US Bills against organic, small and mixed farming

[Simon Fairlie]

2 worrying new US Bills that allegedly are designed  to make small,  
organic and mixed farms quasi-illegal:

Food Safety  Modernization Act;

Food Safety and Tracking Improvement Act

Try googling them;  or for a critical outline see first link below

http://endgamenow.com/tag/food-safety-and-tracking-improvement-act/



This is a question and answer site:

http://www.govtrack.us/users/questions.xpd?topic=bill:s111-425

from which I have extracted this:

"These bills, using "food safety," are about turning farmers into  
industrial workers on their own land, telling them what kind of feed  
to use (GMOs) and when, how they must medically treat their animals  
(drugs) and when and with what they must spray (pesticides). The  
wording on HR875 may sound innocuous, but codewords will put FDA and  
USDA regulations into operation (regulations have never had public  
discussion or debate and weren't voted for). "Traceability" and  
"source verification" mean NAIS (National Animal Identification  
System)will be enacted (explanation about NAIS below). "Best farming  
practices" will force farmers to use drugs, pesticides and certain  
feeds (genetically altered). Farmers won't be able to have animals  
and vegetables on the same farm. These become operable with Smart  
Grid, part of the Stimulus Package. Right now, per writer Linn Cohen- 
Cole, House Commerce and Agriculture Committees and the Senate  
Agriculture Committee are having secret meetings regarding these  
bills, and we won't even know how they vote. They'll try to push  
these bills to House and Senate votes the same day they come out of  
the Committees. The USDA and Homeland Security have planned six  
CLOSED-TO-SMALL-LIVESTOCK-OWNERS meetings around "depopulating"  
animals "in case" there is a disease outbreak.They could completely  
wipe out normal breeds of animals and substitute genetically  
engineered animals."

"Farmers won't be able to have animals and vegetables on the same  
farm" Mixed farms made illegal?  I wouldn't put it beyond the  
Monsanto-controlled US food establishment

Simon


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