How can this happen?

http://cryptogon.com/?p=7362

NWO.

This will be interesting for all the Amish farms in my neighborhood!

Quote:

b) Inspection of Records- A food production facility shall permit the Administrator upon presentation of appropriate credentials and at reasonable times and in a reasonable manner, to have access to and ability to copy all records maintained by or on behalf of such food production establishment in any format (including paper or electronic) and at any location, that are necessary to assist the Administrator–

I hope they come up with pneumatic, propane or diesel powered copy machines in the future! Of course, there are many other problems with this, including the transportation of grain from farms to feed silos, human food products that do not require refrigeration (ie canned beans, cases of soda), but Amish providing copy machines on their farms just struck me as funny. Barbara

O.K.

Barbara

Karl, No Farmers Market evidently is change that "you can believe in". Millet (1403-)

I have a friend here who is a nurse working for our health Dept. & is often interviewed on tv on issues.
A few years ago, they found cantalopes to be the culprit of hepatitis outbreak (I think it was hepatitis at the time). She said (on news) for everyone to wash their cantalopes & melons etc before they cut it. That was all she could say on the news. She told me it's because mexican laborers (I'm sure illegal aliens) picking the fruits in the fields do not use restrooms while they pick. They pee & poop in the fields (CA etc) & do not wash their hands & therefore it gets on the melons. These were not sold at farmers markets, but in supermarkets.

I'll bet no one ever got sick on fruits or veggies from farmers markets.

Here's a more toned-down, albeit, "balanced" reaction to the bill:

http://sharonastyk.com/2009/03/14/why-im-not-panicking-about-hr-875/

Here's some excerpts:
The rhetoric has been overblown to a destructive degree. As Tom Philpott points out at Grist:

“I’ve been reading hysterical missives about H.R. 875 for weeks. I could never square them with the text of the bill, which is admittedly vague. For example, the bill seeks to regulate any “food production facility” which it defines as “any farm, ranch, orchard, vineyard, aquaculture facility, or confined animal-feeding operation.”

But then again, the USDA already regulates farms. And “24 hours GPS tracking of … animals”? Not in there. “Warrentless government entry” to farms? Can’t find it.

More recently, reading around the web, I found more reasoned takes on H.R. 875. The bill may not be worth supporting — and from what I hear, it has little chance of passing. But it hardly represents the “end of farming,” much less the end of organic farming. The Organic Consumers Association, an energetic food-industry watchdog, recently called the paranoia around H.R. 875 the “Internet rumor of the week.”

The Organic Consumers Association has this to say:

The Organic Consumers Association is not taking a position for or against this bill, but encouraging its members to write to Congress to urge it to enact food safety legislation that addresses the inherent dangers of our industrialized food system without burdening certified organic and farm-to-consumer operations.

Quite sensibly, the OCA wants Congress to avoid “one-size-fits-all legislation.” Regulations that make sense for a 1000-acre spinach farm could push a diversified operation that includes spinach in its crop mix out of business. Sustainable-food advocates should oppose H.R. 875 until it adds scale-appropriate language.

But effective opposition does not mean indulging in fictional rants about it. There’s no evidence that the bill aims to end farming; insisting that it does destroys credibility.”

click on the link above for complete article....

Patty I love Farmer Markets also. I purchase from them frequently. Besides buying fruits and vegetables, I enjoy the visiting them. - Millet (1,402)