America’s health problems are largely the result of the dominant food-industrial complex, based as it is on chemical agriculture, growth hormones, steroids, junk food and, increasingly, genetically-modified foods that cross the plant and animal divide. It is this corporate food machine that is about to consolidate its power with H.R. 875. FULL ARTICLE
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Every year they come up with some new thing to “protect” us – eventually we’ll all be in solitary prison, and we’ll be as safe as can be.
Thank you, state.
When will the state or federal government pass the stop the “stupidity Act” ??? it seems that’s all they know how to do…yep…Only in America…
Steve, they’d never do it – that would eliminate the federal government altogether. Like H.L. Mencken said:
“It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.”
Amazing, is it not? The feds allowed the Peanut Corp. of America to continue operation for decades despite a long laundry list of health code violations dating back to at least the mid-1980’s! But now, the government is going to create a new agency to pass unnecessary (and perhaps unconstitutional laws) to soak up more tax dollars and crack down on those ever-dangerous roadside fruit stands. Way to go D.C. Sure glad you’re looking out for us.
Patrick, you’re definitely on to something there. Regulation, they say, is to “protect” us. but in reality, it really doesn’t. Instead, it’s there to keep competition away from the big politically-connected corporations.
May I submit a quote fro C. S. Lewis?
“Of all Tyrannies, a Tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims, may be the most oppressive.”
Beware when Big Brother does something to you “for your own good” .
Awesome quote, Cliff! I think CS Lewis is always welcome here…..
This is all part and parcel of the same thing, mostly designed to eliminate the small farmer, the hobby farmer, even the home gardener.
The DOA’s NAIS site extols how NAIS will “protect” the farmer from animal borne diseases, etc. If you read the Act, you will find it micromanages small farmers to extinction. With the exception of large agribusiness farms, every cow, horse, duck, turkey, goose, pig, chicken, you name it, must be microchipped and its movements tracked and reported on. Any animal that meets any other animal off premises, a full report of the contact is to be made and the other animal or animals ID’d. If you are riding your horse off your property, everything you meet must be listed and reported on.
All hay, for instance, must have each bale identified with a number. Records are to be kept of who cut the hay, loaded the hay, transported the hay, to whom it was sold. And so on ad infinitum. All agribusiness has to do is fill out a form saying we raised x hundred head of cattle and sold them to slaughterhouse 5. Requirement met.
Where do the food borne diseases and illnesses come from? Rarely the small farmer or truck gardener. The big feed lot slaughter houses that drag freshly killed and gutted animals across processed meat, dripping offal. Virtually no control regarding safety and cleanliness. Instead, it is speed and greed. The same with agribusiness. The most pesticides and weed killers and hormones that can be used. Instead of letting fields lie fallow, and using crop rotation to let the land regenerate as most small farmers do, the land is planted year after year, bolstered by ever increasing amounts of chemical fertilizers and all the other garbage that will improve the bottom line. Quality and health be damned.
There is almost nothing in the vast miasma of the Obamanation that is benefiting the small farmer, the small businessman, the little town or the individual. The tiny modicum that hasn’t been given away to the billionaires is being seized and regulated by the vast bureaucracy that wants to control every aspect of our lives, “for our own good,” of course.
Big Brother is watching You! In your bedroom, on the street, in your car, looking over your shoulder and mine as I type this and you read it. He tries to control what you eat, what you read, what you think, all for your and my own good, of course. He has a vast bureaucracy to protect us, called Homeland Security, which is chiefly charged with restricting our human rights and freedoms to keep us “safe.”
I have been writing and warning about this for years and I am getting very tired of the whole subject. Every hoped for breath of fresh air turns out to be blowing from the treatment plant. There is no substantive change from administration to administration, except that things are getting worse. Sometimes overtly, if we are run by Republicans or covertly if the Democrats are in charge, but always going downhill, always more of Big Brother.
Goodnight Gracie.
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