Sounds like the government's little conspiracy at-work to hijack and takeover America's agricultural industry:
A new food safety bill is on the fast track in Congress-HR 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. The bill needs to be stopped.
HR 2749 gives FDA tremendous power while significantly diminishing existing judicial restraints on actions taken by the agency. The bill would impose
a one-size-fits-all regulatory scheme on small farms and local artisanal producers; and it would disproportionately impact their operations for the
worse.
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HR 2749 also includes the following:
- HR 2749 would impose an annual registration fee of $500 on any “facility” that holds, processes, or manufactures food.
- HR 2749 would empower FDA to regulate how crops are raised and harvested. It puts the federal government right on the farm, dictating to our
farmers. WTO "good farming practices" will include the elimination of organic farming by eliminating manure, mandating GMO animal feed, imposing
animal drugs, and ordering applications of petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides.
- HR 2749 would give FDA the power to order a quarantine of a geographic area, including “prohibiting or restricting the movement of food or of any
vehicle being used or that has been used to transport or hold such food within the geographic area.”
- HR 2749 would empower FDA to make random warrantless searches of the business records of small farmers and local food producers, without any
evidence whatsoever that there has been a violation.
- HR 2749 charges the Secretary of Health and Human Services with establishing a tracing system for food. Each “person who produces, manufactures,
processes, packs, transports, or holds such food” would have to “maintain the full pedigree of the origin and previous distribution history of the
food,” and “establish and maintain a system for tracing the food that is interoperable with the systems established and maintained by other such
persons.”
- HR 2749 creates severe criminal and civil penalties, including prison terms of up to 10 years and/or fines of up to $100,000 for each violation for
individuals.
