New food safety bill could crush local food movement from Politics in the Zeros

Farmers' Market. Jackson, Mississippi. Flickr photo by nataliemaynor

Next week, the Senate will vote on a measure that could potentially extinguish California's local food movement. Lobbied for by multinational agribusiness giants such as Cargill and Monsanto, as well as supported by the pharmaceutical industry, The Food Safety Modernization Act would impose financially crippling and practically useless regulations on family farms and small-scale food processors according to opponents.

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