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  • From: "Richard Holcomb" <richard AT coonrockfarm.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] HEADS UP! It will soon be illegal to growyourownfood!!
  • Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:16:44 -0400

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.

 

From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Bill Bradshaw
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 5:55 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] HEADS UP! It will soon be illegal to growyourownfood!!

 

We have a small food mfg. co. If this is true why are we inspected both by the State and the FDA?

----- Original Message -----

From: Owsley lucy

Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 16:14

Subject: Re: [Market-farming] HEADS UP! It will soon be illegal to growyourownfood!!

 

Here is yet more reason not to worry about this bill

 

I pulled this from the OEFFA list serv:

 

Hey everyone-

There have been a lot of questions about this, so I thought I would respond to the whole forum.  H.R. 875 deals with the FDA.  FDA only regulates items that are involved in Interstate Commerce.  This is the authority that FDA is given in the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.  Anything that is grown, processed or sold within a state is subject to regulation by the state, not the FDA.  The FDA only regulates fruits, vegetables and other processed foods. It does not cover foods regulated by the USDA (beef, pork, poultry, lamb, catfish, eggs.)  

 

I'm glad that there has been a lot of interest in these bills.  We're on the same side on this issue.  I used to work on a small farm in Ohio, and Food & Water Watch is a member of OEFFA.  Our mission is to fight the corporate control of the food system, which includes constantly battling the big guys like Monsanto, Cargill, Tyson, ADM, JBS, etc. etc., that have a stranglehold on the food system, and are able to push through regulations that benefit their bottom lines and hurt the small to mid-sized farmers.  This bill will only affect farmers that are selling across State lines.  This bill will have far more impact on reigning in large corporations that have gone unchecked and uninspected under the current FDA than on most small and organic farms.

 

Hope this helps. 

Thanks,

Sarah Alexander

 

 

Lucy Goodman

Boulder Belt Eco-Farm

Eaton, OH

 



 


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