Comments on: “Food safety bill critics: Small farms could lose”

By: Death of a Farmer (and your food freedom too)

Death of a Farmer (and your food freedom too) — Sat, 16 May 2009 20:59:21 +0000

[…] Walter Olsen at Overlawyerd adds: After you fully discount the chain-email false alarms, you’re left with plenty of well-founded concerns about how small producers would fare under the various food-safety measures before Congress. […]

By: Nyack News and Views » Left Meets Right in Nyack

Nyack News and Views » Left Meets Right in Nyack — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:19:47 +0000

[…] Minimum Tax and the unfunded No Child Left Behind. Gillibrand also discussed, in length, criticism of the Food Safety Modernization Act. She assured us that she would not be interested in voting for the bill if it contained […]

By: Vines & Cattle

Vines & Cattle — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:36:41 +0000

It’s basically the Patriot Act for food, a bill whose ramifications for food production will still be felt years from now, and most Americans won’t realize where it all went wrong.

By: Mark Biggar

Mark Biggar — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:54:25 +0000

>The bill provides for an accreditation system for food facilities, and
>would require written food safety plans and hazard analyses for any
>facilities that manufacture, process, pack, transport or hold food in the
>United States.

Notice that unless explicitly excluded this includes every private home kitchen in the country. Also Lemon-aide stands, office break rooms and the coffee table at your church.

By: rxc

rxc — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:53:00 +0000

In all of the comments about how this bill will allow the large producers to dominate the smaller ones, no one has realized that it would allow the govt to decide that organic production is the only appropriate method, and insist that organic standards be followed. They could also insist that no mechanized methods be used, instead moving back to animals(horrors) or even humans, driving the unban masses back to the farms, ala Cambodia. Not to say that this would not provoke a backlash, but this could set a legal standard for someone to try to implement…

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:02:36 +0000

Bingo, improving food safety inspection using the laws we have now would be better, its a system that everyone from inspectors to produces to packers understands. But they don’t understand politics. Its all about getting your name on a bill, becoming known for “helping” people, showing you “care”, and ignoring the people that the law would affect.