I could lose my land for growing food!!

[lovemychix]

Sad. Very sad.

I guess I'll be one of those law breaking "bootleggers".

I know I would have some very very upset customers if they couldn't buy my "golden" eggs as they call them. So much for home grown veggies.

 

[Emzyyy]

 

[Suburban chick farmer 09]

Can someone please copy and paste the part that they're so worried about effecting them.

 

[Mommi3130]

 

[faykokoWV]

Quote:
b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act are—


(1) to establish an agency within the Depart2
ment of Health and Human Services to be known as
3 the ‘‘Food Safety Administration’’ to—
4 (A) regulate food safety and labeling to
5 strengthen the protection of the public health;
6 (B) ensure that food establishments fulfill
7 their responsibility to process, store, hold, and
8 transport food in a manner that protects the
9 public health of all people in the United States;


(4) to establish that food establishments have
11 responsibility to ensure that all stages of production,
12 processing, and distribution of their products or
13 products under their control satisfy the requirements
of this law.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

(5) CATEGORY 1 FOOD ESTABLISHMENT.—The
11 term ‘‘category 1 food establishment’’ means a food
12 establishment (other than a seafood processing es13
tablishment) that slaughters, for the purpose of pro14
ducing food, animals that are not subject to inspec15
tion under the Federal Meat Inspection Act or poul16
try that are not subject to inspection under the
17 Poultry Products Inspection Act.
18 (6) CATEGORY 2 FOOD ESTABLISHMENT.—The
19 term ‘‘category 2 food establishment’’ means a sea
food processing establishment or other food estab21
lishment (other than a category 1 establishment) not
22 subject to inspection under the Federal Meat Inspec23
tion Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, or the
24 Egg Products Inspection Act, that processes raw
25 seafood or other raw animal products, whether fresh
or frozen, or other products that the Administrator
2 determines by regulation to pose a significant risk of
3 hazardous contamination.
4 (7) CATEGORY 3 FOOD ESTABLISHMENT.—The
5 term ‘‘category 3 food establishment’’ means a food
6 establishment (other than a category 1 or category
7 2 establishment) that processes cooked, pasteurized,
8 or otherwise ready-to-eat seafood or other animal
9 products, fresh produce in ready-to-eat raw form, or
10 other products that pose a risk of hazardous con11
tamination.
12 (8) CATEGORY 4 FOOD ESTABLISHMENT.—The
13 term ‘‘category 4 food establishment’’ means a food
14 establishment that processes all other categories of
15 food products not described in paragraphs (5)
16 through (7).
17 (9) CATEGORY 5 FOOD ESTABLISHMENT.—The
18 term ‘‘category 5 food establishment’’ means a food
19 establishment that stores, holds, or transports food
20 products prior to delivery for retail sale.

(12) FOOD.—The term ‘‘food’’ means a product
10 intended to be used for food or drink for a human
11 or an animal and components thereof.

(14) FOOD PRODUCTION FACILITY.—The term
7 ‘‘food production facility’’ means any farm, ranch,
8 orchard, vineyard, aquaculture facility, or confined
9 animal-feeding operation.

The act will adopt and implement a national system for
16 the registration of food establishments and foreign
17 food establishments, as provided in section 202 of
18 this Act;
19 (2) adopt and implement a national system for
20 regular unannounced inspection of food establish21
ments;

(2) INSPECTIONS.—If the Administrator deter13
mines that a food establishment fails to meet a
14 standard promulgated under this section, the Ad15
ministrator shall, as appropriate—
16 (A) detain, seize, or condemn food from
17 the food establishment under section 402;

2) require each food production facility to have
9 a written food safety plan that describes the likely
10 hazards and preventive controls implemented to ad11
dress those hazards;
12 (3) include, with respect to growing, harvesting,
13 sorting, and storage operations, minimum standards
14 related to fertilizer use, nutrients, hygiene, pack15
aging, temperature controls, animal encroachment,
16 and water;
17 (4) include, with respect to animals raised for
18 food, minimum standards related to the animal’s
19 health, feed, and environment which bear on the
20 safety of food for human consumption;
VerDate
No(A) IN GENERAL.—Any person that com7
mits an act that violates the food safety law (in8
cluding a regulation promulgated or order
9 issued under the food safety law) may be as10
sessed a civil penalty by the Administrator of
11 not more than $1,000,000 for each such violation

 

[Birch Run Farm]

Cooking at home will become a crime?

 

[jjdward]

Of course cooking at home will not be a crime!!!
We will just be told WHAT to cook.
the govt is gonna take care of us, didn't yall hear?

 

[Zahboo]

Why don't they loosen up on people growing their regular crops and tighten down on those growing illegal ones

 

[Shannon's Chix]

Chicken Czar!

 

[jjdward]

Quote:

LMAO