Posted on 01/04/2013 7:45:19 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
The Obama administration moved ahead Friday with the first major overhaul of the nation’s food-safety system in more than 70 years, proposing tough new standards for fruit and vegetable producers and food manufacturers.
The long-awaited proposals by the Food and Drug Administration are part of a fundamental change aimed at preventing food-borne outbreaks — caused by everything from leafy greens to canteloupes to peanut butter — rather than simply reacting to them. Every year, contaminated foods sicken an estimated 48 million Americans and kill 3,000.
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Yeah but many here campaigned against Romney and so for the pos dicatator Obama.
It took stupid government 4 years to come up with these non-flexible laws and regulations. Oh yeah that's going to help innovation and productivity? NOT. government moves at snails pace and is dictaorial . leave the free market alone you socialists pos, including you communist obama pos.
How much more are we going to take? We should secede and ban the stupid FDA,EPA, IRS, government schools etc.
Government should only do the military,border control, international issues.
my Constitution
We the people understand that government concentrates power and that absolute power corrupts absolutely. so in order to limit government and to preserve our freedom and individual rights, to protect our bill of rights we set up this constitution. We understand that in addition to being corrupt, evil , inefficient government just never works as well as the free market (capitallism) by orders of magnitude. So government should be limited to just the military, border control , immigration limiting, and international issues. All other functions should be left to the people and the free market. Only laws which protect individual rights to ownership, including gun ownership that preserve life and individual rights such as free speech, right to privacy, right to own property shall be allowed(of course including local laws against assault, murder,stealing, rape,trespassing). but we realize that science, government and especially the media will create false crisis in order to con the people into voting in more government power and at the same time less individual rights ( as in the “fiscal cliff”, global warming hoaxes of the media, government and science).We realize that the only threat to us is the government and media and such fake science. With google, the millions of products in the free market (thousands of which come out every day and many which cost only a $1 at the dollar tree) we can find the solution to practically all our problems and don't need government at any level , nor the media to tell us what to do or to solve our problems for us with all their government red tape( fema) and thousands of rules and regulations that don't make sense and slow down the free market.
This is only a first draft I just came up with and is not complete. any one have any ides to improve or add or delete of modify?
“...and that animals stay out of fields.”
WTF? Has anyone told the “free range farmers” about this?
I know the bureaucrats in Europe are so bacteriophobic that they demand beer and live culture cheeses be Pasteurized to kill the bacteria. But preventing animals from grazing in fields? Are they essentially proposing that all farm animals must be penned for their entire lives?
So, don't fear the bug, fear the gov.
My wife and I have been organic gardening, producing a sizable portion of our yearly food, using manure and BT for several decades now.
Maintaining a safe food supply falls into the category of "general Welfare." It is difficult to see how the free market could ensure a safe food supply, without a system in place to test food, without adequate science-based regulations and policies in place as a guide, or without a central clearing-house for information that must be disseminated rapidly to millions of people. Because in any system that depends on a free market reacting to a problem, people will needlessly get hurt or even killed by the time a problem is even discovered (if it can be identified at all).
I have no issue with the federal government fulfilling its constitutional duties. The problem I see is that legitimate constitutional functions are used as an excuse to cross over into tyranny (like forcing restaurants to stop using salt, even though it is a necessary nutrient).
Under Hitler, all the business owners who didn't do as they were told, were shot.
Cheers!
self control (on their part).
It says it “shall have the power,” not, “it must do.”
Abuse of the General Welfare clause is the most-employed method of unconstitutional expansion of Federal powers.
You didn't produce that! Someone else did.
You didn't produce that! Someone else did.
Yes, exactly, BO basically works for Monsanto. They should just call it “sweeping Franken-fake-food safety.”
How come the kings and queens demand all organic food in the White House? While we the peasants eat poison.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
“everyone in business has to conform to his priorities, rather than work on their own priorities.”
The Feds, whatever their particular flavor, generally, work behind fences, in buildings, with armed guards. They issue edicts and proclamations and we obey them. If we don’t they send out armed goon squads to harass, imprison or murder us. Why do we obey them? They use fear and intimidation backed up by lethal force.
Famine and food shortages in the USA. The only reason for that to happen here would be bad govt policy. Like civil war, the brain dead voters would never think this could happen to them. That only happens in the 3rd world.
Our Executive branch has become far, FAR too powerful! They are implementing changes on a whim with a stroke of a pen that should require legislation from the Congress.
Over the years our president has become our Emperor. Certainly NOT what the President was intended to be!
The only purpose of Ubama’s EPA and FDA is to make living astronomically-expensive for the peasants so that they die-off as quickly as possible.
I’m sure from time to time, here and there, gangsters have cut out their own little polities accepted by locals as every bit as legitimate as the state.
You mean like every single nobleman for the entire middle ages?
In the case of food safety, I have a feeling that people would react strongly and negatively should the government fail to fulfil its constitutional duty to promote the general welfare.
When you buy produce, don't you want to know that it was grown by people who practice basic hygiene, and that human waste wasn't used as a fertilizer? How on earth is the free market going to assure that? How would you keep dishonest people from lying about growing conditions, without some means of holding them accountable? How do you, as a customer, know anything about that produce? How would we have known that contaminated cantaloupe was killing people, without the systematic procedures that exist for identifying such incidents? There are reasons there are food safety laws.
Abuse of the General Welfare clause is the most-employed method of unconstitutional expansion of Federal powers.
Abuse of any part of the constitution happens because voters keep electing people who promise goodies in exchange for power. I do not think there is a way to write a constitution that makes it unabusable. It should not be possible for unions to buy politicians, but they do. The problem is the voters.
DOES THIS MEAN THAT FARMER”S MARKETS ARE OUT?
Yes, because however regular their rule became it always originated in the violent subjugation of the peasantry, or in exchange for war service a gift of previously subjugated peasants. It is much easier to see the essence of government in systematic theft the further back you go.
Ultimately it derives from the victory of one over the other of the two basic ways to make a living: the economic way, which is to produce and trade wealth, and the political way, which is to take wealth that’s already been produced. This is accepted by the people at first because they have no choice, but also because government actually does provide a service. It keeps out other would-be marauders. They only do so by monopolizing the marauding themselves, but that’s why they’re called a necessary evil.
Gangsterism and government seem to be antagonists because they are in the same racket. Except when gangsters are providing an actual service, in which case they operate like a business outside the rule of law. But government is like a business sometimes, too, and they do produce needful things that might actually be bought on the free market, only they do so by outlawing competitors and with stolen capital.
The big difference is that government has been afforded the time to grow respectability. The mob is on a simpler plane, akin to early feudal lords minding their manners. You can still see the brutal origins which are hidden in the case of the US, unless you happen to be an Iraqi insurgent or Taliban fighter.
The US Constitution, the Magna Carta, and the civil aspects of God’s law as handed to Moses all attempted to minimize the negative aspects of government by limiting in some manner. Without limits all government reverts to it’s marader roots. Chief Justice Roberts voted in favor of gangster rule with his rejection of the 10th Amendment.
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