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Anything factual?

Is this something different than what we debunked last year?

Scott,
Bill 5-10 is the Food Safety and Modernization Act of 2010, not 2009.

It should be fairly obvious that the FDA intends to continue pushing more regulatory laws on the public as well as small farmers. Do we need this one? Not in my opinion.

Legislators introduce bills such as this under the guise of "food safety" which the FDA will enforce if passed. Then the FDA will hypocritically at the same time not allow labeling of GMO foods, as well as ALLOWING overarching power to Monsanto to continue their mafia style control of GMO seeds, etc, etc, adnauseum.

I for one am for less legislation over what small growers can produce, market and what consumers like myself can and can't buy, eat, or know what the heck is in it.

In fact, I'm also opposed to the continual cramming of more and more legislation down the public's throat, PERIOD! It seems like the more laws being passed, the less freedom we have, not more.

Anyway, this link below lists some of Senator Tom Coburn's objections to Bill 5-10 which are not without merit. One of which is the EXPENSE of enforcing it, if passed. I'm sure most tax payers would agree they are already being taxed to death on nearly every front.

Here is a link that might be useful: Sen Coburn Opposes Bill 5-10 of 2010

I usually can find little to disagree with when it comes to Coburn's opinions.

The truth is the people pushing for this mostly have legitimate concerns, and they are also mostly the same people who are so concerned with modern agricultural methods and big agri-business. I usually disagree with them, though.