Soon ban on home-grown vegetables?

USA: Soon ban on home-grown food through the bill "S3767"?

The Senate Judiciary Committee in the US has prepared a bill called S3767 (and S510) to decide on the Senate. It is about criminal consequences with up to ten years in prison for bringing in „knowingly mislabeled or adulterated food into the national food market“.

This bill is intended to serve US food security advocates. Opponents, such as the Freedom Food movement, see it as a push by lobbyists in the food industry to criminalize even cultivated or organic foods in the future. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the FTC (Federal Trade Commission), or other authorities responsible for consumer protection, may be concerned about this law, which is very broad and diffuse, so critics are afraid to interpret the ruling later can be severely interfered with in the food market. It does not see progress in consumer protection against unscrupulous large-scale food industry companies, but rather a lever to later interpret rules, regulations, guidelines or standards that could penalize or even jail local organic food or smallholder farmers. This would lead to the destruction of local and organic food producers and a move towards increased industrialization of food. Natural Health and Health Freedom organizations see free food choice and production as contributing to natural health care.

They demand the inclusion of demands to protect the public in the US laws and no regulation of individuality. The current draft S3767 is introduced and supported by Democratic US Senator Patrick Leahy from Vermont. Other supporters include Democratic Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken of Minnesota, as well as Dianne Feinstein of California, Richard Durbin of Illinois and Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin. S510 and now S3767 were blocked mainly by the Senator from Oklahoma for the Republican Party

Some time ago, the S3002 bill and its turnaround, which was of a similar nature to the current pushes, caused much excitement, fierce opposition, and social polarization in the United States. (tf, 27.09.2010)

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