[Market-farming] HEADS UP! It will soon be illegal to growyourownfood!!
Heirloom Grower
heirloomgrower at gmail.com
Tue Mar 17 13:47:17 EDT 2009
Has anybody who has posted so authoritatively on the implications of this
bill taken note of the fact that Mrs. DeLauro's husband, Stanley Greenberg,
has Monsanto as a client?
Just wondering.
Elise
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Owsley lucy <boulderbelt at voyager.net>wrote:
> That is the thing about being in a democracy instead of a monarchy or
> dictatorship-we the people have a say in these bills. Anyone from Ct should
> contact Ms Delauro and tell her that certain parts of the bill need a
> re-write so it is clear that small farmers, the organic program and farmers
> markets are not going to be touched by this bill. This bill will not be
> going to a vote as it now stands, it will be changed as it goes through
> committee and discussion. when that starts to happen than it is time to
> contact all the bill's sponsors and let them know you do not like the
> wording of this bill and why and what you would like it to say. If enough
> people do this it will be changed to a form we can deal with.
>
> On Mar 16, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Richard Holcomb wrote:
>
> Agreed. The FDA regulates most packaged food production regardless of
> whether or not it is sold across state lines. Many small farmers ignore
> this and sell regulated product either ignorantly or blatantly illegally,
> but if you are making a jar of pickles and selling it without proper FDA
> oversight you are breaking the law and believe it or not, portions of the
> Patriot Act. As small farmers we are constantly bombarded by government
> regulation that threatens our very livelihood. For a humorous take on the
> vast overstepping of a government run amuck check out Joel Salatin’s book
> *Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food
> Front. *Even if this bill is not meant to put small farmers out of
> business, I can assure you that as written it will be used by some
> regulator/enforcer in the future to do exactly what people on this and other
> sites are worried about.
>
>
>
> Lucy Goodman
> Boulder Belt Eco-Farm
> Eaton, OH
> http://boulderbelt.blogspot.com
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