Local farmers market operations may complain about having to go through a burdensome rigmarole when it’s usually obvious to the consumer where the produce came from. We also want to be sure we do not inadvertently (or otherwise) outlaw produce from home gardens for private or neighbor consumption.
This will work about as well as stopping terrorism on airlines by stamping every passenger with a barcode on their forehead.
Nice idea until you find that the gubment will want to require that ANYONE who grows ANYTHING for consumption will have to abide by this law.
Since when??!
Just think of all the government jobs that would be created!
If we can not drink the water south of the border ... how can we eat the produce?
Out food has undergone many changes. The use of pesticides has made it seriously poisoned.
How else does all the beautiful fruits and vegetables survive the growing season?
Perhaps the hydroponic businesses are doing and producing safer foods.
Mad cow disease is ignored; and so is the milk/cheeses made from the milk.
How to eat safely? Grow it ourself?
Organically grown farms?
God help us in our day, in Jesus name, amen.
Where’s the cheese posts so we can have a laugh?
I remember the tomato thing, that was bad. Although it is going to be a real pain, it could save our bacon if something like the tomato scare happened with our crop. Our margin is so slim that something like that would probably put us out of business and if we could prove it wasn’t from our farm quickly it could save us.
As a produce grower we have to do it whether we like it or not. We have to keep records of everytime the field is entered for any reason and what was done.
Much of what we have to do we have already been doing, but now we will have to post signs about everything, our fields will look like the sides of highways.
We have always forbid glass bottles in the field and anyone who gets caught with one has to leave and not return. We will probably have to hire someone to police them and make sure they are washing their hands if that isn’t against the law.
In our 38 yrs thing have changed a lot, we do much less physical labor and much more bookwork. I do the financial, my son does all the other record keeping and business communication, my husband and son do all the planning and labor, it is more than full time for all of us and we only have 300 acres in production.
LOL, I forgot to actually answer the question. I don’t think the government needs to stick its nose into it. The market is already making it mandatory and we are doing it.
Every case of tomatoes I buy has the packer’s name and general location printed on the box.
The vast majority of fruit and vegetables in the mega-mart has a little sticker that denote the growing and/or packing location.
IOW, this is already in effect. Why the FDA incompetents were unable to follow the breadcrumb trail is something they should have to explain.
More regulation is not going to do anything but raise prices. The growers and sellers already have an identification system that is improving daily.
Get gov’t OUT of the way, and things almost always get better, faster!
This is just more bureaucratic BS. As one who deals in ‘fresh produce shipping’ almost daily, the stores know full well EXACTLY where that product came from. It is right in the shipping documents and on every box that the product is shipped in.
This is nothing more than extending “Big Brother” into what we eat.
The problem today is that people do not use their brain & wash their food before they eat it. This country needs to get back to:
Common Sense!
I can remember, as a farmer, back in the 70’s all we wanted was Country of Origin labeling.
Farmers were, and still are, completing with lower quality foods from other countries offered at a lower price on the same store shelf. The consumer has no idea he is buying something from a foreign country, produced to very different standards.
We couldn’t get it done then in the 70’3, it hasn’t been done since, it won’t be done. The only labeling inplemented will be for libeling the grower.