Now she tells us….
….Kathleen Merrigan, who recently resigned as Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, created a bit of a stir this week when she said the latest law the government passed to “protect” us…..has the potential to transform and even destroy small and medium sized farms.
Of course, the law has a high-sounding name, (see George Orwell), the Food Safety Modernization Act. But any bill that’s put together by Big Ag and Big Government is bound to be not only bad for small farms, but consumers. The basic idea is to make the requirements so stringent and so expensive that only mass producers with their chemical warehouses can afford them.
Apparently there’s a lot of this stuff going on in government right now. Note that Merrigan says people at her level are quitting across the board.
What happens, of course, is that the Big Guys push through a bill with all the right-sounding language, but the devil is in the details. And it’s the bureaucrats that put together the details, which was the understanding all along.
Referring back to an earlier discussion on this blog, some of our readers make the fair point that we elect these people. No, only 536 of them. But we don’t elect the people who fill-in the details. It’s the “secret government” in the departments and agencies where the damage is finally done….far beyond the reach of our ballots.