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Readers' forum: Family farms in danger

@John Williams | 3:59 a.m. July 2, 2009

Sorry, Mr. Williams. You are wrong. Most cases of food contamination do not occur at either large corporate farms or on small "family" farms. They occur at processing plants where the foods are cut, sliced, diced, stewed, and otherwise prepared for market.

Chen | 9:33 a.m. July 2, 2009

Further, the "Family Farm" has been disappearing since before the 20th century. America is no longer an agrarian system and you must adjust to this. The Jeffersonian model does not match the modern world at all.

Anonymous | 11:53 a.m. July 2, 2009

I like food.

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Look at the bill | 12:08 p.m. July 2, 2009

This is like having the SEC make sure your investments are safe(example Bernie Madoff).

This will make the food more dangerous and costly. The government can't do these chores. We have to expect to take on these responsibilites more our selves or it will break in a big way.

Why can't we set up web sites to judge our selves and provide real people feed back rather than government employees. We are finding that government employees don't have enough vested interest and won't help us. Again case in point SEC on Bernie Madoff.

This is bad legislation, we are headed in a bad way. We should be looking at using the people that are vested in getting good food make the calls her and post them on the web. This would work, using professional government workers will not solve anything but cost a lot of money.

@Look at the bill | 1:02 p.m. July 2, 2009

And your evidence that "using professional government workers will not solve anything but cost a lot of money" is what?

As a federal retiree, I worked at my jobs diligently for 30 years and I never saw an incompetent government worker who wasn't discharged in the first three years of employment (after three years, it's harder but it's done all the time). This rap against feds is absurd and comes from no one but the jealous who weren't selected and inflamed by the right-wingers.

Hypocrisy | 3:09 p.m. July 2, 2009

Wa wa.

Complain to your Republican leadership.

Ed Thompson | 6:47 p.m. July 4, 2009

Our population became unsustainable by mom and pop farms a long time ago. Farming, whether by individuals or corporations, needs to figure out one thing. How to pay it's own bills.

Anonymous | 7:01 p.m. July 4, 2009

Mister Green Jean is dead. It's Food Inc. Learn to live with food fascism.

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