Congress Aims to Destroy More Small Farms
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Congress Aims to Destroy More Small Farms
By Jean Spencer
Congress’s food-safety fight is nearing an end but small farmers still have a bone to pick with the legislation.
The Senate version of a food-safety bill has attracted broad bipartisan support and is expected to pass easily soon after Congress returns from recess next week. Iowa Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, a co-sponsor, predicted it would be “on the president’s desk by May.” But small farmers worry the measure’s fees and inspection requirements would be ruinously expensive and are pushing for exemptions.
“I know people who have been small farmers for 25 to 30 years who are looking to get out of the business because food safety is becoming so alarmist,” said Mary Alionis, whose eight-acre Whistling Duck Farm in Grants Pass, Ore., sells produce to farmers markets and restaurants.
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