Alert: Stand up for your farmer, stand up for your food
October 24, 2013
All across the country today, communities are celebrating Food Day 2013, a day to support and celebrate healthy, affordable, and sustainable
Alert: Stand up for your farmer, stand up for your food
October 24, 2013
All across the country today, communities are celebrating Food Day 2013, a day to support and celebrate healthy, affordable, and sustainable food.
But much of the progress we’re making towards a better food and farm system is being threatened by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) regulations – new rules currently proposed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that could make sustainable agriculture and local food collateral damage if we don’t take action.
Everyone wants safe food, but we need to speak up to save sustainable food systems threatened by costly new food safety regulations tailored for industrial food production.
If we don’t fix these draft rules:
- It will be harder for children, schools, and families to get fresh, healthy produce from farmers that use sustainable practices,
- The high costs of compliance will deter beginning farmers from starting to farm, and could put farmers and food entrepreneurs out of business, and
- Farmers will be less able to use sustainable and 