Have you read it yourcellf? This is not negative on my part. I'm shining the best light i got on it. I really studied it and i find nothing in there that relates to organic agriculture. Do you? If so what?

But deeper i will go ( this second tribe today for this) so i will take the unusual for me liberty of copying that reply which is already the third time i've written essentially the same info up.
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Oh yeah. I grew right fond of the food safety modernization act of 2008 by the time i finished my second reading. Quite a piece of work. Here is the opening statement:

"To establish the Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services to protect the public health by preventing food-borne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to food-borne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes."

It is aimed at the kind of slack assed under regulation that has led to salmonella and e coli outbreaks becoming common.

Mainly, i splits the FDA into a food part, called the Food Safety Administration, FSA, and a drug part called the Federal Drug and Device Administration which can still thankfully be referred to as the FDA.

The bill is concerned with the agency architecture requisite to such a new arrangement, and with defining categories such as meat packing plant, dairy plant, vegetale cannery, etc etc so they get regulated with schedules appropriate to their risk of contamination, meat more than dairy, dairy more than produce, just as one would figure.

I particularly like the strong whistleblower protection, and hope that this becomes a standard.

The obamas just planted a big organic garden, the organic lobby is powerful and does not oppose this to my knowledge.......anybody?......
The thought that organic gardening is going to be outlawed i think highly unlikely very on account of these and other very good reasons.

As near as i can figure, this campaign against this legislation was started by some parties who are fairly good sized organic meat packing company or companies , who do not want to be subjected to the same standards of inspection as other meat packers. This makes me wonder why not.

What is not outright lies is gross misrepresentation, but this is being replicated like crazy in the blogosphere and on forums like this, by well meaning, but i think misinformed people who are afraid that organic agriculture is going to be outlawed.

I think the underlying problem is a fear of the complexity of modern society. I read the bill and see nothing at all to fear, and instead i see a lot of changes that i think are good steps in the right direction.

I do not like monsanto!!!!!! But this is not the place to bust down on them as they have nothing at all to do with it. The bill is about the regulation and inspection of american food factories. I want to grow towards an entierly different system, where people grow their own food more and eat better and dance and sing and i have worked towards that, or at least stumbled in that direction, for a very long time.
But the current system is a squalid mess. It needs regulating and this is a pretty damn good attempt at it in my estimation.

AKA Intelligence