Growing Your Own Food

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Farms do need to be regulated. One of the main reasons this Act has been raised is because farms have dropped the ball when it comes to food safety. There have been a lot of egg and meat recalls, as even produce in the headlines for many years. I think there definitely needs to be some sort of plan to control our food supply. This Act gives the government more control over the industry. Unfortunately, the proposed new rules for big farms are the same for smaller growers as well. The smaller growers and their budgets - which are even tighter than the factory farms - may not be able to keep up with the regulation. This puts them out of business. So this Act, needs a little revision to protect the little guy (as long as the little guy protects their food from contamination, too.) But again, big farms NEED to have more regulation. Don't you think we're looking at the wrong place in terms of food safety. Food is not safe because of our farming practices, not because food - in itself - is not safe. Spinach does not get E-coli contamination because it's in a box too long. It gets contamination when the spinach is grown too close to feedlots and other sources of bad bacteria. The "Food Safety and Modernization Act" is not looking at the root cause. Just like most medical practitioners don't treat the cause either. Doctors terrify me. This Act treats the symptoms of contamination, not the system itself - which is way too large for tweaking. It needs to collapse before it gets better. Humans will always be short-sighted. We need to look a little deeper to solve problems - not bandage them and assume they'll go away. I hardly think we're going to lose the right to grow our own food. That is just a scare tactic most people talk about this Act. People will always have the right to grow food in their backyard, unless their backyard is the size of a TX farm. I bet you will always be able to grow food in your backyard. How do you think the government can enforce the law on the millions of green thumbed Americans who prefer the taste of an Heirloom tomato. They don't have enough money and never will. I don't think they could enforce it even at a larger level. Remember, if a law is stupid, it can be broken. The right to food is a God given right. If a law happens to be passed that doesn't allow me to grow my own food, the FIRST thing I'm going to do is make a bigger garden. Laws like these are meant to be broken, brought to court and exposed. Ever hear of Jim Crow Laws? Just like a silly can't-grow-your-own-food law.