Does this also cover the veggie patch outside in the yard?

The problem (which may not be what they are trying to address) is that currently, “organic” means whatever the heck the person selling the food wants it to mean. Coca Cola could label Diet Coke as organic, and legally, there would be no problem with this (yet for example, there are tons of restrictions on what you can call a sausage or scotch or whatever).

What a great example of “benevolent” liberal fascism.

This is going to be so much fun. I might stroll around Boston and Cambridge and tape protest flyers all over the organic food and coffee shops.

What a great example of “benevolent” liberal fascism.

This is going to be so much fun. I might stroll around Boston and Cambridge and tape protest flyers all over the organic food and coffee shops.

Is this a move toward nationalization or keep state federal control or what?

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“The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.”

James Madison

Crunchy moms on the internet are very upset over this.

genetically altered foodstuffs have save literally millions of lives.

Penn Jillette did a show on it a few years ago.

They had an idiot arguing that genetically altered food lowered the quality of living so greatly the lives it saved weren’t worth living.

He said about the same about anyone who eats meat as well.

What is sad here is that there are a bunch of Liberals who are going to be mad about this and not know who did it to them. LIBERALS. It is like the government has a list that they are checking off. Let’s nationalize banks. Check. Let’s nationalize the car industry. Check. Education. Check. Unions. Check. Agriculture. Working…

What is next?! Can’t they just leave us alone?

BTW…Joe, I am with you. I don’t care if it is organic or not. It is the principle here. But, organic food does taste much better than genetically altered.

http://franklinslocke.blogspot.com/

from the Van Andel and Devos families?
I’ve been to the Nutrilite farm in Lakeview and that is a certified organic farm. No sign of pesticides anywhere and they show off their good bugs they use to keep their farm free from the bad bugs.
We are only talking about the largest supplement manufacturer in the world and my favorite product comes from that farm in CA as well probably some other farms in Mexico and Brazil.

Their product is a top of the line. I believe the Chinese were interested in duplicating their farm to production phases, cause the Chinese have been to the Nutrilite packaging plant in Buena Park. Maybe my favorite supplement will now to be made overseas with the same company. No links for the above information, just first hand knowledge based on interviews with people in Buena Park as well as being a nine year client and IBO with Nutrilite.

First the dems wipe out the home mortgage industry with their rules from GSEs Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac. Then they pass a ‘Consumer Protection” bill that will wipe out kids libraries, kids books, thrift stores, clothing sellers because of stupidity in drafting the legislation (once again these are liberal voting groups that they have crucified). Now they are targeting organic environazis, another precious libtard support group. I wouldn’t cry too hard for them except I am troubled by the omnibus term ‘farm’. The way libtards have interpreted statutes and the Constitution since 1939, that cabbage patch in your backyard could just as easily be regulatable by this legislation as any Archer Daniels Midland agribusiness. Libs have no common sense or sense of shame so those evil perfidious neocon conservative rethuglicans would have to come in to save the candy asses of these ecoextremists. Isn’t life ironic and delicious sometimes? Like when Obama in fifty days sends out a SIGNING STATEMENT, that he bashed Bush up and down about?
Sends tingles up my leg…
DSmurf does bring up an interesting point. Under NAFTA, we would probably have to accept farm products from Mexico and Canada that wouldn’t be subject to this insane bill or the new Food Safety Council (and why is this council in HHS rather than Agriculture? Because of the extreme leftwing bias at HHC, perhaps?) Is this an example of outsourcing by leftwing democrap politicians? Bad to outsource IT customer support jobs but great to outsource our food supply!
Those dems are geniuses.

in the 1930′s under Stalin and the result was a total disaster for them, mass starvation and millions upon millions dead. This looks a lot like a huge power grab that can not lead to anything good down the road. It smells like the end of the US Federal government as a Republic and the beginnings of a dictatorship. Taken to it’s extreme this could end up destroying us and the idiots in charge are either clueless or complicit…

Does this only affect organic stuff or every single small family operation in existence? Because if it hits farms other than organic, then there are going to be so many people pissed off about this that we won’t have any problem getting torches and pitchforks in quantity.

Until they outlaw torches and pitchforks. We need to be organizing a lot faster than we seem to be.

I’ve looked at the list of the sponsors, and they appear to be pretty much representing urban or suburban areas.

The reps from farm stand country appear to be smart enough to not sign on.

New York State – - Governor Paterson (Democrat of course) is taxing everything he can …… is planning an 18% tax on all beverages with sugar I guess – - i.e. soda, etc. Of course there is already a deposit required for all bottled beverages….. It will, of course, cost many their jobs and that’s a serious problem since we’ve been losing jobs, and population for a long time now. The Democrats will just finish the job then Obama will “Cap and Trade” and cost everyone $1400 more in energy costs a year. What a guy…

If you love Obama and his policies – - come to New York STate, you’ll think you died and went to heaven. It’s one of the few states that is actually losing population. There’s a lesson there somewhere.