A month ago I called attention to the debacle of the CPSIA. The news goes from bad to worse and the stupidity is so outrageous …
The CPSC put up some new “helpful” powerpoint slides for their staff today (you can read them all here).Here’s the line that’s got me ready to move to Australia. Or, better yet, ready to make Congress move to Australia and let the country start fresh. Page 6 has the guidance on children’s books (ordinary books safe if published after 1985, limited staff analysis has shown some lead in older books, blah, blah). And then this line:
Children’s books have limited useful life
(approx 20 years)
… coupled with a singular lack of interest in Congress to ameliorate the devastation of thrift stores, small businesses, home businesses and charities, that malice should be considered.
And when Do it for the children! runs thin, change tact and trot in Do it for the Safety to push a 179 page bill, HR 875, in order to Federalize food production, stripping all regulatory power from the states and so vaguely and broadly written that the 4th Amendment rights of small family farms, indeed even backyard gardeners, are negated.
As The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund states
HR 875 represents a tremendous expansion of federal power, particularly the power to regulate intrastate commerce. [...]The bill would transfer the functions and resources of several divisions within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), such as the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) and the Center for Veterinary Medicine into FSA. The National Marine Fisheries Service in the Department of Commerce would be transferred over to FSA as well. [Section 102(b)] [...]
HR 875 charges the administrator of FSA with developing a national food safety program to protect the public health [Section 201(a)(1)]. In carrying out the program, the administrator must “adopt and implement a national system for regular unannounced inspection of food establishments†[Section 201(c)(2)]. With respect to ‘food production facilities’ (farms), FSA is given the power by the bill to visit and inspect them to determine that they are operating in compliance with the food safety law [Section 206(a)(1)]–under HR 875 ‘food safety law’ refers to provisions of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act, provisions of the Public Health Services Act, and the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 itself [Section 3(15)]. In addition, the agency would have the power to have access to and copy all records maintained by farms in order to be able to (1) determine whether the food is contaminated, adulterated or otherwise not in compliance with the food safety law or (2) track the food in commerce [Sections 206(b)]. Under Section 210 of the bill which is entitled “Traceback Requirementsâ€, FSA is charged with establishing a national traceability system that requires farmers to keep records that enable FSA to track “the history, use, and location of an item of food†[Section 210(c)].
Natural News points out …
Some of the requirements set forth within H.R. 875 include:- Designating FSA as sole regulator of food safety rather than the individual states, including granting FSA the power to implement and administer a “national system for regular unannounced inspection of food establishments” under its own terms.
- Reclassifying all farms as “food production facilities”, ensuring they come under the regulatory and inspection protocols of FSA as well as enforcing compliance with whatever FSA deems as appropriate food safety requirements.
- Requiring farmers to comply with FSA-established “minimum standards” for farming practices, including requiring them to establish Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) plans and other written documentation as determined and mandated by FSA.
- Granting FSA the power to arrogate “preventative process controls to reduce adulteration of food” as it deems fit.
- Instituting FSA as food safety law enforcement, allowing it to assess civil penalties and fines for violation of any and all FSA safety laws up to $1 million for each violation. Collected fines would become unappropriated slush funds to be used however FSA deems fit in order to “carry out enforcement activities under the food safety law”.
Oh my, no conflict of interest on that last bit, eh?
The bill’s sponsor is Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), with 39 co-sponsor, all Democrats. It gets more interesting to find out that DeLauro is married to Stanley Greenberg, who counts Monsanto among his corporate clients. It is also is an interesting coincidence that large corporations are much better equipped to comply with the onerous requirements and paperwork this bill dumps on “Food Production Facilities” then the lowly local farmer or backyard gardener.
Oh? Don’t think it will apply to the little guy? Well, here in its entirety is how this bill defines who is included in “Food Production”:
(14) FOOD PRODUCTION FACILITY- The term ‘food production facility’ means any farm, ranch, orchard, vineyard, aquaculture facility, or confined animal-feeding operation.
No exclusions, no limitations. You grow it, you’re included.
One of the few things left I enjoy about living in So California is that there are still pockets of small farms and many towns have Farmer’s Market nights where local produce is offered. Also roadside stands selling fresh strawberries or corn.
This bill passes, so will all that. Indeed, my backyard garden will be OUTLAW as far as our fascist Democrat government is concerned.
