Yet Another Unconstitutional Bill

HR 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 is coming to the House for a vote. The name is completely innocent-sounding, deceptively so. What the bill aims to do is control the food supply.
*It calls for an annual $500 registration fee for any facility that holds, processes, or manufactures food. Does that include your home? I hold food in my kitchen.
*It empowers the FDA to regulate how crops are grown and harvested. Putting the government in charge of farming can't be a great idea. There's not a thing under the sun that the government can do efficiently, farming included.
*It gives the FDA quarantine power over any area, including “prohibiting or restricting the movement of food or of any vehicle being used or that has been used to transport or hold such food within the geographic area.” This could be a back door move to martial law.
*It allows the FDA to make warrantless searches of business records of any facility that holds, processes, or manufactures food. Even if there is no probable cause.
*It authorizes the Secretary of HHS to establish a food tracking system. Every facility that holds, packs, processes, or manufactures food must have a full background of each item- where it came from, what's in it, etc. Again, does it include my home?
*It establishes severe criminal penalties of up to 10 years imprisonment and $100,000 fines for individual violations.
The problem here in America isn't that we have too many criminals- we have too many laws which CREATE criminals. This bill completely misses the point of food safety enhancement and instead restricts the rights of farmers to grow crops in the most efficient way they know how, instead relying on the government to "know best" how to do something. Call or email Dave Reichert and urge him to vote against this dangerous piece of legislation. I expect him to support HR 2749, and if it passes I will make it a top priority to repeal it if elected.