Access to Natural Foods [without government interference]

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Don’t let corruption and greed ruin your food!

No regulations and permits, nor any other government interference for family farmers when selling directly to customers.

[Meats, Eggs, Dairy Products, Vegetables, Fruits, and Other Produce.]

Give the people the right to buy and the farmer to produce/sell food directly, without government/agency oversight regulations and interference.

Let the people be the judge as to which food they want to buy and put in their bodies, as everyone should have liberty to determine if he trusts the way a farmer produces his food, without the need for government/agency approval, procedures and interference.

Including on-premise slaughter, butchering, and processing of farm goods for direct sales.

This should give the people the ability to choose food that they deem fit for consumption and keep small farmers competitive.

This should impede the government and agencies to use the pretext of food safety to wage war on small farmers in favor of big agricultural conglomerates, that value profits over the virtue of producing good and healthy food for the communities.

[Look at Amos Miller’s Situation]

To get a glimpse of the bias of regulatory agencies against certain foods and the subsequent suppression and misrepresentation of scientific data to fit their narrative read:

Petition and Report in Favor of Natural Milk by Aajonus Vonderplaniz, Ph.D.

Link to download the Report: Report in Favor of Natural Milk - FileTransfer.io

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@HealthIsWealth,

I appreciate the idea of allowing more access to natural foods without government interference. Reducing barriers could help small farmers and improve consumer choice, but food safety is an important consideration. To balance both, I think it would be helpful to create a tiered regulatory system. This system could exempt small-scale farms from burdensome regulations while still enforcing basic food safety standards. It would offer more freedom to farmers and consumers while ensuring that public health isn’t compromised.

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I do agree with your concerns about food safety. We would have to ensure that the regulatory agencies are enforcing it in a just way and do not use it to benefit big corporations instead of the pursuit of good quality food.
If you look at the case of raw milk for example the consensus of the regulatory agencies is that is very dangerous but if you take a factual look at how they come to that conclusion there is a lot of misinterpartion of data and lack of clinical evidence to support that pasteurized milk is better than raw.

As I said take a look at the “Petition and Report in Favor of Natural Milk by Aajonus Vonderplaniz, Ph.D.” is quite an eye-opening about how we have been deceived.
It was used in 2001 to legalize raw milk in California.

Link to download the Report:  Report in Favor of Natural Milk - FileTransfer.io

Reading that report it shows that the health scares are unfounded and baised against raw milk. But to this day you have media and government agencies demonizing it.

That being said, I am for ensuring there is no chemical contamination whatsoever (including pharmaceuticals hormones, etc.) in the milk and that the cows are fed healthfully and are healthy.

So we ensure that the government and its agencies can stay objective and focus on what matters. Or we don’t have the interfere with direct farm sales.

Wouldn’t it be better to have many small farms and food producers instead of a few big ones? The quality will be better, the supply chain more stable, and if there was an outbreak to occur for whatever reason, although less likely because of improved quality, it would limit the size of the outbreak and potential recall.

Also, take a look a the linient food laws concerning raw milk in Wyoming.

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Regulation should ALWAYS be risk-based.
Food safety is far less of an issue in small operations than large ones.

  • Commercial farming and food handling at the massive scale has greater opportunity for mishandling, unsafe practices, and errors.
  • Commercial farming/processing food errors have far greater impact on public health because of the much larger number of peope who consume a single batch, lot or animal.
  • Commercially produced products are distributed over much greater areas and larger markets, and have exponentially larger potential impact when an unsafe condition occur.
  • On-farm and market garden/farmer’s market sales provide greater opportunity for the buyer to choose trustworthy sources, quality products, and to inspect facilities and handling for themselves.
  • On-farm and market garden/farmer’s market sales distribute to local areas with smaller distribution and have orders of magnitude smaller impacts.

Availability of natural, raw, farm-raised products.

  • Foods such as raw milk and dairy products, home-preserved goods, and other low-processing items should be available for sale both on-farm and at farmer’s market type settings, as well as in grocery stores.
  • Right-to-Sell and Right-to-Buy should be protected at the federal level so no state can compromise their citizens’ right to choose the food their families will eat.

Accessibility of Sales and Distribution

  • One problem with limiting sales to on-farm settings is that this prevents access by many city dwellers - farm settings may simply be too far away to be a practical daily / weekly source. For this reason, local in-store sales should be permitted.

Safety and Traceability of Products

  • For foods that may be a source of food-borne illness, it would be acceptable to provide guidance on “source” information to be provided at the time of sale. This might take the form of business cards or labels to accompany the product that state 1) the producer’s name/business, 2) contact information (phone or email), 3) county/state where the product is produced (NOT the facility address for privacy and biosecurity reasons), and 4) method of production (free-range, grass fed, organic, natural, etc.)
  • Labeling of this sort would allow products to be traced back in the unlikely event of a CONFIRMED (not assumed or implicated) food safety issue.
  • IF a food-borne illness is CONFIRMED, support should be provided for identification and correction of root cause, in conjunction with the producer’s veterinary professionals. This should NOT require extermination of herds/flocks and the resulting economic destruction of the producer, but should focus on additional testing, management strategies, preservation of valuable genetics, and development of preventative methods.

It is essential that people’s sovereignty over their own bodies and health be restored and protected. Choice of what to eat, and what food to provide to their families, is inseparable from basic right to self-determination.

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