HR 875 and S 425 could mean end to organic farming --even growing your own organic food in your back yard (farmers, house)
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Yes. It's true. There are bills in congress right now which would establish a HUGE regulatory agency to police our food production. The language in the bill is so broad it pretty much includes ANYONE growing, transporting or preparing food.
Surprise! Surprise!Turns out the House bill sponsor is married to someone who does work for Monsanto and she has been the beneficiary of nearly $200k in campaign funds from Monsanto.
This article is a good overview: http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news133.htm
What this article does not go into however are the definitions of catagories in the bill of food "establishments". Some of them include ANY establishment that stores food for retail sale or ANY establishment that transports food for retail sale. Think baking and then bringing food to Bake Sales, Community Fairs, Local Farmer's markets. These all would be subject to the scruitiny of this massive new regulatory agency! What a Country ours is becoming. YIKES!
We better not let this bill get passed. It is written in very calming tones on purpose, so as not to cause alarm. This is the actual text and if you look at the definitions you can see how braod they are.
Note there are no exceptions such as : local farmers, organic, farmers, persons with back yard gardens, home prepared foods for local community fairs or bake sales.
When I was still teaching here in Texas, we were not permitted to have bake sales or allow parents to send in homemade food for parties and such. We could prepare food in the school kitchens or seek authorization for overtime for the cafeteria workers to make food for sale for us. We could also order food from restaurants or use packaged or prepared food from grocery stores.
It is scary what our government is doing. The NAIS law sounds like it is wrapped into this too! They want every farm animal in the US to be implanted with a microchip to track them to "make" the food chain safer. But in reality, Monsanto is behind this, too. They can go past farms and have the whole farms' stock killed on the pretense that stock "could" have been diseased. Then no one will have livestock left but the big boys! Yes, very scary!
That is the biggest bunch of baloney. Please go read the bill. They do not want microchips in all the farm animals. Be against the bill for the added regulation but please do not spread false information, it does the cause more damage than help!!
I am NOT spreading "untruth". I personally have a small farm, and subscribe to a group that is working against the NAIS! I most certainly am aware of what the government/large corporations are trying to do!! Right now they are trying to get the small farms and livestock just on a national register, and, too they are trying to implement the usage, in the future, of the microchip implantation. Maybe folks should "google" NAIS and read for themselves.
Wouldn't it make more sense for the FDA to enforce existing laws? The problem isn't with food safety laws as they exist; instead, it's with the regulatory agency charged with enforcing them.
When the US invaded Iraq, one of the first things that was done was to make it illegal for farmers to save seed for the next years crops which has been the traditional practice throughout the world for thousands of years.
Now, the farmers have to be licensed, and can only obtain seeds from US corporations. It makes no difference that the seeds may have been developed in Iraq over hundreds of years, the patents are now owned by Monsanto and they are the only seeds that the farmers are allowed to use.
Now, the farmers have to be licensed, and can only obtain seeds from US corporations. It makes no difference that the seeds may have been developed in Iraq over hundreds of years, the patents are now owned by Monsanto and they are the only seeds that the farmers are allowed to use.
Good-bye to heirloom produce and good-bye to food diversity if Monsanto prevails. We'll all be eating bioengineered frankenfoods instead.
When the US invaded Iraq, one of the first things that was done was to make it illegal for farmers to save seed for the next years crops which has been the traditional practice throughout the world for thousands of years.
Now, the farmers have to be licensed, and can only obtain seeds from US corporations. It makes no difference that the seeds may have been developed in Iraq over hundreds of years, the patents are now owned by Monsanto and they are the only seeds that the farmers are allowed to use.
Cite to documentation for all of this - preferably to an unbiased site?
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! Right now they are trying to get the small farms and livestock just on a national register, and, too they are trying to implement the usage, in the future, of the microchip implantation. Maybe folks should "google" NAIS and read for themselves.
