H.R. 2749 - Nazi Food Bill?

[texastoast]

Touted to "clean up the global food supply," is it really to force farmers to use GMOs and let the filthy factory farms get off?


H.R. 2749, submitted by Rep. John Dingell says its purpose is to, “To amend Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve the safety of food in the global market, and for other purposes.”

Careful reading of the bill reveals that its real mission is to greatly increase FDA regulatory powers over the national food supply and food providers by granting the FDA authority to:

Regulate how crops are raised
Regulate the harvest of those crops
Quarantine a geographic area
Establish a national food tracing system
Establish carbon monoxide as a safe food additive for use in coloring meat
Make warrantless searches of business records

What say ye?

[napoleon_in_rags]

1. Assessment from Food and Water Watch:

http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/Food%20Safety%20Legislation%20Update%20june%2024.pdf

My perception isn't that there is anything bad in the bill, but it gives power for new criteria to be introduced at later dates which could be bad.

[zeemike]

2. Sounds like it to me.

And you can bet that the enforcement of those laws will be selective.

[Ian David]

3. The bill mandates everyone put a seed pod under their bed at night. n/t