"The Federal Farming Power Grab Scheduled for Senate Vote Today"

The Federal Farming Power Grab Scheduled for Senate Vote Today

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This is exactly why so much distress and anger permeates the internet over S.510; the possibility of slowly eroding the natural rights of home gardeners and their valued seed stocks in the face of the sweeping changes genetically patented seed lines represent. Attorneys for multinational corporations making these GMO seeds are ruthless in pursuing lawsuits to enforce what they claim is patent infringement. Even when it is Nature spreading these seeds into fields and farms and not by consent or intent of farmers who find GMO patented seeds suddenly among their crops. The what if scenarios of ambiguous language coupled to a corporatist-Statist administration is frightening and the people raising an alarm about home gardens and seed stocks are probably not Chicken Littles. If recent history is any indication.

Recently, DHS seized websites selling knockoffs and other goods. How long before it's impossible to trade seeds? Sell seeds? All seed DNA is owned by big global companies due to DNA drift in fields?

When does common sense for Main Street come before the greed of global companies and power hungry politicians?

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Now, a multi-part discussion is necessary to even scratch the surface of our national food supply and the safeguarding of that food supply, including defining terms from the Bill, such as National Agriculture and Food Defense Strategy. Imported foods, overseas processed food plants, all sorts of possible breakdowns in food safety have to be discussed.

More burdens for domestic producers? Nothing for imported foods? Unfair trade advantage?

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/11/the_federal_farming_power_grab.html

Who's testing the imported foods? Ensuring they maintain high standards?

I think the US already has one of the best food safety records anywhere. How much better can it get?

Why aren't they going after imported foods? Tainted protein?