FDR started all this crap and now the giddy power hungry morons in charge of Congress want to take federal power even farther.
via Instapundit
Will Congress kill farmers' markets?
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." Hmmmmm? (Via a TennZen tweet)
Interesting. A co-sponsor's husband has Monsanto as a client.
UPDATE: Govtrack.us. And here's the Library of Congress' Thomas. And here's the Cato Institute's WashingtonWatch.
UPDATE II: The bill would appear to even cover some fishing boats and potentially your downtown hot dog street vendors. More here.
Question; Won't this also tick off the "organic" base of the Democrat Party?
I see a new bumper sticker: