FDA claims we have no rights

[chickaddict]

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HERE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!

This is supposed to be the country of freedoms. Soooooooooooooooo, it's legal to invade our homes, literature, radios, TV's and internet with every kind of porn imagineable but I can't drink raw milk????????????

Something is very wrong with this picture.

 

[agnes_day]

isnt the bill to keep people from selling raw milk and such? if a person wants it that bad, they can either buy it from someone that has some or grow their own somehow.

 

[pulletkeeper]

My husband and I are farmers; that is what we do and who we are we do not work off the farm. My husband has been saying for years that it will take hunger for things to change. When our grocery store shelves are empty or it costs the consumer $20 for a box of cereal and $15 for a gallon of milk, and $12 for a dozen eggs (when you can find all of the above) things will change. We have lost control of our own lives to the government. Don't get me wrong I would not choose to live in any other country but we have allowed ourselves to be overtanken by the people we have elected. I live in the most politically corrupt state and I worked for the state for a decade. Things will not change until we decide to change them and one person can truly not do it by themselves. It is truly a shame because we do need "some" regulations to have an organized society.

 

[PineappleMama]

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Precisely why I'm a Libertarian.

*shudder* on the jet fuel... if peeps out in the boonies test positive I can only imagine what someone here in Arlington, just a pinch from DFW International, with jets overhead day and night's levels would look like.

 

[chickaddict]

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that just sounded funny!

but really...kevin trudeau is a fraud anyways.

Have you actually SEEN the daily flight patterns over this country???? I HAVE AND THERE IS nothing funny about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Gonzo]

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Sad, scary, but true!

 

[Prettiest Frog]

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Can you show me the wording from the bill that changes that? I'm curious.

 

[agnes_day]

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that just sounded funny!

but really...kevin trudeau is a fraud anyways.

Have you actually SEEN the daily flight patterns over this country???? I HAVE AND THERE IS nothing funny about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well, i am not talking about flight patterns..im talking about kevin trudeau and he is hilariously stupid.

seriously..does anyone remember his speed reading course??

 

[Q9]

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In Article 1, the right to regulate interstate commerce.

Besides, only complete imbeciles would try to sell stuff that they know is contaminated.

Are you joking??????? Look at history. Heck, look at current events. It happens ALL THE TIME, pervasively, hugely, and if you look at our own past and at current-day foreign countries that lack good regulation, you will see how bad the situation can become. Very seriously. You need to learn more about this, as you clearly have no idea how bad things COULD be.

Pat​

If you look at what the Founders thought, it would become very clear that "regulating" interstate commerce means keeping commerce between states free, that is, preventing states from attempting to gain commercial advantages over other states through laws. Also, the FDA is technically under the executive branch, and the commerce clause is referring to the legislative. In the executive branch, it's even MORE unjustified.

As for your second point, I probably should have explained my point better. All these contaminated foods (at least recently) have been FDA certified. Companies know that they can get away with it because the FDA will certify nearly anything, and once they DO find a problem, they tend to take ages to correct it. I read about a plant in... Georgia, I think, that had contaminants dangerously near the food, and the FDA knew about it and proceeded to sit on their butts for 8 years. It hasn't been done in practice yet, but it would probably be better if a watchdog group sort of like Consumer Reports or Underwriters' Laboratories were created for the food sector. Companies go out of their way to please Underwriters' Laboratories, because they know their profits will shoot up. They don't HAVE to submit their products to UL testing, but they do, out of profit motive. From what I've seen, government bureaucrats and regulations tend to make things worse, or correct the one problem and create a host of others. Minimum wage is a case in point.

At any rate, we DO have a right, a fundamental one, to choose what enters our body. When the Feds get so cocky that they deny that that right exists, I fear the time is drawing near when folks will switch from votes to 00. buckshot.

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

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In Article 1, the right to regulate interstate commerce.

Besides, only complete imbeciles would try to sell stuff that they know is contaminated.

Are you joking??????? Look at history. Heck, look at current events. It happens ALL THE TIME, pervasively, hugely, and if you look at our own past and at current-day foreign countries that lack good regulation, you will see how bad the situation can become. Very seriously. You need to learn more about this, as you clearly have no idea how bad things COULD be.

Pat​

If you look at what the Founders thought, it would become very clear that "regulating" interstate commerce means keeping commerce between states free, that is, preventing states from attempting to gain commercial advantages over other states through laws. Also, the FDA is technically under the executive branch, and the commerce clause is referring to the legislative. In the executive branch, it's even MORE unjustified.

As for your second point, I probably should have explained my point better. All these contaminated foods (at least recently) have been FDA certified. Companies know that they can get away with it because the FDA will certify nearly anything, and once they DO find a problem, they tend to take ages to correct it. I read about a plant in... Georgia, I think, that had contaminants dangerously near the food, and the FDA knew about it and proceeded to sit on their butts for 8 years. It hasn't been done in practice yet, but it would probably be better if a watchdog group sort of like Consumer Reports or Underwriters' Laboratories were created for the food sector. Companies go out of their way to please Underwriters' Laboratories, because they know their profits will shoot up. They don't HAVE to submit their products to UL testing, but they do, out of profit motive. From what I've seen, government bureaucrats and regulations tend to make things worse, or correct the one problem and create a host of others. Minimum wage is a case in point.

At any rate, we DO have a right, a fundamental one, to choose what enters our body. When the Feds get so cocky that they deny that that right exists, I fear the time is drawing near when folks will switch from votes to 00. buckshot.

I fully agree with your post