Talked to my sister about some of this stuff. My brother in law and my sister run an organic farm and creamery, and have long been involved with different local farmers markets, food co-ops. Here is what she had to say in an email to me:
yes, we've been hearing a lot of chatter about this lately. actually there are 8 variations of the "food safety" bill pending in congress but they are all equally overbearing and will do little more than make small and medium size farms (and possibly individual gardeners) obsolete if passed.
it's really disturbing stuff and i hope common sense will prevail, but if it doesn't, it's up to the average folks who still want the opportunity to buy local and organics foods to let their voices be heard in Washington. Otherwise the food production in this country will be left to a few large corporate farms and that's just insane!
