If you grow your own food you might be a criminal under HR875

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HR 875 The food police, criminalizing organic farming and the backyard gardener,

and violation of the 10th amendment

 

 

 

HR 875 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c111:1:./temp/~c1112RD9bb:e11439:

This bill is sitting in committee and I am not sure when it is going to hit the

floor. One thing I do know is that very few of the Representatives have read

it. As usual they will vote on this based on what someone else is saying. Urge

your members to read the legislation and ask for opposition to this devastating

legislation. Devastating for everyday folks but great for factory farming ops

like Monsanto, ADM, Sodexo and Tyson to name a few.

I have no doubt that this legislation was heavily influenced by lobbyists from

huge food producers. This legislation is so broad based that technically

someone with a little backyard garden could get fined and have their property

siezed. It will effect anyone who produces food even if they do not sell but

only consume it. It will literally put all independent farmers and food

producers out of business due to the huge amounts of money it will take to

conform to factory farming methods. If people choose to farm without industry

standards such as chemical pesticides and fertilizers they will be subject to a

vareity of harassment from this completely new agency that has never before

existed. That's right, a whole new government agency is being created just to

police food, for our own protection of course.

DO NOT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT, READ THIS LEGISLATION FOR YOURSELF. The more

people who read this legislation the more insight we are going to get and be

able to share. Post your observations and insights below. Urge your members to

read this legislation and to oppose the passage of this legislation.

Pay special attention to

 

* Section 3 which is the definitions portion of the bill-read in it's

entirety.

* section 103, 206 and 207- read in it's entirety.

 

Red flags I found and I am sure there are more...........

 

* Legally binds state agriculture depts to enforcing federal guidelines

effectively taking away the states power to do anything other than being food

police for the federal dept.

* Effectively criminalizes organic farming but doesn't actually use the word

organic.

* Effects anyone growing food even if they are not selling it but consuming

it.

* Effects anyone producing meat of any kind including wild game.

* Legislation is so broad based that every aspect of growing or producing

food can be made illegal. There are no specifics which is bizarre considering

how long the legislation is.

* Section 103 is almost entirely about the administrative aspect of the

legislation. It will allow the appointing of officials from the factory farming

corporations and lobbyists and classify them as experts and allow them to

determine and interpret the legislation. Who do you think they are going to

side with?

* Section 206 defines what will be considered a food production facility and

what will be enforced up all food production facilities. The wording is so

broad based that a backyard gardener could be fined and more.

* Section 207 requires that the state's agriculture dept act as the food

police and enforce the federal requirements. This takes away the states power

and is in violation of the 10th amendment.

* There are many more but by the time I got this far in the legislation I

was so alarmed that I wanted to bring someone's attention to it. (to the one

person who reads my blog)

 

Didn't Stalin nationalize farming methods that enabled his administration to

gain control over the food supply? Didn't Stalin use the food to control the

people?

Last word...... Legislate religion and enforce gag orders on ministers on what

can and can't be said in the pulpit, instituting regulations forcing people to

rely soley on the government, control the money and the food. What is that

called? It is on the tip of my tongue..........

I haven't read any of the Senate's version of the bill as I have been poring

thru the House's version. Here is the link and I hope some of you can take a

look and post your observations and insights below. One thing I am pretty sure

of is that very few if any Senator's have actually read the legislation and when

it comes up for a vote they will more than likely take someone else's word on

how they should vote. The other thing I am pretty sure about is that the

legislation was probably written by lobbyists and industry experts.

S 425 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:s425:

Things you can do

 

1. Contact your members at 202-224-3121 and ask them to oppose HR 875 and S

425. While you are at it ask them if they personally have read the legislation

and what their position is? If they have not read the legislation ask them to

read it and politely let them know that just because other representitives are

not reading the legislation and voting on it does not mean they can do the same.

2. Get in touch with local farmers and food producers by attending a local

farmers market and asking them how business is.

3. Attend a local WAPF meeting, this is a good start to learning about what

is going on in farming and local & state initiatives . The website is

http://www.westonaprice.org/localchapters/index.html

4. Check out the Farmers Legal Defense Fund at

http://www.ftcldf.org/index.html

5. Find out who sits on your states agriculture and farming committee and

contact them with your concerns.

6. Continue to contact your elected officials and let them know your position

on legislation and why.

7. Get active at the local and state levels, this is the quickest way to

initiate change.