With out the FDA making standards all you have is Big Food imposing their own standards on food growers (ie the scorched earth approach)- with no respect for environmental impact, organics or any other common sense approaches.
Furthermore, people are getting sick and dying. It seems like most reasonable people want to make sure that their loved ones are dying from spinach or peanuts.
Big Ag and other industry leaders don’t like this bill because it imposes real standards and safety measures so they are stirring up the small farmers to fight for them. Got to our blog post above to read the other side of the issue.