Posted by Andrew Ward on 07/27/09 2:47 PM Last updated 07/27/09 2:46 PM   [Newer: Senator Sanders Responds to Pro-Fed Secrecy Editorial] [Older: Bernanke Campaigns for Fed Secrecy, Expanded Power]

This just in from the National Independent Consumers and Farmers Association (NICFA):

VOTE on HR 2749 POSSIBLE TUESDAY.  CALL TODAY.

HR 2749, the All Industrial Agriculture bill, could be voted on in the House of Representatives Tuesday.  Please call your Congressman immediately and request that he or she reject this bill.  Normal voting rules have been suspended to try and ram this through, so please call immediately.

This bill will:

• Mandate NAIS (National Animal Identification System)
• Allow industrializations of all farms
• Give the federal government arbitrary power to force any practices they choose on any farm.
• Allow the federal government to outlaw raw milk

This bill will not create the food safety it claims (it's actually called The Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009).  It will make the our food supply less safe by eliminating small farms and centralizing production and processing more than it is already.

ACTION:  Please call your Congressman immediately and ask him or her to vote AGAINST HR2749.
Contact info: http://www.House.gov

There is no amendment that will "fix" this bill.  An amendment proposed by Representative Kaptur has not been accepted and will not fix the problems in this bill anyway.  We want to stop this bill.

Yours for small farms and real food,

Deborah Stockton, Executive Director
National Independent Consumers and Farmers Association (NICFA)
nicfa@earthlink.net
http://www.nicfa.org

Please use our contact Congress page to contact your representatives.  Urge them to vote against HR 2749, the so-called Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009.

Posted 07/27/09 5:30 PM keyban149 Toledo, IA

The reason they are doing this is because for the last 6 years the National Animal Idenification System has been flatly rejected by farmers and ranchers. The USDA just got done hosting a bunch of public meetings on the subject and the only people that spoke in favor of it were from organizations that accepted money from the USDA. Now they are going to try to run it through the FDA, not the USDA.

Posted 07/27/09 6:17 PM Son Of Liberty Erie, PA

I emailed my Rep and demanded his rejection of this federal power grab and unconstitutional bill.

Posted 07/27/09 7:24 PM pawel0713 colchester, CT

It smells like Monsanto. They are the ones who are trying to destroy small farming.

Posted 07/30/09 05:29 AM Proud Reaganite Ypsilanti, MI

Shelly posted a video about this at ByteStyle.tv and I called Dingell's district office this past Tuesday.