S510 - Illegal To Grow, Share,Trade, Sell Homegrown Food [Archive]

MorningSong

7th August 2010, 17:23

Yep...found this as I stalked the wild asper-a-gust (lol)....

Representative Tim Holden (D-PA 17th)
9th-term Democrat from Pennsylvania.

Subject:
S510 Food "Safety" Bill

To:
President Barack Obama
Sen. Arlen Specter
Sen. Robert Casey
Rep. Tim Holden

November 11, 2009

11/11/09
Dear leaders:
I understand the Senate is taking the next step towards passing S. 510, the Senate version of the House food safety bill, and that the Senate HELP Committee is planning to "mark up" the bill next week.
IT IS CRITICAL that important changes be made before the bill is approved by the Committee!
While FDA claimed that the bill only covers food in interstate commerce, the language of the bill would impose sweeping regulations on ALL farms and food processors - everyone from local CSAs to the small bakers, jam makers, and cheesemakers at the local farmers market. These regulations are not appropriate for small local farms and food processors, which are fundamentally very different from huge, industrial food suppliers that ship food all over the country.
Congress can and should address the problems with the INDUSTRIAL food supply, but should do so WITHOUT HARMING THE LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS that provide an alternative for concerned consumers, like me and my family and community!

I implore you to push for amendments to SB 510 to:
(a) CLEARLY exempt intrastate foods,
(b) also exempt foods sold in local foodsheds.

Here's why:
1) Although FDA stated that the bill only applies to food in interstate commerce, the language of the bill does not contain any such limitation. On its face, the bill applies to ANY farm or food producer, regardless of the size or scope of distribution. If the intent truly is to limit the bill to food that is crossing state lines, then it must be amended. And even then, the bill would still negatively impact small farmers and food processors who live near state lines and who cross state lines to reach local farmers markets and coops, so this must be addressed appropriately.
2) The major foodborne illness outbreaks and recalls have all been within the large, INDUSTRIAL food system. Small, local food producers have not contributed to the highly publicized outbreaks. Yet both the House and Senate bills subject the small, local food system to the same, broad federal regulatory oversight that would apply to the industrial food system. Increased regulations, record-keeping obligations, and the penalties and fees could destroy small businesses that bring food to local communities.
3) FDA regulation of local food processors is unnecessary and burdensome. Federal regulations may be needed for industrial processors that get raw ingredients from multiple locations (sometimes imported from other countries) and ship their products across the country, but federal regulation is overkill for small, local processors. EXISTING STATE AND LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH LAWS ARE SUFFICIENT for local food sources.
4) Relying on a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) system will not make food safer and will harm small processors. S. 510 applies a complex and burdensome HACCP system to even the smallest local food processors. Although the concept of preventative controls is a good one, the federal agencies' implementation of HACCP has already proven to be an overwhelming burden for a significant number of small, regional meat processors across the country. In the meat industry, HACCP has NOT eliminated the spread of e. coli and other pathogens and has resulted in FEWER independent inspections of the large slaughter plants WHERE THESE PATHOGENS ORIGINATE. At the same time, small, regional processors have been subject to sanctions due to paperwork violations that posed no health threat. Applying a HACCP system to small, local foods processors could drive them out of business, reducing consumers' options to buy fresh, local foods.
5) S. 510 puts FDA on the farm by calling for FDA regulation of how farms grow and harvest produce. Given the agency's track record, it is likely that the regulations will discriminate against small, organic, and diversified farms. The House version of the bill directs FDA to consider the impact of its rulemaking on small-scale and diversified farms, but there are no enforceable limits or protections for small diversified and organic farms from inappropriate and burdensome federal rules.
Thank you.

Shoemakersville , PA

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/userletter/?letter_id=4235612956

lindabaker

8th August 2010, 23:18

Sleeper laws are very dangerous...at any future time anyone sharing homegrown food, even with extended family, could be arrested. Why have these laws be so potentially extensive?

theguardian

9th August 2010, 00:16

They want us to eat their junk unhealthy food, huge profits for the big corporates, we eat their junk, we get sick , we buy medicine , they make money,

FDA is a joke.

Fredkc

9th August 2010, 00:58

Hello;
I saw this about 3 days ago myself. Even posted it.
Then I read up on it, and deleted the thread.

It is all true, in that the SOB's did try it. One teeny li'l catch.

It was introduced in the 2009 Congressional session.
Original Date of S510: 3/3/2009
It was then duly rat-holed in a committee where it died the unsung death of all bad ideas.
The session ended and so the bill died.

Not saying they won't try again, but for now...

Fred

Beth

9th August 2010, 01:04

Good to know Freddyc, thanks!

Steven

9th August 2010, 01:10

Considering the Elite, or in this case, part of the Elite, specifically the american shadow government, and the ones behind such kind of tyrannical laws, are also expecting, yes expecting, a major solar flare of unprecedent proportion, that might burn the world and shut down civilization as we know now, and are preparing for the day after, are simply creating these laws, not built for this civilization, but the new one emerging from the ashes of what will be left, there will be no resistance against such laws in a survival state. That is what they are expecting, their plan, so it makes all sens.

Namaste, Steven

Fredkc

9th August 2010, 01:20

I did follow my nose and found this comment on the Mises.org forum (http://mises.org/Community/forums/t/18800.aspx):

The bill applies only to "food facilities," and private residences are explicitly excluded from falling under that term. Thus, the bill (if it became law) would not apply to privately produced food grown for one's own consumption. Rather, it would apply only to commercial operations, such as corporate farms, dairies, and restaurants.

Correction: The bill also explicitly excludes Restaurants from the definition of "food facilities," and it appears that farms are also excluded. My mistake. Sorry.
Assuming they got to read the text, the statement in bold above doesn't make sense. The intent seems pretty clear;

What they want is to make any commercial use of food, privately produced, illegal. Basically the end of things like roadside produce, food coops, etc. (down to lemonade stands, once the cops get ahold of this).

The only person I know we could have elected President, who would have vetoed this no matter what it was attached to was.... Ron Paul ... whose crazy now? ;)

sjkted

9th August 2010, 04:03

I don't think they could even enforce such a law. There are many laws on the book in the U.S that are never properly enforced. They're regarded to as junk laws.

Actually, it's a big problem and it helps to destroy our system of civil rights. For example, police cannot pull you over on the road without probable cause. They cannot get an arrest warrent to enter your property without convincing a judge you may have done something wrong. With so many existing laws and new laws, who is not in violation of something?

--sjkted

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They want us to eat their junk unhealthy food, huge profits for the big corporates, we eat their junk, we get sick , we buy medicine , they make money,

FDA is a joke.

Yeah, the people poisoning the food system are making it illegal for us to not eat their toxic waste. There was once a point in my life I would find this thoroughly comical.

--sjkted

Samarkis

17th September 2010, 14:06

URGENT petition to be signed!!!!!!!!!!!

Vote will be done in a day or two!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613#Action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHUeyD_KCrI&feature=player_embedded

Fredkc

17th September 2010, 14:26

frank samuel

17th September 2010, 14:27

Thanks for the heads up , this is just insane !!!

xbusymom

17th September 2010, 23:31

Ok.. if this is still about S510 then...

It was introduced in the 2009 Congressional session.
Original Date of S510: 3/3/2009
It was then duly rat-holed in a committee where it died the unsung death of all bad ideas.
The session ended and so the bill died.
Coulda swore I read that somewhere...
Fred

consider it resurrected... here is the newsletter I got 3 days ago--
the blog entry ( http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2010/09/s510-companion-bill-s3767-to.html )is dated sept 14, 2010 and reports on recent congressional activity...

________________________

Another Attack By the Empire
S.3767, New Companion Bill to S. 510 Introduces Severe Criminal Penalties
For "Adulterating" Food, Which To FDA Means... Selling Supplements!

Food Fascism Battle is Far From Over

1. Must Take Revised Action Item Each Day:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

2. Must send viral! Please forward this item, urging contacts to take the Action Item and then send it to their contact with the same request.

3. Check http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm to Find Your Senat Phone Numbers. Call Your Senators and Leave a Strongly Worded Message Like This One, Two, Three, Four:

1. S.510 is a CONTROVERSIAL BILL, and
2. Please, Senator, put a HOLD on it.
3. Senator, don't let it be pushed through the Senate immediately by parliamentary means as a non-controversial bill.
4. The bill can be reintroduced in January when hearings can held to allow groups which are opposed to the bill to tell how it will affect them. And the American food supply.

The Empire, the Uber Cartel, is on the march. They are marching on your Dinner Table, Your Supplement Shelf and Your Personal Freedom.

S. 3767, the "Food Safety Accountability Act of 2101" was introduced yesterday by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT). It is a companion fake "Phude" Safety Bill which brings back the horrific criminal penalties which HR 1279 imposed for doing pretty much anything at all that violated the incredibly restrictive requirements which every farm, and every farmer, would have to meet. The Senate bill, S. 510, while truly frightening, did not include these penalty clauses.

By putting criminal penalties back into the "Phude Safety" arena, the megacorporations which want to drive everyone out of their farmyards and supermarkets will literally be able to criminalize and jail the owners of a company which cites scientific literature showing that their product is beneficial in some specific situation or circumstance.

"Yesterday, in the waning days of the 111th Congress, as We the People prepare to throw the rascals out, Big Agra Biz' friends in Congress have taken the unusual late-session step of introducing a criminal penalty bill. The bill reintroduces a 10 year jail term for anyone who sells what the govt later decides was "adulterated" or "misbranded" food, a provision which had been removed from the House-passed (sic) "Food Safety" version last year (HR.1279). The political insiders plan, our contacts tell us, to add S. 3767 to S.510 so the penalties can be in the final bill approved by the conference committee." Read more here at Trustee Ralph Fuectola's blog on this horrifying development: http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2010/09/s510-companion-bill-s3767-to.html

The Natural Solutions Foundation has been warning against just such a development when we noted with great concern that Codex, like the US FDA, was making the act of telling anyone about the health benefits of food a forbidden act. We noted that this suppression of expression and truth was directed against health and food freedom, and has nothing to do with food safety.

Well, here we are: A "Phude Safety" Bill, S. 510, will industrialize your food and its Policeman Brother Bill will put people who support any health freedom competition to the Uber Cartel away for a long, long time, threatening and cowing others who might want to do the same thing.

Not bad enough for you yet? CDC says that 1 American in 4 will become ill from a food borne illness this year - and that's under the current system when some people are still able to eat food that is clean and unadulterated. That figure, by the way, refers to conditions like salmonella poisoning. It does not refer to cancer, a food borne illness that will kill one American in 3 and has just overtaken cardiovascular disease and stroke as the number one killer of Americans. It does not refer to cardiovascular disease and stroke, which will kill another 1/3 of Americans. Nor does it refer to obesity, diabetis and other nutritional killers. What that means, of course, is that through eating industrial "Phude", the only kind that S. 510 and S. 3767 will permit, you WILL suffer and die from the "epidemic, preventable, non communacable diseases of under nutrition", to use the phrase so beloved of the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organizations, who just happen to be the private, pharma-phunded organizations which run Codex! They openly acknowldge what the FDA tries to hide: fake "Phude" kills.

Consider that: the passage of these twin horror bills means that EVERY AMERICAN [except, perhaps, the elite who have their own very special food systems, as Congress has its own very special health care system] WILL be the victim of food borne diseases, including infertility, auto immune diseases, allergies, cancer, diabetes, etc., etc., etc.

And you'll use nutrients and nutrtion to treat it, right? Not if these bills pass. Only if they do NOT pass.

Well, Who Is In Charge Here?

Monsanto? Pfizer? Sen. Lehey?

NOT!

You and I and our neighbors, friends, relatives and co-workers are in charge. We, the People have ultimate Power .

Perhaps you have already taken this Action Item. The good news is that we have revised it to reflect yesterday's surprise assault so you can take it again, once for every member of your household, and then send it forth, again to let your list know that the other side is not playing for fun, but is engaged in a deadly struggle. Whose death? Yours, I am afraid, and mine, and our children, and our future.

GOOD NEWS: REASON FOR HOPE

As of Close of Business today, the official US Senate Calendar does not show S. 510 on its voting schedule. Given the enormous importance that Agribiz, Biotech and the globalists attach to destroying your access to clean, unadulterated food, this is very good news. But given the fact that we have a long, long drag of days between now and the end of the 111th Congress, we are clearly not out of the woods yet. We anticipate that the S. 510 and S. 3767 will be introduced close to one another so we will be watching both of them.

To send a letter to any group or person supporting S. 510 and S. 3767, click here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6652

and make free use of the material there.

onawah

18th September 2010, 01:17

Right. I get that newsletter too, and it (S510) has been resurrected. Here is the latest which I also posted on the Health forum. Note that you can sign EVERY DAY until it's a done deal...

Fake "Food Safety" S.510/S.3767 Emergency--please sign the petition

https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&i...b20a2683df018d
If you sign up for the free newsletter email, you can sign a new one every day as it is reworded daily. Please pass this along to your personal network, as many signatures are needed. Thanks.

Update Bulletin Fake "Food Safety" S.510/S.3767 Emergency!

S.510/S.3767 -- a Matter of Life and Death

The latest word from Washington:

Senate "leader" Harry Reid intends to push through S.510 using "cloture" to cut-off debate! We say, wait for the New Congress and allow open debate on this dangerous bill.

HUNDREDS AN HOUR ARE SIGNING
Take This Action Every Day
ACTION ITEM: CLICK THE LINK RIGHT HERE:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o...ction_KEY=4613

onawah

21st September 2010, 02:26

Here is the latest, with link to take action. Thanks!
ACTION ITEM :
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

New Health Freedom Resource: www.HealthFreedomPortal.org
The Global Voice of Health & Food Freedom™
Day 7 - Daily Update Bulletin - During the Fake "Food Safety" S.510 Emergency!
Dr. Rima Reports, live chat, updates, Action Items and more...
Permalink: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6733
September 20, 2010

Index:
S.510/S.3767 Action Now
The Beltway Wants S.510
Thank You Senator Coburn
Dr Rima Reports Internet Radio
Dr. Rima Recommends
Latest Message from the Beltway Crowd:
"Consumers" Union says: Stop Debate
Force S.510 Through Before the Election

YOU MUST TAKE ACTION ITEMS
DAILY, ONCE FOR EACH MEMBER
OF YOUR FAMILY, THEN FORWARD.
URGE YOUR RECIPIENTS TO SIGN
AND FORWARD TO ALL THEIR CONTACTS!

URGENT ACTION ITEM: TELL YOUR SENATORS TO JOIN SEN. TOM COBURN
AND PLACE A HOLD ON S. 510 NOW BEFORE SEN. REID RAMS IT THROUGH THE SENATE!

ACTION ITEM :
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

THE ENTIRE BELTWAY WANTS S.510...
HOW DARE YOU THINK DIFFERENTLY!

Consumers Union, an NGO that touts itself as "...working for a fair, just and safe marketplace for all..." sent a mass emailing earlier today saying this about S.510, the fake "food safety" bill before the US Senate:

"Under the Senate's complicated rules, just one Senator can hold up a vote on a bill. And because of that rule, the long-delayed food safety bill could die in the coming days without ever getting an up-or-down vote this year! That would mean food producers will continue to operate indefinitely under our outdated food safety system - a system that contributed to 85 food recalls this past year, including tainted lettuce, sprouts, cookie dough and a half-billion eggs!"

Consumers Union wants debate cut-off on this issue, that's what the "hold up a vote" means in this case. The proponents of S.510, taking the cue perhaps from Secretary of HHS, Kathleen Sibelius's famous call for self-censorship by the media on certain health issues,

"There are groups out there that insist that vaccines are responsible for a variety of problems, despite all scientific evidence to the contrary. We (the office of Secretary of Health and Human Services) have reached out to media outlets to try to get them not to give the views of these people equal weight in their reporting." - http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4962

Be that as it may, the challenge is clear: it is our PUSH BACK power vs their ability to mobilize the beltway crowd.

Why the rush to add what Senator Coburn tells us could be billions to the Federal budget at this moment? Could it be that the new Congress may not be as favorable to the beltway crowd? Are they running scared? We believe this is exactly the strategic situation. Natural Solutions Foundation's President and chief strategist, Maj. Gen. Bert Stubblebine (US Army ret) tells us, "The Art of War teaches us to apply Mass at the opponent's weak point, and the actions of the opponent always reveal that weak point."

What is their weakness? It is rooted in what they perceive of as their greatest strength: their connections to people in power. And our greatest strength is YOU -- SO PLEASE REDOUBLE YOUR EFFORTS! EVERY DAY, YOU MUST CLICK YOUR WAY THROUGH THE ACTION ITEMS. AND CALL YOUR US SENATORS. NOW IS THE TIME TO APPLY OUR MASS TO THEIR MISCONCEPTIONS!

A couple eblasts ago our subject line was "Harry Reid Wants You Dead" and some people thought we were being extremists... This blast asks if "Consumers" Union wants us dead. We were, in both cases, using hyperboli to make our point: the consequences of the policy positions taken by the Senate Leader and by the "Consumers" Union could be deadly, as our local, natural, family farm and ranch, farmers' markets, commuity and home gardens could all fall victim to over zealous regulators leaving us to rely on the very factory "farms" and the GMO, toxin laced "Phud" (we don't call it "food" anymore) from which the Federal regulators have repeatedly failed to protect us! They say they need more power; we say, echoing Ron Paul's condemnation of them, more extensive regulatory power is just more power to abuse!

Solution: local control of local food sources so people can choose natural solutions instead of being forced to accept the fake "frankenphud" Big Agra Biz and its friends in and out of government want to push down our throats. Push Back here!

ACTION ITEM :
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

onawah

21st September 2010, 15:56

An article on this subject from Natural News here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/029801_Senate_Bill_510_Food_Safety.html

Fredkc

21st September 2010, 16:12

From GovTrackUS: (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-510)
This bill was considered in committee which has recommended it be considered by the Senate as a whole. Although it has been placed on a calendar of business, the order in which legislation is considered and voted on is determined by the majority party leadership. Keep in mind that sometimes the text of one bill is incorporated into another bill, and in those cases the original bill, as it would appear here, would seem to be abandoned. [Last Updated: Sep 14, 2010 6:13AM]

Last Action: Dec 18, 2009: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 247.