No wonder Obama doesn’t worry about people Going Galt. He’s making it illegal.
Comment by dicentra on 3/12 @ 12:04 am #
Hugh Hewitt has been on this issue like ditz on a blonde (I denounce myself).
Good thing I plan to grow corn this year. Who knew it was so easy to be OUTLAW? It takes no special effort–just keep living your life.
When do we wake up from this? Anyone?
Comment by Darleen on 3/12 @ 12:07 am #
dicentra
You’re supposed to be paying attention to Obama’s premature grey hair, or M’chelle’s new magazine cover, but to the Democrats’ power grab?
BUNNIES!!
Comment by SarahW on 3/12 @ 12:11 am #
No wonder Obama doesn’t worry about people Going Galt. He’s making it illegal.
I noticed that. I expect a surge in outlaws, though.
But hey, what’s a little soviet style black marketing. We’ll have the mafia to protect us too.
Comment by SarahW on 3/12 @ 12:12 am #
Whoops. forgot to clip my tag.
Comment by Facism Now on 3/12 @ 12:49 am #
You know some stuff is a little to extreme even for me…this is just nuts.
Comment by Mr B on 3/12 @ 12:52 am #
Dicentra,
If you’re talking sweet corn then mind the Raccoons. They’ll make a mess of it if you let them. I use a mobile electric fence that is powered off of 4 D cell batteries (picked everything up at Farm and Fleet). The grounding stake is the only permanent component. Everything else breaks down nicely for storage. I lost one ear last season when I forgot to turn it back on after weeding one evening. I shut it off to keep the pup from getting zapped as she “helped” me.
I use Johnnys seeds and was impressed with their Hybrid bicolor 275A variety. I’ll get that one again, plus plant a second variety two weeks after the first this year. I know someone that planted two varieties at the same time. They crossed and ended up tasting like field corn.
The 275A processes and freezes well too. I blanched it for four minutes, stripped the ears with a knife, and bagged in serving sizes.
I’ll be watching this Bill.
Thanks for the heads up Darleen. I have family in farming and friends that grow for local grocery stores.
Comment by Vermont Neighbor on 3/12 @ 2:26 am #
Piece by piece we’re seeing why this pile of debris had to be rushed through so quickly. Doesn’t this fly against the 10th amendment? This guy is straight up nuts. Making small farmers’ efforts illegal. (If you put some pot plants next to your tomatoes, will Barry and the new czar from Seattle leave you alone?)
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/12 @ 2:36 am #
if my peas touch my copy of the 2nd ‘mendment
duck
Comment by SDN on 3/12 @ 3:50 am #
That bit about the agency getting to keep the fines is another reminder (asset forfeiture was the first) of something about the witch trials in Europe. Countries, such as Germany, that allowed the witch-hunters to keep the goods of accused witches had witch-trials at 10,000 times the rate of jurisdictions, such as England, that didn’t. No, that number is not a typo. Any time prosecutors have a profit motive it’s trouble.
Comment by The Outlaw Golem14 on 3/12 @ 5:41 am #
A quote I found in the Q & A section:
“If this bill can prevent one American child from being sickened or killed by a tainted product intentionally or accidentally sent into the food stream, then this bill is anecessary.”
(sigh)
Comment by B Moe on 3/12 @ 5:51 am #
They seem to really appreciate individual children, adults not so much.
Comment by Abe Froman on 3/12 @ 6:11 am #
Can we just send all the tainted food to the house and senate commissaries?
Comment by Carin on 3/12 @ 6:17 am #
Well, I heard yesterday that Baracky has created almost 6000 jobs in DC alone (in Michigan – the entire state? Zero), so those folks need stuff to do, right?
This is make-work. For the children.
Comment by Carin on 3/12 @ 6:19 am #
And, OT, but I just heard that doddering fool John Dingle going on about how Canadian automobiles are cheaper to produce for the auto companies because the health care is provided by the state.
Now, I’m completely fucked, ’cause I threw my radio across the kitchen.
Comment by alppuccino on 3/12 @ 6:22 am #
A safe food supply is paramount to national security. If I were appointed Swiss Cake Roll Czar, would I have to pay taxes?
Comment by Pablo on 3/12 @ 6:25 am #
No worries, Carin. The Chinese will make more. Cheap. Because of the state provided health care.
