generations.
No one, ad I mean NO ONE is going to stop me from raising the food I want to raise without imprisoning or killing me. Should it come to that, I will not be alone in my sacrifice to The State, this I swear.
bright side = you got seeds.
Dark side = I have a yard the size of a postage stamp :(
Never heard it put better. Still scary though.
How will the food Nazis like digesting lead?
According to the Dem mayor of Memphis gun crime is a health issue...don’t suppose that was a hint of gun confiscation to come under the guise of obamacare?
Over T-giving, we were with family in Apache Junction, and made it a point to hit the big new one in Mesa........the only one we've ever been to is a very tiny one in Indio, CA - you have to have extremely good timing to even find a place to perch if you want to gobble 'em there.
I don’t mean to ignore the thread, or any of the great responses here. I’ve just been tied up since I posted this, and can’t get back to every post.
Thanks, everyone.
No. That's a different abomination that (thankfully) failed to pass congress.
Yep. Everything they do winds up growing government, at the expense of the freedoms and liberty of the common citizen.
There's only a fine line between political harassment and tyranny.
They may do that, but the next congress will either roll it all back, repeal it outright, or de-fund it to stop it.
There's going to be an interesting dynamic in Washington after November. I expect for Obama to end up holed up in the WH, sulking about his repossessed halo.
Or a lot of gov't drones could accidentally get shot for trespassing by alarmed home owners.
I believe that there's a real intention among the inner circle of tyranny to do just that.
On the other hand, I think that a lot of this is part of the liberal orgy of radical legislation bursting forth, after having been denied for so long.
LOL!
Dark side for me....I live in Maine, with a short growing season. Homes around here, at least in northern Maine, have enough room for a garden, and many people are passionate about their vegetable gardens, in spite of the shorter growing season.
You wouldn't be alone. Maybe the papers would call the backlash "going Mean Green".
The supplements and vitamins control bill is back.....
Democrap Waxman (Nostrils, Westside of L.A.), added it as an attachment to the Wall Street Reform bill. Time for us to contact Senator Hatch of Utah who helped kill the last attempt.
Actually, it is.
Ever seen a US gov't bureaucracy that was efficient, productive, and served the the interests of the public, while staying within budget, and delivering on its stated mission?
Or, perhaps you may have noticed that the exact opposite ALWAYS happens with gov't agencies?
Sounds like a local ordinance to me. You and your neighbors can get that overturned, if you work at it.
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