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The Stalinization of Obama's America 

Pioneer Press
Fort Jones, CA
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
page 4, col 1
 
Yes we can turn into a Stalinist country overnight.

Was it that long ago that we don't remember or is it that we don't recite history anymore if it is inconvenient to those pushing a Stalinistic agenda?


Remember the notion of Stalin nationalizing the food production, because if the government absolutely controls food, it absolutely controls the people.

Well here we go, Obama.

The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 would criminalize my mother's garden and make her a felon for feeding me her organic produce from the garden.

Plus, every meal that she serves me from her garden, she will be fined a million bucks.
Sound crazy?

Yes it is crazy.

But it's true.

And it's just what Barack Hussein Obama II wants.

The bill applies to all "food establishments." The term 'food establishment' means a slaughterhouse (except those regulated under the Federal Meat Inspection Act or the Poultry Products Inspection Act), factory, warehouse, or facility owned or operated by a person located in any State that processes food or a facility that holds, stores, or transports food or food ingredients.

What this will do is force anyone who produces food of any kind, and then transports it to a different location for sale, to register with a new federal agency called the "Food Safety Administration." Even growers who only sell only fruit and/or vegetables at farmers markets would not only have to register, but they would be subject inspections by federal agents of their property and all records related to food production. The frequency of these inspections will be determined by the whim of the Food Safety Administration. Mandatory "safety" records would have to be kept.

 It will literally put all independent farmers and food producers out of business due to the huge amounts of money it will take to conform to factory farming methods.  If people choose to farm without industry standards such as chemical pesticides and fertilizers they will be subject to a variety of harassment from this completely new agency that has never before existed.  That's right, a whole new government agency is being created just to police food, for our own protection of course. 

Following are some of the biggest red flags in the bill:

* Legally binds state agriculture departments to enforcing federal guidelines effectively taking away the states power to do anything other than being food police for the feds.
* Effectively criminalizes organic farming but doesn't actually use the word organic.
* Effects anyone growing food even if they are not selling it but consuming it.
* Effects anyone producing meat of any kind including wild game.
* Legislation is so broad based that every aspect of growing or producing food can be made illegal.  There are no specifics which is bizarre considering how long the legislation is. 
* It will allow the appointing of officials from the factory farming corporations and lobbyists and classify them as experts and allow them to determine and interpret the legislation.  Who do you think they are going to side with? 
*  The wording is so broad based that a backyard gardener could be fined and more.


- Daniel Webster, Publisher
 
 
(Permission to post this article from the publisher.)