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STOP HOUSE VOTE OR HR 2751- FOOD SAFETY ACT [Former S510 Food Safety Bill]

Stop HR 2751 Food Safety Act

Your help is urgently needed! This petition seeks to halt the passage of HR 2751 which contains the Food Safety bill that would harm small, local farmers by granting the FDA new powers to put small farmers out of business if they don't comply with the burden of new government regulations. Your access to locally grown fresh produce is at risk!

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Dear  Representative,  NaturalNews.com has asked its hundreds of thousands of supporters,  including myself and other supporters in your district, to alert you to  our concern that the Food Safety Modernization Act (now HR 2751) would  severely harm many smaller, local farms and organic producer growers who  operate above the $500,000 "exempt" level and yet are still small,  family-farm operations that provide local jobs and local food.  To even qualify for exempt status under the Food Safety Modernization  Act, small farms must provide three years of financial records and  extensive food safety documentation to the FDA, creating an onerous  documentation burden that could force many small, local farmers out of  business. This would drive up the price of local, organic food by  reducing the supply of food available through CSA operations and local  farmers markets.  The Food Safety Modernization Act places small farmers in the position  of needing to "apply" for permission to grow their own food. Farming and  gardening has traditionally been viewed as a natural right of American  citizens, but through the mere act of offering to share food with local  neighbors and community members through a weekend farmer's market booth,  for example, a person must now give up their natural right to produce  food and instead apply for permission from the federal government - even  if they are only selling a few thousand dollars worth of jellies and  jams each year.  While there is no question that food safety has been lacking at the  large, multi-million-dollar corporate food producers, this Food Safety  Modernization Act would threaten the livelihoods of tens of thousands of  small family farmers who farm as little as ten acres of land and yet  still exceed the $500,000 earnings level in food sales revenue, even  without making much of a profit in the end. To place a large paperwork  burden upon the backs and shoulders of these small, local farms -- many  of whom are organic farmers -- will force many of them out of business  and reduce the supply of fresh, local produce to the people in your  district.  I urge you to oppose the passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act as  currently written. While the notion of food safety is obviously an  important one, this Act could devastate small, local growers, forcing  many of them out of business and causing more people to resort to eating  processed, packaged "factory" foods that have been sterilized and  pasteurized which, as you may know, greatly decreases their nutritional  value.  For our own health, and for food sustainability and security, we must  save our small, local farms from being regulated out of existence by the  FDA.  Please oppose the Food Safety Modernization Act (HR 2751).

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Dec. 20, 2010

http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/7025/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5020

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