Lucille
08-25-2010, 10:45 AM
Who didn't see this one coming? The fascists in Washington never, EVER let a good crisis go to waste.
The Senate is expected to vote on Monsanto's S 510 in Sept.
The egg and I (http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/the-egg-and-i/)
…Advocates cite the current outbreak, at last report limited to two related Iowa egg farms, as reason to enact pending legislation that would intensify federal regulation of food-making in the name of safety. Large food and agribusiness companies have generally signed off on most of the new proposals as acceptable. Many smaller producers, on the other hand, suspect there will be less room for them, and for local variety generally, in this reassuring new world of business and government cooperation.
I go on to cite the CPSIA debacle, in which a safety enactment devastated small producers of children’s goods while entrenching some of the dominant industry players.
WSJ (http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/08/23/egg-recall-gives-boost-to-food-safety-bill/):
In early August, a bipartisan group of Senate leaders pulled together a consensus draft of the bill. With senators hatching plans to break the stalemate, there’s now some talk of a vote in the full Senate on Sept. 13.
But of course.
The Senate is expected to vote on Monsanto's S 510 in Sept.
The egg and I (http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/the-egg-and-i/)
…Advocates cite the current outbreak, at last report limited to two related Iowa egg farms, as reason to enact pending legislation that would intensify federal regulation of food-making in the name of safety. Large food and agribusiness companies have generally signed off on most of the new proposals as acceptable. Many smaller producers, on the other hand, suspect there will be less room for them, and for local variety generally, in this reassuring new world of business and government cooperation.
I go on to cite the CPSIA debacle, in which a safety enactment devastated small producers of children’s goods while entrenching some of the dominant industry players.
WSJ (http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/08/23/egg-recall-gives-boost-to-food-safety-bill/):
In early August, a bipartisan group of Senate leaders pulled together a consensus draft of the bill. With senators hatching plans to break the stalemate, there’s now some talk of a vote in the full Senate on Sept. 13.
But of course.