Comment by Joe on 3/12 @ 6:33 am #
So this is like making a cop’s pay contingent on how many tickets he writes? What a wonderful idea!
It is getting time to hide in the mountains and go off the grid.
Comment by Sgt. Mom on 3/12 @ 6:42 am #
Ah, yes – another unforseen consequence of the CPSIA. So many pols smuggled their own special interest bit into it… it’s almost as if they wished to put a knife through the heart of microbusinesses everywhere. Almost as if they wished to kill off small-truck gardens, toy-workshops, small publishers and home-crafting enterprises everywhere.
And it is amazing – or maybe not so amazing, how very few politicians are serious about amending the bill, or tossing it out and starting over. I agree with SDN – the agency getting to keep the fines is a very, very bad sign.
Comment by LTC John on 3/12 @ 7:00 am #
Carin – You could change your screen name to Carin the Kulak…
Hoarder! Wrecker! Splitist!
Comment by Silver Whistle on 3/12 @ 7:03 am #
Carin has already been warned about her lack of collectivist idealism.
Comment by Carin on 3/12 @ 7:04 am #
I dunno LTC. It would be like the siren song to thorazine. We’d have to hear about how the Kulak’s deserved what they got, but that they fought with an honor we’d never understand.
Comment by Carin on 3/12 @ 7:08 am #
How many warnings do I get, Silver?
Things are going from fucking bad to worse here in Michigan … yesterday I saw yet another business in my (new) little town is going out of business. Now they’re going after the small farmers. THAT wouldn’t hurt anyone around here. What are those fucking assholes in Washington smoking?
Comment by Sdferr on 3/12 @ 7:17 am #
Going after Santa Claus, Sgt. Mom? Bastards!
Comment by Silver Whistle on 3/12 @ 8:04 am #
What are those fucking assholes in Washington smoking?
HR 875-approved cannabis, I imagine, Carin. I tried posting earlier (but my comment got eaten) on how this reminded me of the late, unlamented EU Commission Regulation (EC) No 2257/94, which mandated the length (14 cm) and curvature (“not overly excessive”) of all bananas sold in the EU. It appears that within the next few years, you will all be speaking with sexy French accents, downsizing your personal hygeine product collections, and becoming Euroweenies too. Welcome aboard, mes amis!
Comment by Techie on 3/12 @ 8:11 am #
I eagerly await the Feds shutting down Great Aunt Merle’s Peach Stand on national TV. Of course, the anchors will be cheering the uppity little prole being put in her rightful place.
Comment by slackjawedyokel on 3/12 @ 8:27 am #
#6: Mr. B, sorry to hear about your ear. I bet that was pretty painful!
Sounds like our time-honored tradition of slaughtering a hog for the freezer every Fall is going to become as hazardous as moonshining — maybe for the food revenooers.
Comment by geoffb on 3/12 @ 9:20 am #
During economic hard-times people have to “make do” by buying used instead of new, growing their own instead of buying at the grocery store. Victory Gardens and secondhand shops, flea markets and roadside stands. These things help individuals and families to cope until better times come around again.
This must not be allowed. This crisis is to be used to drive everyone into the suffocating clutches of the government social worker bureaucracy. Begone all those thoughts of toughing it out. Embrace your bright new future. The new improved Water Empire has come for you. All must love it and despair.
Comment by JD on 3/12 @ 9:25 am #
This is remarkable that somebody thought this was a good idea.
Comment by SarahW on 3/12 @ 9:25 am #
GeoffB, but isn’t that the point. To squash your alternatives….
Comment by SarahW on 3/12 @ 9:26 am #
It’s not like these provisions are accidental.
Comment by SarahW on 3/12 @ 9:27 am #
His Eye is on the swap meet, and I know he watches me.
Comment by deputyheadmistress on 3/12 @ 9:27 am #
Another great post. Senator Amy Klobuchar is one of the co-sponsors of this bill. She is one of the co-sponsors of the CPSIA, too, AND she recently complained that she never heard CPSC Commissioner Nord’s warnings that the bill was too broad, too inclusive, and would be impossible for small businesses to comply with. So you’d think if that was true, and she never heard that warning and would have been concerned if she had, that she would be once bitten twice shy and would be careful about sponsoring other, similar bills.
