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The lame duck Congress might get around to passing the Food Safety Modernization Act, which the president has indicated that he will sign. This law, if enacted will be one of the greatest thefts of our freedom by the planners. Imagine a world where it is illegal to grow your own food in a garden, share food with your neighbors, sell extra produce from your garden, even have a bake sale….this is a distinct possibility. Here is a link to an editorial, which is opinion and not fact, but the authors get the gist of the bill.

The NYT's Scholsser is for the bill, at least on the op-ed page, which is proof that the bill is fundamentally wrong. He creates the spin that all planners wish to create, the elimination of victims of corporate evil. What is really going on here is the government attempting control over our food supply.

With Government in control of the banking, insurance, automakers, health care, insurance industry, and others, it is only natural for them to go after the food supply.


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  1. Guest on November 30, 2010 9:39 am

    [This law] doesn't affect gardens or bake sales.

  2. Jack Tierney on November 30, 2010 11:58 am

    This is an important issue especially in rural farming areas. Little mention is made of the extra costs involved for smaller farmers and their local co-ops who must follow the proposed legislation. Another especially onerous portion which has really been received poorly, is the grant of searches without warrants. It is particularly aggravating at a time when all the president and other politicians are proclaiming themselves to be pro-small business. This piece of legislation is anything but….

    P.S.: Posting here because I haven’t received any List posts in several days…

  3. Jeff Watson on November 30, 2010 2:30 pm

    @ Guest, Bake sales are already regulated and are illegal(much like most church bingo games) in most jurisdictions as the food was not prepared in a commissary, nor prepared by cooks with a food safety card, and doesn’t meet sanitary requirements. Although the law is a rarely enforced one, it is an arrow in the quiver of the central planners. As for home gardens, if one sells any produce from their garden, they will run afoul of the law. Our home gardens are already heavily regulated by the Feds. Just try to grow tobacco, hops, wheat, or barley for that matter, sell some to your neighbor and see what they do to you. Or have a few head of dairy and sell raw milk, or make cheese from the raw milk, sell it and see what they do. Or, stretching it a bit, grow some corn in your garden, convert it to whiskey, sell it in the neighborhood, and see how the feds react.

  4. Bill on December 1, 2010 8:20 am

    My chickens have slowed down their egg production ( 12 hens & only 3 eggs per day)due to this! Enough is enough with our lying, thieving government trying to control our lives. What about non-hybrid seeds? Possession of seed can become illegal!

  5. Steven Thorpe on December 1, 2010 10:39 am

    While I have found this law to be atrocious since I first learned of it, I believe they removed a few measures to make it less of a stranglehold on local farmers and/or individual gardeners.

    Jeff - if this is incorrect, please let me know.

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