I just want to thank you for your comments today.  I really hope that we start seeing a lot more personal responsibility and a lot more accountability for big agriculture.  Small farms, as you well know, do not need and should not have to shoulder the burden of these regulations.

- Jenny

Are people so lazy or (uneducated) that if they cant properly prepare their
food that farmers and grocers are held responsible? ( there are special circumstances) but for the most part, 20 people go into a store and pick that head of cabbage or package of meat up and set it down for another, I personally think that is more of a health hazard than the small farmers and their fresh produce etc. PLEASE do not follow through with this. PLEASE STOP the HN 185 bill. thank you.

Even the gurus will agree with what is being said here. I am glad I found it….

Now, it’s probably going to be passed into law one way or another. Understand? Name one repressive so-called “law” now on the books that YOU actually desired or had a chance to vote for. None of them, right? These “laws” that have stripped you of all semblance of Unalienable Rights? Why? Because your elected officials are whores, owned and operated by… well, you know who owns them, don’t you?

As I see it, your only choice is that when the inspector comes, you take him and crucify him on the side of your barn or garage. And do it that to the next one as well. If you are arrested, then you can be tried by a jury of your peers. If you don’t want to be tried by a jury of brainwashed, dumbed down morons, then resist and perish! Not so palatable, eh? Tell that to all the soldiers who died fighting for your Rights… or so they imagined. As we both know, they were actually fighting for… well, you know who they were fighting for, don’t you.

If the truth is not palatable and the solution not pleasant, then stop complaining and crawl on your belly and lick the hand that feeds you (frankenfood). Have a nice day.

I’m writing to inform you of my opposition to bill HR 875, also known as the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009.

HR 875, which was introduced by Congresswoman Rosa Delauro, will be needlessly damaging to all farm-to-consumer activity in our nation. In this time of great economic uncertainty the local food movement has provided a glimmer of hope, a glimpse of a path that might lead us, as a nation, out our depression.

It has been made clear, from the new administration’s recent campaign that grass roots efforts work — That they are effective and powerful. We are capable of creating big change by organizing locally. This is the model that will also save our food chain.

I recognize that it seems like having many small farms would be a logistical nightmare and much more difficult to monitor than having fewer larger ones, yet a look at our recent food scares should quickly negate this argument. All of our tainted foods have come from large agribusiness with supposedly rigid standards.

We must not allow fear to end our support for local farmers. Now is when we need to support them and help them grow. We cannot let the interests of the giant agribusinesses deny us of eggs hatched at our local CSAs, or lettuce grown down the road and sold at the local farm stand.

These are our civic spaces, our communal places; we need them to thrive again. We must support small farmers in our nation. Our future depends on it.

Our communities are being made stronger and healthier with the greater availability of locally grown food. It is imperative that giant agribusinesses are not the sole providers of food in this nation.

I implore you to oppose HR 875 – The Food Safety and Modernization Act – and to urge other congressmen and women to do the same.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,