Henry Waxman and some of the other CONgressional Critters are definitely “Off the reservation”. The Food Safety Enhancement Act (H.R. 2749)is bad for the South and agrarian life in general. If you have a family farm, this act could ruin you. In a closer reading of the fine print, the bill would include the following:

According to the bill, crops must be grown in sterile areas. These areas would be surrounded by 450 foot buffers. This is to insure that they are not exposed to other vegetation, runoff water, birds, beasts, or wildlife of any kind.

In order to create such sterile farm environment, ponds would be poisoned; wetlands drained; and streams/creeks re-routed in order to safeguard the crops from untreated water. These potential untreated water sources are viewed as a threat.

Trees and vegetation would be bulldozed in order to create protective corridors. These corridors are to protect the fields from bird droppings.

Fields will be additionally be lined with poison-filled tubes to kill rodents.

Potential contaminators like children will be banned. Children under five will be prohibited from stepping foot on farmland or tilled soil for fear of leaking diapers.

Even stray animals such as a crow landing in a cornfield will mandate the destruction of the entire corn crop. If you thought the glancing geese theory was wacked, wait till this one is implemented.

This atrocious bill is stalled for the moment and needs to be opposed any way possible.

The bill is a testimony to the existence of reading disorders on Capitol Hill. Any sane person who wanted such a measure does not understand farming at all.

Liberty for Texas and the South!

J Murrah

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