HR 2749 (Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009) Passes House A Commentary by Kimberly Hartke Cathy Raymond, of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund reports that The U.S. House of Representative passed HR 2749 by a vote of 283 to 141. The next step for the bill is the Senate. It is likely the Senate will [...]
“We Need to Act Quickly Against This Bill” by Guest contributor, Robert Waldrop, President Oklahoma Food Cooperative This is a link to the action of the House Rules Committee on HR 2749 today –From this link you can click on a link to the amended bill.
Steph Larsen of the Blog for Rural America has a good analysis of the HR 2749 battle, that apparently is not over yet. Her piece is called Democracy Denied and is a must read if you are tracking this food safety bill. http://www.cfra.org/blog/2009/07/29/democracy-denied
The House of Representatives today failed to obtain a two-thirds majority to pass the Food Safety Enhancement Act (HR 2749). The vote was 280-150, 6 votes short of the total needed to pass the bill under suspension of the rules with no debate and no amendments. The bill may now come back to the floor at a later date under regular rules allowing for amendments to be considered.
While the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition applauds Congressional efforts to make the U.S. food supply safer, it finds major flaws in the bill brought up today which works against the interests of small and mid-sized family farms, conservation and the environment, and local and alternative food systems without improving food safety.
We were promised a distinction between corporations and small farms in any food safety bill. It is not there. This is why we need to forcefully oppose this bill. Today I am giving you another easy way to do so.
Is our well meaning Congress preparing the hangman’s noose for America’s small farmers? So-called food safety legislation may spell doom for our small farmers, farmers markets, farm buying clubs, and CSA’s.
President of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund weighs in on HR 2749, the so-called food safety bill that will put America’s small farmers out of business.
photo credit: Just chaos Come One Come All!!! The Fifth Annual Farm Food Voices Virginia will be August 2, from 2-7:30 pm in Charlottesville, Virginia. It will feature a showing of the movie FRESH, exciting speakers, scrumptilicious food, and lots of fellowship. Go to www.VICFA.org or call 760-5514 to learn more and register. Here is [...]
Sonoma County farmer warns that the HR2749 food safety bill is more dangerous to small farmers and doesn’t address the practices that actually cause food safety concerns.
photo credit: bhamsandwich Heirloom Tomatoes, Wonderful Ingredients for a Hearty Soup A Recipe by Andrea Milstein I came up with this very intensely flavored tomato soup after logging home a bushel of tomatoes from the farmers’ market one late day in summer. After a few days of incorporating tomatoes into pretty much any dish I could [...]
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