The joke used to be that you shouldn’t want the government providing your kid’s education any more than you would want the government providing your groceries.  Well, the government educated us, and now the joke is on us.

WND: Coming government takeover of food.

HR 875 defines “food establishment” (among other things) as any “facility … that processes food or a facility that hold, stores, or transports food or food ingredients.” The bill also defines “food production facility” as “any farm, ranch, orchard, vineyard, aquaculture facility, or confined animal-feeding facility.” The bill empowers the new FSA to promulgate regulations further defining what “food” is, and regulating the manner of its growth, processing and delivery to the consumer. The companion Senate Bill (SB 425) introduced by Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, sheds more light on the true goal of all this. Her bill requires “traceability” in these words: The traceability system shall require each article of food … to be identified in a manner that enables the Secretary to retrieve the history, use, and location of the article through a recordkeeping and audit system … Taken together, these bills envision federal government definition of what is “food” and the requirement that, if you produce this “food,” you will have to provide the paperwork to document that you produced it according to the regulations of the FSA. Basically, don’t sell, or even give, the produce from your “recession garden” to anyone – or you’re in a heap of trouble.