------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [MCM] Scratch the previous item re: HR 875 Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:23:18 EDT From: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Hello Dr. Miller, While I would agree that what was said about the bill in the original email wasn't true, I certainly wouldn't go so far as to say that it is a good bill. I've read a great deal of it (the nightmare of the food industry is becoming a pet project of mine) and perused what I haven't read carefully. The thing that is scary about the bill is the broad language it uses which, essentially, is setting the stage for future abuse in the form of regulation that could easily be structured to target non multinational agribusiness and eventually put certain types of farmers out of business like the above mentioned email claimed. One of a few items in the bill that raises alarms for me talks about "registration" of all food production facilities, which would include small independent farms, raising questions about exactly how deep the bureaucracy will get and to whom they will answer. This looks like a ridiculous overreaction to the recent salmonella outbreaks. Hope it doesn't pass. A few of the comments following this short piece have good points <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/09/hr-875-myth-sows-terror-a_n_185230.html>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/09/hr-875-myth-sows-terror-a_n_185230.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Mark Crispin Miller's "News From Underground" newsgroup. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [email protected] OR go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
