It seems likely that the bill can best be summed up this way:
I noticed that just about all the posted comments regarding this “food safety” legislation were negative. The article from “The Hill” revealed no details of its provisions, some of which are undoubtedly odious. Can someone please fill us in on some of the specifics?
ML/NJ
ML/NJ
First Health Care, Next the Food Supply
Very, very dangerous poc you have here. The fact that the SINate voted unanimously to pass this obamanation [sic], SHOULD speak volumes and be the last thing they pass.
Before you could read them, it will be passed...
Way back machine - H.R. 2749, then a bunch of other attempts and now S. 510 - Even the Tester Amendment is totally loco! Little things like that small farmer/gardener/producer has to fill out all the same paperwork and file it with fees annually so that they can determine if they are exempt from filing it...
Not just stupidity - it is INSANITY!
Then there are the 340 new enforcement types for each state (17,000 total) and guess what the FDA orders - Assault Rifles for their 'needs'. Bet it isn't for prairie wolves or other vermin that need to be controlled (unless that's what they consider us.)
Just remember Monsanto=good GMO's = healthy - food from Local farms = bad - government = good - people=bad... - Pay your fees = good - avoid them and you are badddddddd...- Go to re-education training for 10 years...
Forget that these new inspectors don't have a clue - we already had three cases where they tracked disease from one farm to another just this year... Then had to quarantine those farms and destroy the livestock. Smart A$$e$ making way too much money under the 'peter principle'. All they have to do is remember Monsanto = Good - Government = Good - Farmers and gardeners = bad... Jails are waiting for them.
Well, like during prohibition, many quit spotlighting deer and took up the same practice on feds. But they tasted lousy - not even the hogs would eat them. Ahhh how life changes... and yet is the same...
Hussein 0bamas mantra about 'change you could believe in' turned into change you couldn't possibly think he believed them.
So, couple of months and I will be starting many more seeds, planting that 300% increase in the orchard, starting 5000 more fast-growing trees and double the garden again - just for the sweet smell of the blossoms and the quaint picture of beauty that the blooms on the beans, squash, pumpkins, tomatoes, etc., etc. will be producing - but of course I will have to prune all that nasty fruit and vegetables off them to keep everything pretty and so that they don't rot and make that floral garden ugly. No food garden here... just pretty bushes and flowers.
Maybe I'll have to get a night scope so I can do moonlight picking and seal up all that nasty food in airtight containers and sterilize them so they don't present a hazard. Maybe they will make a Federal grant to those who will eat them for testing purposes... LOL Stupid, stupid Jacka$$e$ - the whole bunch of them!! ///rant over///(for now)
Oh, one more thing - next time you pick up a bottle of apple juice with a label that says White House Apple Juice, and check the fine print, you will see that nice 'Product of China' (it will taste like dishwater) and you can feel safe since the FDA now inspects every 3 years under the new bill instead of every 5 years and they will be using more 'approved' foreign inspectors. (seems they weren't getting enough bribes on a 5 year schedule - 3 years gives them a raise and more opportunity to extract bribes... Just so that you will feel safer.
Sorry - frustration showing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The bill is a horror that has been coming for over a year.
The final version that Passed the Senate is here:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111s510es/pdf/BILLS-111s510es.pdf
(all 242 pages)
The bill will do “nothing” for food quality or safety, but will greatly increase the cost, record keeping and put Big Corporate Agriculture in the catbird seat by using regulation to eliminate smaller competitors.
They have been doing that for years. I know, my family has farmed in the county I live in here in TX since the 1880’s.
We will regret this sham that was sold to us by a scare of a terrorist attack. Grow food locally, process food locally and don’t make this complicated. This will not end well. It is a sell out by the Congress and the Senate.
NOT GOOD.....
Stupid Bas___ds! You really went and did it this time.
The bill is a horror that has been coming for over a year.
The final version that Passed the Senate is here:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111s510es/pdf/BILLS-111s510es.pdf
(all 242 pages)
The bill will do “nothing” for food quality or safety, but will greatly increase the cost, record keeping and put Big Corporate Agriculture in the catbird seat by using regulation to eliminate smaller competitors.
They have been doing that for years. I know, my family has farmed in the county I live in here in TX since the 1880’s.
We will regret this sham that was sold to us by a scare of a terrorist attack. Grow food locally, process food locally and don’t make this complicated. This will not end well. It is a sell out by the Congress and the Senate.
NOT GOOD.....
Stupid Bas___ds! You really went and did it this time.
