The People's Email Network Last 25 Messages Transmitted Log Go Back Reject HR 2749 and Clean Up Factory Farms Instead ********** [003157:062717] I.W., Norfolk, VA This Bill (HR 2749) is COMPLETELY immoral and has no HUMANE reason to exist. Our food choices are self sustenance issues. There are ways to legislate protection from contaminants BUT this IS NOT it. Should this Bill be passed I will be taking it to court and PUBLICIZING its inherent EVIL for all to see. ********** [112842:120210] m.r., East Moline, IL The hr 2749 is very unnecessary when now we are emerging into a new way of thinking- a more modern way of thinking. You need to be aware that we are a more educated society and passing the hr 2749 bill means you are trying or hoping we go back into believing the old ignorant ways of thinking that factory farming is healthier. We lived for centuries trying to improve our way of living longer and healthier lives.that's never going to change ever in the future.we can't live without our small farms or organic food.it's here to stay. Start thinking more respectful of us,the planet, and of course you do have a family? And possibly later,Descendants? ********** [084849:051110] R.M., Tulsa, OK Where are the journalists? Where are those who seek out the truth and not what is the given? Our liberties our freedoms and inalienable rights are stripped away as we sleep, while Americans march in trance formation. They don't care about us, in fact they are our enemies. 'Our Government' has been stripped from the people because those in the position to talk about it don't! Wake-Up America!!! Time is slipping by, monsters they are! Our Founding Fathers warned us of this long ago. When will we heed, when will we fight? Now! Is the time. ********** [152346:050910] H.H., American Fork, UT HR 2749 -- this criminal food act -- must be utterly defeated! This is TREASON and those responsible must be arrested -- no ifs and buts about it!!! ********** [030442:050810] D.G., Charlottesville, VA Less is More ********** [121420:050110] S.B., Reno, NV Stop trying to kill me! I may not live long enough to sue you if I did die from your ignorant poisoning of me and my food! ********** [171251:043010] T.D., Los Angeles, CA This bill is a disgrace to our god-given rights. The Corporations have gone too far, and the lies need to STOP. Who is going to be the brave person here, and look at how this BILL WILL ALSO AFFECT YOUR FAMILY IN A NEGATIVE WAY! ********** [160931:043010] M.E., Anchorage, AK I have a right to feed my family the way I choose with the foods I choose and no one should be able to take that right away. Please defeat this bill. ********** [160432:043010] J.K., Fairfield, CA I think we as a civilized society should be ashamed of ourselves for allowing the assault on our personal liberties to come to this point. ********** [145504:043010] M.J., Lebanon, ME HR 2749 gives FDA tremendous power while significantly diminishing existing judicial restraints on actions taken by the agency. The bill would impose a one-size-fits-all regulatory scheme on small farms and local artisanal producers, and it would disproportionately impact their operations for the worse. 1. The bill imposes burdensome requirements while not specifically targeting the industrial food system and food imports, where the real food safety problems lie. 2. Small farms and local food processors are part of the solution to food safety, lessening the regulatory burden on them will improve food safety. 3. The bill gives FDA much more power than it has had in the past while making the agency less accountable for its actions. HR 2749 needs to be defeated!! Please take action NOW. ********** [153527:022610] A.R., Leesville, LA Only a sociopath would approve this bill. ********** [153032:022610] m.k., Decatur, GA This bill is nothing short of criminal. ********** [115926:122909] t.t., Portland, TN Just another addition to further big Gov we are very aware of. Inforcement of this bill will only shut down small farming ,what there is left , the organic farmer? the natural farmer? Lets try harder boys not to shut out the people who pay your wages. Conform, conform, conform. Is there nothing else better in Washington for you to do? I can hardly wait till November. ********** [091023:122909] A.M., Lafayette, IN The bill's provisions concerning food safety and FDA's scope of power concerning enforcement are so vaguely worded in this bill, it creates potential for the unchecked abuse of power by FDA and the incongruous application and enforcement of regulations. While failing to clearly identify and address the primary causes of food safety failures, including industrial farming practices and food supply consolidation, HR 2749 follows in the footsteps of its predecessors by unfairly targeting clean, small-scale, local farming and food operations. ********** [064338:121609] J.O., Columbus, OH Please examine the content of this bill carefully. I believe it will place undue hardship on small farmers and make fresh local food less available by suppressing farmer's markets. Recently I was told that our local chapter of Wild Ones, a national org that promotes the use of native plants, would not be able to have a potluck at a city park building if this passes because the food would not be electronically traced. This law will empower bug business not protect us. Thank you for your time ********** [074451:110109] M.L., Reno, NV Stop HR 2749! This bill will destroy local, small farmers that do not have the financial resources to comply to the same laws as large factory farms. The small farmers are not the cause of unsafe food and should not be classed together with factory farms. Factory farming creates unsafe conditions and food, not the average small, local farmer. The problem with our food supply is that it is filled with heavily processed, genetically modified, chemically treated, hormone-injected "stuff" passed off as food coming from Filthy, disease-ridden factory farms. We need more completely organic foods produced in safe, completely natural and sustainable manner. HR 2749 would give some FDA admistrator (read self-serving corporate lobbyist, former head of Monsanto) the power to dictate what farming practices must and must not be used