Comment by Carin on 3/12 @ 9:31 am #
JD, shame on you. It’s For The Children™
I can only imagine the cognitive dissonance when the headlines announce: “Second hand shops and local Fruit-stands closed by the government: women and children hardest hit!”
Comment by SarahW on 3/12 @ 9:33 am #
I guess we’re still at the “entreaty and humble supplication” stage. But I’m worried the shackles will be on before there’s any fuss.
Comment by SarahW on 3/12 @ 9:34 am #
Those are what’s known as cash-leaks, though. Can’t have people creating wealth and deciding how to spend it themselves.
Comment by Sdferr on 3/12 @ 9:38 am #
Won’t eat squash. Leeks and potatoes, on the other hand, potage glory.
Comment by geoffb on 3/12 @ 10:18 am #
Squash is the perfect cover under which you can indulge, without guilt, a taste for butter and brown sugar. Yummoo.
Comment by Sdferr on 3/12 @ 10:22 am #
Dude, what part of won’t eat and etc.? Curcurbititis? Curcurbitphobia? Ok, watermelons, cucumbers, ok I’ll eat ‘em, but I can get my butter and brown sugar quotient in chocolate chip cookies or pecan pie. Squash? Ptooey.
Comment by Carin on 3/12 @ 10:25 am #
Squashist. Squashdentite.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 3/12 @ 10:28 am #
Grilled zucchini… mmmm.
Comment by Carin on 3/12 @ 10:28 am #
Anti-squashmetic.
Comment by geoffb on 3/12 @ 10:34 am #
Cucumbers should only be eaten pickled, either the cuke or yourself or both.
Comment by Sdferr on 3/12 @ 10:36 am #
Bread and butters, half-dones, full-on kosher dilled, yeah baby, soused it is, I’m with ya.
Comment by Sdferr on 3/12 @ 10:38 am #
I’ll leave the zucchini to the sphinx moths, thanks.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/12 @ 10:41 am #
Of corn, I’m guessing?
Comment by MarkD on 3/12 @ 11:13 am #
If they were serious about the children, they’d ban peanuts. It’d be worth it if I could watch Jimmy Carter’s face when they ripped those evil plants out and burned them.
Oh wait, that’d be global warming. And the peanut oil for frying.
Nevermind, the earth and all on it are doomed. Someday.
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/12 @ 11:19 am #
Help Wanted
assistant grief councilor
potato chip division
duties include;calming childrens fear of bags
the patriachy of vending machines
the proper use of condoms in a gunfight
thong wedgie ettiquitte
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/12 @ 11:20 am #
billy beer
Comment by happyfeet on 3/12 @ 11:21 am #
There’s this place here what makes these hash brown thingers except it’s shredded zucchini. Served with a little sour cream. They take awhile to cook though so now they look more like a pile of shredded zucchini pressed into a suggestively hash browny sort of shape. But still tasty.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/12 @ 11:22 am #
Mom used to make zucchini bread. Very tasty.
Ok. This is everything I know about squash.
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/12 @ 11:26 am #
squash is a game
fought mainly on the plains
by peeps dressed in white
cuz they toilet-trained
Comment by Silver Whistle on 3/12 @ 12:02 pm #
Zucchini flowers dipped in batter and deep fried in olive oil – is close to heaven.
Comment by Carin on 3/12 @ 12:15 pm #
I’m all over this stuff they serve at this new Japanese restaurant. They do tempura – and my favorite are these sweet potatoes. OMG, are they good. They do shrimp too, but I try to avoid that ’cause it’s so good I’ll eat myself into food coma.
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/12 @ 12:17 pm #
bacon
bacon grease
kevin bacons bro-bro
achin’
4 bacon
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/12 @ 12:21 pm #
I always get tempura and tempera mixed up.
Comment by dicentra on 3/12 @ 12:25 pm #
Mr B.
Here in SLC, raccoons are not all that abundant. I did see one dash across the road once, but I haven’t seen them in my yard. One nice thing about living in a high-altitude desert is we’ve got much fewer critters than elsewhere. I’ve never had to deal with moles or gophers or termites or any of that lot. Shewt, I don’t even have ants in any abundance. Just Evil Trees (Ailanthus altissima and Russian Elms) and crappy soil.
I’ll be growing “Ambrosia” from Park Seed again. It’s a tender-sweet, yellow-and-white variety. The last time I grew it, the stalks got maybe 3-4 feet tall, and the ears were about six inches long with full girth. Delicious anyway. It’s because my soil is heavy clay with almost no nitrogen. Go figure.
