2009-06-30T11:50:44Z opencongress.org tag:opencongress.org,2007:/bill/comments/58220 2009-06-30T11:50:44Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-30:/comment/111647 Mcwonderful Wow. I really hate to believe all the things you hear about the way this country is headed. You read this and its hard to deny. Hopefully this gets quickly defeated. If not, its up to the public to absolutely firestorm our congressman to vote against it. 2009-06-29T14:13:53Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-29:/comment/111500 amandacaudill The FDA needs to be abolished. They have done more bad then good. This will destroy farming and put in factory farming. There is nothing like buying low quality meat, produce and dairy and cheap prices...Waxman needs to get out of Politics and live on an island where he can regulate the way the birds Sh*t so he wont have any global warming. What a crock. 2009-09-05T10:36:23Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-09-05:/comment/123295 cjrusko How incredibly ludicrous. What ever happened to respecting the traditional local farming and produce communities in America? Maybe they should instead focus on the FDA's current incompetence when it comes to regulating big food producers instead of broadening its reach and power. This bill will hurt the rural hardworking families that contribute to their local communities while not saving a damn life. It also broadens the power of the inefficient regulatory state and uses vague language with holes left to be filled by FDA administrative decisions, i.e whatever they say, to certain points, will go. 2009-08-01T09:01:50Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-08-01:/comment/116110 xaajjaax I opposed it at "proposes greater FDA regulatory powers," and it actually managed to get worse after that! Power to quarantine? Is that swine flu scare still going on? I'll pass on the "security," I want my rights and freedom. 2009-07-21T08:04:08Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-21:/comment/114371 PoliticalStorm Major corporations brought this country into its recession- those are the only ones who need regulating so that they don't do it again. Their products spoke for themselves. I have no delusions about this bill not being a power grab by major food corporations to beat back the growing demand for organic and local produce. However, just like Wall Street's actions spoke for them, let farms' actions do so as well. If a farm or method of farming keeps turning out bad or dangerous products, it will be weeded out and either converted to better methods or dismantled. I for one will not be supporting this bill when it is a blatant misuse of power. Warrantless searches, indeed. This person will not be quarantined. 2009-12-31T10:50:10Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-12-31:/comment/180138 freedomfemme Say NO to HR 2749. This is about CONTROL, not PROTECTION! 2009-12-31T10:52:54Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-12-31:/comment/180140 freedomfemme Packing and holding is one thing, selling is another. 2010-01-15T21:24:28Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-01-15:/comment/181603 Delta THIS BILL DOES NOT APPLY TO REAL FARMS!!! Read section 5.d.!!! Right now the large beef packers are above the law. They are crushing small beef packers, killing and maiming their workers, and poisoning tens of thousands of Americans a year just so management can live in MacMansions. One purpose of government is to protect citizens. If a cult of crazy people was going around stabbing tens of thousands of Americans a year would you think it a threat to civil liberties if the police stopped them? No. If the mob was systematically breaking the legs of tens of thousands of Americans would you think it a threat to our civil liberties if the FBI stopped them? No. Right now the USFDA agents are demoralized because the can't stop the beef packers from producing infected beef. Go to Google news and search for "e coli outbreak". Read "Fast Food Nation". Read about Barbara Kowalcyk's son who was murdered by the beef packing companies. I am outraged and I support this bill. 2010-08-25T07:53:52Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-08-25:/comment/209919 OrBenn rj32 you've got it all wrong. At least if congress were specific in the bill we'd know what we're getting. Without specifics we're at the mercy of an unelected organization's decisions. That said, I want NEITHER legislators NOR bureaucrats involved in my food. This legislation won't make food safer--food production standards are already above what the FDA would impose--but it WILL dramatically increase the cost of food. The incidence of disease from food has been steadily going DOWN for decades WITHOUT this costly legislation, and I don't want the price of a hamburger to jump to $15. 2009-07-27T10:55:52Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-27:/comment/115536 kevinmcc "Warrantless" That there is a key word for voting NO on any bill. 2010-02-14T14:19:27Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-02-14:/comment/185105 informationage The FDA could do good and has in the past. Since creation, the Regulatory Agency has seen a consistent decline in funding and staff. Because of the Nature of the Agency, inbreeding with Industry does occur. This does not necessarily imply paranoid schemes to lower the quality of US Food and Drugs. If anything, the FDA has been strangled by advocates of less Gov't Reg in favor of Script Makers and Corporate Farms, which is by far the status quo in America right now. Most Farmers are already "factory" as they are contracted by Parent Companies that purchase the local product exclusively and provide the Credit. This is akin to Indentured Servitude or Modern Feudalism. 2010-09-04T09:46:29Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-09-04:/comment/210188 TinaMarieatOpenCongress Well... unfortunately we will continue to have all kinds of unreasonable bills passing under our noses and getting approved if the people don't start to educate themselves as necessary. It's up to us as a nation to show others what they can't see. If we have the insight and know what to do and how to do it, it is our responsibility to pass that knowledge on to others that do not. The means are out their for us to communicate with each other so lets make the best of it and provide to others what they may not know bringing them out of the darkness and into the light. Only then will this nation start to reap extraordinay benefits for this land and all people. When everyone is on the same page. 2009-06-22T19:26:15Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-06-22:/comment/110456 Browning Warrantless searches of business records??? King Waxman, His Royal Highness Dingell and every other member of congress that supports this bill needs to read the U.S. Constitution. Amendment IV says, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." Legislation like this makes America a banana republic. 2009-10-07T10:00:44Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-10-07:/comment/136803 watcher77 This Bill is a pre-cursor, an introduction to Codex Alimentarious. Read this link to find a very good analysis of HR 2749. Codex Alimentarious is implemented on Dec. 31, 2009. Yes, THIS YEAR! Basically, any vitmin/mineral will be classified as TOXIC. Ergo, all foods containing toxins will disappear, being unfit for consumption. Any mineral not listed in Codex will be classified as toxic also. Google "CODEX ALIMENTARIOUS" to find out more. FIGHT HR 2749 & CODEX ALIMENTARIOUS!! 2009-12-07T16:39:10Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-12-07:/comment/175139 asteffen Where did you find "warrantless" in this bill? I did a text search of this entire bill and did not find this word. 2009-10-20T07:48:57Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-10-20:/comment/146358 cassidy22 This is very scary. I grow and sell food on a small farm in my town. We process chickens and turkeys on our farm. We sell maybe 200 chickens per year, adn 30 turkeys. This bill would require a $500 per year registration fee for us, plus WEEKLY INSPECTIONS. WEEKLY! We process birds maybe 4 times a year. We also raise lamb (processed off site) and veggies and fruit on small acreage. We sell at farmer's markets and on site. People love visiting our farm. This bill will create so much bureacratic paperwork that we won't be able to farm, we'll spend all our time writing control plans and tracking paperwork. For 200 chickens and 30 turkeys? This is really scary, impractical, and WILL kill small farms. It's very disappointing. What I do is exactly how I want to eat my food - NO additives, NO preservatives, NO hormones, medicines, fertilizers, pesticides, or any of that junk. I grow my food RIGHT, and because I am NOT big business, the govt wants to shut me down. SAD 2009-12-07T16:36:13Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-12-07:/comment/175137 asteffen Where in this bill did you find "warrantless searches of business records" mentioned? I did a word search of the entire bill text and could not find "warrentless" mentioned. 2009-07-31T13:02:23Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-07-31:/comment/116058 lolmao500 And it's in the New York Times. It passed. Open congress says it didn't pass...FAIL. 2009-09-21T16:24:29Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-09-21:/comment/128400 rj32 and you would rather have the people in congress decide? seriously, I think it's better left to people with professional careers in the field, not career politicians being bought and sold each election cycle. This technique also enables the agency to keep up with evolving standards instead of all of us collectively praying that our hamburger isn't the one with the new deadly virus from mexico/china. 2009-10-07T10:04:52Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-10-07:/comment/136807 watcher77 ...you forgot "and for other purposes"!