nationwide (read enforced GMOs, growth hormones and weird chemicals in our food). Do not succumb to industrial farm protocols in the name of protecting us as consumers. This bill doesn't address the source of food contamination which is factory farms, food processing plants and pasteurization facilities. It is hostile to small farmers where our safe food resides and it gives the FDA too much power. The industrail farm factories contaminate the food supply and the ground and water and has driven small healthy farms out of business. Restrict Monsanto and industrial farming! ********** [201152:090709] J.M., Tempe, AZ My congressmen: As with most large corporations, overtime they lose their way, their honor, their mssion, and their integrity, and society is the lesser for it. We do not need the innefective, disfuntional, corporate controlled FDA further involved. Surely there must be another government entity better prepared to serve this function. Small farming is once again coming into its own with the eat locally movement. We need these small farmers now more than ********** [163803:090709] M.L., Downers Grove, IL Clean up the stinking cesspools which call themselves "modern" factory farms now and reject HR 2749. The safety of our food is of utmost importance. Without healthy food and a cleaner environment no amount of health care will save us. ********** [104214:090609] E.E., Ketchum, ID To all who this concerns, I strongly oppose genetically and chemically modified food, this has gone on too long in this country. The idea that genetically "enhanced" or "chemically enhanced" food is safer and more nutritious is completely unproven. This is nothing more than a corporate take over this and other provisions regarding industrialized farming is precisly why we need farm subsidy's. With corporations like Monsanto who were to put a patent on their seeds and thus forcing every American farmer who buys crop seed from Monsanto is required to pay a patent fee on top on the price they already pay for the seed. The result of this is farm subsidy's paid to small farms across America with tax payer dollars because they can no longer make a profit just from selling their crops alone. Not to mention the monopolisation of food that began with the industrialization of farming is leading us on slippery slope to a world in which the powerful decide who gets to eat and who doesn't. Please stop this bill from passing this solves nothing helps no one and more importantly continues the destructive environmental impact that "factory farms" and slaughter houses produce. We must turn away from destroying this planet or it will destroy us one way or the other and that I believe is something that no one wants to see happen. ********** [082533:090509] C.V., Mount Holly, NJ Rather than echo the points made by those 25 responses before me, l will only address the issue of national security. Our generations who fought in World War II, Korea, and sometimes in Vietnam faced whole divisions of enemy troops in fierce, unrelenting combat. The enemy we now face (fascists who use the Koran only to serve themselves) cannot put a division together over the entire world at any one time, let alone in any one place, so their strategy tends to avoid contact with the well-armed and strike at softer targets instead. When was the last time you saw troops guarding a factory farm, or a meat processing plant, or a field filled with genetically-engineered corn as far as the eye can see? Any laws stifling smaller food-producing operations would mean our country would rely on these massive operations to simply FEED US, making them more tempting soft targets than they already are. There needs to be a as diverse a food-production portfolio for our country as anyone would want in their personal investment portfolio, each the result of a STRATEGIC PLAN. Any law killing smaller production operations would be risk our food investment and should not be supported by the Garden State's Congressional delegation. ********** [064555:090409] T.G., Bowling Green, KY The problem with our food supply is that it is filled with heavily processed, genetically modified, chemically treated, hormone-injected "stuff", passed off as food coming from filthy, disease-ridden factory farms. What our food supply needs more of are completely organic foods (not this genetically modified or bioengineered or biotech stuff) produced in a safe, completely natural (re: non-chemical, non genetically modified), and sustainable manner. ********** [175846:083009] C.C., Belle Vernon, PA Hello, Please stop HR 2749. This bill will destroy local, small farmers since they do not have the financial resources to comply to the same laws as large factory farms. These small farmers are not the cause of the unsafe food supply, and should not be classed together with factory farms. People can see on films that factory farming creates unsafe conditions and food, not the average small, local farmer. The bill should concentrate on farms having over a certain amount of animals. Thank you ********** [113924:082809] S.D., Minneapolis, MN Please protect small farms from the FDA Factory Farm mentality. Also protect my freedom to choose my own supplements. Keep the FDA out of supplements and farming. ********** [181603:081709] C.R., Vancouver, WA Please stop trying to regulate the small farmers, in this country, out of existence. ********** [072453:081709] G.M., West Nottingham, NH Anyone who is seriously considering giving his/her support to HR2749 should be required to see the movie Food, Inc. first. This film depicts the problems with our current farming system. Then read In Defense of Food. It isn't the small farmer that is the problem, it is the corporate farms. After seeing this film, I would suggest the our government focus on this problem first. Use our tax money to close down or clean up these factory farms. This is where the real health problems are. Ignore their lobbyists and focus on the health risks they produce. Don't use this bill to harass small farmers. I don't go to supermarkets anymore, I buy my food from local farmers who care about what they produce and don't confuse using growth hormones and horrible chemicals with healthy organic farming practices. ********** Go Back