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Nicole Johnson is a researcher and activist living in Ventura county, California. Her kids wish she would go back to painting and stop worrying so much about the world.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 Food "Safety" Reform and the Covert Continuation of the Enclosure Movement (1 comments)
Just as the Enclosure acts during the 17th through 19th centuries drove peasants off what was once communal land, the food safety legislation will serve to bar small- and medium-sized business people from engaging in food production. It will essentially seize the most basic of human rights and bestow upon the well capitalized and connected a monopoly on food production.
Thursday, November 12, 2009 The Festering Fraud behind Food Safety Reform
The vested interests behind the proposed food safety legislation are the same vested interests behind the earlier deregulation of the meat and poultry inspection process. They aim to minimize the regulatory obstacles faced by transnational corporations engaged in international trade, and they're using the issue of food safety to con us into consenting to their wishes.
Thursday, September 10, 2009 History, HACCP and the Food Safety Con Job (1 comments)
The Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 seeks to apply HACCP, a food safety approach originally devised for processed food, to raw foods. Applying HACCP to raw foods will result in a less safe food supply and greater market consolidation, and it will deliver a devastating blow to the food localization movement.