My point here is, unless this thing has been folded into some other bill, it's as dead as Julius Caesar.
If anyone knows what bill it has been included in... please post it.
Fred

onawah

22nd September 2010, 06:43

Fredlc

The information you requested is copied below from the free email newsletter that is issued every day to the people who sign up for it. If you want even more info, there are plenty of links listed. This organization has been working on this issue since the beginning.

"New Health Freedom Resource: www.HealthFreedomPortal.org
The Global Voice of Health & Food Freedom™
Daily Update Bulletin During the Fake "Food Safety" S.510 Emergency!
Dr. Rima Reports, live chat, updates, Action Items and more...

Permalink: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6756

Time Line To Destruction

UNLESS WE ACT NOW!!!!

PLEASE! TAKE ALL ACTIONS HERE AND FORWARD TO YOUR CONTACTS - ALL OF THEM

Stop S.510! Stop S.3767! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

NEW ACTION ITEM!!!! Judiciary Committee: Don't Rush S.3767 to the Senate Floor This Thursday! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4878

Action Item Supporting Dr. Coburn: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4856

Thank You, Senator Coburn for Keeping a "Hold" on S.510! Information:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6719

Q. What Do You Call 524,325 Emails (So Far) From Health Freedom Advocates to Congress and Decision Makers On This Issue?

Answer: A Good Start!

Industrializing US Food Supply Time Line

June 8, 2009: Rep. John Dingle (D MI) Introduces HR 2749, Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, setting up a legislative and criminal system to industrialized the entire US food chain, criminalizing information about health benefits of food and minor infractions in order to drive all small, independent food producers out of the food industry. HR 2749 brings Codex into rapid and full implementation

July 30, 2009: HR 2749, Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, passes the House by a 280 to 150 majority

March 3, 2009: Sen. Richard Durbin (D IL) introduces S. 510, FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, which, like HR 2749 will end the production of clean, unadulterated food in the United States, industrialize and further degrade all US food production but which lacks the draconian penalties of HR 2749

December 18, 2009: S. 510 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar

September 13, 2010: S. Patrick J. Leahy (D VT) Introduces S.3767, Food Safety Accountability Act of 2010, which reintroduces the vicious penalties for "misbranding and adulteration) HR 2749 lost when it became S. 510

September 13, 2010: S. 3767 referred to Judiciary Committee

September 23, 2010: S. 3767 Date of Scheduled Consideration [e.g, bill could be voted into law that day or S. 510 could be introduced as an amendment and put forward in that manner. Stop it before gets to the Senate floor to be rammed through into law.

Take Action Items Above to Prevent These Events From Taking Place. Then Share Them With Everyone Who Eats - Anything!

BACKGROUND: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6269

S.510 Bullet Points: The Text Speaks for Itself - http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6470

FDA/HHS 09.10.10 "Stampede Congress" into Passing S.510 Letter!
The Empire Strikes Back… http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6611

09.13.10 - Text and Threat of S.3767: Criminalizing the Food Trade
http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2010/09/s510-companion-bill-s3767-to.html

S. 3767 gives the FDA the power it has steadfastly sought: anyone saying anything about what health benefits you might expect from a nutrient, supplement or food will feel the wrath of the FDA and may well - I kid you not - spend 10 years in jail contemplating that wrath. You see, "misbranding", a charge with a 10 year jail sentence under S. 3767, means, in the mad, mad world of FDA-ism, having any claim, yours or someone else's, that says a supplement or food might be good for you.

S. 510 is already bad enough since it industrializes the US food chain AND gives Homeland Security the right to make secret regulations, the hallmark of a Police State, AND gives the FDA more power to abuse AND sets up the complete and total HARMonization of the US with Code. What more could a Food Fascist want? Well, they could want S. 3767! And we are not going to let them have this deadly package, are we?

No? Then take action now and mobilize your contacts. NOW!

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Health Freedom Advocate Takes On Sen. Harry Reid

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6739

Nevada is a desert. Harry Reid wrote a constituent an absurd email claiming that the desert state would bloom under S. 510 and become an agricultural powerhouse, which was why he was supporting it.

One of our committed Health Freedom Advocates received Reid's stock Senatorial pablum in a letter and responded in a way that I think you'll want to read. Click here, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6739, to read his cogent response to the bought and paid for gamblin' man, Sen. Harry Reid.

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onawah

24th September 2010, 05:53

"In just 24 hours, 43,475 emails have been sent saying STOP! DO NOT CRIMINALIZE THE DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD! So the amendment is a powerful signal that Sen. Leahy and his Agribiz cohorts had no choice but to look for a way to make the bill less bizarre and unpalatable."

Latest from the Beltway: Today, Reacting to Your PUSH BACK, the Senate Judiciary Committee Amended S. 3767! Now it's time to demand the Food Freedom Amendment! Push Back Continues!

ACT NOW!!!!

CONGRESS IS RESPONDING TO OUR PRESSURE. PLEASE! TAKE ALL 3 ACTIONS HERE AND FORWARD TO YOUR CONTACTS - ALL OF THEM

Don't Rush S. 3767 to the Senate Floor - adopt the Food Freedom Amendment Instead!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4878

Stop S.510!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

Thank You, Senator Coburn for Keeping a "Hold" on S.510!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4856

The Senate Judiciary Committee Considered S.3767
In Its Executive Business Meeting today... and Amended it!

The Devil, they say, is in the details. Today's Judiciary Committee details are a partial win for us. Not enough to declare victory, you understand, but enough for us to see clearly that the pounding we are delivering to the Senate is noted, and having an impact. Conclusion? KEEP POUNDING!

Senator Leahy is a powerful man. S. 3767 is his bill. He is the Chairman of the Committee that is considering it. He would have no need to amend it under normal circumstances.

You, the Health Freedom NetRoots, the Mouse Warriors, have made sure that these are absolutely not normal circumstances. In just 24 hours, 43,475 emails have been sent saying STOP! DO NOT CRIMINALIZE THE DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD! So the amendment is a powerful signal that Sen. Leahy and his Agribiz cohorts had no choice but to look for a way to make the bill less bizarre and unpalatable.

While Senator Leahy continues to push his dangerous and unnecessary bill through the Judiciary Committee (um, we thought that it was already illegal to use interstate commerce to knowingly spread dangerous substances...), the Senate leadership had to acknowledge wide-spread public opposition to criminalizing food (and supplement) distribution. Leahy's substitute amendment adds the following words to the definition of the crime.:

"...and with conscious or reckless disregard of a risk of death or serious bodily injury..."

Thus, a bill which would have criminalized any distribution of food where FDA, FTC or other govt agency later decided some rule, regulation, guideline or standard had not been met to the satisfaction of the bureaucracy (recalling that S. 510 allows secret regulations which could later have been said to have been violated), the added language at least references more traditional standards of criminal liability. While this is a partial victory for the forces of Food and Health Freedom, we must redouble our efforts and defeat S.3767 and S.510 just as we defeated Senator McCain's ill conceived and ill-fated S.3002... through massive Push Back!

OK. So What Do We Want?

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4878

Maybe, if Congress wants to criminalize distributing things that are harmful to the public... maybe, just maybe, it should criminalize "knowingly" introducing dangerous drugs (including vaccines) into commerce! Like Vioxx, Avandia, Flu Vaccines, Bextra, for a very few examples, But, then, there might be a lot of drug company executives and maybe even some FDA officials who would face criminal charges... Certainly, we need to continue to oppose S.3767, Sen. Leahy's bill that could criminalize commercial speech about food (or at least food distributed in interstate commerce), whenever FDA or FTC decides subsequently that the claims about the food were not substantiated to the liking of some bureaucrat.

The "serious" harm amendment (HEN10891) added by the Judiciary Committee on September 23, 2010 is not sufficient to protect food distributors from bureaucratic and criminal harassment. We the People, need protection against over-zealous regulators who will destroy small producers while big companies can afford the legal talent needed to escape penalties.

Instead, our communities need to be protected by law from Federal Government interference in local and natural food production and distribution. We need a Food Freedom Amendment, such as we proposed last year when the House was considering its version of S.510 and which we have continued to urge:
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Food Freedom Amendment

"No provision of Federal Law giving regulatory oversight to any Federal department or agency shall be deemed to apply (a) to any home, home-business, homestead, home or community gardens, small farm, organic or natural agricultural activity, (b) to any family farm or ranch, or (c) to any natural or organic food product, including dietary supplements, as protected under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994."

Food Freedom is part of Health Freedom, and an essential part of the Liberty that all free people have a right to expect. Legislators have a responsibility to protect that freedom from the bureaucracy they foist on us. Local oversight of local food production would be far superior to big govt poking into all our local activities. Reducing central govt power would enhance the overall health of our society.

S.3767 Coupled with S.510 Could Reach the Senate Floor
For a Vote Early Next Week!
CONTINUE PUSH BACK NEEDED!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

One other bright note: we knew that the possibility existed that because Sen. Dr. Tom Coburn has blocked the easy passage of S. 510, its language could be inserted into S. 3767 today as an end run around Sen. Coburn's hold. Again, because of our continued opposition and vigorous activism, that did not happen.

WE ARE NOT OUT OF THE WOODS YET. WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO BEFORE THIS BEAST IS DEAD

Continue to take action NOW and mobilize your contacts... NOW!

onawah

24th September 2010, 19:11

Senate bill 3767 seeks to put dietary supplement makers in prison for ten years (for telling the truth)
(To take action on this, go to the previous post for links.)
Please circulate widely. Thanks.

http://www.naturalnews.com/029828_Senate_bill_3767_dietary_supplements.html

NaturalNews) Beware of Senate bill 3767, the so-called Food Safety Accountability Act. This dangerous legislation, if passed, would criminalize nutritional supplement manufacturers who tell the truth about their products or link to published scientific studies describing the biological benefits of their products. Based on language in the bill, health proponents who sell supplements could be criminalized and convicted to ten years in prison.

The Life Extension Foundation recently published an important warning piece about this, complete with some call to action items for which we need your help.

Here's what was written by William Faloon and published at LEF (http://www.lef.org/featured-article...). I agree with every word written here and urge you to read this and take this message seriously, then do your part to oppose this new legislative tyranny that seeks to criminalize dietary supplement manufacturers.

Congress Seeks to put Dietary Supplement Makers in Jail for Ten Years!
by William Faloon, LEF.org

Pharmaceutical companies are once again interfering with your ability to access information about dietary supplements.

The Senate is debating a bill that will enable the FDA to put vitamin supplement makers in jail for ten years if they cite findings from peer-reviewed published scientific studies on the label of their dietary supplements or their web site.

The pretext for these draconian proposals is a bill titled the Food Safety Accountability Act (S. 3767). The ostensible purpose of the bill is to punish anyone who knowingly contaminates food for sale. Since there are already strong laws to punish anyone who commits this crime, this bill serves little purpose other than enriching pharmaceutical interests.

The sinister scheme behind this bill is to exploit the public's concern about food safety. Drug companies want to convince your Senators that an overreaching law needs to be enacted to grant the FDA powers to define "food contamination" any way it chooses.

Even today, the FDA can proclaim a dietary supplement as "misbranded" even if the best science in the world is used to describe its biological effects in the body. The concern is that the FDA will use the term "misbranded" in the same way it defines "adulterated" in order to jail dietary supplement makers as if they were selling contaminated food.

The new bill being debated in the Senate increases the penalties the FDA can use to threaten supplement makers to ten years in prison. The big issue here is that the FDA will use this as a hammer to threaten and coerce small companies into signing crippling consent decrees that will deny consumers access to truthful non-misleading information about natural approaches to protect against age-related disease.

Please tell your two Senators to OPPOSE the Food Safety Accountability Act (S. 3767). You can do this in a few minutes on our convenient Legislative Action Center on our Web site. Click here to take action now.

If you'd like to read the legal details about this bill, log on to the Alliance for Natural Health Web site: http://www.anh-usa.org/breaking-new...

Health-conscious consumers have succeeded in preventing Congress from capitulating to the pharmaceutical industry this year. Please continue this string of victories by telling your Senators to OPPOSE this underhanded attempt (S. 3767) to grant the FDA dictatorial new powers.

Due to the short session before Congress adjourns for the election, please alert your two Senators today!

For longer life,
William Faloon

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HORIZONS

24th September 2010, 21:14

Well, if they reduce the population to "acceptable levels" THEN they could enforce such a law.

onawah

25th September 2010, 20:51

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September 25, 2010
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Latest news from Washington: Congress is Home for the Weekend... Your Health and Freedom are Safe for NOW, until Tuesday, that is!... In this issue: Action Items, Videos and Webinars.. Enjoy!

Feedback from our DC insiders is that our Push Back worked this past week, but the lobbyists for the Bigs... Big Agri Biz, Big Pharma, Big Govt will all be all over this issue this week coming and back at work trying to get their version of freedom passed: freedom to poison you for profit as they see fit.

There is palpable panic in the air in Washington as this 111th Congress winds itself down to a much-needed end. We can expect numerous efforts to "get around" public opposition to S.510 and S.3767... and they can expect our PUSH BACK to continue! Please take the Action Items daily... that's our prescription for healing the body politic. Thank you.

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28th September 2010, 22:36

What is Happening with the Leahy Bill? A New Action Alert
September 28, 2010
http://www.anh-usa.org/leahy-bill-new-action-alert/

us_congressAt one point we almost lost—it’s still touch and go—but there is some good news to report.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) attempted a procedural maneuver last week—a unanimous consent agreement to bring the Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) to the Senate floor with Leahy’s original bill (S. 3767) and Sen. Diane Feinstein’s BPA amendment attached for consideration. ANH supporters will appreciate the irony of this. We were fighting tooth and nail against the Leahy bill, a dagger aimed at natural food and supplement producers, but have supported the Feinstein amendment aimed to get BPA out of water bottles. The choice, however, was clear. It was much more important to stop Leahy than to win on Feinstein.

Sen. Tom Coburn (R–OK) objected to Reid’s proposed unanimous consent agreement, raising concerns relating to the financing of the bill. The Food Safety Bill is stalled at this point, although it is always possible that Coburn and Reid will work out their disagreement behind the scenes, setting the stage to bring it to the Senate floor.

Meanwhile, Leahy’s bill still exists on its own, since the effort to attach it without changes to the Food Safety Bill failed. But there is some good news to report. Thanks to all the messages opposing the bill that have poured in—that is, thanks to your efforts the Judiciary Committee amended it. Click here to send our new Action Alert.

The new language now fines or jails for up to ten years “any person who knowingly [adulterates or misbrands food or supplements] with conscious or reckless disregard of a risk of death or serious bodily injury.” This is a big improvement! If interpreted correctly by the FDA, it means that a producer cannot be threatened with a long jail term simply for citing leading university scientific research in its advertising.

The amended language is an important victory. Let’s give Senator Leahy credit for making the change. We spoke to the senator’s office this week, and there is no doubt that he considers himself a supporter of natural health, as demonstrated by his opposition to GMO and his writing the organic farm bill. We wish we could now support his bill, but we still can’t.

Why not? The language, even as amended, leaves wiggle room—it does not require that any actual harm or death occur. It only speaks of a vague “conscious or reckless disregard of a risk of death or serious bodily injury.” It would be too easy for the FDA to claim anything it wants to claim about what this bill is really saying. The FDA likes to intimidate. A ten-year jail term is a powerful weapon of intimidation if misused, and we think it is likely to be misused.

The real problem with attaching long jail sentences to the terms “adulteration” and “misbranding,” especially the latter, is that these terms have been so distorted by the FDA.

To our ears, “adulterated” means that it doesn’t meet good manufacturing practices, that the food itself is somehow tainted or injurious to health, or contains an ingredient that presents a significant or unreasonable risk of illness. And “misbranded” suggests deliberate and harmful misstatements about a product.

But as interpreted by the FDA, a food or supplement may be “adulterated” if some vague FDA rule is deemed by the FDA not to have been followed. “Misbranded” can mean that the producer makes a completely true statement about the product but without FDA permission. A cherry producer who cites peer-reviewed scientific research from prestigious universities on the health benefits of cherries would, in FDA-speak, have engaged in “false” and actionable “misbranding” which suddenly turns the cherries into drugs. Producers, of course, have the right to take cherries through the new drug approval process!

Until Congress fixes these interpretations of “adulteration” and “misbranding,” extreme care needs to be taken in legislating long jail terms connected to them. In the case of Leahy’s bill, more amending is needed. For such draconian jail terms to apply, the bill should require both Leahy’s new language (“conscious or reckless disregard of a risk of death or serious bodily injury”) and the actual subsequent occurrence of death or serious bodily injury.

And there is another problem with the Leahy bill that the recent amendment doesn’t change. The Leahy bill, if passed, will be attached to the Senate Food Safety Bill. It will then go into conference to be melded with the House Food Safety Bill. The House bill also has long new jail terms, but applies them to any so-called adulteration or misbranding without requiring “conscious or reckless disregard of a risk of death or serious bodily injury.” It would be the easiest thing in the world to meld the two bills by dropping the language that Senator Leahy has just added to his bill.

Keep this in mind: the Leahy bill almost certainly came into existence because new long prison terms were intentionally kept out of the Senate Food Safety Bill. Who is it that wants them back in so badly that the Leahy bill had to be created at the last moment? Although it’s a speculation, this may trace back to Congressman Waxman, the chair of the House Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over food safety. If there are jail terms in the Senate bill, Waxman would be expected to fight hard to remove the new qualifiers in order to get his version of the bill adopted—the version that would give the FDA a huge new club with which to threaten and intimidate natural health producers.

Do others agree with us that there are risks to passing the amended Leahy bill? Yes. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R–UT), a champion of natural health, has issued a statement for the record on the bill: “I believe this bill could have potential negative ramifications on the food and dietary supplement industries. One of those concerns would be the over-criminalization of some violations that could affect the affordability and accessibility of certain food and dietary products.”

We are very pleased that, thanks to your actions, the Leahy bill has been amended and much improved. We also recognize that the odds of it passing have now improved—but it is still a bad bill, even amended. We must keep the pressure on to defeat it. We have changed our Action Alert to reflect the change in the bill.

Please take action now.

Even if you wrote to your senators last week, please do so again. We have a new sample letter explaining why the amended bill is still a bad law. And if you have not yet written your senators, please take a moment and do so today!

