by: Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved
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“Our food system is not broken as some claim. It is not dangerous, it is not rife with disease, it is not a threat to anyone and there is no terrorist in a cave somewhere “over there” plotting and planning on how to defecate in a field of spinach just to make a few American’s sick. If bio-terrorism were an actual threat from foreign agents, they must all be employed by the US government which is currently operating or overseeing more than 600 bio-weapons labs across the US including on every university campus. “
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S.510, “FDA Food safety Modernization Act” is a misnomer. This bill should be more aptly titled “Making America Sick Through Adulteration of Food” act. Calendar No. 247, S.510 came out of committee and into the Senate on March 3, 2010. While I am tempted to go through this latest attack on the public, line by line, suffice it to say that it is nothing more than another hyped up reaction to a created crisis that could have been easily taken care of had anyone actually been doing the jobs they are paid to do.
Here’s the problem with our food system in the US: the government refuses to keep its damn nose out of it. For years we have had to endure the USDA and FDA regulations, codes, rules and other obstacles erected as barriers to commerce and to the agricultural production that has been the back bone of our economy. A nation is only as successful as its farmers and ranchers; the ability of a nation to feed itself is the greatest deterrent to recessions and depressions. And by farmers and ranchers I don’t mean industrialized corporate farming for massive profits while we defile everything in sight.
For every one dollar spent in agriculture, an estimated seven dollars is generated in the over all economy. We need our farmers and ranchers; we don’t need bloated bureaucracies laden with desk jockeys who have nothing better to do than to create ever increasing and burdensome rules, regulations, statutes and codes that even they themselves cannot decipher and most times can’t even remember. USDA currently has more than 16,000 rules, regulations and other nonsense on the books. More













