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The FDA will now have unprecedented control over the growing and selling of food within the United States. Yes, the very same FDA that already allows thousands upon thousands of unhealthy, mass-produced food products to flood supermarkets and into the hungry bellies of schoolchildren and adults every day.>
>Next on the list will be the newly organized Ministry of Peace ....
Specially this part from the first comment:
"...that small farms will be disproportionately burdened by the regulation, while the larger corporations will have the cash to make investments in retrofitting facilities or constructing new ones. Additionally, these small farms will have to invest considerable time researching the legislation so they can properly comply, or spend money on a lawyer to do so, while Nestle has an army of lawyers on retainer."
First, the big guys won't be checked much. Remember the escherichia coli in the burgers? Despite all the hubbub at the time, the meat industry
did not allow veterinary inspectors to be present in the factory - they were still powerfull enough. And big pharma is much stronger than meat packers. Monsanto already has its people inside the FDA (revolving door employment scheme), and even when the FDA does any research to check on them, they can't have any independent testing (because of the patent restrictions), but have to rely on the data provided by the manufacturer's own "research". Fox guards the chicken. Second, not only the big guys have lawyers of big caliber (aka diameter, of purse), but they know all the loopholes in the law. How? They wrote it.