UKIPster

28th September 2010, 22:46

onawah

28th September 2010, 23:14

On the one hand I'm glad its you that have this Problem.
On the other hand I Know that you (The "folks" of the united states) will do absolutely nothing about it.
Do you for one nanosecond think that even a NWO supersmally like Nicholas Sarkozy would even dare to try a stunt like this on with the French?

From thread #21 in this thread:
" Default Re: S510 - Illegal To Grow, Share,Trade, Sell Homegrown Food

"In just 24 hours, 43,475 emails have been sent saying STOP! DO NOT CRIMINALIZE THE DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD! So the amendment is a powerful signal that Sen. Leahy and his Agribiz cohorts had no choice but to look for a way to make the bill less bizarre and unpalatable."

Latest from the Beltway: Today, Reacting to Your PUSH BACK, the Senate Judiciary Committee Amended S. 3767! Now it's time to demand the Food Freedom Amendment! Push Back Continues!"

I wouldn't call that doing absolutely nothing.

onawah

30th September 2010, 15:24

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Latest News from DC: Congress finally in recess... The Hill.com implies our PUSH BACK held off the fake "food safety" bill for now, "Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, hopes Congress will pass [during lame-duck session] food-safety legislation Reid tried to bring to the floor last week. Democratic leaders pulled the bill even though they could have had enough votes to stop a Republican filibuster. (Emphasis ours) ... " http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/121223-dems-stuff-lame-duck "

Let's reason this out... if it wasn't a lack of senatorial votes that prevented S.510 from passing, perhaps it was, oh, say, maybe your PUSH BACK? We think so... And so, PUSH BACK must continue!

No Man's liberty or property is safe while Congress is in session.
Mark Twain

No Person's Food Is Safe, Either!

ACTION ITEM:
The Senate is in recess but the count goes on:
Tell Senators we will not allow our food supply to be industrialized!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3729

ACTION ITEM:
Even Democtratic Members of Congress Fear Frankenfish!
Tell Congress to Ban All GMOs NOW Before It is Too Late!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2049

Had Mark Twain lived today, he would have added "food" to the list of things threatened when Congress is in session! Today, however, thanks to each and everyone of you, to the vast displeasure of Big Biotech (you know, the people who have brought you unlabeled GMO corn, soy, canola, wheat, papayas, cotton, etc., etcl., and are pressing hard to bring you equally unlabeled GMO salmon) and Big Chema (the folks who make the chemicals which pollute the earth and our food and disrupt our hormones) we, you and I, kept them from getting what they want: a totally industrialized, GMO's, tainted and totally controlled US food supply.

"NO!" we roared, in our hundreds of thousands.

NO! We will NOT allow you, in your pride and madness, to take away our food freedom, our choice and, with it, our health

and

"YES!" we roared, in our hundreds of thousands.

YES! We ARE free men and women making our own decisions about what goes into our bodies.

When the US Senate and House adjourned today they left behind a mountain of unfinished business, unpassed special interest bills. One of the bits of unfinished business is S. 510 and another is S. 3767. Last week, according to S. 510 sponsor Durbin, the bill was pulled off the calendar because "it would have taken nearly a week to pass the legislative obstacles." So? There was plenty of time to shepherd it through those obstacles. No, what he was actually saying, in Politispeak, was that we, you and I, have been so effective in our opposition that the Senate did not dare to pass that bill, not with elections coming up which could do so much damage to both parties!

Another bit of unfinished business, by the way, is unlabeled GMO salmon approved as if it were safe to eat (although it has never been tested) or safe for the environment (although it is quite certain that these super-growth fish will doom natural salmon if they escape into the wild, which they are certain to do). Even the Congress of the United States condemned the FDA's approval of this monstrosity Read more here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6871

What now? Now we press hard, further and deeper than we have before. When the Senate comes back after the midterm elections, whoever wins will find that they have no smooth sailing on these food freedom issues. Over the interim recess, we WILL pound the US Senate harder than we have already done. You KNOW that when it returns, the Senate leadership will push these bills forward in an effort to make the lame duck session of Congress not only lame but lethal.

We could back off of our effort and give them ultimate victory. Somehow, I do not think that is what we will do. You know the drill: Take the Action Items above and help motivate every single person you can reach. Then, please, join the

510/3767 Club

Make your recurring, tax deductible donation for $5.10 or $37.7 every week or month (depending on what you can afford) to help keep health freedom free. Click here, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189. Click now. The Senate may be on recess, but Health Freedom is not.

Codex Meeting Next Month

Oh, by the way, Codex is not on vacation, either. Would you like to come with Gen. Bert and me to the next Codex meeting? You are invited. It's in Santiago, Chile from Nov. 1 - 5, 2010. It will cost you your airfair (which for us, being in Panama, is $1114 per person). A Standard Room at the hotel will cost you $207.29 plus tax. Of course, you'll have to pay for your food and transportation, too. If you'd like to come with us, please let me know at dr.laibow@gmail.com with "CODEX" in the subject line.

Most likely, though, you would like us to go for you and provide you with our daily video updates, our blogs and live radio broadcasts. Well, we are happy to be your eyes and your ears (and your mouth, too!) at Codex, but you have to help. That means that you need to chip in to shoulder the cost. If knowing what Codex is up to, which is so vital to protecting food freedom, is important to you, show it. Make a donation now ending in the number "5". Enough donations and we are on our way to Codex!

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John Parslow

30th September 2010, 17:43

Hello All

I have not had time to read all of this thread but my initial response is for everyone that 'grows their own' to keep more seed at the end of the season and make sure there is enough to share-out clandestinely or otherwise, we will defeat the ptb we just have to outsmart them - shouldn't be too difficult...

Love and peace to all. JP :cool:

onawah

2nd October 2010, 16:03

Your Health & Food Freedom Portal: www.HealthFreedomPortal.org
The Global Voice of Health & Food Freedom™
Dr. Rima Reports, live chat, updates, Action Items and more...
Permalink: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6901
October 1, 2010

Momentous Times...

This Week Was a Banner Week for Health Freedom!

Through vigorous and sustained action, the Natural Solutions Foundation literally drove back the forces seeking to industrialize the entire US food supply. Both S. 510, the phony Food "Safety" [SIC!] Act and S.3767, the appalling Food "Accountability" [SIC!] Act. Both are bad law, bad policy and total assaults on health and food freedom. But our hundreds of thousands of emails to the Senate and others backed them off.

Between now and when the Senate takes this matter up again, which current Senate Majority Leader Reid says will be just as soon as they come back from the electioneering they are doing right now, we'll have this battle all over again, so taking action now, and motivating everyone you can reach is really, really important if you want to have the right to select, or grow, or share information about, clean, healthy food!

Here are the crucial Action items for you to take once for each member of your family and motivate everyone you can to do the same:

Click Below to Take Action! Stop S.510! Stop S.3767!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

Click Below: Senate: Don't Rush S.3767 to the Senate Floor! Support the Food Freedom Amendment Instead! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public /?action_KEY=4878

Please take a moment to read our current Valley of the Moon™ Restaurant and Cafe doings and see what Natural Solutions Foundation is up to at the "Boots on the Ground" Level with its Eco Demonstration Project reclaiming the production of clean food - and so much more! http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6896

And please remember to make your tax deductible donations to support the Natural Solutions Foundation. We can't do our work without your support. Click below to set up a recurring donation now.
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189

We suggest you consider joining the 510/3767 Club
Donate either $5.10 weekly or monthly or $37.67 weekly or monthly.
Your donations here, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189, make the difference.

CONTEST

You are invited! Participate in the "Landfill Health Program" video satire contest.
Visit http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6889 and let your creative juices sizzle;
You could be the big winner...

No, Obama Did Not "Sign the US On to Codex"

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=5604

Internet rumor is rampant about this, but it is not true. Perhaps this is simple misinformation: Codex is complex in the extreme and I can understand why people could get confused. This misinformation leads people to mistakenly say, "Well, the deed is done and there is nothing more I can do about it." Not so.

Or, again, perhaps this is intentional disinformation designed to take the wind out of the sales of Codex opponants by convincing people that the deed is done and there is nothing more to say.

But the deed is NOT done and there is a GREAT DEAL more to say. Please read this brief article, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=5604, and then pass it along: let people know that the US has not, despite the decades of trying by the FDA and others, been signed on to Codex!

Thanks for your support.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.Dr.Rima.net

onawah

5th October 2010, 22:48

We've Got a Month To Defeat Food Fascism: Your Talking Points
Your Health & Food Freedom Portal: www.HealthFreedomPortal.org
The Global Voice of Health & Food Freedom™
Dr. Rima Reports, live chat, updates, Action Items and more...
Permalink: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6940
October 4, 2010

Action eBlasts 3 Times Weekly Until the Election!
United Action Amplifies Our Push Back!
Please 1. Open Each eBlast, 2. Visit Candidates With Talking Points, 3. Spread Information to Mobilize Others!

It's Time to Educate the Candidates
HEALTH & FOOD FREEDOM TALKING POINTS

The House passed the so-called "Food Safety" bill, HR 2749, in July 2009, sending it to the Senate where it is being considered as S. 510. After your strong Push Back opposition, a companion bill, S. 3002, touting so-called "Dietary Supplement Safety" was abandoned by its own sponsor, Sen. John McCain. HR 2749's criminalization of true food health-related speech was left out of S. 510 but S. 3767, with an unprecedented extension of criminal penalties for "food crimes" was rushed forward in the last days of the September Senate session to correct that "oversight".

The Senate HELP committee "marked-up" S. 510 and the Manager's Amendments revision was sent to the Floor just as the Senate went into recess, with the threat that the bills would be pushed after the Election by the 'lame-duck" Congress.

You and I know that these bills, both S. 510 and S. 3767, must not pass. To rush them through the lamest of lame duck sessions is a true abuse of power.

Despite Congressional maneuvering, to make them into "non-controversial" bills that can be rammed through via "Unanimous Congressional Approval", these bills remains very controversial and should reconsidered by the new Congress being elected this year. The Congress is in recess, campaigning for their own, or party members' reelection -- so NOW is the time to educate those new members-to-be and NOW is the time to get their public commitment to support health and food freedom!

We, together, can do that by visiting your candidates and incumbents, especially the Senate ones, with groups of people who all come armed with the following "Talking Points" and who discuss them rationally, briefly and very, very directly. Print out one Talking Point copy for each member of your group and half a dozen for the Congressman or candidate and his/her staff. And mention that you are part of the largest Health Freedom Organization in the world. As I write this, there are more than 305,000 supporters on our primary list. Each of them has contacts and are willing to share this information to preserve our health freedom.

Here, then, are
THE TALKING POINTS
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6910

Take the Above Talking Points to Your Congressional Candidates
Now is the time to secure their commitment to Health & Food Freedom!
Now is the time to promote the Food Freedom Amendment!
Please let us know what happens: email dr.laibow@gmail.com with "Talking" in the subject line.

DON'T STOP NOW! PUSH BACK CONTINUES!
Click Below to Take Action! Stop S.510! Stop S.3767!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

Senate: Don't Rush S.3767 to the Senate Floor! Support the Food Freedom Amendment Instead! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public /?action_KEY=4878

BAN ALL GMOs WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2049

Please take a moment to read our current Valley of the Moon™ Restaurant and Cafe doings and see what Natural Solutions Foundation is up to at the "Boots on the Ground" Level with its Eco Demonstration Project reclaiming the production of clean food - and so much more! Be sure to check out our growing list of extraordinary Seminars and webinars!

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6896

ALSO
From:
https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&shva=1#inbox/12b7e3c98f986c36
The Pulse of Natural Health. This newsletter is copyrighted material (© 2010 by Alliance for Natural Health USA) but we hope you will forward, copy, or reprint it without prior authorization. Just remember to note the source and date, and please link to original content on the ANH-USA website.

October 5, 2010

You Are Changing Minds in DC!
Here’s proof that the political process can work: Capitol Hill is talking about what ANH-USA supporters have been able to accomplish with the dietary supplement and food safety bills. But there’s much more work to be done.

Another Win for Famed Attorney Jonathan Emord! FDA Settles With ANH-USA and Fellow Plaintiffs
Under pressure of our court victory, the FDA is for the first time allowing reasonable “qualified health claims” for some supplements.

Putting to Rest Recent Codex Rumors
There’s nothing like a good conspiracy theory. But in the Internet age, conspiracies sometimes proliferate like weeds—and this one is false.

Coconut Oil and Alzheimer’s Disease
How worried should drug companies be about supplements eating into their monopoly profits? A lot—as this story will show. Please share it with anyone you know who is suffering from Alzheimer’s or is worried about it.

Editors
Deborah A. Ray, MT (ASCP)
Craig R. Smith

The Pulse of Natural Health. This newsletter is copyrighted material (© 2010 by Alliance for Natural Health USA) but we hope you will forward, copy, or reprint it without prior authorization. Just remember to note the source and date, and please link to original content on the ANH-USA website.

Ethereal Blue Being

6th October 2010, 01:42

Dr Rima and the others work tirelessly for us all ...for as the US food laws go the rest of the planet isn't far behind.What a brave soul. Imagine you have a 10 ft by 10 ft garden in your back yardand a couple of fruit trees. and your neighbor has something similar if this law goes through you wont be able to TRADE wth each other or GIVEAWAY any of what you grow !!!!!and that is just the tip of the iceberg. Take the time to read this bill go to health freedomusa as directed above and strap yourself into your computer chair because your in for a shock.

eva08

7th October 2010, 06:46

on gov track this was added Sept 29: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-510
Sep 29, 2010: Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the bill presented in Senate.

Does that mean that a simple majority vote will pass this bill?

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http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-510&tab=related
Here is a link to the cluster of related food bills. If anyone could also please, comment on these related bills and what they actually mean and how to defeat those as needed.

eva08

7th October 2010, 07:00

I was trying to decipher the full text of S 510 -- http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-510
and after scanning past the many struck outs I came to the section of cost:
"SEC. 401. FUNDING FOR FOOD SAFETY.

(a) In General- There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the activities of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, the Center for Veterinary Medicine, and related field activities in the Office of Regulatory Affairs of the Food and Drug Administration--

(1) $825,000,000 for fiscal year 2010; and

(2) such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2011 through 2014."

which I consider unacceptable. I do not want my tax dollars be wasted in this venture. The $825M are spent better providing food, seed, organic fertilizers for farmers.

And the second section that also struck me as extremely appalling, was the whistleblower section:
"(D) BAD FAITH CLAIM- If the Secretary finds that a complaint under paragraph (1) is frivolous or has been brought in bad faith, the Secretary may award to the prevailing employer a reasonable attorneys’ fee, not exceeding $1,000, to be paid by the complainant."
which I am interpreting, that if someone turns you in and literally potentially could destroy your business, all you get is $1,000.00 in attorney costs -- and the whistleblower has immunity!!! -- if I am reading this incorrectly, please, explain, so i understand better. But IMHO, this alone will turn the US into a spy on your neighbor nightmare.

eva08

7th October 2010, 07:19

The very simple solution to this dilemma is allowing the godlike abundance that is programmed into all life / food / seed on this planet. Any "situations" of shortages are created as such. Example: one cantaloupe has about 500 seeds each which will grow to nice plants bearing each 3 - 5 cantaloupes each (one cateloupe will make a new crop of 1000 cantaloupes?), each having again 500 seeds and so on.
The "shortage" of water and conditions of draught are another paradox: this is a water planet, an abundance of water exists, the pollutants can be distilled out - where are the salt water distilling factories creating an abundance of good water?
The solution is to allow nature and planet life to "heal" itself: giving back to the soil, restoring the earth, plant, seed, oxygen, water life cycle balance and gos abundance as programmed into the DNA will restore itself.
These proposed laws are laws that should not be. The law - if you want to make a law - should highly encourage - backyard gardening, edible gardening, replanting hillsides, deserts, etc. abolish chemical fertilizers and pesticides, so life can flourish and replenish itself creating a natural abundance for all. No need for governmental bureaucracy to tell god how to be. Maybe we should suggest that lawmakers should follow in Mrs Obama's footsteps and help cultivate that community (and private) garden....

onawah

30th October 2010, 22:34

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7326
S.510 is Even Worse than We Thought!
ONLY 4 DAYS ‘TIL ELECTION! WE MUST KEEP PUSHING BACK!

Farmers and consumers alike stand united against the Bigs: Big Govt, Big AgBiz, Big Chema, Big Pharma, Big Finance and the rest… That is why hundreds of thousands of farmers, gardeners and natural food consumers have contacted decision makers demanding the defeat of the fake “food safety” bills like S.510, its criminal companion bill, S.3767 and the discredited (but still dangerous) fake dietary supplement “safety” bill, S.3002. And that PUSH BACK is why those bills are not law and may never become law… if we continue to PUSH BACK.

The Lame Duck Congress meets November 15, 2010. The Foundation does not take stands on candidates, but rather seeks to educate all decision makers, we do urge you to vote your conscience… make your voice heard on November 2nd and your voice will be remembered on November 15th!

S.510 is Worse than Even We Thought!
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7319

We have posted two hard-hitting articles from the Yup Farming blog that expose even more dangerous language from the fake “food safety” bills. Here is some what they say:

“Leaked trade agreements and hidden things inside S 510:
Corporations plan to end normal farming.”

“The Canadian Farmers Union wants the Canada-EU trade deal scrapped. Under provisions in CETA [Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement], using saved seed could result in a farmer’s land, equipment, and crops being seized for alleged infringement of intellectual property rights attached to plant varieties owned by corporations such as Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta, and Bayer. “It includes the freezing of bank accounts too, so you couldn’t even defend yourself in court. And this is for alleged infringement,” says NFU [National Farmers Union] president Terry Boehm. … “These are the most draconian measures possible and they would literally create a culture of fear in the farm population where, I think, that ultimately farmers would end up buying seeds every year for every acre just to avoid prosecution or the threat of prosecution…”

Read more here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7319

“Protecting the good things in life by stopping S 510″

“Ironically, there is much to be gained from the devastation of the US economy. Money has proved a false god. Others control it and buy democracy with it – courts, Congress, presidents, agencies. Corporate advertising wears thin. Is the new car model in the ad fun to drive past shuttered businesses and homeless people on the street? …”

Read more here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7319

Health and Food Freedom: For You, For Your Kids, For The Future

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189

Please Help! Make Your Tax Deductible Donation Now

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189

We need recurring donations so we cover our expenses and plan ahead. Whatever your recurring donation is, it will help to make the difference. We are hacked and attacked for a reason: because we are having an impact.

