S.510 - Looking deeper

As S.510 gets bounced around in the government, debating food safety regulations, FDA authority, tracking, recalls, funding, etc. I find myself wondering...

What would happen if the government, a senator or representative, took the brave and bold action to actually do something about the real underlying problem?  It is common knowledge today among anyone who studies the science behind food production, that the problem is systematic. the root problem, is not lack of funding, or too few inspections, or too little authority or too slow to recall... the problem is the approach. Consider this:

The current method of food production is through industrialized factories and factory methods. It honestly has nothing at all to do what what the American public thinks of as farming.  What the public sees in the images on the labels and television, and perceives in their own understanding, is a myth. virtually all of the  food in America today is produced in factories, not farms.  To make this more palatable to the public, and prevent a public outcry, the corporations involved simply change the public definition of "farm" and close the doors to viewing and understanding in the name of "preventing contamination".  If you doubt any of this, just do a little research, its really easy to find the truth on this if you look.

So, food safety... The core problem I see is that the government is dedicated to making factory production of food safe. Their primary goal is to preserve the inhumane and unhealthy practices used in the factories.  The scientific reality of this is that it can not be done. It is not possible to produce good food within the factory based system in use today. Yet, all of the  government focus, energy, money, and regulations are dedicated to preserving the system of factory farming and attempting to minimize the deaths resulting from it.  To their credit, the government actually does a tremendous job at minimizing the deaths resulting from this flawed system. IF the government didn't do what they do today, we would have rampant disease directly due to the factory food production methods. It  truly is that dangerous.  As it stand today, we do have a failing national health, with health care being the new biggest problem America faces. This is almost directly due to the altering of the food supply from farming to factories. Virtually all degenerative diseases can be prevented and sometimes cured by returning to true farming and rejecting the factories.  If the government didn't do what they do to regulate this flawed system, we would not only have degenerative diseases rampant, but we would have many more outright deaths directly from consumption of  tainted food. So, in that respect, I am thankful that the government is doing what it is to contain the spread of disease and death from factory farming.

But, to my original point. what if a senator or representative had the courage to say that the system itself is flawed, as we know it is... to expose the industrial food system for what it is, and propose legislation to start limiting the spread of factory food production and encourage the return to true farming.  Think about that.. if, over the next 50 years, we reversed the trend and saw small family farms springing up all over America, thousands or millions of them, and a corresponding decrease of food factories, our grandchildren could reap the benefits of better health, less health care cost and crisis, better environment, less fossil fuel reliance, less transportation cost in the food system, and overall better quality of life.  Close your eyes for a sec and dream about such a world for your grandchildren.

It starts with one in power who has the courage to do what is right, instead of doing more of the same. Healing our food supply isn't going to come through more inspections, it will come through re-learning how to produce food that does not need to be inspected.  One senator or representative could start this ball rolling. It will take a very long time to see through, but most valuable changes do take a long time. It has to start somewhere.

I throw out a personal call to anyone in power to consider what I say, consider being the one that starts the process, even if you can not finish it. Put your own career aside for a  moment and consider the responsibility you have on your shoulders as a representative of the people to do what is right.  Reject the notion that it is too late, that it cant be done, and take that first step. Outline for America a plan on how to crush the factory food system that is killing us, and restore farming to its rightful place of preserving the health and welfare of America.

Who will take such a challenge?