This year I got those corner hinge thingers where you insert your own 2×6 to make a raised bed. I bought lots of good topsoil last year (lots of composted manure & sawdust), so I think I’ll have more success. I’ll also be adding watermelon to the mix. I guess we’ll see how that works out.
Comment by Ric Locke on 3/12 @ 12:25 pm #
Dad didn’t want to be a farmer. When he met Mother, he was a route man for the Curtiss Candy Company, ensuring that all the little mom-and-pop stores in that part of east Texas had plenty of Butterfingers, and had ambitions to rise first to jobber and then to district manager. But when they married, one of the things he had to agree to was that if anything happened to my Grandfather or Grandmother, he would take over the farm, since Mother was an only child.
Grandfather died in 1949, and Dad reluctantly complied with the agreement. It didn’t help that the years 1950-1954 saw an extreme drought in that part of the country, but with the help of resident “hands” he kept the place going, depending largely on the advice of the county Agricultural Extension Service agent.
In 1952 the county agent recommended that Dad plant little yellow crookneck squash — I have no idea what the proper name for them is. He did so, in every corner of the farm where it might be possible, and they all came up and they all made. Bumper crop, it was. When they were ripe, Dad went to the local box factory and rented crates, and the little yellow crookneck squash got picked and packed and loaded in the back of one of Mother’s cousins’ 1939 Dodge pickup truck to be taken to market in Winnsboro.
When Dad and Uncle Luther (as we called him) got to the market they discovered that every farmer for miles in any direction had got the same advice and had planted little yellow crookneck squash. They all came up, they all made, they all got packed and taken to market, where the glut resulted in the spring-breaking load being barely worth the gas to get it there (at about 13 cents a gallon).
For the next year or so we ate little crookneck squash. We had little crookneck squash fried, boiled, fricasseed, casseroled, and made into pies, cakes, and just about anything else an active imagination might find as a possible home for little yellow crookneck squash.
As a result, no form of squash will pass my soft palate without generating a gag reflex. Half a century later I have reached the point where I can eat around the zucchini slices in a salad rather than rejecting the whole thing as inedible, but that’s about it. People have presented me with all kinds of squash dishes, assuring me that they taste entirely different, but when I bite into them it’s September 1952, no money, no hope, and the ten-millionth repetition of little yellow crookneck squash.
So don’t feed me squash, please. It just doesn’t work.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Silver Whistle on 3/12 @ 12:26 pm #
I always get tempura and tempera mixed up.
Do you get many return dinner party invites, Slart?
Comment by dicentra on 3/12 @ 12:27 pm #
Doesn’t this fly against the 10th amendment?
The list of things that fly against the 10th amendment would wrap around the equator 6.32 times.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/12 @ 12:28 pm #
I love that story.
Comment by dicentra on 3/12 @ 12:31 pm #
I have no idea what the proper name for them is.
Cucurbita pepo
Comment by Sdferr on 3/12 @ 12:50 pm #
Condolences Ric. I was merely fed them a few times as a youth and suffered none of your particular hardship in acquiring my distaste. I had the gag reflex (not metaphorical) in the first and last instance and have wanted nothing to do with them since. For a while I even wondered why my mother hated me so. What had I done?
I’ll grow the stuff or cook and serve it to folks who want it but I’ll be damned if I’ll eat it.
Comment by McGehee on 3/12 @ 2:21 pm #
My mother tried to interest me in eating squash, but only Carl’s Jr. and Olive Garden ever succeeded.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/12 @ 2:50 pm #
I’d try the yellow straightneck instead, then, Ric.
8P
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/12 @ 2:54 pm #
Me, I love all kinds of squash. Mmmm…pumpkin pie.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/12 @ 2:55 pm #
…which kind of complicates things. My wife makes a sweet potato pie that just about always passes for pumpkin. Maybe pumpkin doesn’t taste like much of anything until you add the spices and something sweet.
Comment by B Moe on 3/12 @ 4:22 pm #
Sweet potato pie is a gift from the Gods.
Comment by Seth on 3/12 @ 6:42 pm #
I grow and can as much as I can. The government is welcome to try to tell me not to…or to make it more difficult to do, but then that’s taking food out of my family’s mouth. And that’s a whole nother nother.
