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Showing posts with label food safety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food safety. Show all posts

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Just when you thought judges couldn't get more idiotic

one comes along to raise the bar:
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WI: No Right to Produce or Eat Food


Alert - National, Action Item — walterj 9:29 am
In scary legal news a Wisconsin judge had gone completely loopy declaring that citizens have no right to produce or eat the foods of their own choice.
In response to a request from the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, the judge issued a clarification of his decision last week regarding his assessment of the constitutionality of food rights. The judge expanded on his original statement that such constitutional issues are “wholly without merit.”

He explained that the FTCLDF arguments were “extremely underdeveloped.” As an example, he said the plaintiffs’ use of the Roe v Wade abortion rights case as a precedent does “not explain why a woman’s right to have an abortion translates to a right to consume unpasteurized milk…This court is unwilling to declare that there is a fundamental right to consume the food of one’s choice without first being presented with significantly more developed arguments on both sides of the issue.” Gee, I thought they both had to do with the right to decide what to do with your own body.

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So, now our "leaders' can not only tell us what is (in their opinion) healthy, they can dictate that you can't grow your own tomatoes or raise your own chickens?

God help you if you want to drink milk right out of the cow.

A revolution is LONG overdue.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

S. 510

I just got an email from the Beloit Patriots - the US Senate is considering S.510, which would create yet more bureacracy to regulate snall farms, in the search for yet more "perfect safety" for our food supply.

Just sent Kohl this:

Vote NO on S. 510. We have too much regulation now - why not propose getting rid of some of what exists now, rather than add more?

Perhaps by shutting down the TSA or the FDA, we can balance the federal budget without bankrupting the nation.

No new regulations. Enough already!

Sent lame-duck Feingold this:

Now that you have seen the will of the people of Wisconsin, there are a few things you can do to leave on a high note.

First, oppose S.510. We don't need even more regulation on our small farms, especially at a federal level.

Second, investigate the TSA - better yet, let's abolish it. It is wasteful, perverted, and useless, and by it's very existence, proof that the terrorists have won. Use the money they waste groping Americans and using possibly unsafe scanners to make pornographic images to pay down the huge deficits and debts you and your colleagues have created.

Investigate the BATFE and remove a bunch of their funding - the Border Patrol can use that cash.

Do these things and the people of Wisconsin can remember that you did something right on your way out of power.