April 02, 2007

"Food Defamation" Bill Comes to CA

AB 698 (Strickland, R-Thousand Oaks) would allow “a producer of a perishable agricultural product, as defined, who suffers actual damages as a result of another person's disparagement of the producer's product to recover those actual damages if certain facts are found to be true.”

Because so-called "false reports of contamination regarding agricultural products" hurt you and you "cannot assess which reports of contamination are reliable." IOW, you’re too stupid to figure out that

  • animal agribusiness manure run-off made spinach kill people,

  • feral swine, as biological vectors in a human disease-transmission algorithm, wouldn’t have left enough spinach leaves behind to bother harvesting,

  • pigs don’t waste time on spinach when vineyard grapes are a just trot away.
Didn’t we go over this already?

motivator

Yep, we did. Just checking.

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