The bill may be dead in the water, the issue is not...

Here is a really good post on food safety legislation ...

The point basically is that HR875 is basically dead, but the issue of food safety is still very much alive. To quote the above link when discussing other food safety bills...

"Perhaps the worst of the lot is HR 1332, Rep. Costa’s Safe FEAST Act of 2009, which is backed by the Big Ag group Western Growers. It would create a HACCP system for produce. (HACCP is the set of burdensome recordkeeping requirements credited with hastening the demise of many small-scale slaughter facilities.) It doesn’t take the size of operations into account. It would pay for inspections by charging fees to farms and processors and would hand the duty of inspection over to third-party certifiers. Because yeah, that’s worked so well for us to date.
Then there’s Rep. DeGette’s H.R. 814, which actually does mandate a National Animal Identification System, which we and lots of other people have major concerns about. And there’s H.R. 759, offered by Rep. Dingell, which requires traceability of food from farm to restaurants and requires that the recordkeeping be done electronically. It also charges fees to processors — small or large — for inspections."

Oh, yeah! NAIS - the national animal identification system, whose first goal is the tagging and tracking of ever agricultural animal in the country but whose proponents suggest it should apply to every domesticated animal!

Here is a very nice description of some of the issues around food safety... It discusses among other things the greens rules I posted about last week.

The battle over HR875 may be over, but the war over your right to decide what food you want to buy, what farmers you want to support, and what production techniques you think are right has just begun...