Posted on 11/13/2013 1:23:23 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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...
Yes: and soon we will be getting Chinese Chicken Nuggets.
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 7325. (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.
And we’re about to get Chinese chicken.
On the other hand, how many New Age, small, organic farmer types happily vote for regulations on everyone else?
What about damn beavers?
Congratulations. You’re a stakeholder.
BTW, you don’t want to know where they are going to put the stake...
A new bs word from the bs managerial class in Washingtoon DC
To all Freepers who read this.
When you close down our small farmers with excessive “regulations”, consider the products that are imported from countries like China. Are the Chineese required to prepare the food they ship to the U.S. under the same regulations and restrictions our American farmers are? We all know the answer to that one.
Next time you go shopping, read the labels and see where that product was produced. If it says product of ANY foreign country, don’t buy it. Eventually, when the stuff rots on the store shelves, perhaps the message will resonate with someone in Washington when they find WE DON’T WANT THAT CRAP!
and coming to a grocer near you... chickens from china.
the regulators who drafted the law will bail out and go to work in the compliance department at a big agra concern after they retire from the federal govt.
Period.
(Unless, of course, she is an heirloom breed. In that case, you;ll just have to let the government kill her.)
Define *small*.
The organic farmers I know are doing about $1.5-$3M annually. When queried about these regulations, they shrug and say “We are already doing all this.”
These businesses supply the restaurants in large cities 250 miles away, while also running the CSAs. Every year, a handful of newbies comes out from the cities and every year another handful of them run back to make more money to keep the farm operating.
They are already regulated. Their workers are hired through the government programs in Mexico. The farmers provide housing and meals as well as a salary and the airfare for the workers to return to Mexico in the winter. There are fees to participate in the worker program and tons of paperwork.
The tiny gardener who sells at the Farmer’s Market will likely be regulated because they take EBT. The small processor who has a $400k federal grant is housed in an incubator that runs under another grant and is regulated as the government sees fit. The country’s largest organic co-op is in my area and it was started under several years worth of State grants totally above $5M. It has already been called out years ago for importing cattle feed from China. Nothing came of the *scandal*. It is run with an iron fist and is always a campaign stop for Dem candidates, to whom it donates.
Documenting wild animals on a farm is insane. Probably put in there to have something to leave out, eventually. Maybe the farmers will have to install security cams and pay someone to monitor them? Maybe a way to mandate very expensive fencing? It all sounds like just another way to keep the tiny entrepreneur out of the industry. OTOH, wildlife eats produce, so the producer may see an upside. Certainly corn fields have long been a good place to find deer and no one fences row crops.
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.
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.
Right on!
Yep, BS.
The regs were drafted this way BECAUSE small farmers couldn’t afford to comply.
jAnd they still use DDT!
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