Attempts to Amend the PSA and Overule the 11th Circuit

[Econ101]

(MEATPOULTRY.com, May 08, 2007)

by MEAT&POULTRY Staff



Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-Iowa) introduced legislation (H.R. 2135) that would amend the Packers and Stockyards Act to make it easier for livestock producers to prove unfair practices of processors/packers. The bill would eliminate the requirement to show that a practice caused a competitive injury or adverse impact on competition. The National Pork Producers Council claims that the broad language would limit producers' ability to market their hogs.



Similar to legislation (S. 622) introduced in February by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) Boswell's bill also would create an Office of Special Counsel within the Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyard Administration to enforce the Packers and Stockyards Act and the Agricultural Fair Practices Act. The special counsel would investigate and prosecute violations of competition matters. NPPC opposes both the Boswell and Harkin legislation.



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[rider]

The courts don't even recognize the Packers & Stockers Act. Why would changing the working make any difference?

Sorry to be so cynical...

It's a large monster we're up against!

 

[Ben Roberts]

The courts don't even recognize the Packers & Stockers Act. Why would changing the working make any difference?

Sorry to be so cynical...

It's a large monster we're up against!

Rider, being correct in what you say, is not bring cynical! What-ever your motives are. I support your thoughts on this one.

Best Regards
Ben Roberts

 

[Sandhusker]

The courts don't even recognize the Packers & Stockers Act. Why would changing the working make any difference?

Sorry to be so cynical...

It's a large monster we're up against!

The problem is that if we don't have an enforced PSA, we're like a junior high team playing the Chicago Bears.

 

[Econ101]

The courts don't even recognize the Packers & Stockers Act. Why would changing the working make any difference?

Sorry to be so cynical...

It's a large monster we're up against!

Rider, with God, all things are possible.

 

[rider]

Talk all day...

Change the laws...

Fire the USDA...

Create new lawsuits...

Allow God to change things?????


All we're doing here is talking- no action. Who really cares about these issues? Who's really going to make the difference? Do you really believe that God cares if the PSA is enforced or not?

What God cares about is what is in your heart. Do you love Him? Do you accept Him as your savior? Have you served Him by leading others to the truth about life everlasting?

Or do you follow the material things of this world and need changes in the laws to make you feel better about yourself and "act as if" this is what God wants. Just like the Pharisees who created the complex laws that could never be followed , this is a segragating issue, not a uniting one.

 

[Econ101]

Talk all day...

Change the laws...

Fire the USDA...

Create new lawsuits...

Allow God to change things?????


All we're doing here is talking- no action. Who really cares about these issues? Who's really going to make the difference? Do you really believe that God cares if the PSA is enforced or not?

What God cares about is what is in your heart. Do you love Him? Do you accept Him as your savior? Have you served Him by leading others to the truth about life everlasting?

Or do you follow the material things of this world and need changes in the laws to make you feel better about yourself and "act as if" this is what God wants. Just like the Pharisees who created the complex laws that could never be followed , this is a segragating issue, not a uniting one.

Rider, do you think we are all created to be perpetual victims?

Even Jesus threw out the money lenders.

 

[rider]

NO

 

[Anonymous]

I'm getting more and more convinced that we don't need to change most of the laws- we just need to change the folks (Administration) that were sworn to enforce the ones we have- and haven't...

This takes a political view- but if you set back and look at what is happening in our AG's office, GIPSA, USDA, FDA, Immigration, etc. etc. it sure appears the evidence is there that politics have overrode the written law of the land....

http://harpers.org/archive/2007/05/hbc-90000028

 

[Econ101]

I think that one of the reasons Congress is held in such low regard is their hand in this. Usually an administration will look towards those in his party "with like thinking" to fill vacancies and appointments.


We have had a justice committee in the House and Senate who have allowed companies to enforce protections for themselves despite the right to a trial that is in the Bill of Rights and in the Constitution.

I recently read an "agreement" sent by a company that required arbitration instead of following their own initial contract. The copy of the "new agreement" changed the original contract without my signature, and then imposed this biased system of "justice".

Sensenbrenner (former chairman of House Judiciary) as well as other high ranking Congressmen have favored big business with this taking away of one of the rights in the Constitution. The Judiciary congressmen in the House and Senate should all be held responsible for not imposing the rule of law and enforcing the Constitution they are sworn to uphold. Talk about a bunch of hypocritical sellouts. All of their and their party's donations from business who want to squash our rights in this regard should be turned over to fund the disabled veterans who come home from war.

Even the highest court in the land has looked the other way.



We need to start by enforcing our constitution and not allowing politicians to sell our rights out from under us.

 

[rider]

We need to change our outlook. No law, new official, or organized group is going to change things. Look it up. What has been still is.

A new outlook on preserving what is good and promoting the positive will do more good than griping.