America’s Food Under Attack

By Carolyn Carey

Can anyone be against food safety? Of course not. That is like being against clean air or clean water, or saving bald eagles. Congress seems to be of the opinion, however, that those producing food in America, the safest food producing nation in the world, needs to be placed under even stricter controls. A search of pending "Food Safety" bills in Congress this session alone results in a total of 45 bills and resolutions with 24 bills filed in the House and 17 in the Senate. Each come with specific dangers to the free enterprise system and should be a focus of concern for not only food producers, but Americans in general. This article takes a close look at one of them, HR 875, the Food Safety and Modernization Act, to illustrate the need to closely examine the language of each of the pending bills to learn the dangers and myths.

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