Farming what???

Bootleggers?!



By Kevin Carson
Center for a Stateless Society
March 27, 2009

The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 is causing a stir in online communities. The bill would outlaw organic farming, criminalize seed banks, and so to community-supported agriculture what the CPSIA does to small apparel and toy manufacturers. It would impose costly inspection and certification of the regimes on even the smallest producers.

So this newly proposed Act is supposed outlaw anything that sounds organic and good for the environment. It doesn't really make sense to me. We are trying to be friendly to the earth by, yet we outlaw a way of growing food that could potentially help us achieve that goal. This doesn't seem right. It would also cost a whole lot more to make this law a reality than it's worth.

Until next time...