The other side has huge power. We have more. Together. You see, we have your Push Back power!

The other side has huge budgets. We do not need that much.

The other side deals in lies. We deal in truth. The other side is truly dangerous because they are wreaking havoc and leading people to disease and death.

We are “dangerous” solely because we are telling truth to power.

Thanks for your help. Please take the actions below and please, please make a donation. Your health and food freedom literally depend upon it.

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189

What can you do about the Uber Cartel?
Here are those Action Items so you can take them and share them for others to take:

Send Congress 4 Push Back Messages:
“Don’t You DARE!”
Use the Action Items Below; Email Everyone You Know Urging Them to Do the Same and Forward to Their Contacts!

Stop S.510! Stop S.3767!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

NO! to S.3767: Support the Food Freedom Amendment Instead!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4878

NO! to GMOs
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2049

NO! To Forced Vaccination
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4376

Thanks! Now spend a few minutes disseminating these Action Items to your contacts so they become part of the Incredibly Powerful Mouse Warrior Army!

That’s why our visits to the offices of both incumbents AND candidates, when we come in groups, armed with the talking points, are so very important. That’s why viralizing the Action Items (see above) and the Talking Points (see below) is so very, very, important.

NO! to FOOD FASCISM Talking Points
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6910

GMO DANGERS Talking Points
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6955

NO FORCED VACCINATION Talking Points
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7004

OF COURSE “they” are attacking us! If you were the Uber Cartel and the other side were this successful, wouldn’t you attack them this way if you had no scruples and no desire to see anything like freedom for anyone but yourself?

A bit of inspiration: The Uber Cartel and the Peasants of the Dawn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkNj00lBDHo

We can only take this level of attack as a powerful confirmation that we, you and the Natural Solutions Foundation, are exerting a meaningful force against globalization, genocide and the contamination of our food! And that is why we cannot let up!

read more, donate at http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7326

onawah

4th November 2010, 02:41

From:
http://www.spiritofmaat.com/nov10/heal_ourselves.html
Saving The Power To Heal Ourselves: Creepy Codex Alimentarius

By CC Treadway

It's no secret that Big Pharma has been trying to gain control of our health or lack of health, but recently the heat has been turned up. On April Fools day, 2011, herbal supplements across the E.U. will be pulled from the shelves. Homeopathic remedies have been dismissed as a fraud and schools have already been shut down in Europe.

How could this have happened? Well I am not so sure. I wasn't aware that a sweeping law could be passed in the E.U. I spend a lot of my time sending emails to my representatives to make sure that Codex Alimentarius doesn't pass here in the US, we are continually fighting it and our efforts have kept it at bay. But since I don't live in Europe, I have no idea how it happened there. To me, Europe has always been a fantasy land of miraculous natural healing products, a tradition of herbal healing and garden plots for every family. Perhaps the general population was completely clueless as to what was going on; I welcome letters from Europeans who have insight on this.

Herbal supplements will be required to go through the same rigorous testing as a synthetic drug. The vast majority of supplement companies do not have the means to bring their products to market, as each herb requires around 200k to pass through all the testing and bureaucracy. Then, the herbs can only be prescribed by a medical doctor. Are they serious? As well all know, MD's do not receive training on herbs. But herbologists will no longer be allowed to practice.

So now, I have to go to the doctor, after waiting a month to get an appointment, then waste a day waiting in the office until the doctor can see me for a few minutes to get my vitamin C? Come on. This is where educating yourself on the plants in your environment can come in handy. If I can't get vitamin C, all I have to do is collect a few Pi?on Pine needles from the tree in my backyard, make a tea and I have the equivalent of 5 limes.

But this information will be banned as well. I'm not sure how they are going to draw the line between medicinal herbs and foods, considering all food in its natural state is medicine. Long story short, we need to stop this.

One must understand that while it is important to hold a healing space for the evolution of our leaders, it is also pertinent to understand that the people in charge of this level of control have a mental illness classified as "Psychopath." Psychopaths are obsessed with controlling things. Obsessed. They have dismissed feelings and compassion as weakness, and can only feel their identity from the power they amass at the expense of others. There is a twisted pleasure in oppressing others for their own power.

This is not representative of the majority of the population and can be confusing for those people who have compassion. So don't get your head in a tizzy about the why and how they are doing this. They are mentally ill and you are probably not. But the threat has become real, so our compassion for them cannot outweigh our need to take action for what is right. This is not the first witch hunt that has happened, probably not the last, but we must band together and use what is left of our democracy.

On that note I have provided a few links.

FOR EUROPEANS:

If you are in in Europe, Dame Judy Dench is launching a campaign to get 35 million signatures opposing the law. Please sign the petition if you live in Europe, and take the initiative to find other ways this law could be overthrown.

www.grammasintl.com/html/products/campaigns.asp

FOR AMERICANS:

Dr. Rima Laibow MD has been tireless in her campaign to prevent Codex Alimentarius from passing. Her efforts, and the efforts of thousands who write and call their congress-people have prevented these laws from passing. But we cannot back down. Please follow the link and you will be led to an easy form to email to your representative. Join her mailing list because she is on top of all this, and almost she alone. We need to be continually signing these petitions, they work.

www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6789

OTHER COUNTRIES:

Please take the time to find out what is happening in your country regarding this issue. These guys are going global, so no one can sit back and act like it will never happen to them.

I hope this article has inspired you to take action. Equally important is your light work. Remember to continually go into your hearts to dream the world of Love and Freedom we all deserve. Thank you.

EDITOR'S NOTE:

It is my understanding that the "Codex" Bill was passed in the United States during the summer of 2010. While the media kept our attention on the Gulf of Mexico disaster Codex Alimentarius was passed into law by the US Senate, in much the same way that other forms of important legislation have been passed into law when no one was looking.

Interestingly, this was accomplished at the peak of the Deep Water Horizon frenzy. At a time when the US government happened to be dumping millions of gallons of Corexit and other deadly chemicals all over the southern states, if we thought any form of protest would stop the madness, we were being naive. The powers that be fully intended to use our protests as the perfect excuse to slip Codex Alimentarius into effect under the pretense that the regulation of toxins was at that point, in the best interests of the health of the American people. What they didn't tell us is that under the Laws of the Codex Commission all nutrients, vitamins, and natural cures had already been legally defined as "Toxins" as far back as 1963.

Do I need to spell it out?

What we are looking at suggests that everything from Acidophilus to Zinc will be unavailable without a prescription (a prescription from a doctor who's in bed with the TPTB!) Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide has already been banned by the FDA. All alternative medicines, modalities, teas, and tinctures will come under FDA regulations, as will schools, healers, and seminar courses that teach people how to work with natural medicines and/or how to develop their natural healing abilities.

If it looks like it's too late to do anything about it, it's never too late. I am not entirely sure how we're going to turn this around but I have a feeling it's an inside job. Don't hesitate to go within and ask for a solution — because there is a solution and it can come from any one of us. I am of the mind that the same beings who have shown up as orbs of white light, all over the planet are here to help us with this — but we can't leave it all up to them — so stay informed and consider well the full implications of what we've talked about here.

Cal Garrison

Click on the following links for more information:
http://farmwars.info/?p=4217
http://farmwars.info/?cat=98

Copyright 2010 CC Treadway. All rights reserved.

onawah

6th November 2010, 22:56

Health & Food Freedom... Codex, Congress and Your Life!
Powerful forces arrayed behind S. 510. Our PUSH BACK is Not Finished!

OUR PUSH BACK CAN STOP THE FAKE FOOD SAFETY BILLS!
NO! to s.510 - s.3767 - s.3002

Dr Rima Reports! Election Results for Health & Food Freedom! and much more....

"After the midterm GOP sweep of the House of Representatives, soon-to-be chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) said food safety will be among the priorities for his committee... Issa has certainly not been the only member of Congress raising flags about the food safety system, but in his new position he will be uniquely positioned to look at food safety in a more systemic way, if indeed he is serious about doing so... The House Agriculture committee will look quite different next year--over half of the 28 Democrats currently serving on the committee were shown the door by voters on Tuesday. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK) is expected to run the committee next year. Lucas voted against the food safety bill..." http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2010/11/issa-food-safety-an-oversight-priority-for-new-congress/

What does this mean? It means that if we hold off the current Codex-imposing bad bills in the Lame Duck Senate, the new House will be more open to real food safety reform... such as supporting local production and inspection instead of nationalizing both!

What to do? Use our newly revised Action Item to tell your Senators NO LAME DUCK FAKE "FOOD SAFETY" BILLS!

FOOD FREEDOM TALKING POINTS: NO! to Food Fascism
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6910
Directo link to Action Item:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

PLEASE SEND THE ABOVE ACTION ITEM TO YOUR SENATORS EVERY DAY!
Send Once Daily for EVERY email in your household!
REPEATING ADDS TO THE PUSH BACK!

Index

No GMOs!
GMO DANGERS TALKING POINTS & ACTION ITEM
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6955

Monsanto's Fall: The End of the GMO Seed Industry?
http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/corporate_fraud/news.php?q=1288888460

Index

Just Say "NO!" to Vaccines
VACCINE DANGERS TALKING POINTS & ACTION ITEM
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7004

ACIP Changes Immunization Recommendations
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/731667?src=mpnews&spon=34&uac=117629CN

Vaccination Rates Fall Among Better Educated Families
http://www.naturalnews.com/030299_vaccination_flu_shots.html

Oak Park, IL, demands more information on vaccine contents, dangers
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct-met-vaccine-vote-1104-20101103,0,5940624.story

Index

Short Takes
www.HealthKeepersOath.org

http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/sick-too-scared-of-gulf-op-thugs-to-speak-out

"A sixty-six year old Louisiana grandmother, an environmental scientist, has threatened the American petrochemical-military-industrial-complex (PMIC) by collecting approximately 600 testimonies from Southerners stricken ill since the Gulf Operation overtly began April 20th, too afraid to speak out publicly due to hired black operatives intimidating locals, even threatening their lives..."

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[REL] Is this where we are heading with the new curtailments of constitutional protections?
Tashi Dhondup is languishing in a forced labor camp for his pro-Tibetan music.

Dhondup was arrested following the 2009 release of a CD containing lyrics calling for the Dalai Lama's return to Tibet and lamenting that "There is no freedom in Tibet." He was denied a fair trial, because in China, police have the option of sending cases to a "re-education through labor" committee, which can send defendants to labor camps for up to three years without any judicial oversight and without the defendant having any right to hire a lawyer. All people have a human right to freedom of expression, and no one should be jailed or imprisoned without recourse to a fair trial.

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Dr. Ron Paul for Chair of the House
Domestic Monetary Policy Subcommittee
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=39290
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A Long, Hard Ride Down: A New Breed of Rough Riders?
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“The breakdown of the monetary system will be chaotic. When inflation commences, it will be highly disruptive. The damage to fixed-income assets will seem instantaneous. Foreign-exchange markets will become dysfunctional. The economy will become even more fragile and unpredictable,” writes John Hathaway for Bloomberg.

“The present fiat currency system will end based on the strategy of Debase, Default and Deny! It is my opinion that it will be replaced by a system structured on the IMF and BIS’s Strategic Drawing Rights (SDRs) partially backed by precious metals. The question to be asked however is not what will be the replacement for fiat currency, but who will have ownership of the assets after this war ends? Who will pay the requisite ‘tribute’ that goes to the victors?” writes Gordon T Long.

Dollar issuance by the United States is “out of control,” leading to an inflation assault on China, the Chinese commerce minister said in comments reported at the end of October. Chen Deming, speaking at a trade fair in southern China, said, “Because the United States' issuance of dollars is out of control and international commodity prices are continuing to rise, China is being attacked by imported inflation. The uncertainties of this are causing firms big problems.”

Richard Mills writes, “Socio-economic turmoil – lawlessness, poverty, lack of adequate medical facilities and attention, low to no employment, low wages, disease, no clean drinking water or water for irrigation, and shortages of food or unaffordable food can all cause socio-economic pressure to build in many countries that were once stable environments for investment.”

Mills also writes, “As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.” The best information is truthful information, which is unfortunately not available through the mainstream press any longer. In a rapidly changing world the best most truthful information becomes even more crucial, for one false step can present doom to us and our families. It is when we understand what and why things are happening that we gain the power to avoid catastrophe.

Modern Medicine is a Sitting Duck

Drs. Bednarz, Crawford, and Wood write,“While the hour is late, it still makes sense for leaders in medicine, public health, and nursing to speak up about what our civilization faces and what we can do about it. We doubt this will occur, for reasons everyone who has ever worked in an organization in hopes of advancing their careers understands. It is possible that a rare leader will step forward – probably someone at the end of his or her career – and tell the populace that growth is over and sustainability is here. It will hurt and the powerful will attempt to cut their losses at the expense of the less powerful and powerless.”

These professionals think it’s obvious that “American society is arrantly unsustainable – ecologically, fiscally, economically, politically, and ethically. Succinctly, the world is reaching the physical limits to economic growth.” This means that the entire economic and financial model of the world is going to change dramatically. It’s going to be a different world with higher prices and less money and food for the masses.

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There will also be much less money to support a multi-trillion-dollar health and medical system in the United States. Contemporary medicine will eventually be chopped down to a more appropriate size, which means all the lies and deceit of the pharmaceutical companies, the FDA, AMA, APA, CDC, WHO, and others will have to end simply because people will not be able to afford high-cost medicine or the damages and side affects they instigate.

Incredibly we have Dr. Matthias Rath running a full-page add in the New York Times shouting out warnings about the Fourth Reich and the attempts of elite pharmaceutical and petrochemical interests. I have no idea why he is singling out the Tea Party Movement for obliteration while defending Obama and his program. No matter which way you turn politically in America, we find the same controlling interests and the takeover has been accomplished at least in the field of vaccines where we find 90 percent of humanity already enslaved. But no doubt patriots will sooner or later turn out for a fight and then it will be every man and family and small group for themselves. Big ugly government is having its day and there are political monsters on the loose and the last thing they want to be known as is “has-beens.”

http://www.profit-over-life.org/images/tea-party-poster_profit-over-life.png

There is no doubt that Dr. Rath has had his fingers on the pulses of these madmen and we do know where they all came from. I don’t particularly go for his American politics but he is realistic with European ones and the European Union and he is dead on with oil and pharmaceutical terrorism. Don’t know why he leaves out the bankers and chemical monoliths though and all their representatives in the Obama administration. And if reform/revolution is not going to come from the grass roots where is it going to come from, Obama? If anyone deserves the crown of being an agent for the unspeakable we have one in him. Under his watch they certainly sprayed enough toxic dispersants over the gulf and now we are even hearing reports of people’s esophagus melting down. Betrayal of the American people is what is being served up with men, women and children replacing turkeys on the silver platter.

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According to Riki Ott, marine toxicologist and Exxon Valdez survivor, “The people that did evacuate [the Gulf] are glad they did.And for good reason! I am dealing with about 3-4 autopsies right now… I know of people whose esophaguses are desolving, disintegrating… I know of people with 4.75% of their lung capacity, with enlarged hearts… All of these people have oil in their bodies.” Multiple C-130s, military and Coast Guard, along with various types of Evergreen Air aircraft and boats have been used to carry out the spraying operation in and around the region, so we know this has all been a corporate-controlled government operation.

“The global economic crisis, really having only just begun, will in years to come spiral into a Great Global Debt Depression, plunging the entire world into the greatest economic catastrophe ever known. This will be the ultimate catalyst, the most pervasive crisis, and most commanding ‘opportunity’ to implement the formation of a global government. In 1998, The Economist ran an article entitled, “Get Ready for the Phoenix,” in which it postulated that by the year 2018, there will be a global currency, which it termed the “Phoenix.” The mention of a phoenix is not to go unnoticed, as symbolically, a phoenix dies and from its ashes a new phoenix emerges. It is the symbol of destruction as a form of creation; the ultimate incarnation of crisis as an opportunity,” writes Andrew Gavin Marshall.

Marshall continues, “The middle classes will vanish and poverty will reign supreme, while the rich become immeasurably richer and more powerful. Naturally, people will rise up, take to the streets, protest, demonstrate, riot, even rebel and revolt. As sure as the people will resist, the state will repress with police, the military, and the ‘Homeland Security State’ apparatus of surveillance and control. Make no mistake: this is the ‘Thirdworldization’ of the West: the ‘Post-Industrial Revolution’.”

It’s going to be a hard ride down and the amount of paper wealth that’s going to be lost is stupendous. No one really knows the future but we can see the intentions of certain people and groups. One of the greatest books I have ever read was called The Rise of the Phoenix by Christopher Hills but it certainly was not about the rise of a central currency and one world government. Each of us has to incorporate the destruction in our spirits, transforming disturbing energies and experiences into growth and new inner wisdom. A new breed of rough riders we will need to be, tough in spirit and determined to do and be our best for our families and loved ones.

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
Director International Medical Veritas Association
http://publications.imva.info
http://blog.imva.info
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[REL] I am afraid this is right on. Actually, what it means is, in part, that natural medicine will HAVE to triumph in the end, as part of the small victory in the middle of the massive defeat. This is the fulfillment of the results of overweaning pride, of hubris. It really is the story of King Lear writ large across the world.

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PLEASE TAKE ACTION AND CIRCULATE WIDELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF HEALTH FREEDOM
THANKS!!
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/11/15/get-ready-for-higher-food-prices-due-to-falling-economy.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQv-sdMCClQ&feature=player_embedded#!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQv-sdMCClQ&feature=player_embedded#!
RED ALERT! S.510 WILL PASS ON WEDNESDAY
UNLESS WE PUSH BACK HARD NOW!
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7446

Campaign for Libertybroke the story earlier today [Monday 11.15.10] that S.510, the horrific, fake “food safety” bill (and possibly its evil companions, S.3767 and the discredited S.3002) will be pushed through the Lame Duck Congress this week. It is definitely on the Obama Lame Duck Agenda. Our friends in DC have confirmed this.

Update: 11.15.10 10 PM: Tea Party Nation reports: “On Wednesday, there will be a cloture vote on Senate bill S.510.”

