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Title: These elected officials eat hemp to make a point
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Grist
URL Source: http://grist.org/list/these-elected ... ials-eat-hemp-to-make-a-point/
Published: Aug 25, 2015
Author: Katie Herzog
Post Date: 2015-08-27 09:41:42 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 613
Comments: 10
Last week in Colorado, The Man gave the finger to The Man. Reps. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) shared an illegal meal at Denver’s Jezebel restaurant. On the menu? Raw milk, hemp scones, kombucha, and non-USDA-inspected steak and eggs. All of those foods are heavily regulated or illegal for purchase, but the representatives skirted the law by bringing their own fare, giving new meaning to the term BYOB (bring your own banned foods). The purpose of the meal was to bring attention to a series of bills that would loosen a handful of food regulations and restrictions. The representatives are co-sponsors of the Milk Freedom Act and the Milk Interstate Freedom Act, which would make raw milk legal nationwide, and the PRIME Act, which would allow slaughterhouses to sell beef within state lines without USDA inspection. This would, according to a press release, “make it easier for small farms and ranches to serve consumers.” “What do you put in your own body?,” said Rep. Polis. “What’s a more intimate decision than that? It really should be entirely up to people. It should be up to the person. You shouldn’t have the federal government telling you what you can and can’t eat.” Source:
Office of Rep. Jared Polis 
Office of Rep. Jared Polis
Congressmen want more food freedom, less regulation, 9News.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
That's right! What DO I put in my own body? That's why we have the USDA.
What could possibly go wrong?
Well, sure. And that's the goal, isn't it? It's not about food safety. The goal is to make it easier to sell. So what if a few people get sick. That's why we have Obamacare.
That's why we have the USDA. Authoritarians like you will never be happy until everyone's lives are completely controlled by government edict. In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much What could possibly go wrong? Gee....drinking a substance that is free from RGbh and other toxins - why is it you hate the idea of food freedom? In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much The goal is to give consumers a choice. But no - we can't have that, can we? After all, in misterwhite Bizarro World, only the government can decide what we as individuals choose to eat, drink or ingest. In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much Why do you think pasteurization came about?
The government is inspecting food to make sure it's safe. What's your problem with inspected beef?
I never knew that kombucha was highly regulated.
Lobbyists, graft, corruption. IOW, Republican & Democrat government cheese. “What do you put in your own body?,” said Rep. Polis."
#2. To: Deckard (#0)
"Milk Freedom Act and the Milk Interstate Freedom Act, which would make raw milk legal nationwide"
#3. To: Deckard (#0)
"This would, according to a press release, “make it easier for small farms and ranches to serve consumers.”
#4. To: misterwhite (#1)
That's right! What DO I put in my own body?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#5. To: misterwhite (#2)
"Milk Freedom Act and the Milk Interstate Freedom Act, which would make raw milk legal nationwide"
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#6. To: misterwhite (#3)
It's not about food safety. The goal is to make it easier to sell.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#7. To: Deckard (#5)
Gee....drinking a substance that is free from RGbh and other toxins - why is it you hate the idea of food freedom?
#8. To: Deckard (#4)
"Authoritarians like you will never be happy until everyone's lives are completely controlled by government edict."
#9. To: Deckard (#0)
Ya learn sumthin' new every day...
#10. To: misterwhite, *The Two Parties ARE the Same* (#7)
(Edited)
Why do you think pasteurization came about?
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
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