Activist Bureaucrats Hold Hearing on Texas Cottage Food Law

Link: http://www.ignoranceorapathy.com/main.php/2011/12/16/cottage_food_law_rules

© ignoranceorapathy.com 2/1/2012

The duly elected legislature of the Great State of Texas passed the Texas Cottage Food bill in 2010, the second time the bill came before the body. They did not pass it lightly, they took the bill into careful consideration. They held hearings, they compromised, they agonized and they finally found common ground with all the interested parties.
They passed the bill, they sent the bill to the duly elected Governor of Texas and Gov. Perry signed the bill into law.
The Texas Cottage Food Law took effect September 1st, 2011.

Now, after the process and well after the fact, the Health dept. has taken it upon itself to rewrite the law.

http://www.texascottagefoodlaw.com/
DSHS bureaucrats have extended their middle finger to the Legislature and moved ahead with their labyrinth of proposed labeling rules for cottage food operators, even after members of the Texas House Committee on Public Health told DSHS officials to take these rules back to the table and re-work them.
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In a nutshell, DSHS has taken these simple labels (which were simply supposed to inform the consumer who they bought their food from, where the food was made, and that the food was made in a home kitchen), and turned them into a bureaucratic string of red tape a foot long. NONE of the labeling rules proposed by DSHS apply to licensed bakeries, food establishments, coffee shops, or doughnut shops.

Follow up:

There will be a hearing in Austin on February 2nd, 2011 to consider the unbelievable and over reaching changes the Health dept. wishes to impose on the home bakers, the small business entrepreneurs and the elected legislature and governor of the state of Texas.

The Food Establishments Group is holding a public hearing for the proposed rules regarding Cottage Food Production Operations on February 2, 2012. The public hearing will be held from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in Room K-100 on the DSHS main campus. This is an opportunity for the public to make comments on the rules prior to final adoption.
DSHS Central Campus
1100 West 49th Street
Lecture Hall K-100
Austin, Texas 78756

I suggest every small businessperson and home baker that is able BE THERE!
Show your support online also:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/texas-bakers-bill/action-required-proposed-rules-for-cottage-food-labeling/310059809027616

It is high time Texans stand up to these unelected, unaccountable, self important, power hungry bureaucrats and make it known Texans will not be ruled by tyrants.

I have always said if you want to know who is behind something, just follow the money.
I wonder who is pushing this?

The Cottage Food Law was enacted primarily to serve two purposes:
1. Make legal in Texas what other states already have.
2. Give upstart and micro business owners a legal and honest chance to enter the market place.

In this tough economy it was seen as an opportunity to help small business and families.
It was a chance to get one more aspect of government out of the way of the free market.
It was, to my mind, the Texas way to approach a problem, more freedom, less government.

Bureaucrats hate less government!

So cinch up those apron strings and pull on those oven mitts and go let these tyrants know, This Is Texas! And we do not live like this!

This is Texas? Is it not? Or have we been secretly moved to the Peoples Republic of California?

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