THE END OF SMALL FARMERS, CSA, ORCHARDS AND FARMERS MARKETS
H.R. 2749: Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009
This will allow the government to regulate how food and seed is grown, harvested, packaged, shipped and sold. They can change the standards at will and set guidelines that only billion dollar companies can meet. Essentially, if the local farmer, farmers markets, CSA don’t invest in million dollar processing facilities, they will be shut down. Food grown locally will be outlawed. They can also set guidelines so strict that it will be impossible to grow food organically. Say goodbye to heirloom vegetables since only large corps will be able to clean the seeds appropriately and they will only sell their own patented seeds. This has already passed the House and is going to Senate. Read up on it and help stop it. Section 104 is extremely nasty.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-2749&tab=summary
THE END OF SMALL FARMERS, CSA, ORCHARDS AND FARMERS MARKETS
Everyone needs to put this on their FB. I just did!!!
Some amendments were made by the house but I have not found them online.
The bill was referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, where it remains. Contact the members and make sure they know you oppose this legislation. There are no Texas Senators so we may not be as effective, but I suggest you encourage friends in other states to contact their senators to make it their opposition known.
Democrats by Rank
Tom Harkin (IA)
Christopher Dodd (CT)
Barbara A. Mikulski (MD)
Jeff Bingaman (NM)
Patty Murray (WA)
Jack Reed (RI)
Bernard Sanders (I) (VT)
Sherrod Brown (OH)
Robert P. Casey, Jr. (PA)
Kay Hagan (NC)
Jeff Merkley (OR)
Al Franken (MN)
Michael Bennet (CO)
Republicans by Rank
Michael B. Enzi (WY)
Judd Gregg (NH)
Lamar Alexander (TN)
Richard Burr (NC)
Johnny Isakson (GA)
John McCain (AZ)
Orrin G. Hatch (UT)
Lisa Murkowski (AK)
Tom Coburn, M.D. (OK)
Pat Roberts (KS)
It seems like we go through this every year. What is with these people?!? Grrrr!
Food is power. If you control the food, you win.
I started Googling the names of the Democrats above and each one has a website with a "contact me" box. It takes about 3 minutes. Express your opinion or just write "STOP Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009".
Bump - we need to keep this forefront in others minds
I posted to my facebook. Thanks for the info. I posted all the Senators names to FB also.
I posted on my FB a couple of days ago, too.