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| S. 510: The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act Rescue Local Organic Farming from One-Size-Fits-All Food Safety Bill! Call Now Enter Your Zip Code Next week, as early as Tuesday, April 13, the U.S. Senate is expected to vote on a sweeping overhaul of the federal food safety law – S. 510. The House food safety bill passed last year (HR 2749) included several measures that threaten small-scale organic producers, including a registration fee of $500 and blanket application of complicated monitoring and traceability standards - regardless of one's farm size. There's no doubt that industrial agriculture needs better oversight. But, family-scale local and organic farms are probably the safest in the nation - they are part of the solution, not part of the problem - and need to be protected! Now is your chance, as a supporter of sustainable family farming, to help fix these problems! Senator Tester (D-MT), a certified organic farmer himself, is proposing an amendment to S. 510 that would exempt small-scale farmers and food processors from the most burdensome regulations. We need your help TODAY, please call your U.S. Senators with input on these proposals. |
The Republican one I was all about creating a free market to buy food, keeping my local businesses in business, and against big government when independent voluntary certifcation companies could do the same thing without interfering with anyone's freedom.
The Democrat one was all about helping the little guys against the big nasty conglomerates, and I said "It would be irony of the worst sort if the burden that is placed on the small farmers is such that the best guys go out of business, and I'm forced to buy from the outfits that cut corners on food safety and wouldn't do a thing about it if the government didn't make them."
