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Illegal to Grow Own Food
Congress is about to make it illegal to grow your own food, or for “any farm” not to purchase and use government mandated chemicals, additives, and pesticides on all food consumed in the United States. Violations are subject to a fine of up to $1,000,000/day.
UPDATE: Due to a large amount of interest in this post, I got some legal clarification. The bill says it applies to “any food establishment” or “any farm.”
Clarification on “food establishment.” These are described in the Definitions section of the bill. Description (8) expands the bill to cover “a food establishment that processes all other categories of food products not described.” The bill covers almost anything an interpreter wants it to cover.
Clarification on “any farm.” A farm is legally defined in the U.S. as “any place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold, or normally could have been sold during the census year.” The use of the word “any” in front of farm eliminates the financial test.
Clarification on fines. Up to $1,000,000 per day. All penalties are final unless you file a petition for judicial review in the United States Court of Appeals within 30 days of each citation and simultaneously serve a copy by certified mail to “the Administrator.”
All judicial reviews shall be decided in favor of the Administrator unless citations are found to be “unsupported by substantial evidence on the record as a whole.” In other words, you are liable unless you (1) file in the proper US Court of Appeals and simultaneously notify the Administrator for each citation within a 30 day time limit, and (2) you present “substantial evidence” that the Administrator’s claims are unsupported as a whole for each citation. Multiple fines are limited to $1,000,000/day.
As a side note, the Legislative branch cannot declare itself a conditional winner of Due Process challenges in advance, as that is a direct violation of Due Process itself. Due Process guarantees U.S. citizens that the Legislature alone cannot restrict Judges from affecting the result of matters concerning the confiscation of life, liberty, or property. But that is the quality of thinking you get from a woefully undereducated U.S. congress.
HR 875
Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009
(sponsored by Rosa DeLauro whose husband Stanley Greenburg works for Monsanto)
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