Letters
Overregulation of Foods
By Ms. Debra Frazier
Jul 2, 2009 - 5:47:40 PM

Overregulation on issues such as these, especially when the language of the laws enacted are extremely vague, are dangerous to both consumers and the healthy diversity in farming practices. If you will recall, it is commercial feed (prepared with animal offal, often of the same kind of animal that is fed the stuff!) which spread the virus for bovine spongiform encephalitis (BSE/Mad Cow).

Recent scientific studies also indicate that fish food made with the offal of cows can possibly contaminate factory farmed fish with BSE as well. And the language of this proposed bill 2749 is so vague that it can be easily misinterpreted to actually prevent safer "old fashioned" farming methods which are proven safe. This law is badly written and unclear as to purpose, which gives me the immediate suspicion it's been written as a panacea to your war chest contributors not your constiuents. It will give unneeded powers to another government agency which already has enough authority and !
not enough manpower to do its job already. (I know because I work with some of these folks.)

Ms. Debra Frazier
Houlton, Maine