Proposed government regulations a concern for owners of small farms - "It's scary"

Pittsburg Tribune ^ | November 12, 2013 | Chris Togneri

[Cincinatus' Wife]

“It's a strong policy of this administration to support local food initiatives,” he said.

Period! [?]

[Jack Hammer]

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.

[2ndDivisionVet]

If you like your pig, you can keep her. PERIOD.

[Haiku Guy]

I believe the word you are looking for is “Kulaks”...

[driftdiver]

Yet produce grown in mexico are approved.

[tet68]

“It’s a strong policy of this administration to support local food initiatives,” he said.

What he means is “Root hog or die”.

[Haiku Guy]

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday will conclude a 10-month public comment period on wide-ranging regulations proposed under the Food Safety and Modernization Act, which Congress passed in 2011 because of deadly food contaminations.

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

[Timber Rattler]

Farmers say another requirement, to document all wild animals that come in contact with farms, is impractical...

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?

[dennisw]

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

[Truth29]

"Snyder said “well-meaning legislators” drafted the food safety law, intending to target corporate farms that can afford to make sweeping changes. “They had good intentions, but beneath the surface, there are consequences” to small farms with thin profit margins, he said. “We will find out after this comment period closes just how serious the FDA is about considering stakeholder input.”"

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.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Agreed. In addition, in the meantime we are importing food and food additives from China, where the regulations and quality control are suspect at best.

[olezip]

“They had good intentions, but beneath the surface, there are consequences” to small farms with thin profit margins, he said. “We will find out after this comment period closes just how serious the FDA is about considering stakeholder input.”

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.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

"FDA Posts Current Employee Numbers on Transparency Website More than half of the FDA’s staff is employed at CDER and the Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA), according to employment statistics the FDA posted on its transparency site, FDA Basics. As of May 20, the agency consisted of 15,100 employees. Of that number, 4,163 worked at ORA and 4,156 were employed at CDER. FDA Basics — the first phase of the agency’s transparency initiative — is an online resource designed to help consumers better understand what the agency does." Source

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Department of Agriculture "he Department of Agriculture provides an array of subsidies for farmers and imposes extensive regulations on agricultural markets. It operates the food stamp and school lunch programs, and it administers numerous subsidy programs for rural parts of the nation. The Forest Service is also within the Department of Agriculture.

The department will spend $156 billion in 2013, or almost $1,300 for every U.S. household. It operates about 240 subsidy programs and employs 93,000 workers in about 7,000 offices across the country....."

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Charts and graphs .... EPA on Ag 101 "There are over 313,000,000 people living in the United States. Of that population, less than 1% claim farming as an occupation (and about 2% actually live on farms). In 2007, only 45% of farmers claimed farming as their principal occupation and a similar number of farmers claiming some other principal occupation. The number of farms in the U.S. stands at about 2.2 million.

What is a farm?......................"

[Gaffer]

Well, we haven’t even gotten to the runup for 2016 elections. How can we be talking about keeping Hillary at this point when she hasn’t even declared?

[Haiku Guy]

I hate the term “Stakeholder”.

It has replaced property owner and citizen. You no longer have rights. You just have a “stake”. But, then again, the Albino Lesbian/Gay/Transgendered Alliance is also a “stakeholder”, as is the National Resources Defense Council.

Your “stake” means nothing, and “stakeholder” is another word for “sucker”. BOHICA... You’re a “stakeholder”.

[exit82]

Ditto. Can not stand the word.

The only good stakeholder is a vampire killer.

[goodwithagun]

How long until the Feds show up and tell me my garden is a small farm?

[CGASMIA68]

The government will not adopt policies aimed at harming small farmers, he said.

Bull S*#T ,”I said”.

[OpusatFR]

“Yet produce grown in mexico are approved.”

And we are going to be seeing Chinese Chicken in consumer products.

I wonder if they process it alongside the doggy treats?

What could possibliy go wrong.

[sergeantdave]

““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.