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And if you have a cow, don’t you even THINK of selling the milk without processing.
Big Brother is watching you, Farmer John, and you won’t be allowed to feed anyone without jumping through his hoops.
If you like your pig, you can keep her. PERIOD.
I believe the word you are looking for is “Kulaks”...
Yet produce grown in mexico are approved.
“It’s a strong policy of this administration to support local food initiatives,” he said.
What he means is “Root hog or die”.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance." - The Declaration of Independence
So every time a ground hog pokes its head up on a farm, or a herd of deer wanders out into the fields, the farmer has to fill out a form?
More and more the Federal Gov’t is a glorified jobs program. It helps to be liberal, female and black to get one of these dopey jobs. Where your mission is to hassle the private sector producers in America. The Federal Gov’t “workers” are not there to help you. They are there to somehow justify getting a paycheck from you the taxpayer
It would be far better if they took their $100,000 plus salaries and porn surfed all day (most likely gay porn) and left us productive people alone
This has become the go to excuse whenever there is some consequence that causes a push back. How about a neutral stance at least. Don't accept that they had good intentions automatically. Much of government is about power an control, not helping people or simply getting out of the way.
Since when has this administration considered stakeholder input? The Obama Administration did NOT consider stakeholder input for the Affordable Care Act. They did not even take time to read the proposed Obamacare law. They blindly passed the law and blindly support it, totally ignoring any concerns by those affected.
The administration has SWAT teams for EPA, Homeland security, and other government agencies. That is new and that is intended to roll over any opposition by stakeholders.
When the people of Pennsylvania go into the voting booth they should think about how Democrats deal with opposition to their twisted and warped Utopian view of how the world should work.
How long until the Feds show up and tell me my garden is a small farm?
The government will not adopt policies aimed at harming small farmers, he said.
Bull S*#T ,”I said”.
““It’s a strong policy of this administration to support local food initiatives,” he said.
That’s what the farmers and kulaks in soviet Ukraine believed, too. Stupid hippy fools. Read soviet history, morons, to see what’s coming for you.
The weasel words. Of course they aren't "aimed at" harming small farmers, they are just aimed at harming capitalism in general. If some small farmers get hurt, well hey - ya gotta break a few eggs to make a Communist omelette...
You just have to love crony capitalism and the ability for our legislatures to feather the nest of big business with the plucking of small business.
Little farmers don’t have much money to be confiscated as bribes while the big boys have a lot of it.
At first I thought the bill, passed in 2011, was a Republican deal, which further pissed me off against the GOPe, but actually, this is a Pelosi-Reid Lame Duck bill, just like Obamacare. From Wikipedia:
The first version of the law, the Food Safety Enhancement Act, passed the house on June 9, 2009. However, negotiations with the Senate led to the final product, the 'Food Safety and Modernization Act.' The bill was passed by the Senate in November 2010 by a vote of 73–25. (Note: Some Senate Republicans voted for this...)
However, because of a tax provision added to the bill, (which is constitutionally required to begin in the House), the vote did not count. There was concern that with the short time left in the lame-duck session, the bill would not get the time needed to be voted on and passed. Attempts to add the bill to the continuing resolution for government funding were scraped over the objection of Senator Tom Coburn. Eventually, however, the Senate moved on December 19, 2010 to pass the fixed bill by unanimous consent by a voice vote. The House went on to approve the bill by a vote of 215 to 144 (Note: almost all Pelosi's democrats) Final Vote here. (on December 21, 2010. President Barack Obama signed the bill into law on Tuesday, January 4, 2011.
B.S. You can bet these "well-meaning legislators" received fat "campaign donations" (wink wink) from big agra.
On the other hand, how many New Age, small, organic farmer types happily vote for regulations on everyone else?
Period.
Yep, another lie.
“Local” food production means it is decentralized and harder to control/cut off.
They want control over the food supply, energy, and water.