[AlpacaTalk] Re: bill against farms

I just read an article on this and it also could prohibit people from using and collecting their own seeds (due to requiring facilities/equipment no small farms could afford). Ultimately, this would mean everyone would have to buy their seed from large agro companies (can you say GMO). Also, while this MAY not affect alpaca owners right now (and that is a BIG may) many of us also raise poultry and sell the eggs, and/or other livestock for meat. Another shocker in there is they could prohibit the raising of crops and food animals on the same farm!! Apparently similar laws in other countries (EU, India, Iraq) have resulted in the decimation of small and organic farms.

Please, call your senators!

Morgen,
Claverack, NY

--- In AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com, CapeCodCat@... wrote:
>
> This is a scary bill, granted no one eats alpacas, but the impact is
> frightening.
>
>
> This is an interesting piece of _legislation_
> (http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=12671) . It seems the food police want to criminalize
> organic farming and the backyard gardener. This bill is sitting in committee and
> we need to contact our legislators about this.
>
> Here’s _the bill_ (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.875:)
> itself.
>
>
>
> _http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.875_
> (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.875) :
>
>
>
>
> Pay special attention to Section 3 (which is the definitions portion of the
> bill-read in it’s entirety) and sections 103, 206 and 207. Read those
> sections in their entirety.
>
>
>
> Red flags of this bill:
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
> 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?
>
> Just for reference, here's who sponsored this:
>
>
> Sponsor: Rep DeLauro, Rosa L. CT {DEM}
>
> 39 cosponsors â€"
> Rep Berkley, Shelley NV {DEM}
> Rep Bishop, Sanford D., Jr. GA {DEM}
> Rep Bishop, Timothy H. NY {DEM}
> Rep Carson, Andre IN {DEM}
> Rep Castor, Kathy FL {DEM}
> Rep Courtney, Joe CT {DEM}
> Rep DeFazio, Peter A. OR {DEM}
> Rep DeGette, Diana CO {DEM}
> Rep Engel, Eliot L. NY {DEM}
> Rep Eshoo, Anna G. CA {DEM}
> Rep Farr, Sam CA {DEM}
> Rep Filner, Bob CA {DEM}
> Rep Giffords, Gabrielle AZ {DEM}
> Rep Grijalva, Raul M. AZ {DEM}
> Rep Hall, John J. NY {DEM}
> Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. NY {DEM}
> Rep Hirono, Mazie K. HI {DEM}
> Rep Johnson, Eddie Bernice TX {DEM}
> Rep Kaptur, Marcy OH {DEM}
> Rep Lee, Barbara CA {DEM}
> Rep Lowey, Nita M. NY {DEM}
> Rep McCollum, Betty MN {DEM}
> Rep McDermott, Jim WA {DEM}
> Rep McGovern, James P. MA {DEM}
> Rep Moore, Gwen WI {DEM}
> Rep Murphy, Christopher S. CT {DEM}
> Rep Nadler, Jerrold NY {DEM}
> Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes DC {DEM}
> Rep Pingree, Chellie ME {DEM}
> Rep Ryan, Tim OH {DEM}
> Rep Sanchez, Linda T. CA {DEM}
> Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. IL {DEM}
> Rep Schauer, Mark H. MI {DEM}
> Rep Slaughter, Louise McIntosh NY {DEM}
> Rep Stark, Fortney Pete CA {DEM}
> Rep Sutton, Betty OH {DEM}
> Rep Tierney, John F. MA {DEM}
> Rep Wasserman Schultz, Debbie FL {DEM}
> Rep Wexler, Robert FL {DEM}
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