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16th November 2010, 15:29

There will be a single majority vote on this bill tomorrow, Wednesday. Please ACT!!!! Link included. This is an easy link to contact your senators. http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7446

onawah

16th November 2010, 19:15

More links here and ways to take action. One more day!
http://www.naturalnews.com/030418_Food_Safety_Modernization_Act_seeds.html
(NaturalNews) Senate Bill 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, has been called "the most dangerous bill in the history of the United States of America." It would grant the U.S. government new authority over the public's right to grow, trade and transport any foods. This would give Big brother the power to regulate the tomato plants in your backyard. It would grant them the power to arrest and imprison people selling cucumbers at farmer's markets. It would criminalize the transporting of organic produce if you don't comply with the authoritarian rules of the federal government.

"It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one's choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God." - Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower (http://shivchopra.com/?page_id=2)

This tyrannical law puts all food production (yes, even food produced in your own garden) under the authority of the Department of Homeland Security. Yep -- the very same people running the TSA and its naked body scanner / passenger groping programs.

This law would also give the U.S. government the power to arrest any backyard food producer as a felon (a "smuggler") for merely growing lettuce and selling it at a local farmer's market.

It also sells out U.S. sovereignty over our own food supply by ceding to the authority of both the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Codex Alimentarius.

It would criminalize seed saving (http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/20...), turning backyard gardeners who save heirloom seeds into common criminals. This is obviously designed to give corporations like Monsanto a monopoly over seeds.

It would create an unreasonable paperwork burden that would put small food producers out of business, resulting in more power over the food supply shifting to large multinational corporations.

I encourage you to read more about this dangerous bill at the Food Freedom blog on Wordpress: http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/20...

Watch this excellent video on NaturalNews.TV which explains S.510 in more detail:
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=9209B...

Take action now or lose your right to grow your own food
Sign this petition at Citizens for Health:
http://www.citizens.org/?page_id=2312

Do it today! This is really important.

In addition, the Cornucopia Institute recently sent out an urgent call-to-action email containing the following information: (http://www.cornucopia.org/2010/11/a...)

How to protest Senate Bill 510

1) Go to Congress.org and type in your zip code in the box in the upper right hand corner.

2) Click on your Senator's name, and then on the contact tab for their phone number. You can also call the Capitol Switchboard and ask to be directly connected to your Senator's office: 202-224-3121.

3) Once connected ask to speak to the legislative staff person responsible for agriculture. If they are unavailable leave a voice mail message. Be sure to include your name and phone number.

Give them this message in support of the "Tester Amendment" which would exempt small farms from S.510:

"I am a constituent of Senator___________. I ask that he/she support the Tester Amendment to the food safety bill. The Tester Amendment will exempt the safest, small, owner-operator farms and food facilities and farmers who direct market their products to consumers, stores or restaurants. Food safety legislation should not create inappropriate and costly regulatory barriers to family farms and the growing healthy food movement in the drive to crack down on corporate bad actors. Please support the Tester Amendment and market opportunities for small and mid-sized family farms, and small food processing facilities."

You may also wish to explain that you oppose the Food Safety Modernization Act in its entirety, and it is a destructive, freedom-crushing law that will destroy the future of food in America.

Remember, America has already lost control over its money supply to the Federal Reserve (nearly a hundred years ago). America has lost its health due to the medical industry and its profit-from-sickness agenda. Now we may lose our right to grow our own food and save our own seeds if Senate Bill 510 passes.

This is a dangerous, tyrannical law that would thrust the American people into an age of darkness and malnutrition. It would criminalize many of the very people growing our food and turn food production into yet another corporate monopoly.

Please take the time right now to contact your U.S. Senator and voice your strong opposition to this bill.

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Rocky_Shorz

17th November 2010, 22:38

Section 101 -
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to expand the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to inspect records related to food, including to: (1) allow the inspection of records of food that the Secretary reasonably believes is likely to be affected in a similar manner as an adulterated food; and (2) require that each person (excluding farms and restaurants) who manufactures, processes, packs, distributes, receives, holds, or imports an article of food permit inspection of his or her records if the Secretary believes that there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to such food will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.

I must be looking at the wrong Bill Summary, it looks like everything on this one relates to Production for market regulations and controls...

510 Summary (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-510&tab=summary)

Ahkenaten

17th November 2010, 23:18

Bill summaries are often notoriously inaccurate, sometimes it seems almost as if deliberately misleading...........in order to get the full import of the bill it is necessary to read the latest version of the bill at issue.....................

Rocky_Shorz

17th November 2010, 23:29

When I heard about Senate Bill s510 I was completely freaked out. The first thing I heard about it was that it makes it illegal to grow your own food. I immediately got on the phone to call my senator about how OUTRAGED I was and why was he planning on putting my grandma in jail for that cute little patch of cucumbers she grows for her canned pickles! What kind of man likes to put grandmas in JAIL HUH? In fact, I think I will just go down there and tell him what an asshole he is in person!! But then I regained some of my brain cells and remembered that MY senator probably didn’t write the bill and took a journey down the rabbit hole to see what I could find out about this bill.

The first thing I found out was it doesn’t make growing your own food at home and eating it yourself illegal. PHHHEWWWW!! Grandma’s pickles are SAFE!! Then I started actually reading what WAS in the bill.

You will probably think this bill is a good thing. Unless you are one of those tin foil hat wearing weirdos who think you need rights and freedoms. It might even be better than that wonderful piece of extistence we call the Patriot Act (Don’t you LOVE that one?)

A couple pertinent facts on the bill include:

The original bill no longer exists. The new S510 is only one part of an amendment they kept. (Kinda makes you wonder how bad the first one was huh?) It also is only in committee, which means the senate has been asked to consider it. Will they vote on it? Why yes of course, otherwise the senate doesn’t care about the children. Did I mention the bill is sponsored by congressman Dingell?

Full Story (http://laughterandliberty.com/senate-bill-s510-explained-sort-of/)

Rocky_Shorz

17th November 2010, 23:44

it is kind of strange they are targeting small farmers and yet one of the largest grocery store chains in Canada and affiliates spread across the US are owned by Iranian Mullahs...

I see no problem with an enemy that prays for death for all of us feeding our children now, do you?

onawah

20th November 2010, 00:04

Alliance for Natural Health USA
Victory! Leahy's Draconian Food Safety Bill Language Defeated For Now!

We’re thrilled to announce that today that, thanks to your calls and letters, the Senate Food Safety bill (S. 510) will not include those obscene ten-year jail sentences for food and supplement manufacturers who violate complicated FDA rules. Senate offices were deluged with your messages, and the Senate leadership listened to you!

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) is the manager of S. 510. He has pulled together what is called a Manager’s Amendment, which will replace S. 510; that package does not include the language from Sen. Leahy’s bill. There was a unanimous consent agreement in the Senate on Wednesday as to what amendments will or will not be raised when the bill is debated on Monday, November 29. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) says they have agreed to “up to five” amendments, mostly procedural, and ANH-USA has been assured by Sen. Harkin’s office that Sen. Leahy’s bill is not among them. Neither the bill nor its language can be considered without another unanimous consent vote by the entire Senate, so that issue is now dead.

ANH-USA has further learned that Sen. Hatch worked with Sen. Leahy to remove a section from the Leahy bill that specifically targeted supplements and made a lapse in filing to the FDA subject to the full ten-year jail term (see the reference to subsection V of Section 301 of the Federal Food and Drug Act). This is important, because this was the worst part of the bill, and Sen. Leahy could attempt to pass his bill again, either during the Lame Duck session or in the next Congress. We are grateful to Sen. Hatch and Sen. Leahy for working together to remove this provision.

This is the second S. 510 victory for ANH-USA members and allies. You may remember that last year we were able to make sure the bill did not require the development of a plan to harmonize with the Codex Alimentarius, which would have reduced access to higher, therapeutic doses of nutrients in dietary supplements.

We’re pleased that now no one will be putting small food and supplement producers (even mom-and-pop operations) in jail for ten years simply for running afoul of mindlessly complex FDA rules. This is an exciting day for natural health and health freedom.

Some background, for readers who haven’t been following the bill’s progress as closely:

The House version of the Food Safety bill passed some time ago. That bill includes draconian ten-year jail terms for even minor paperwork violations. Long jail terms were explicitly rejected by the Senate committee that put together the Senate’s version of the bill. But Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced his own bill, the Food Safety Accountability Act (S. 3767). This bill adds back the ten-year jail terms for adulterating or misbranding food.

Bear in mind, the FDA defines those terms in its own way. In the FDA’s view, “adulteration” includes recordkeeping violations, while “misbranding” includes citing peer-reviewed science about the benefits of a dietary supplement. This new threat of sanctions would have given the FDA a hammer with which to threaten and coerce companies engaging in completely legal activities.

Sen. Leahy subsequently amended his bill to reserve the jail terms for someone who “consciously or recklessly disregard[s] a risk of death or serious bodily injury.” But of course, what is conscious or unconscious, intentional or unintentional, is to be decided by FDA prosecutors. No actual harm is necessary!

The good news is that with the help of people like you, who were willing to speak out on what they considered an unjust threat, we were able to keep the Leahy language out of S. 510. Thank you—this victory belongs to all of us!

Sincerely,
Gretchen Signature
Gretchen DuBeau
Executive Director

onawah

21st November 2010, 14:44

http://www.naturalnews.com/030462_Food_Safety_bill_FDA.html
(NaturalNews) If there's one thing to give thanks for this year, it's the fact that the Senate floor vote on the so-called "Food Safety Modernization Act" has been delayed until after the Senate's Thanksgiving recess. This gives all of us -- the commonsense opponents of S.510 who don't want the FDA having authority over raw milk, seeds and backyard gardens -- another week to flood the offices of U.S. Senators with calls, faxes and emails that express opposition to the bill.

The jury is still out on the Tester-Hagan Amendment which would exempt small farmers from some of the more tyrannical requirements under the law. If this amendment were adopted, it would substantially improve the bill, but even with this amendment, the bill is just another overreaching expansion of Big Government into yet another area of incompetence. (If the government can't run health care worth a darn, how are they supposed to manage the entire food supply?)

The 1099 paperwork amendment
As part of this debate over the safety of the food supply, Sen Mike Johanns is making a courageous attempt to kill the new, idiotic 1099 reporting requirement that would require every person running a small business in America to get 1099 forms from Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Costco, Amazon.com or any other retailer where they've spent over $600 in the previous year.

This absolute nightmare of 1099 paperwork was passed as part of the Obamacare health care reform legislation earlier this year (http://www.naturalnews.com/028854_1...). It will turn America's small business owners into paperwork pack rats and criminalize anyone who doesn't spent several hundred hours a year chasing 1099 forms from corporations that are almost certain to refuse to give them to you. This is the government's way of penalizing small business owners in America and killing off yet more jobs as a way to destroy the economy.

This 1099 recall is the only real positive thing being considered in the Food Safety and Modernization Act. And as you've probably noticed, it has nothing to do with food.

What comes next for S.510
On Monday, November 29, a vote will be taken on the Harkin amendment, which is merely a rephrasing of the bill with some new wording that came out of committee.

After that, a vote is planned for the bill itself, meaning S.510 could be passed into law on November 29th.

Additional debate time might be invoked for various amendments to the bill, as there are some motions still pending (Johanns, Baucus, Coburn). So it's not a given thing that a final vote will happen on Nov 29th.

Watch NaturalNews.com for more updates on this bill throughout next week. We will continue to rally opposition to the bill.

I'm not against some commonsense improvements in food safety, but to give Big Brother yet more control over seed saving, backyard food production and small organic farms is an outright disaster, not an improvement.

Besides, as we now know, the problem with e.coli, salmonella and other pathogens in the food supply is really a problem with factory animal farms -- notably cattle and chicken operations. That's where these pathogens come from (e.coli grows in the intestines of animals), so cleaning up factory animal farms is the answer to food safety, not invoking the FDA and its food irradiation agenda.

Why not hand the FDA more power over our food supply?
It's amazing to see that people are lining up to grant more power to the FDA -- the very agency that has killed more Americans through its corruption, fraud and negligence than any other organization in the history of the nation.

I've written a full story on this important fact, which details how the FDA is far more dangerous than terrorists and that putting the FDA in charge of our national food supply can only lead to disaster. Read that story at: http://www.naturalnews.com/030461_S...

Take action now to stop S.510
Your voice needs to be heard on this issue. The vote on this bill has been delayed until after the Thanksgiving recess, so you have more time to oppose this dangerous legislation.

Call the Capitol Switchboard and ask to be directly connected to your Senator's office: 202-224-3121.

You can find other contact information for your US Senator at http://senate.gov/general/contact_i...

Other petitions on the 'net where you can voice your opposition to this bill include:
http://www.naturalnews.com/030462_Food_Safety_bill_FDA.html
Citizens for Health
http://www.citizens.org/?page_id=2312

Natural Solutions Foundation
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/...

Swami

27th November 2010, 19:28

Broccoli Reptilians create Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010

http://www.sott.net/image/image/s2/48055/full/vegetarian.jpg
http://www.scanews.com/2010/07/s1037/103717/01.jpg

http://zenbuoyfilter.blogspot.com/2010/11/broccoli-reptilians-create-food-safety.html

onawah

30th November 2010, 00:46

Action eAlert Permalinks: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/blastContent.jsp
Your Global Voice for Health & Food Freedom™
Update Bulletin During the Fake "Food Safety" S.510-Related Emergency!
Monday, November 29, 2010 #3

Big Agra Wants to Kill Food Freedom - TODAY

Email Your Senators NOW to Oppose $510 ON EVERY VOTE, INCLUDING CLOTURE and Protect Your Food Freedom

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

FDA, the agency responsible for more deaths and corruption in the United States than any other domestic agency, wants MORE to shut down small food businesses, bring more dangeous "Phude" to our tables and make more money for the corporate giants that are already responsible for ALL of the 'Phude'-borne disease in the US.

If you do not want some international Cartel deciding what you can, and cannot eat, Tell Your Friends to Act NOW, Too!

Send them this link: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613 so they can protect their Food Freedom, too!

4:23 PM: The earliest votes on $510 (which is, after all, about money, not food and certainly not freedom) will probably not come before 9 PM tonignt although the Senate schedule, which showed the Monday session starting at 9:30 AM and taking up S.510 after "morning business" now shows the morning session postponed until 2 PM -- this means lots of "back-room" wheeling and dealing as the Bigs try to rescue their fake "food safety" bill from our growing Push Back!

Keep on pushing back! Call, email, call, email, call...

Another 5 hours for push back...

Watch the action here: http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN2.aspx

Senate Votes Monday, 11.29.10.
Senate Calendar:
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/d_three_sections_with_teasers/calendars.htm

More Details:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7547

Please email and call your Senators Tonite & Monday...
Over and over again!

Email:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

12,000 EMAILS OVERNIGHT!
We have reports this morning that some are having difficulties with the Email-Your-Senator system which appears to be nearing capacity... please keep trying!
More than a Million Emails have been sent through our Action Item system to Senators and other decision makers about $510 in the past year... not enough! These next few hours will determine the fate of food freedom in America. Keep faith in America and message your Senators often!

Special note from General Bert: "Victory is within our reach. Keep pressing forward while you recruit your contacts to act now"

We will Twitter what is happening Monday here:
www.Twitter.com/HealthFreedomUS with hashtag #foodfreedom

shadowstalker

30th November 2010, 01:00

What a smug expression on his face

truthseekerdan

30th November 2010, 01:31

Senate Bill S 510 vote PASSED! - procedural vote passes 74 - 25

You are a criminal if you grow your own food in your own back yard according to the American Government.

This guy has a lot of courage -- we should all have the same...;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUoRYkpLarA

Ahkenaten

30th November 2010, 02:10

According to the FDA in the USA "people have no fundamental right to obtain any food that they wish" in response to a lawsuit brought against them for seizure of certain foodstuffs.................. (sorry Dan if you feel that I have no right to take an interest in this issue which I am interested in as we all should be)

http://www.ftcldf.org/news/kennedystephan0910.htm

onawah

30th November 2010, 02:46

Final Vote Tuesday.

At about 7 PM Monday the Senate voted cloture on germain amendments, 69 to 26 with significant GOP support. Don't forget! This sets stage for final vote Tuesday. Prior cloture vote was 74 in favor, so we are making headway. PUSH BACK CONTINUES! The other side lost 6 votes because of our continual electronic hammering. Let's Push Back a whole bunch more before the voting resumes!

Sen Coburn says: bill will raise food prices; add 1.5 billion to deficit; add unfunded state mandates. His substitute amendment is 1/5th the size and, he believes, would protect food safety without increasing FDA power & cost.

Please continue to call and email your Senators. Our email system seems to have reached maximum at about 15,000 per hour, so if you have a hard time getting in, please keep on trying! Call and email as often as you can!

After limiting debate on Dr. Coburn's substitute amendment which would at least remove some of the worst provisions of S.510 (such as secret "national security" guidelines) the Senate vote against a "nongermain" amendment to repeal the Health Care Law provision requiring 1099 forms for small transactions was to have been a sop to the Tea Party. Similarly, a watered-down version of the Tester amendment was included in the Managers' bill, but, as we've shown elsewhere, it is offers a false hope of protection in inflationary times.

The ad hoc coalition against S.510 of health and food freedom advocates (such as Health FreedomUSA and Citizens for Health), garden, farm and ranch groups, both major Tea Party groups, the Oath Keepers, Downsize DC, Campaign for Liberty and others will not be fooled and we will remember!

We the People will continue to oppose S.510, hoping a few more Senators will want to avoid being retired, but if it passes the Senate, we will oppose it in the House/Senate Conference and will petition the current White House occupant to veto it. If he fails to do so, we will support defunding it in the new Congress!

We, the freedom forces, are so fortunate to have you and people like you allied together. Evil forces are routed by respositories of hope coupled with action - which is what we are! It's not over yet... please use this link to go directly to the Action Item: http://tinyurl.com/23qlary -- up to 15000 emails an hour are telling decision makers: NO! S.510!

Email Your Senators NOW to Oppose $510
ON EVERY VOTE, INCLUDING CLOTURE
To Protect Your Food Freedom
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

FDA, the agency responsible for more deaths and corruption in the United States than any other domestic agency, wants MORE power shut down small food businesses, bring more dangeous "Phude" (pronounced "food" but that's the only similarity) to our tables and make more money for the corporate giants that are already responsible for ALL of the 'Phude'-borne disease in the US.

If you do not want some international Cartel
Deciding what you can, and cannot eat,
Tell Your Friends to Act NOW, Too!

