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You must "apply" to be included in the "protections" of the Tester
amendment. You must substantiate through your records for three years
that you fit the category of selling more than "50% of average annual
monetary value" within this 275-mile radius. So, if you sell on the
roadside or at a farmers market, you must have a map handy and ask for
ID from everyone who purchases from you or lose your exemption.
close examination of S. 510 reveals that the FDA acquires even more
power than before to shut down family farms on a whim. But, as I
write this, the few provisions that give some protections to
small-scale farmers are under attack by Big Ag, which doesn't want to
give your local food producers an inch of wiggle room.
The bill also empowers federal agencies to impose international
guidelines and standards on domestic food producers -- molding
American food production into an unhealthy globalist Codex system.
And in these tough economic times, S. 510 will drive up the costs of
food production by adding more layers of government interference.
*We continue to believe that S.510 is NOT in the best interests of
small farmers, and especially raw milk farmers.* Even though the
Tester-Hagan Amendment makes important improvements in the bill, S.510
remains fundamentally flawed.
The core problem is that S.510 will significantly increase the power
of the FDA. In response to our suit challenging the ban on raw milk in
interstate commerce, the *FDA stated on public record
<http://www.ftcldf.org/litigation-FDA-status.htm> that the American
people have no "fundamental right to their own bodily and physical
health" and "do not have a fundamental right to obtain any food they
wish"*.
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