 disenchantedcitizen says: Oppressive new rules are being imposed on small-scale producers in the name of food security. The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 contains language would make home food preservation illegal and requires farmers who sell direct to consumers via farmers markets, market gardens, or other community supported agriculture (CSA) endeavors to get permission from a Government inspector The bill also requires consumers who buy from local producers to fill out a form with their name, social security number, and list how they plan to store the produce and when and how they will consume it. If the Government is so set on protecting what they admit is a vulnerable food supply, why are they allowing unrestricted, undocumented flow of illegals across our southern border knowing they will find employment in the agriculture industry? And, why is the Government focused on small family farms? Why would family farmers be of any concern to the Government? Maybe we’re asking the wrong question. Maybe the question should be: What are they planning on doing that would cause America’s small-scale family farmers and the rural community to revolt? Let’s face it, you don’t plan on a worst-case scenario unless you have information on how that scenario would occur. So what do they know that we don’t? It’s my contention that there is something quite unpleasant in store for rural America. Like Dr. Keyes says, controlling the urban population isn’t a problem. Controlling the rural population, the people who control the food supply, could be a real problem. Throughout history, fascist regimes and dictators alike, seized control of the rural communites a... Your assuming, as the article does, that migrant workers want to contaminate the American food supply, a racist assumption to say the least, as their existence does not in anyway increase the danger to it (or alter it in anyway). After all, it is the lack of proper inspection of major agri-business and food manufacturers (usually left to the companies themselves) that is the real problem. Just look at the last salmonella outbreak. ratiflar, neither I nor the author ASSUME migrant workers WANT to contaminate the food supply. Your charge of racism is way off base. You are correct in stating the lack of proper inspection is the real problem. However, since the Obama Administration decided to end the crackdown on illegal immigration, ordering the Border Patrol to stop arresting people caught crossing illegally, they have increased the chances that our food supply CAN be further jeopardized. How so? Unless you are, in fact, assuming that illegal immigrants are more likely to contaminate the food supply. Otherwise their immigration status has nothing to do with it. Any person with access and intent could do it and considering the current state of affairs, the most effective way would be to allow already contaminated foods which have not being properly inspected to reach the market. Which one is it? I’m trying real hard to understand your point in this other than trying to find racism. The article clearly says that the government is concerned about a terrorist attack by Islamic extremist on our food supply and then allows an unfettered flow of immigrants (that means without any ID checks) across our border. The article goes on to say that the government is increasingly putting restrictions on family farms selling their produce to the public. The dichotomy between the government allowing immigrants to freely work in our food production stream in big farming concerns versus clamping down on home food production is glaring. This is why this article asks the question: What are they reall... They teach them to think that way in our colleges, citizen. He represents a prime example of what is killing America right now. He sees racism in the profiling and labeling of Islamist extremists. And, by the way, no doubt sees nothing wrong with the profiling in this weeks laughable Homeland Security "report." That Homeland Security report should scare the hell out of everybody. Apparently, if you have been: laid-off, are pro-life, own a firearm, grow your own food, are concerned about illegal immigration, think the federal government is out of control then you are considered to be a rightwing nut job. Since when did the Constitution become a subversive manifesto? |
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