Questions benefit of having agency, 'with arms, stop people from selling milk'
doofiegirl POTL~PWCM~JLA
2012/05/25 19:43:44
It's Rand Paul vs. armed bureaucrats
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is taking on what one critic calls "the food Nazis" -- federal bureaucrats who want to regulate all food transactions, and who not only harass producers, but have begun showing up on customers' doorsteps demanding they turn over the food they've paid for.
And when they show up they show up armed.
Step away from the milk jug and drop the gun, says Paul ... Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., dropped a potential bomb into the ongoing battle between local food producers and federal bureaucrats who want to regulate all food transactions.
Paul introduced an amendment that would disarm Food and Drug Administration bureaucrats and accomplish several other goals.
“I’m troubled by images of armed agents raiding Amish farms and preventing them selling milk directly from the cow,” he said in a Senate floor statement posted online. “I think we have bigger problems in our country than sending armed FDA agents into peaceful farmers’ land and telling them they can’t sell milk directly from the cow.”
Mike Adams, who writes at NaturalNews.com as the “Health Ranger,” said the move was “stunning and completely unannounced.” The core of the conflict stems from the federal government’s desire to regulate the food industry from start to finish. Local growers and producers who would like to sell their products often face enforcement actions for not having a proper packaging facility or following some other regulation. A major dispute has developed over the sale of unpasteurized milk, which many people consider more healthy. Thirty states allow it but 20 don’t, and the federal government forbids it in interstate commerce.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is taking on what one critic calls "the food Nazis" -- federal bureaucrats who want to regulate all food transactions, and who not only harass producers, but have begun showing up on customers' doorsteps demanding they turn over the food they've paid for.
And when they show up they show up armed.
Step away from the milk jug and drop the gun, says Paul ... Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., dropped a potential bomb into the ongoing battle between local food producers and federal bureaucrats who want to regulate all food transactions.
Paul introduced an amendment that would disarm Food and Drug Administration bureaucrats and accomplish several other goals.
“I’m troubled by images of armed agents raiding Amish farms and preventing them selling milk directly from the cow,” he said in a Senate floor statement posted online. “I think we have bigger problems in our country than sending armed FDA agents into peaceful farmers’ land and telling them they can’t sell milk directly from the cow.”
Mike Adams, who writes at NaturalNews.com as the “Health Ranger,” said the move was “stunning and completely unannounced.” The core of the conflict stems from the federal government’s desire to regulate the food industry from start to finish. Local growers and producers who would like to sell their products often face enforcement actions for not having a proper packaging facility or following some other regulation. A major dispute has developed over the sale of unpasteurized milk, which many people consider more healthy. Thirty states allow it but 20 don’t, and the federal government forbids it in interstate commerce.
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- LADY LIBERTY SILLY WORDSMITH 2012/05/25 20:09:32
+1The LEFT IS WORRYING about NOT ABLE TO COLLECT SALE TAXES!reply