Send them this link:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613
so they can protect their Food Freedom, too!

bluestflame

30th November 2010, 02:54

reeks of the same legislation behind the tobacco industry , not allowed to grow your own organic unchemically processed , un genetically modified tobacco in your own back yard ,now they are applying the same legislation to food

they have already made monopoly on the water supply cos even if you have your own tanks i'd be wondering what's in the water that falls from the shy with all the crap they've been putting in it

can imagine it now , people having to resort to indoor hydroponic vegetable growing

this legislation needs to be stopped , for all the other people round the world in other countries , it will not stop with the USA , this stands out as an obvious agenda that takes out the stongest opposition first , THEN the other countries less able to resist ( in a twisted distortion of "follow the leader", as the masses have been conditioned to accept)

onawah

30th November 2010, 03:47

My hope is that by posting these updates on this forum, some of you Conspiracy Theorists will take some time to actually send emails and make calls to Congress. It actually works! I have been an online activist for quite a few years, and am often gratified to hear that legislation has actually been created or halted because of grass roots activists simply sending in enough feedback to their representatives so that they HAVE TO TAKE HEED. We have lost a lot of rights on paper, but we still have the power to influence the policy makers. It takes time and focus, but it is buying us some time that we need to slow down the creeping NWO. Hopefully soon there will be enough awake and ACTIVE people to STOP them in their tracks.
There is still time to email and call about this S510. PLEASE DO!! and PASS IT ON!!

onawah

30th November 2010, 17:15

Senate delays S 510 food safety bill vote until Tuesday (TODAY) THERE IS STILL TIME TO CALL, EMAIL

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030565_Food_Safety_S_510.html#ixzz16mqrqosF
(NaturalNews) Slammed by a barrage of phone calls and emails today that the mainstream media isn't even reporting, the U.S. Senate today has decided to postpone their vote on S.510 -- the Food Safety Modernization Act -- until Tuesday morning.

Internet reports that S.510 has already passed are incorrect. The final bill has not yet been voted on (only a motion to move forward was voted on).

The Tester Amendment has been passed (see below for more details) which would exclude the smaller farm operations from the more onerous provisions of the bill.

Still up for debate are two amendments to the bill from Sen. Tom Coburn, who is seeking to scale down the bill and make it smaller and less expensive. A second proposed amendment would end Congressional "earmarks" -- a tool of financial corruption that lawmakers use to hand out government money to the corporations and special interest groups that got them elected in the first place. I watched a live C-SPAN video tonight of a pathetic-sounding Senator from Hawaii arguing that earmarks should stay in place because it gives Congress more power (seriously).

The vote on the amendment that would repeal the 1099 IRS reporting requirement for small businesses failed, leaving America's small business owners frantically looking for ways to move their businesses offshore before this outrageous new paperwork requirement kicks in by early 2011. (http://www.naturalnews.com/028854_1...)

It was virtually all Democrats, by the way, who voted to keep this outrageous 1099 law in place. (http://www.senate.gov/legislative/L...) It's almost as if the Democratic Senators can't wait to drive U.S. small business owners out of the country and destroy the U.S. economy in the process.

On the S 510 bill itself, our hope now rests with Senator Tom Coburn's amendments as well as the possibility that more Senators will reconsider their positions on this bill and come out tomorrow to oppose it.

Other improvements put in place with the help of health freedom allies
The Alliance for Natural Health (www.ANH-USA.org) has been working hard with many health freedom allies, including NaturalNews, to reduce the tyranny of the bill. From their announcement today:

These are some of the changes that ANH-USA and allies have [achieved with] the Food Safety bill:

Excluded excessive punishment

Last week we learned that S. 510 would not include the obscene ten-year jail sentences for food and supplement manufacturers who violate complicated FDA rules. That draconian language was specifically designed to target supplement manufacturers while leaving pharmaceutical drug and medical device companies untouched.

Resisted international harmonization of food and health supplement policy

Together we worked to modify language that would have committed the US to harmonization of international food and supplement rules similar to those in Europe, where attempts are being made to regulate away natural health.

Excluded small farmers from burdensome regulation

Working with the natural health community, ANH-USA succeeded in winning inclusion of the Tester amendment with its protection of small farmers. ANH-USA and other organizations fought tirelessly to protect the bourgeoning local healthy food movement from unwarranted federal regulation, and from the processed food companies that are increasingly nervous about the new competition. Thirty processed food organizations like the American Frozen Food Institute and the Corn Refiners Association sent a letter to the Senate arguing that a local produce stand should face the same regulatory hurdles as their industrial-scale processed food operations.

Mainstream media lies about S.510
There's no question that Senators' offices today were hit with a barrage of phone calls and emails from people voicing their opposition to the bill. Not surprisingly, mainstream newspapers published articles strongly supporting S.510 -- they've never seen a Big Brother expansion of power they didn't like!

We've also recently been reminded that mainstream media publishers will simply lie to their readers on important issues regarding freedom. For example, recent MSM reports about the TSA and the "National Opt Out Day" conveniently and deliberately leave out the fact that the TSA turned off their naked body scanner machines for the day, and that's why no one had the opportunity to protest. (Funny how the big newspapers never bother to mention this all-important fact when covering the story. They just claim the protests were a failure because no one protested.)

Sadly, it looks like S.510 is likely to pass, and that means Americans should get ready to endure yet another Gestapo agency (the FDA) running rampant over their food and seeds. As if there weren't government agents taking away our rights already, now the FDA is going to be able to show up at farms and, at gunpoint, demand, "Show us your papers!"

NaturalNews plans to publish the names of all the U.S. Senators who vote for this tyranny, and they will join our "Hall of Shame" of legislators who our founding fathers like Thomas Jefferson would have considered treasonous in their shameful betrayal of the rights of individual citizens and small farmers.

Why we need to delineate the right to grow food in the next Bill of Rights
This also reminds me to point out that after the U.S. collapses from total financial and moral bankruptcy -- which seems to be getting closer by the day -- we must all remember that in the next society, we need to add "The Right to Grow, Harvest and Exchange Our Own Food" into the next Bill of Rights. Because that's exactly what's being stripped away from the American people with the passage of S.510.

Remember, too, that the FDA already took away your right to learn the truth about nutritional supplements and natural remedies. It has sought to destroy the natural products industry. Now it's poised to take away your access to raw milk while burdening food producers with outrageous new paperwork requirements -- all while ignoring the real causes of the food contaminations, which are actually caused by factory animal farms.

The people who are in support of this bill -- including several big-name food authors who should frankly know better -- are selling out to the agricultural giants and aligning themselves with the dark powers in government who seek to destroy food freedom.

"Food is no less a weapon than tanks, guns, and planes." said Franklin D. Roosevelt. And now the U.S. Senate is making sure that food controls can be used against the American people in exactly the same way the Patriot Act is now being used to crush our civil liberties.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030565_Food_Safety_S_510.html#ixzz16mqBkKmn

onawah

30th November 2010, 17:31

Senate Approves S.510 - 73 TO 25

Now it's on to the House
NEW ACTION ITEM

THE US SENTATE JUST VOTED TO END FOOD FREEDOM IN THE UNITED STATES.
THE ACTION NOW MOVES TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

WE HAVE PREPARED A NEW ACTION ITEM TELLING THE HOUSE NOT TO ACCEPT THE SENATE BILL S.510. The NY times just reported the "lame-duck leadership" in the House will attempt quick passage!

"Despite unusual bipartisan support on Capitol Hill and a strong push from the Obama administration, though, the bill could still die, because there might not be enough time left in the session for the usual haggling between the Senate and House of Representatives, which passed its own version of the bill last year. Top House Democrats have said that they would consider simply passing the Senate version to speed approval."

Action Item: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5270

Last night Sen Coburn said the bill will raise food prices; add 1.5 billion to deficit; add unfunded state mandates. It will not increase food safety one bite.

The ad hoc coalition against S.510 of health and food freedom advocates (such as Health FreedomUSA and Citizens for Health), garden, farm and ranch groups, both major Tea Party groups, the Oath Keepers, Downsize DC, Campaign for Liberty and others will not be fooled and we will remember! Below is a list of Senators who voted for cloture and who are up for re-election in 2012. Save this list!

We the People will continue to oppose S.510 on the House floor and in the House/Senate Conference -- if needed, will petition the current White House occupant to veto it. If he fails to do so, we will support defunding it in the new Congress!

We, the freedom forces, are so fortunate to have you and people like you allied together. Evil forces are routed by respositories of hope coupled with action - which is what we are!

It's not over yet... please use the link below to go directly to the Action Item; up to 15000 emails an hour are telling decision makers: NO! S.510!

Action Item: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5270

We will Twitter what is happening here:
www.Twitter.com/HealthFreedomUS with hashtags #foodfreedom #farmfreedom

Hall of Shame

S-510 ... YEA cloture votes by Senators w/2012 election date.
Feinstein, Dianne (D-CA) ... Hatch, Orrin G. (R-UT)
Carper, Thomas R. (D-DE) ... Lugar, Richard G. (R-IN)
Nelson, Bill (D-FL) ... Corker, Bob (R-TN)
Cardin, Benjamin L. (D-MD) Barrasso, John (R-WY)
Stabenow, Debbie (D-MI) ... Tester, Jon (D-MT) ...
Menendez, Robert (D-NJ) ... Lieberman, Joseph I. (ID-CT)
Akaka, Daniel K. (D-HI) ... Sanders, Bernard (I-VT)
Klobuchar, Amy (D-MN) ... McCaskill, Claire (D-MO)
Bingaman, Jeff (D-NM) ... Gillibrand, Kirsten E. (D-NY) ...
Conrad, Kent (D-ND) ... Brown, Sherrod (D-OH) ...
Casey, Robert P., Jr. (D-PA) ... Whitehouse, Sheldon (D-RI) ...
Webb, Jim (D-VA) ... Cantwell, Maria (D-WA) ...
Manchin, Joe, III (D-WV) ... Kohl, Herb (D-WI) ...

THE ACTION IS BACK TO THE LAME-DUCK HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Email Your Congresspersion NOW to Oppose $510
To Protect Your Food Freedom

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5270

FDA, the agency responsible for more deaths and corruption in the United States than any other domestic agency, wants MORE power shut down small food businesses, bring more dangeous "Phude" (pronounced "food" but that's the only similarity) to our tables and make more money for the corporate giants that are already responsible for ALL of the 'Phude'-borne disease in the US.

If you do not want some international Cartel
Deciding what you can, and cannot eat,
Tell Your Friends to Act NOW, Too!

Special note from General Bert:
"Victory is within our reach. Keep pressing forward while you recruit your contacts to act now"

Lefty Dave

30th November 2010, 18:50

Before the takeover of America, laws were first: ideas from the people, to the house, to the senate, to the president. Now, they come from the president (and lobbyists), thru the congress, back to the puppet president for signature...then to the people for enforcement...and usually exempting the lawmakers from the laws !!! We're doomed here in America...problem is, most of us don't have a clue...too busy with dance with the stars...football..reality tv and six pack...way too fluorided to get mad...just to give an example...TODAY we legislated (outlawed) personal food gardens, S510....and no matter how many millions of Americans voiced their opposition...it passed anyway...
just feel a little sorry for us...we're getting some of our own medicine so to speak... blessings

HORIZONS

30th November 2010, 18:51

Senate Passes Overhaul of Food Safety Regulations
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/health/policy/01food.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday passed a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s food-safety system, after recalls of tainted eggs, peanut butter and spinach that sickened thousands and led major food makers to join consumer advocates in demanding stronger government oversight.

The legislation, which passed by a vote of 73 to 25, would greatly strengthen the Food and Drug Administration, an agency that in recent decades focused more on policing medical products than ensuring the safety of foods. The bill is intended to get the government to crack down on unsafe foods before they harm people rather than after outbreaks occur.

Despite unusual bipartisan support on Capitol Hill and a strong push from the Obama administration, the bill could still die because there might not be enough time for the usual haggling between the Senate and House of Representatives, which passed its own version last year. Top House Democrats said that they would consider simply passing the Senate version to speed approval.

Both versions of the bill would grant the F.D.A. new powers to recall tainted foods, increase inspections, demand accountability from food companies and oversee farming. But neither version would consolidate overlapping functions at the Department of Agriculture and nearly a dozen other federal agencies that oversee various aspects of food safety, making coordination among the agencies a continuing challenge.

While food-safety advocates and many industry groups preferred the House version because it includes more money for inspections and fewer exceptions from the rules it sets out, most said the Senate bill was far better than nothing.

“This is an historic moment,” said Erik Olson, deputy director of the Pew Health Group, an advocacy group. “For the first time in over 70 years, the Senate has approved an overhaul of F.D.A.’s food safety law that will help ensure that the food we put on our kitchen tables will be safer.”

Among the Senate bill’s last major sticking points was how it would affect small farmers and food producers. Some small-farm and organic food advocates warned that the legislation would destroy their industry under a mountain of paperwork, and Senator Jon Tester, a Democrat of Montana, pushed for a recent addition to the bill that exempts producers with less than $500,000 a year in sales who sell most of their food locally.

That provision led the United Fresh Produce Association, a trade group, to announce recently that it would oppose the legislation since small food operations have been the source of some food recalls in recent years.

But Randy Napier of Medina, Ohio, said the Senate bill was better than nothing. Mr. Napier’s 80-year-old mother, Nellie Napier, died in January 2009 after the nursing home in which she lived continued to feed her contaminated peanut butter even after she got sick.

“I am appalled at what I have found out since my mother’s death about how poorly food is regulated and how these companies cut corners to save money,” Mr. Napier said.

The staunch opposition of Senator Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, forced months of delay and eventually required Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada to call a series of time-consuming procedural votes to end debate. Mr. Coburn offered his own version of the legislation eliminating many of its requirements because he said less regulation was needed, not more, but that version failed.

Despite Mr. Coburn’s opposition, the bill is one of the only major pieces of bipartisan legislation to emerge from this Congress. Some Republican and Democratic Senate staff members — who in previous terms would have seen each other routinely — met for the first time during the food negotiations. The group bonded over snacks: specifically, Starburst candies from a staff member of Senator Mike Enzi, a Wyoming Republican, and jelly beans from a staff member of Senator Richard J. Durbin, an Illinois Democrat. And in the midst of negotiations, the negotiators — nearly all women — took a field trip to a nearby food market so that a Republican staff member could teach the Democrats how to buy high-quality steaks.

“This legislation means that parents who tell their kids to eat their spinach can be assured that it won’t make them sick,” said Senator Tom Harkin, a Democrat from Iowa who, as chairman of the Senate health committee, shepherded the legislation through months of negotiations.

Health advocates are hoping the legislation will rekindle the progress — now stalled — that the nation once enjoyed in reducing the tens of millions of food contamination illnesses that occur each year. In the case of toxic salmonella, infections may be creeping upward.

Part of the problem is the growing industrialization and globalization of the nation’s food supply. Nearly a fifth of the nation’s food supply and as much as three-quarters of its seafood are imported, but the F.D.A. inspects less than one pound in a million of such imported foods. The bill gives the F.D.A. more control over food imports, including increased inspection of foreign processing plants and the ability to set standards for how fruits and vegetables are grown abroad.

And as food suppliers grow in size, problems at one facility can sicken thousands all over the country. The Peanut Corporation of America’s contaminated paste was included in scores of cookies and snacks made by big and small companies. The legislation would raise standards at such plants by demanding that food companies write plans to manufacture foods safely and conduct routine tests to ensure that the plans are adequate.

cont...

Fredkc

30th November 2010, 19:09

Despite Mr. Coburn’s opposition, the bill is one of the only major pieces of bipartisan legislation to emerge from this Congress. Some Republican and Democratic Senate staff members — who in previous terms would have seen each other routinely — met for the first time during the food negotiations. The group bonded over snacks: specifically, Starburst candies from a staff member of Senator Mike Enzi, a Wyoming Republican, and jelly beans from a staff member of Senator Richard J. Durbin, an Illinois Democrat. And in the midst of negotiations, the negotiators — nearly all women — took a field trip to a nearby food market so that a Republican staff member could teach the Democrats how to buy high-quality steaks.

“This legislation means that parents who tell their kids to eat their spinach can be assured that it won’t make them sick,” said Senator Tom Harkin, a Democrat from Iowa who, as chairman of the Senate health committee, shepherded the legislation through months of negotiations.And right there you have all the evidence you'd need to know that the best thing Any member of congress can do, besides taking bribes is to just go home and spend it.
Fred

onawah

2nd December 2010, 02:57

December 1, 2010

Dear Citizen for Health,

We at Citizens for Health reported earlier that some authorities on the Hill believed the Senate may have shot itself in the foot by authorizing new taxes as part of S. 510 - and we know that the House is the only body empowered to authorize new taxes.

The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) and NaturalNews are now reporting that this is indeed the case. According to ANH:

"The only possible 'quick fix' would be a unanimous consent agreement in the Senate to strike that revenue-raising provision from the bill—but Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) has already stated that he will oppose, so unanimity will be impossible. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is now faced with some tough choices: spend a huge amount of time all over again to deal with this (which is unlikely in a Lame Duck Congress, especially considering how controversial the bill is); or do nothing, and allow the bill to die at the end of this Congress. This will mean a new Food Safety Bill will be introduced next year—but next year’s Congress will be very different from the current one, so we expect that the bill will look very different, and could be much more favorable to the natural health community."

If S. 510 is dead for this session, it would indeed be good news. However, some sources believe there could be enough time to correct the error before the session ends. Naturally, we need to be prepared for any outcome, so it is as important as ever to let your Representatives know you want them to oppose the bill. Citizens for Health and allied organizations have been sending what has been up to 3000 emails per hour - we need to maintain the momentum!

Send an email to your Representative now and tell them to vote "NO"!

We will continue to monitor S. 510's circuitous route through Congress, and keep you updated on any developments.

Thank you for your continuing commitment to this fight,

The Citizens for Health Team

onawah

2nd December 2010, 03:24

December 1, 2010

Dear Citizen for Health,

We at Citizens for Health are sad to report that S. 510, The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, passed the Senate by a vote of 73-25. Some authorities on the Hill believe the Senate may have shot itself in the foot by authorizing new taxes as part of S. 510 - and we know that the House is the only body empowered to authorize new taxes. Citizens for Health will monitor this potential development and alert you if the bill goes back to the Senate.

