628 CAN LOCAL AG SURVIVE HB 875?

[michaelo]

They tell us it is for our own good, that they are simply trying to help, that we should trust them to do what we cannot do for ourselves. They lead us to ask…

Will House Bill 875 federalize all farms and ranches in the USA?

[michaelo]

They tell us it is for our own good, that they are simply trying to help, that we should trust them to do what we cannot do for ourselves. But they lead us to ask…

Will House Bill 875 federalize all farms and ranches in the name of food safety?

Consider Michael Olson’s Second Law of the Food Chain: The farther we go from the source of our food, the less control we have what’s in that food.

Makes sense! If you are buying fresh eggs from your friend Farmer John at the farmers markets, you have a lot of control of what is in those eggs. And if you find something you do not like in those eggs, you know where to get your hands on Farmer John. Farmer knows buyer; buyer knows farmer. It is self-regulated commerce with little or no need of regulation.

But what if you are feeding your baby formula from China? There are thousands of miles of distance in that relationship, and you will have no control at all over what is in the formula. Perhaps you will have in hand formula from a conscientious manufacturer, and perhaps not. Because of the extreme distance in this relationship, you will have no control at all, and thus must rely on others to protect you from unsafe food. This commerce of great distance must be watched over and regulated, lest we feed our babies melamine-laced formula.

House Bill 875, which is sponsored by Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), seeks to reduce or eliminate the danger of distance by establishing a new federal Food Safety Administration (FSA) that would superintend and regulate all food production facilities, from the smallest farms to the biggest processors. In other words, HB 875 would give the federal government dictatorial authority over the entire food chain of the USA.

HB 875 and its Food Safety Administration (FSA)

• Binds all State and County Departments of Agriculture to federal authority
• Criminalizes alternative farming methods, such as “organic.”
• Superintends everyone who grows food, whether they sell it or not.
• Superintends the production of meat of any kind.
• Allows the FSA, or its agents, physical access to all farms.
• Allows the FSA, or its agents, to copy all farm documents.
• Forces farmers who sell direct to consumers to make their customer lists available to FSA, or its agents.
• Grants FSA, or its agents, authority to punish rule-breakers with fines of up to $1 million per day.
• Allows FSA to hire industry leaders to decide how program would be administered.

HB 875 will, for all intents and purposes, make the entire Food Chain of the USA subservient to the federal government, in the name of food safety.

We understand why the long distance relationships of the food chain should be supervised, but we do not understand why a neighbor selling a neighbor an egg or a chicken needs the supervision. And so we ask…

Can local agriculture survive House Bill 875?

[LEE]

I am glad to see this show up here! I have been working on this mandate for 2-3 weeks since I first found out about it!

I have been involve in the anti NAIS fight for several years now,everyday it seems of that time,doing somthing in the fight to stop this BS,I can say honestly that this is the worst piece of regulation I have ever seen!

This Delauro is a a nut! She is married to a Stanley Greeberg who is a pollster associated with Quinlin Research Inc, they are big into globalization,and has ties to Monsanto, you make the conclusions!

HR875 basicly has such broad languge that they can do anything they want,so all bets are off if this passes!

One of the big problems I see is the preception in the states that the fed rules the roost, that is not true, the several states created the fed for their own relationships,not the other way around !

Then the states drafted the constitution as a box to keep the fed inside of,everything outside the box belongs to the states and to the people respectivly,today its all backwards, some people seem to believe that id they could gain control over the fed gov then they could rule the country!

Trouble is alot of states seemed to believe that too! But things are changing and states are beginning to wake up as their people do also ! This must happen to take back this country from elitists who want to rule rather than serve!

There are many cases like Marbury V Madision and NY v US and 16th Jurisprudence to name a few, as well as the 9th & 10th ammendments plus the states constitutions,all these enforce the states power over the fed,nothing legitamite gives the fed anywhere near the power it claims!

That leads me back to HR 875 the USDA, the congress the prez,none have the power to impose this NAIS or any other food control scheme, and it is a scheme!

It is a powergrab by NIAA and FB by Monsanto and Cargill And ADM and all the hundreds of others who belong to this group, there is nothing in this that will stop disease or anything else,just grow more govt/corporate control over our lives and a blending away of American liberty into a global hell, we must stop this then we must reverse the last 100 years of out of control,power tripping federal insanity, call your reps like I have and tell them NO! I will never comply, period! I will not give up what took me 2/3 of my life to build as well as what the generations that preceded me sacraficed so that I could live this free life! Thank you!

[michaelo]

Greetings MetroFarm community...

When driving to the airport today, I received a call from World Net Daily asking me about HR 875, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009. I gave them a piece of my mind, which you may read here: http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=P ... geId=92002

Now, what do you think of the Food Safety and Modernization Act of 2009?

Michael Olson....

[LEE]

Great response to WND Mike! Glenda is correct, we are justifiably up in arms about HR875 but these other bills are bad news too,I did a local radio show today and I pointed out to people ALL these bills; then did an indepth on 875 and NAIS ingeneral,lots of moving targets out there folks, aim carefully!