posted April 06, 2009 12:46 PM           

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Food-farms-seeds-HR875

Target: House Committee on Agriculture
Sponsored by: Evelyn Bone for all of us that eat, garden or love Farmer Markets

Request to not approve Bill H.R. 875 now in House Committees. Four issues after reading HR875:

1) Redundant, expensive, government activity.

2) Redundant regulations of Federal, state and local regulations already in place.

3) Yet another way legislation set up that can be used to drive out small farms and give more unfair advantages to large Corporate Farms. Legislation that in the future will have indirect and direct control over another fundamental aspect of our daily lives.

4) Pushing our country as having the right to police, and impose themselves into other countries. There are international organizations already established for the U.S. to work within to address agricultural and food processing issues on a global scale.

There are Federal, State and local Agencies already established that are suppose to be doing what is stated in this bill. However, this bill is so broad and vague enough that it could be used to get a strangle hold on our whole food supply chain, from anyone growing or raising anything that can be classified as food, distributors, to the grocery store, to any eating establishment and then to top it off, the right to go, physically, into any country and police them as well. The responsibility is to the American people, our wishes and best interest within our own country without nicking away at our freedoms. Instead of yet another Agency and redundant regulations, improve the USDA, FDA, Federal Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the EPA and Import Inspectors, these are the jobs they are already suppose to be doing. Participate more actively in the World Health Organization's Food Safety Department and/or the 4 other international organizations.