An Experiment in Scotch

A bill has been intro­duced by a Demo­c­rat whose hus­band does work for Mon­santo that would effec­tively kill farmer’s mar­kets. Under the guise of pro­tect­ing those of us who never asked for pro­tec­tion, the gov­ern­ment is try­ing to reg­u­late all food we might buy. A new gov­ern­men­tal entity would be cre­ated out of thin air to han­dle all this reg­u­la­tion all in the name of higher qual­ity food, leav­ing aside the facts that the large out­breaks of sal­mo­nella and e-coli in recent years have almost always been traced back to large cor­po­ra­tions or farms already under reg­u­la­tion. If the gov­ern­ment can’t stop it there, why should we believe the reg­u­la­tion of farmer’s mar­kets and small fam­ily farms will be any more successful?

We’re not 100 days in yet and we’re start­ing to see unbe­liev­able crap like this. We’ve elected peo­ple who are under the impres­sion that what we want most is to be pro­tected. At some point, there will be a clash between the peo­ple who just want to be left alone and this big gov­ern­ment that is slowly con­sol­i­dat­ing power. I have no idea what the out­come will be but I’m start­ing to get a tad ner­vous about it.

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