[Vision2020] Illegal Gardening -- Not!

[Tom Hansen]

HR 875
Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-875

To establish the Food Safety Administration within the Department of
Health and Human Services to protect the public health by preventing
food-borne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on
contaminants leading to food-borne illness, and improving security of food
from intentional contamination, and for other purposes.

Last Action: Apr 23, 2009: House Agriculture: Referred to the Subcommittee
on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.

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Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho




On Sun, December 5, 2010 3:02 pm, Joe Campbell wrote:
> Is this what they meant by smaller government in the last election?
>
> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Sue Hovey <suehovey at moscow.com> wrote:
>> Yes.
>>
>> Sue H.
>>
>> From: Robert Dickow
>> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 2:50 AM
>> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>> Subject: [Vision2020] Illegal Gardening -- Not!
>>
>>
>> Someone told me today that Congress is about to pass a bill that would
>> make
>> backyard gardening illegal, and organic gardening would be prohibited,
>> slapped with 500,000 dollar fines, etc. I laughed a good one. But I
>> peeked
>> around the web and the notion seems to have taken some root in some
>> corners.
>> So, I read the Bill HR 875 which one forum site cited as the source of
>> these
>> perceived threats to our favorite heirloom tomatoes and string beans. Lo
>> and
>> behold, there is not ONE snip of anything in this particular bill which
>> could be skewed to mean that backyard gardens are in any way threatened,
>> nor
>> are organic farms under attack by a nefarious plot to eliminate the
>> practice. The whole notion is utterly hilarious. One of the sites that
>> mentioned this legislation (which is dated Feb 2009, but who reads bills
>> these days?) was aligned somehow with Rand Paul, but I’ve lost the URL
>> now.
>> Are some folks going totally bonkers?
>>
>>
>>
>> Bob Dickow, troublemaker
>>
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