I want you to consider the name of the bill, the Food Safety and Modernization Act of 2010. If the reconciliation vote passes, according to the federal government, food safety will look something like this:
What we see here are chickens grown in tight spaces, not even healthy enough to move on their own. They are injected with antibiotics to keep them alive for six weeks and hormones to cut their growing cycle in half and stepping on the other birds feces all their lives. Then during processing they go through chemical baths to quickly remove the feathers and prepare for processing. This is Big Agra and this is what the government is pushing as food safety.
Consider the alternative. The dangerous family farmer, growing organic food. It looks something like this:
This is what Democrats and a few Republicans in Congress are describing as dangerous.
Now I want to ask you a question. Considering the many cases of food poisoning, e coli, and other food related problems over the last ten years, were you more likely to catch something from the Big Agra way of doing things or the small farmer way of doing things?