Regardless, we still have time to make our voices heard. Other sources say the bill may go straight to the House for a vote in an effort to ram through S. 510 during this lame duck Congress. (Normally the House and Senate would reconcile different versions of a bill and then vote again on the consolidated version before sending it to the President for his signature). We will continue to fight S. 510 every step of the way and oppose its implementation if it does become law, but first we must work to stop the bill in the House.

Send an email to your Representative now and tell them to vote "NO"!

This deeply troubling bill enshrines industrial agriculture as the primary, if not the only, legally-accepted form of food production in the United States. S. 510 sacrifices farmers and consumers in favor of the interests of big Agribusiness and it must not become law. Mike Adams of NaturalNews has written an insightful article uncovering the lies riddling S. 510 - read it here.

The bottom line: The President and the members of Congress who support this bill need to know that it will be resisted, and that voters will be mobilized in opposition to the re-election of any S. 510 supporters in 2012.

Now is the time to bring all possible pressure to bear on lawmakers. Use messages, phone calls [House Switchboard: (202) 224-3121], and the links in this alert - any mechanism you have - to insist that your Representative oppose the bill. Through these efforts we will also build greater and greater grassroots opposition to its implementation and enforcement if it does pass.

Make no mistake about it - the 4000 new inspectors created by this bill will allow the FDA to further trample the rights and freedoms of anyone opposed to the industrial food orthodoxy that includes, among its horrors, food irradiation, genetically modified organisms, growth-enhancing antibiotics and hormones and the factory farming of animals. This industrialism has undermined America's food supply for the past four decades, and threatens the citizen-based small farms and local food production efforts that have begun to make some progress in saving American food from the clutches of industrial degradation.

Send your email now, and urge your Representative to oppose S. 510!

Thank you for your continuing commitment to this fight,

The Citizens for Health Team

onawah

2nd December 2010, 03:57

Since there has been a big change in the story of this legislation, I started a new thread.
See:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?8724-%28S.-510%29-now-appears-to-be-dead-in-the-water!&p=75655#post75655

Thanks for your continuing attention to this matter. Action still needs to be taken, but the picture is looking much brighter now for food freedom.

onawah

6th December 2010, 23:10

Corrected links

S. 510 IS NOT DEAD YET BUT OUR PRESSURE CAN KILL IT

The Latest Word from Our Insider Friends on "the Hill"

PUBLIC PRESSURE IS THE ONLY THING THAT CAN KILL S. 510

Press Here:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5303

The Battle for Our Food Freedom Isn't Over Yet!
Politicians are maneuvering and manipulating to the last moment to pass S 510...
Here's the latest update from this morning. We spoke with

Sen. Coburn's Office: "As far as we know there may be an attempt to insert the Senate bill language [S. 510] into a "must pass" bill (such as a budget bill in the House) and send that back to the Senate... if it is returned as as a stand-alone bill, there is probably not enough time to debate and pass it this session, but if it is part of another, already scheduled bill, we don't know what will happen."

Natural Solutions Foundation Trustees: "What can we do to support Sen. Coburn's attempts to kill S. 510?

Sen. Coburn's Office: Public pressure! Keep up the pressure!

Rep. Ron Paul's office: "We've heard what is likely to happen is that the lame-duck House would take up the Senate bill [S. 510] and slap an HR number on it somehow, and pass it as a House bill, sending it to the Senate as a stand alone bill..."

Natural Solutions Foundation Trustees: "What can we do to help kill S. 510?

Rep. Paul's Office: Public pressure! Keep up the pressure!

Both offices tell us that the only thing that will prevent this bill from final passage is massive public outcry... we must continue to Push Back!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5303

Blatantly Unconstitutional, S 510 Can Be Killed
TAKE THE NEW ACTION ITEM NOW, VIRALIZE IT, TWEET IT, FACEBOOK IT NOW
TELL BOTH THE HOUSE AND SENATE TO KILL S510, THE FOOD FASCISM BILL, whether it is a stand-alone bill, part of another "must pass" bill, or offered with a new name and number!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5303

TWEET, Facebook ACTION ITEM Using THIS TINY URL:

http://tinyurl.com/3xdz3lp

Summary of the Possible Outcomes for S. 510 and Food Freedom:

1. Senate Has Not Reported S510 Out To House Yet!
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT IT COULD DIE AT THIS STAGE (good)

2. S510, Section 107 is unconstitutional (only the House can raise revenue) so if S. 510 is reported out to the House it can

2a. "Blue Flag" S510 and send it back to the Senate or
2b. The House can defeat S510 (good)
2c. The House can pass S510 as sent to it (bad)
2d. The House could attach S510's language to another bill number or another bill and pass it (bad), then send it back to the Senate where

2d.1. The Senate could defeat the new bill with the new number (good) or

2.d.2. The Senate could pass the new bill with the new number (tragically bad).

3. If the House Blue Flags S510, it goes back to the Senate where
3a. The Senate could defeat S510 (good) or
3b. The Senate could run out of time to pass an amended S510 (good) or
3c. The Senate could pass S510 after the amendment to remove Sec. 107 (bad).

It would then be sent back to the House again where -

4.a The House could defeat it (good) or
3.b The House could pass it (tragically bad)

Our Friends In The House AND the Senate Tell Us It is Time to Hammer Both the House and the Senate Really, Really Hard.

"Mighty Hammer Down!"

Back in the 60's there was a freedom song that said, "If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning, I'd hammer in the evening, all over this land. I'd hammer out justice, I'd hammer out freedom, I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters all, all over this land!"

Now, as then, we DO have a hammer. It is the hammer of Political Activism and you can swing it right here, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5303, - please act right now to pound home the nails in the coffin of the Food Fascism Bill.

onawah

7th December 2010, 23:04

From Alliance for Natural Health
http://www.anh-usa.org/

Who’s Trying to Scuttle the Amendment that Protected Organic and Family Farms? Big Food on the Attack!

December 7, 2010

Today we reveal the thirty agribusiness front groups and industrial agriculture lobbyists that continue to fight the Tester amendment. One of the few saving graces of the Senate’s controversial FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510)—which passed the Senate last week, only to be sidelined for the moment by a constitutional error—was the amendment introduced by Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT). Small-farm and organic food advocates warned that the legislation would destroy their industry under a mountain of paperwork; the Tester amendment exempted producers with less than $500,000 a year in sales who sell most of their food locally. ANH-USA and other organizations successfully fought to get the amendment included in the final Senate bill.

The bill hit a roadblock within hours after its passage when the House Ways and Means Committee flagged provisions that would levy fees for various activities: reinspecting food facilities, mandatory recalls, registering food importers, etc. According to the Constitution, all revenue-raising provisions must arise in the House of Representatives, which means the Senate’s provisions make the bill unconstitutional.

Robert Guenther, a lobbyist for the United Fresh Produce Association, said the snag in the House could provide an opportunity for the House and Senate to go to conference on the bill and thereby remove the Tester language which exempts many small farmers and food facilities from new food safety rules.

In November, Guenther’s association—together with twenty-nine other agribusiness lobbyists and associations—openly and publicly attacked small and organic farmers. They wrote to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, saying that the same rules ought to apply to all farms and food producers, regardless of size—knowing full well that only the giants can afford to play by these rules.

These organizations (and the companies that are their members) believe that even the smallest food sellers, like mom-and-pop roadside stands, should face the same regulatory hurdles as their own industrial-scale processed food operations. Big Food is essentially trying to use the government to quash competition from small family and organic farms.

As Dave Murphy, executive director of Food Democracy Now!, wrote in The Hill newspaper, “When legislation is made in Congress, industrial agriculture sets the rules and these minor protections are the only thing standing between the smallest family farmers and expensive new regulations that could drive them out of business.”

In their letter to the HELP Committee, these thirty groups write, “The undersigned organizations represent the vast majority of growers, producers, shippers, distributors, processors, packers, and wholesalers, and the vast majority of our members are small businesses.” While we acknowledge that many small businesses belong to these organizations, there is no doubt whatsoever that their membership is dominated by the largest food processors in the country.

You may be shocked at some of the names on this list:

American Feed Industry Association
American Frozen Food Institute
American Fruit and Vegetable Processors and Growers Coalition
American Meat Institute
American Mushroom Institute
California Grape and Tree Fruit League
Corn Refiners Association
Florida Tomato Exchange
Fresh Produce Association of the Americas
Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association
Idaho Potato Commission
International Dairy Foods Association
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
National Chicken Council
National Grain and Feed Association
National Meat Association
National Milk Producers Federation
National Oilseed Processors Association
National Pork Producers Council
National Potato Council
National Turkey Federation
National Watermelon Association
Pet Food Institute
Produce Marketing Association
Shelf-Stable Food Processors Association
Texas Produce Association
United Egg Producers
United Fresh Produce Association
U.S. Apple Association
Western Growers Association

After the constitutional snafu invalidated the bill, thirteen of the above organizations plus ten other Big Food associations wrote to House leaders to reiterate their position and urge the Senate to go to conference on the bill.

Dave Murphy points out that “members of Congress and the elite class of agribusiness lobbyists continue to ignore the elephant in the room regarding food safety and agricultural production, which as most informed citizens know is concentration.” Murphy is referring to CAFOs, or Concentrated Animal Feedlot Operations. It’s the standard model for large-scale food-producing-animal factory farms.

Some members of Congress, like Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-CA), who sits on the House Agriculture Committee and represents California’s factory-farm-dominated San Joaquin Valley, are glad to see the Senate bill fail because it would give them the opportunity to strip the Tester amendment from the bill. Cardoza went so far as to call the Tester amendment “an abomination” (a very strong word for something that protects family farmers) and said, “A small farm can devastate the industry as easily as a big farm.” It should be noted that Rep. Cardoza’s campaign received more than $103,000 from the “Crop Production & Basic Processing” industry—the very people who are now demanding that Tester’s modest farmer protection provisions be killed.

Murphy continued, “This fact should not be lost on anyone, because this is how industrial agriculture has not only taken over food production in the US, driving farmers off the land, fattening Americans, and contaminating our food, but it is also how corporate agribusiness has corrupted our democracy.”

onawah

8th December 2010, 17:42

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"THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR FATIGUE! WE ARE IN THE ENDGAME OF THIS BATTLE AND WE ARE CLOSE TO A RESOUNDING VICTORY... By the end of any battle, both sides are exhausted, but the side that perseveres just a little longer... wins! That is where we are now, and that is why massive Push Back is more important now than before! We are flooding Congress with a clear message: Kill [the] Bill! Keep at it! Victory is within our reach. Keep pressing forward while you recruit your contacts to act with you now!"

Tuesday's Update

Dr. Paul's office says there is a chance that a House substitute for S.510 will be considered today.

Monday's Message

Sen. Coburn's Office: "As far as we know there may be an attempt to insert the Senate bill language [S. 510] into a "must pass" bill (such as a budget bill in the House) and send that back to the Senate... if it is returned as as a stand-alone bill, there is probably not enough time to debate and pass it this session, but if it is part of another, already scheduled bill, we don't know what will happen."

Natural Solutions Foundation Trustees: "What can we do to support Sen. Coburn's attempts to kill S. 510?

Sen. Coburn's Office: Public pressure! Keep up the pressure!

Rep. Ron Paul's office: "We've heard what is likely to happen is that the lame-duck House would take up the Senate bill [S. 510] and slap an HR number on it somehow, and pass it as a House bill, sending it to the Senate as a stand alone bill..."

Natural Solutions Foundation Trustees: "What can we do to help kill S. 510?

Rep. Paul's Office: Public pressure! Keep up the pressure!

Both offices tell us that the only thing that will prevent this bill from final passage is massive public outcry... we must continue to Push Back!

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onawah

9th December 2010, 03:24

http://www.citizens.org/?page_id=40
ALERT! Dear Citizen for Health,

Citizens for Health reported yesterday that the latest effort to pass S. 510, The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act could involve pushing the bill's language through the House by adding it to another bill as an amendment.

Guess what? That's exactly what is happening! Email your Representative NOW and tell him/her to vote "NO" on the amendment and kill S. 510!

As reported last week, S. 510 contains a provision that would allow the FDA to impose fees on importers and on companies whose food is recalled because of contamination, but the U.S. Constitution mandates that all revenue-raising measures must originate in the House.

This could have meant the end for this dangerous legislation, but the bill's proponents are pulling out all the stops in order to realize their goal - to further trample the rights and freedoms of anyone opposed to the industrial food orthodoxy and to enshrine big Agribusiness as the primary source of what ends up on your kitchen table.

According to the House calendar, today, December 8, they will be considering the "CR/Food Safety House Amendment to the Senate Amendment to H.R. 3082 - Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011/FDA Food Safety Modernization Act". The bill's supporters are counting on this ploy because S. 510's language is attached to the bill that would authorize continued funding and functioning of the government.

We can't allow this "shell game" to succeed! Big Agribusiness is reeling from the impact thousands upon thousands of calls and emails from CFH supporters and other health freedom advocates have had on blocking passage of S. 510, and this latest trickery is an 11th-hour attempt to eliminate competition from small farms and local food producers. It's time for the knockout blow that will kill S. 510 once and for all!
Citizens for Health will continue to monitor the progress of S. 510 and alert you to any important developments as they happen. Meanwhile, waste no time - the House vote may be happening as you read this!
Do it now! Urge your Representative to oppose this amendment and ANY attempt to push through S. 510 as part of ANY bill.

Thanks to all of you who have been participating and helping to hold Congress accountable,

The Citizens for Health Team

onawah

9th December 2010, 05:11

Natural Solutions Foundation Was There: We Saw The House Vote 212 to 205 (WITH NOT A SINGLE REPUBLICAN VOTING FOR THE BILL) When the House Shamefully Attached S510's language to HR 3082.

Why is their act shameful? Two reasons. First, the contents of S. 510 is anti-health, anti-supplements, anti-freedom, anti-small business and anti-clean food to say nothing of anti-sense. Second, the regulatory language of S. 510 should never have been attached to a Continuing Resolution, which is an administrative bill allowing the government of the United States to continue its activities by funding it.

This tactic shows how desperate the Uber Cartel is to have this measure pass. Think about that for a moment: apparently it is vitally important to the Uber Cartel, which makes, among other things, drugs, vaccines, agro-chemicals, GMOs and which grows food, to make sure that you do not have the choice to grow or eat clean food. The reasons for that present themselves quite rapidly, don't they? Clean food = bad customers for Big Pharma. Poisoned food = great customers. And then there is the subtext of genocide.

But we are far from finished here.

Here's what Ralph Fucetola,JD, our Counsel and Trustee, wrote from Washington, where he spent the day, meeting with Ron Paul while he was there, by the way:

Our Next Step is to Continue Inundating the Senate -

1. We agree with Ron Paul (with whom we visited today, that [S510] is very bad legislative practice to combine a controversial regulatory bill with the Continuing Resolution needed to fund government activities. This bill will impact dietary supplements. That is clear from the way the FDA used section 301(11) of the 2007 FDA "enabling act" to outlaw a form of Vitamin B-6, although Congress put a clause in that bill "exempting" DSHEA products.

FDA will use any new food authority to attack supplements and natural remedies.

2. It is unprincipled to push this bill against the clear will of the voters that the Federal govt is too big and must stop over-regulating.

3. A clean Continuing Resolution is needed so that Congress can decide to continue funding at a certain level without muddying the process with extraneous matters.

4. The vote was nearly a pure partisan vote, with no Republicans in favor of this maneuver, and only a few Democrats standing against the lame-duck "leadership." We will remember!

5. The People will keep a close eye on all GOP Senators and expect them to act from principle and not add this budget-busting bill, with its 4,000 new FDA agents to harass local food production and distribution.

For those of you who didn't follow the events on Twitter or C-Span, the House lame-duck "leadership" pushed the "Food Safety" Bill, formerly known as S.510 into the "Continuing Resolution" Funding Bill to keep the Federal Govt running for another year, pass this Hot Potato to Senate again. That body could act Thursday, December 9th.

The House vote appears to have been 212 to 205, with no Republicans voting for the bill. The next step is to continue inundating the Senate with voter outrage.

Please help us stop S.510 as a tack-on via HR 1755 to HR 3082.

1. Take Action NOW for each member of your household to tell your Senators that you STONGLY OPPOSE adopting the language of S. 510 in this or any other amendment or bill:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5303

2. Visit http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm, enter your State to find your Senators' names and phone numbers. CALL THEM! Yes, the line may be busy. Keep trying. Give the person who answers this message:

"I am calling to strongly opposed adopting the language of S. 510, the so-called Food Safety Modernization Act. This language is currently attached to 'CR/Food Safety House Amendment to the Senate Amendment to H.R. 3082 - Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011/FDA Food Safety Modernization Act' which has been sent to the Senate. I urge Senator [name] in the strongest possible terms to vote against this dangerous, unnecessary and expensive amendment and to oppose this language in any bill or amendment."

The phone lines may be busy. Keep trying. This is literally an 11th hour attempt by Big Agribiz to control every bite you eat, and make sure it is to their liking, not yours.

3. Using Social Media like Facebook and Twitter, using your phone lists and your email contacts, get the word out, urging everyone you can contact to do the same:

1. Take the Action Item

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5303

2. Call the House of Representatives to deliver the message above

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

3. Take the message viral to THEIR contacts who need to take it to their contacts and so on. Time is short. The consequenses of inaction are long, very, very long

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For example, Ralph Fucetola went to Washington today to make sure that your voice and wishes were represented there during this seminal moment. What would you have to pay your attorney to get up at 4 AM, get on a train and go to DC for your interests, getting home well after midnight. Ralph went pro-bono, but AmTrack did not give him a pro-bono ticket. You get the idea. Health Freedom has expenses. They are our expenses because this is our battle. Please donate generously on a reurring basis. What is generously? Whatever you can afford every month. Thanks!

onawah

9th December 2010, 15:52

S 510 Food Safety bill is still alive and may unleash a new army of FDA agents
http://www.naturalnews.com/030672_Food_Safety_bill_FDA.html
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030672_Food_Safety_bill_FDA.html#ixzz17d8ibQix
(NaturalNews) The U.S. government wants to know where your greenhouse is. Under Senate Bill 510 -- which is now back in the hands of the U.S. Senate after the House hid an amendment in an appropriations bill and passed it last night -- American food producers would be required to register their facilities with the U.S. government. The feds, it seems, want a database of food growers so they know who to target for surprise inspections (show me your papers!).

As stated in the bill itself: (http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi...)

