Posted on 04/09/2011 2:10:07 PM PDT by blam
Thanks for the link. Good read. Somehow I missed that one.
“We made sure that it bit them—not us.”
With all due respect, I believe you’re wrong, but am open to education. From my understanding the Tester Amendment, does NOT exempt those farms (the under $500k producers) if they process, or otherwise do anything other than merely produce, the goods. Because the original bill dealt with the production, handling, transfer, processing, possession of , etc., etc. And the amended version only protected the production, unless I am mistaken.
Ah, I just saw that Texas Fossil brought that point up. My apologies for repeating.
That’s alright, and thanks. More information is good.
You are correct about the issue of “processing”.
AND what constituted “processing” is being “defined” by the FDA now.
What that means is that although the bill was passed and signed into law, the FDA is now continuing to write the law by definition. Now that is a wacky law. Insanity.
The Congressmen and Senators who voted for this POS bill have done all they can to hide what they have done.
The final bill in the House was “read into” another unrelated bill and I defy you to track how it morphed. The final bill is not on the House.gov, Senate.gov or Thomas website. The only place you can find the “public law” is on the GPO website.
My Congressman voted against it but when I e-mailed a contact there I have know for several years it took a couple of weeks for a reply. That is not the norm. And I was told by the staffer that she did not know why the bill was not on the normal websites. I e-mailed her back and told her that I knew perfectly well why.
We now have a public law that the Congress and Senate are trying to hide. They know they sold us out and they know we know it. Bastards.
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