Comment by dash22 on 3/12 @ 6:57 pm #
Um.. probably you can keep Congress, if you don’t mind. We’ve got our own houses of parliament filled to the brim with anti-fun, nanny-state-wanting representatives over here in Australia. There are less socialists though..
Darleen, you of course would be welcome.
Comment by B Moe on 3/12 @ 7:08 pm #
It is also is an interesting coincidence that large corporations are much better equipped to comply with the onerous requirements and paperwork this bill dumps on “Food Production Facilities†then the lowly local farmer or backyard gardener.
Do Willie and John Cougar still do that Farm-Aid thing? Any chance this will get their attention?
I don’t think so either.
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Comment by Mike Kelley on 3/13 @ 7:29 am #
When I used to garden I discovered Johnny Selected Seeds. They have great stuff. I grew some of their cabbage that was wonderful. The heads were as dense as bowling balls.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/13 @ 7:57 am #
Seeds of Change is also good. It’s been a while since we bought any of their stuff, though. It helps to have in-laws who are in the seed business, you see.
Comment by Seth on 3/13 @ 8:36 am #
Park’s has some nice heirloomy stuff.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 3/13 @ 8:42 am #
I quit buying stuff from Parks. They were sold out to a conglomerate several years back and their quality has gone in the toilet.
Nichols Garden Nursery is good.
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Comment by Monsanto is evil on 3/15 @ 9:54 am #
Monsanto is very much behind the HR 875 push. It’s how they wanted to dominate and control the US farming industry and food processing system. Monsanto is founded by a man who had absolute contempt for the human race. You can expect that people who works for Monsanto share the founder’s belief toward the whole of humanity. Do not be fooled by Monsanto’s wholesome (read: fake) image and corporate *cough-cough* responsibility.
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It is clearly time to prepare to tar and feather the feds and local scum bureaucrats that support them.
Comment by dave on 3/15 @ 8:57 pm #
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[...] Related, too, is Evan Sayet’s recent appearance at the Heritage Foundation, which you can play as you fix coffee, or whatever else it is that you do at this time of day. Send it to young people. Got to getting ourselves back to the garden has started to sound John Galt. [...]
Comment by john thorpe on 3/30 @ 7:27 pm #
OK, so this bill is a giant turd sandwich. What do we do? Sitting here bitching doesn’t seem to affect much change.
Practical ideas?
Comment by Smokey behr on 3/30 @ 8:35 pm #
Irony, thy name is Democrat.
All of the EnviroNazis are wanting us to buy organic foods grown by local, small farmers (locovore, they call it) and here they are wanting to stifle the small farmers. Many of the small farmers here in the #1 ag county in the nation are immigrants working plots less then 5 acres, growing and selling crops grown in very few other places, and this will shut them down.
All I see in this bill is the 10 pillars of Communism. Call your Congresscritter and tell them to vote no on HR 875.
Pingback by Conservatista! » Will Federal Government Outlaw Produce Stands? on 3/30 @ 10:43 pm #
[...] HR 875, which is currently floating around Congress, would label all small farms as “food production facilities,” and would permit government to make spot inspections of farms, as well as mandate that all farmers keep detailed records of when food was sold and where it ended up. [...]
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[...] Much more at Ace HQ, as well as a handful of links to other discussions here,here, here and here. [...]
Pingback by Government Control Over Fresh Vegetables? | Patriotic Dissent on 3/31 @ 8:25 am #
[...] Control Over Fresh Vegetables? Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 HR 875 represents a tremendous expansion of federal power, particularly the power to regulate intrastate [...]
Comment by Fred on 3/31 @ 8:59 am #
We are very close to needing to engage in massive civil disobedience.
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[...] More here, here, here, and here. From the Protein Wisdom link: …The bill’s sponsor is Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), [...]
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Comment by Erin on 12/17 @ 3:35 pm #
Opinions aside, this has been the best article written about the bill I’ve found yet. I’ve been going cross-eyed over the full text of this bill, op-eds, blogs and myth-fact pages for three days now. This is the first one I’ve found that actually helps me find my proof directly in the bill. Too many people are quick to read something and spout it off before backing it up, and you’ve helped me to not be one of those people. I’ve been wanting to start calling my elected folk for a while now, but I didn’t understand the language of the bill well enough yet. Thank you so much!
Sincerely,
Erin