"H.R. 759, The FDA Globalization Act, would do the very thing its name implies; it would grant full authority to the FDA to set minimum, "science-based" standards for what it deems the safe production and harvesting of produce in the "global market".

According to the Cornucopia Institute, all "food processing facilities", or farms, would be required to register with the FDA and pay annual registration fees for program compliance, as well as other requirements including hazard evaluation, preventive hazard control, and copious record-keeping stipulations, regardless of the farm's size, organic certification, or already-existing safety guidelines.

Similar to H.R. 875, H.R 759 makes no differentiation between "food processing facilities", lumping everything from a small, certified-organic family produce farm to a large, conventional factory farm in its "one-size-fits-all" classification system." by Ethan Huff
Food Freedom is under Assault, H.R. 759 Worse than H.R. 875

The latest food Bills will make the fees, fines, methods used, and the testing processes so outrageously expensive that the only people who can be approved and stay approved are industrial farms and GMO companies. Nobody else will be able to afford to go through the rigorous processes that you have to go through to get and keep a product on the approved list. The pesticides and fertilizers are already on the “approved” list. See how this works?

HR759 Food and Drug Administration Globalization Act of 2009
http://www.govtrack.us/congres...ll.xpd?bill=h111-759
S425 Food Safety and Tracking Improvement Act
HR875 Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009
HR814 TRACE Act of 2009

The globalization and "harmonizing" of the United States food and drug laws will increase the market share of those responsible for recent "food safety" issues and drive many small farms out of business. Paul Turner
pturner1@columbus.rr.com

"If some variation of this batch of bad bills is passed into legislation, US citizens will find their laws considerably closer to becoming harmonized with Codex Alimentarius, a set of international food codes crafted by unaccountable and unelected bureaucrats in conjunction with vested industry and trade interests. It’s important that the public learns more about Codex, because its “standards” will be enforced by the World Trade Organization to govern global trade practices of all its member nations." by Nicole Johnson
The 2009 Food ‘Safety’ Bills Harmonize Agribusiness Practices in Service of Corporate Global Governance

Gee Wilson - when the heck do you even find the time to garden? Really? Do you even bother to garden at all, or do you just get off on being an activist?

Because it looks like you spend 24/7 rooting out & posting drivel that enquiring minds not only already KNOW about, but have already made their own decisions about. And your longwinded cut-&-paste posts just take away from the issues rather than add anything informative to them.

The similarities of the latest food Bills and Codex Alimentarius are not mainstream news but they sure should be since the implications lead to less healthy foods grown worldwide and more food safety problems not less...
I realize growing our own food is our best defense, but for many people this is not a real option and I fear for the day when going to an open air farm market means loading up on GMO foods - unlabeled of course.

Judging by the email responses I have received, it does seem inquiring minds do want to know more.

Today I picked several handfuls of asparagus - eating about a handful in the process. I picked and ate more mustard green flowers - there are plenty of seed pods I'll let mature.
I gathered a bushel and a half of stinging nettle leaves and dug several pounds of burdock root. This evening I am brewing another gallon of tea to feed the six gallon batch of Kombucha I have going using the continuous brew method. I have Kefir straining from earlier today which I make cheese from. It is time for me to bottle one of the five gallon batches of apple cider vinegar I started last fall.
I did do some regular gardening. I set out a couple more Rutgers tomatoes.
Paul Turner
"The US media are assiduously silent on the matter of Codex. Under the helpful cover of the media’s information blackout, Codex Alimentarius Commission meetings are regularly attended by officials from the Departments of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, State, Commerce, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of US Trade Representative, and the US Codex Office."
http://farmwars.info/?p=594

You are one scary dude. I actually find you more frightening than anything the government is currently presenting.

quote:

Originally posted by BreezyGardener:
You are one scary dude. I actually find you more frightening than anything the government is currently presenting.

He's also a spammer of remarkable stamina.

To put it mildly, HR 759 would make record-keeping requirements that currently apply to food processors extend to farms and require that such record keeping be done electronically. It would also mandate that all farms become certified in so-called good agricultural practices. Following these practices, which are mostly aimed at controlling microbial contamination, turns out to be easier for farms that grow just a few things than it is for diverse, integrated farms — especially if the farm contains livestock. These rules and other aspects of HR 759 would place a disproportionate burden on small, family farms in their attempt to regulate the large factory farms where most food-safety problems originate.

Below is from a blog by Barbara H. Peterson
Barbara lives on a small ranch in Oregon where she raises geese, chickens, horses, Oggie Dog, a variety of cats, and an opinionated Macaw named Rita. This rural lifestyle is being threatened by a combination of increasing Federal regulations and corporate shenanigans such as NAIS and Monsanto’s invasive GMO technology designed to make it next to impossible to raise animals and organic food.

GMO Clones, the FDA, HR 875, and Congress
Fighting to Save the Family Farm!

And from an email by Barbara:
"HR 875 is worded such that all of its regulations apply to all food production facilities. This means every farm, ranch, orchard, vineyard, aquaculture facility, or confined animal-feeding operation. EVERY. This is wording straight from the bill.

I've read the bill over and over. The fines are outrageous - up to one million dollars per day, for each infraction. If my geese fly over to the neighbor's yard and I do not report this immediately, I am subject to these fines. Also, the FSA (food safety administrator) has up to one year to determine just what the standards for safe food production will be. And, up to 6 months to determine just what a contaminant is. Manure, possibly? This could open the door for forced chemical fertilizers in organic crops if they so decide. It is a blank check to do with us what they will."

Feel free to contact her if you wish to know more about the latest food Bills.