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  • From: Thamnophis <thamnophis AT gmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] food safety bill passes Senate
  • Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 12:34:46 -0600

Hysteria aside ...

It may be going nowhere -

House May Block Food Safety Bill Over Senate Error
http://www.rollcall.com/news/-201012-1.html

And in my case, a $500,000 income limit seems pretty reasonable :-)

Joe

On 12/1/10, Mary Conner <chucknmaryc AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> This is very frightening. If this thing becomes law, the corpgov will take
> over
> our entire food system, from farm to fork. The $500K/year is not indexed to
> inflation and refers to gross rather than net income. See Food Safety Bill
> Lie
> #4 here: http://www.NaturalNews.com/030587_Senate_Bill_510_Food_Safety.html
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Leigh Hauter <bullrunfarm AT hughes.net>
> To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Tue, November 30, 2010 10:54:22 AM
> Subject: [Market-farming] food safety bill passes Senate
>
> I just got a call saying the Senate version of the food safety bill (S510),
> which includes the Tester amendment, just passed the Senate and while the
> House
> version is probably better from a small farmers' point of view there will
> likely
> be no reconciliation so the senate version will probably be the one the
> House
> votes on and is then sent to the President to sign and become law.
>
> The Senate version exempts small farmers that gross under half a million
> from
> federal regulations. Of course the feds can't tell the states not to
> regulate
> their farmers so theoretically each state could pass its own regulations on
> farmers smaller than the half a million federal limit.
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