HR 875 Anyone else Freaked Out by this??

[dbjay417]

at least there is some one out there batting for small agro and individuals with agro interests...

U.S. Congressman Ron Paul has introduced H.R. 778 which would authorize the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products that are packaged for direct human consumption.

The bill would not force a state to legalize the sale of raw milk from local producers, nor would it force a state to allow the sale of raw milk from out-of-state producers in its retail stores. The bill would, however, enable consumers to enter into transactions to obtain raw milk and raw milk products from other states without the transactions being in violation of federal law.

http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/09/ron-paul-wants-to-make-the-sale-of-raw-milk-legal/

Enough is enough with bureaucrats trying to regulate every aspect of daily life just because some people get sick now and then. Its a calculated risk that we all take every day, whether its the food we eat or just getting out of bed to go to work. Every now and then some body gets hit by a bus. They aren't rushing to criminalize crossing the street.

I can't continue discussing this. Nothing ruffles my feathers like encroaching authoritarianism.

 

[Reinbeau]

at least there is some one out there batting for small agro and individuals with agro interests...

U.S. Congressman Ron Paul has introduced H.R. 778 which would authorize the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products that are packaged for direct human consumption.

The bill would not force a state to legalize the sale of raw milk from local producers, nor would it force a state to allow the sale of raw milk from out-of-state producers in its retail stores. The bill would, however, enable consumers to enter into transactions to obtain raw milk and raw milk products from other states without the transactions being in violation of federal law.

http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/09/ron-paul-wants-to-make-the-sale-of-raw-milk-legal/

Enough is enough with bureaucrats trying to regulate every aspect of daily life just because some people get sick now and then. Its a calculated risk that we all take every day, whether its the food we eat or just getting out of bed to go to work. Every now and then some body gets hit by a bus. They aren't rushing to criminalize crossing the street.

I can't continue discussing this. Nothing ruffles my feathers like encroaching authoritarianism.

:::sigh::: I so wanted Ron Paul for President.

Don't give up, you're in good company here. And there are more of us than you think, from both the left and the right, liberal and conservative, and all the mix in between. We did succeed against Monsanto and rGBH. We can persevere here, too.

 

[vfem]

Yes, Ron Paul was my first pick... but it seemed so many people out there clutch their beliefs so strongly they really do forget some of those issues... no matter what a person thinks... is just none of the governments business! Some choices were bestowed on people with the right to make the wrong choice... that's LIFE! And I'm sorry too many people out there are screaming "I'm Stupid, I didn't know!" and now the government decides to play MOM. Well, I was raised as ignorance is no excuse, and a mistake is worth learning from.

Yet people get upset, start a group to place blame, run down to DC and start demanding that the government step it and stop people from making decisions that are their right so we run less risk or failing or getting hurt?! Oh please!!!!

My child will fall, and I will dust her off... but the government will step it and rules stairs dangerous, and there will no longer be stairs?!

Morons.

 

[wifezilla]

As Glenn Beck says "I believe in your right to be stupid."

So even if you don't agree with me, let me make my own mistakes. I learn faster that way

 

[dbjay417]

Its a sad statement about the state of the union, when we, a group of people with an interest in something as passive and gentle as gardening, feel threatened by government intrusion, as if we were a criminal syndicate, or engaged in some morally questionable activity.

 

[wifezilla]

Very true because we have absolutely no reason to trust government. They are not protecting individual freedoms...the very concept that makes (well, MADE) America so great and different.

 

[Liberty7]

There's an article about H.R. 875 at www/motherearthnews.com --
"H.R. 875: No need For Alarm.....Yet

 

[Reinbeau]

There's an article about H.R. 875 at www/motherearthnews.com --
"H.R. 875: No need For Alarm.....Yet

Which issue?

 

[dbjay417]

I like mother earth news, but that blog article is based on the position of the OCA. The Organic Consumers Association turned me off a bit by blaming capitalism for the conditions of the factory farm, rather than the lack of morality that permeates our society from the board room to the class room, and has nothing to do with capitalism, and everything to do with the lack of accountability in our society caused by a toxic mixture of ignorance and sloth. Its too much work to boycott a company for unethical treatment of animals, its easier to just run crying to the government to make new laws, or just whine about it, or do nothing at all. But the proper capitalist resolution to such an issue is out of the question!

 

[bid]

There's an article about H.R. 875 at www/motherearthnews.com --
"H.R. 875: No need For Alarm.....Yet

Which issue?

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Happy-Homesteader/HR-875.aspx

From the blog article: "Instead it applies the typical one-size-fits-all regulations on the entire industry, which almost always spells trouble for small producers who dont have the extra funds to implement them."

That is what I have thought ever since I first began hearing about this and read the bill.