S.510 Could Kill the Real Food Movement

Written By: Dawn Gifford  |  Posted: Monday, September 13th, 2010

The U.S. Senate has been working on S.510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. The Act tries to address the worst problems in U.S. agriculture, but as it stands, the bill threatens to undermine the best things in U.S. agriculture-small farmers producing for local markets.

S.510 is a well-meaning attempt to address the genuine problems of contamination from food-borne pathogens and complications in prevention and intervention caused by large, industrialized food distribution systems. All of the well-publicized incidents of contamination in recent years-spinach, peppers, peanuts, hamburger-occurred in industrialized food supply chains that span national-and even international-boundaries.

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