SEC. 102. REGISTRATION OF FOOD FACILITIES. 18 (a) UPDATING OF FOOD CATEGORY REGULATIONS; BIENNIAL REGISTRATION RENEWAL. Section 415(a) (2120 U.S.C. 350d(a))

"The registration shall contain an assurance that the Secretary will be permitted to inspect such facility at the times and in the manner permitted by this Act."

What this language shows is that the point of registration is so that government agents can conduct surprise inspections of food facilities. At least 4,000 new FDA agents will need to be hired if this bill becomes law, greatly expanding the FDA's agent presence in much the same way the TSA expanded over the last few years.

Kangaroo courts for violators
Once an FDA inspection occurs, if the government believes the food grower is producing anything that might pose a risk to the public (and note carefully that "belief" is the only thing required, not actual scientific evidence of harm), that food grower is then "suspended" from producing food.

After that, they get dragged into a kangaroo FDA court where a panel of FDA officials then decides their fate. This takes place with no due process, no attorney, no Constitutional protections and no rights whatsoever. This is, in every sense, a "King's court" where the King can simply decide that you're guilty and put you out of business.

Here's the language in the S.510 legislation:

"(2) HEARING ON SUSPENSION. - The Secretary shall provide the registrant subject to an order under paragraph (1) with an opportunity for an informal hearing, to be held as soon as possible but not later than 2 business days after the issuance of the order or such other time period, as agreed upon by the Secretary and the registrant, on the actions required for reinstatement of registration and why the registration that is subject to suspension should be reinstated. The Secretary shall reinstate a registration if the Secretary determines, based on evidence presented, that adequate grounds do not exist to continue the suspension of the registration."

Did you read this carefully? It means the Secretary (a bureaucrat) gets to decide who can grow food and who can't. This is the FDA's kangaroo court, much like the FTC's kangaroo court that's currently being used to destroy companies offering nutritional supplements and natural cancer cures.

Remember, too, the bill abandoned actual science and now relies entirely on the FDA's "belief" to determine which foods to recall:

SEC. 208. ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION OF FOOD.
23 (a) IN GENERAL. - Section 304(h)(1)(A) (21 U.S.C.24 334(h)(1)(A)) is amended by
(1) striking ''credible evidence or information indicating'' and inserting ''reason to believe'';

FDA tyranny is on the rise
So essentially what we have here is a food tyranny bill that would hand a group of un-elected bureaucrats who answer to no one the power to control virtually the entire U.S. food supply. This is an agency, by the way, that is already responsible for the deaths of millions of Americans (http://www.naturalnews.com/030461_S...).

This is an agency that has participated in armed raids against natural product companies (http://www.naturalnews.com/021791.html).

To all those who say "S. 510 is no big deal, the FDA won't abuse its power, this is just about safety" -- I say you have no grasp of the history of tyranny. The FDA has virtually never taken action to protect the People. Its actions have consistently been shaped to maximize the profits of the powerful corporations even at the expense of human lives.

Just read the history of Vioxx if you need a refresher on that point (http://www.naturalnews.com/009693.html).

That the U.S. Congress would now seek to hand over control of our food supply to this dangerous, rogue government agency is an obscene betrayal of the American people. This is precisely why we must stand up and fight S.510 once again to defeat it in the Senate where it is now schedule for yet another vote. (Like a bad case of herpes, this bill just won't die, it seems...)

Sign the petition at: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/...

Once again, CALL your representatives in the House and the Senate. You can reach the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask for your representatives by name.

By the way, just for the record, I am appalled at the lack of action on this item by some so-called "health freedom" organizations which appear to be doing absolutely nothing to rally opposition to this bill. A few groups are fighting hard to oppose it (NaturalNews, ANH-USA.com, Natural Solutions Foundation, etc.) but there are several which appear to be sitting on the sidelines, doing nothing. I'm not sure why. This is precisely the kind of issue that should have the entire health freedom community up in arms to protect our food freedoms.

Robert Scott Bell gets it, by the way. So do the Vitamin Lawyer (Ralph Fucetola) and health freedom attorneys like James Turner and Jonathan Emord. All the freedom-oriented people seem to understand how crucial this is to maintain our food freedoms and keep the FDA out of our farms as much as possible. If you think the FDA is bad now, just wait until they are granted yet more powers (and funding) to unleash an army of thousands of new agents who sweep across America, raiding small family farms (no, they're not all exempted from this bill) and imprisoning raw milk producers.

The FDA is about to become the SS of food fascism. This is not an exaggeration. Who would have thought, five years ago, that the TSA would be reaching down your pants and feeling your genitals? Just imagine now what the FDA will do with similar powers over your food and farms. Crudely put, the TSA may be feeling your junk, but the FDA will have us all by the balls.

Take action now to protect your food freedoms (or you will forever lose them).

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• Feds reject complaints of FDA misconduct in medical device approvals

• Senate Bill 510 vote delayed until after Thanksgiving - Take action now to oppose food tyranny

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030672_Food_Safety_bill_FDA.html#ixzz17d8QqK66

onawah

9th December 2010, 23:27

December 9, 2010

Dear Citizen for Health,

For those of you who haven't already heard, the House lame-duck leadership amended the “Continuing Resolution” Funding Bill - intended to keep the federal government running for another year - to include the language from S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. Unfortunately the House rushed to action Wednesday and passed it, sending it along to the Senate. Further action could happen as soon as today, Thursday, December 9th.

It is quite unusual to attach such an initiative to a bill authorizing continued government funding and operations.

Urge your Senators NOW to resist any effort to ram through S. 510!
Take action at:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/750/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5337

And so, back to the Senate we go. Make no mistake - your efforts are having an impact, and we can't give up now! The House vote was very close: 212 to 205. This is a reflection of how your thousands of messages have helped a significant number of legislators stand firm in the face of pressure from big Agribusiness.

We have to keep holding their feet to the fire and stop this dangerous policy from becoming law. The Senate can still strip S. 510 from the Continuing Resolution before passing it. Congress needs to recognize that:

--Combining a controversial regulatory bill with the Continuing Resolution to fund government operations is inappropriate at best, and at worst, shameful.

--It is even more disturbing that this has been done in spite of thousands and thousands of voters who have made it clear they believe that the federal government is too big and must stop over-regulating.

--S. 510 must be stripped from the Continuing Resolution so that Congress can decide to continue funding at a certain level without muddying the process with extraneous matters.

--We will be monitoring the Senate and expect them to act from principle and not the language from S. 510.

Tell your Senators NOW to strip S. 510 from the Continuing Resolution!

Thanks to all of you who have been participating and helping to hold Congress accountable,

The Citizens for Health Team

onawah

10th December 2010, 00:07

A message from the Alliance for Natural Health USA

Click THIS LINK to go to the Action Alert page.
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On December 8, the House of Representatives passed a Continuing Resolution (CR) H.R.3082. A CR is supposed to provide temporary, stopgap funding for the government while budget bills are worked out. But this CR included the language of the Senate food safety bill—language that will still affect small food producers (organic farms, small farms, mom-and-pop roadside stands, etc.) most of all. It will completely transform the food and farming industries—for the worse.

Putting the text of another bill into a CR is a prime example of the way Congress operates. It is ethically wrong; indeed it is an example of corruption. We saw this kind of slight of hand in the passage of the health reform legislation, and the American public should be fed up with it.

Now this House CR goes back to the Senate, which is expected to pick it up by the middle of next week. The rumor is that instead of dealing with the CR directly, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) will introduce the Senate’s own omnibus bill (even larger than the CR) that will also contain the food safety language along and who knows what else.

This is a bad bill, on its own or attached to another piece of legislation. We are grateful that the changes we lobbied for have stayed in the bill, including the exemption for supplements from Codex language and the Tester amendment that protects small farms from some of the bill’s provisions. But the bill still gives the FDA much too much control over farming in general and small producers in particular.

Three specific concerns remain, all major:

1. The bill mandates that every registered facility must be inspected by the FDA: high-risk facilities will be inspected initially within the first five years and then every three years thereafter; low-risk facilities, initially within seven years, and then every five. The FDA will need to hire an additional 5,000 employees to do all the inspections. Big companies love this, because the FDA will be so bogged down inspecting all the smaller operations that they won’t have time to focus on the big guys—where the actual food safety problems arise. Food safety legislation should be targeted at the large industrial farms, but, no surprise, this bill does just the opposite.

2. Language in the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act currently reads:

An officer or qualified employee of the Food and Drug Administration may order the detention, in accordance with this subsection, of any article of food that is found during an inspection, examination, or investigation under this chapter conducted by such officer or qualified employee, if the officer or qualified employee has credible evidence or information indicating that such article presents a threat of serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals.

Under this bill, the boldfaced text above would be changed to:

if the officer or qualified employee has reason to believe that such article is adulterated or misbranded.

And remember, as interpreted by the FDA, a food or supplement may be deemed “adulterated” if there have been any record-keeping violations. “Misbranded” can mean that the producer makes a completely true statement about the product but without FDA permission.

So when the FDA is inspecting a facility, if they merely believe an item is misbranded or adulterated—no concrete evidence is required—they can confiscate all of that product. If there is a suspected record-keeping error for a supplement, the entire stock can be taken by the FDA.

3. A company has to be registered to operate. Under this bill, if the FDA finds there to be a reasonable probability that a product may cause serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals, the FDA may suspend that facility’s registration, effectively shutting it down. This seems reasonable, but there is only one informal opportunity for companies to reinstate registration, with no opportunity whatsoever to appeal—they are at the mercy of an FDA inspector’s whim. This should not be allowed in America.

Why does all of this matter? Keep in mind the FDA has consistently done Big Pharma’s bidding and has attacked supplement companies and small food producers (such as the cherry and walnut growers). The bill gives the FDA unbridled authority to ratchet things up even further. The FDA needs to focus on large producers, not get its tentacles onto small producers.

Please contact your senators TODAY and ask them to oppose the food safety bill language that is currently in the CR (though it might be found in the omnibus bill next week). This may be our last chance to defeat this bill—please take action immediately!

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onawah

11th December 2010, 17:57

I emailed Natural Solutions and asked what they have to say about the following from Food Inc. If I hear back from them, I will post it here. (Most of the organizations like Organic Consumers Assoc., want S501C3 to be scrapped and done over completely, but Food Inc. think not.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/opinion/29schlosser.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=eric+schlosser&st=cse
A Stale Food Fight
By MICHAEL POLLAN and ERIC SCHLOSSER
Published: November 28, 2010

THE best opportunity in a generation to improve the safety of the American food supply will come as early as Monday night, when the Senate is scheduled to vote on the F.D.A. Food Safety Modernization bill. This legislation is by no means perfect. But it promises to achieve several important food safety objectives, greatly benefiting consumers without harming small farmers or local food producers.
Eric Hanson

The bill would, for the first time, give the F.D.A., which oversees 80 percent of the nation’s food, the authority to test widely for dangerous pathogens and to recall contaminated food. The agency would finally have the resources and authority to prevent food safety problems, rather than respond only after people have become ill. The bill would also require more frequent inspections of large-scale, high-risk food-production plants.

Last summer, when thousands of people were infected with salmonella from filthy, vermin-infested henhouses in Iowa, Americans were outraged to learn that the F.D.A. had never conducted a food safety inspection at these huge operations that produce billions of eggs a year. The new rules might have kept those people — mainly small children and the elderly — from getting sick.

The law would also help to protect Americans from unsafe food produced overseas: for the first time, imported foods would be subject to the same standards as those made in the United States.

You would think that such reasonable measures to protect the health and safety of the American people would have long since sailed through Congress. But after being passed by the House of Representatives more than a year ago with strong bipartisan support, the legislation has been stuck in the Senate. One sticking point was the fear among small farmers and producers that the new regulations would be too costly — and the counter-fear among consumer groups that allowing any exemptions for small-scale agriculture might threaten public health.

Those legitimate concerns have been addressed in an amendment, added by Senator Jon Tester of Montana, that recently was endorsed by a coalition of sustainable agriculture and consumer groups. But now that common sense has prevailed, the bill is under fierce attack from critics — egged on by Glenn Beck and various Tea Partyers, including some in the local food movement — who are playing fast and loose with the facts.

Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, is the bill’s most influential opponent by far. On the floor of the Senate the week before last, he claimed that only 10 or 20 Americans a year die from a food-borne illness, that the government doesn’t need mandatory recall power because “not once in our history have we had to force anyone to do a recall,” and that the annual cost of the new food safety requirements — about $300 million — is prohibitively expensive.

Senator Coburn is wrong on every point. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, some 5,000 Americans annually die from a food-borne illness. Last year, at the height of a nationwide salmonella outbreak that sickened thousands, spread via tainted peanut butter, the Westco Fruit and Nuts company refused for weeks to recall potentially contaminated products, despite requests from the F.D.A.

And as for spending that extra $300 million every year, a recent study by Georgetown University found that the annual cost of food-borne illness in the United States is about $152 billion. In Senator Coburn’s home state, it’s about $1.8 billion. Compared with those amounts, this bill is a real bargain.

In the last week, agricultural trade groups, from the Produce Marketing Association to the United Egg Producers, have come out against the bill, ostensibly on the grounds that the small farms now partially exempted would pose a food safety threat. (Note that these small farms will continue to be regulated under state and local laws.) It is hard to escape the conclusion that these industry groups never much liked the new rules in the first place. They just didn’t dare come out against them publicly, not when 80 percent of Americans support strengthening the F.D.A.’s authority to regulate food.

By one estimate, the kinds of farms that the bill would exempt represent less than 1 percent of the food marketplace. Does the food industry really want to sabotage an effort to ensure the safety of 99 percent of that marketplace because it is so deeply concerned about under-regulation of 1 percent? The largest outbreaks are routinely caused by the largest processors, not by small producers selling their goods at farmers’ markets.

Theodore Roosevelt ran up against the same sort of resistance when he fought for the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. “Unfortunately,” he said, “the misdeeds of those who are responsible for the abuses we design to cure will bring discredit and damage not only upon them, but upon the innocent stock growers, the ranchmen and farmers of this country.” That is one reason the federal government decided to guarantee food safety during the last century — and why it must continue to do so in this one.

Michael Pollan is the author of “Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual.” Eric Schlosser is the author of “Fast Food Nation” and a producer of the documentary “Food Inc.”
A version of this op-ed appeared in print on November 29, 2010, on page A25 of the New York edition.

VajraYaya

12th December 2010, 00:16

Under this bill, the boldfaced text above would be changed to:

if the officer or qualified employee has reason to believe that such article is adulterated or misbranded.

And remember, as interpreted by the FDA, a food or supplement may be deemed “adulterated” if there have been any record-keeping violations. “Misbranded” can mean that the producer makes a completely true statement about the product but without FDA permission.

There is something almost exactly the same going on in Canada. They have bill C36, described as a product safety bill that is implementing this same kind of language. After this legislation is passed based on the opinion of an inspector or Health Canada minister, the police can come and raid your home or business, guns drawn, confiscate anything they want, hold it at your expense all without a court order or any judicial oversight at all. All based on opinion.

This is happening all over the world and has nothing to do with safety. It is really imported EU legislation. It will only destroy small business and producers. Of course this bill is supposed to be about product "safety" in general and will likely be allowed to influence food and natural health products as well. Notice how all these style bills are all "Safety" bills. Makes them hard to criticize. It's easy to dismiss critics by saying that they are against safety. Creeping fascism..

bluestflame

12th December 2010, 00:18

I rekon i know who's safety they are concerned about , thier own ,

onawah

12th December 2010, 00:39

I think Food Inc. is basically saying the Tester amendment is enough to protect small farmers and supplements, etc. but that the part of S510 designed to monitor big food producers (which is where most of the contaminated foods are coming from) are crucial.
I agree with the latter, but I think the Tester amendment isn't enough to protect everyone besides the big guys.

onawah

13th December 2010, 16:28

I think the following about sums it up:

http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/was-it-the-good-cop-bad-cop-routine-that-enticed-so-many-foodies-to-sanction-fdas-takeover-of-food-system/

Was It the Good-Cop-Bad-Cop Routine That Enticed So Many Foodies to Sanction FDA’s Takeover of Food System?
Posted on December 11, 2010

By David Gumpert
The Complete Patient

I keep asking myself, how did we ever get to this point, where political and economic control of America’s food system is on the verge of being turned over to a government agency whose leaders declared early this year we have “no absolute right” to “any particular food” or to “bodily and physical health.”

I keep thinking about the old Soviet Union’s control of food system, where, in the interests of the revolution (food safety), farms were turned into collectives (facilities), which produced grand five-year plans (HACCP plans), reinforced by centralized standards (Good Agricultural Practices), and there were special exemptions for private peasant plots (Tester-Hagan exemptions). It all led to chronic shortages, terrible quality, and eventual collapse.

I keep wondering how smart informed people from all segments of the food rights and sustainable food arena got themselves engaged into supporting a hopelessly complex set of rules to maybe, possibly, depending-on-how-you-interpret-them allow certain small farms exemptions from this governmental takeover of the food system.

And I marvel that a bunch of other smart people are willing to trust the FDA, and hope that it will suddenly transform itself from a bunch of hardasses who take pleasure in driving small food producers out of business into a sensitive agency dedicated to sustainable food production; you can see the skewering I took for contradicting that logic in a new posting about the food safety debate at Grist.org (although most of the comments are skeptical of the FDA apologists).

The government takeover was premised on winning over a bunch of notable foodie organizations over, and once the zealots engaged people from the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance, the Northeast Organic Food Association (NOFA), and Rural Vermont, they could pull the old good-cop-bad-cop routine, with Sen. Tester the good cop via the hope of holding Big Ag at bay, if you’ll only help me figure this thing out. Once you’re figuring out the “or’s”, “and’s”, and “wherefore’s”, and deciding when a farm becomes a “facility,” you quickly lose touch with the big-picture issues, including:

* That the food safety crisis is of a much different sort than what is addressed by S510. Ben Hewitt, the author of The Town That food Saved, and of an upcoming new book on food safety, articulates the real challenges very clearly in a recent blog posting.

* That the Tester-Hagan amendment provisions are their own can of worms in terms of enforcement. Food rights advocate Doreen Hannes imagines one scenario where farmers at farmers markets will need to ask for customer identification to determine if they live within 250 miles of the market.

Finally, we’re hearing that if the Congress doesn’t pass S510 now, the opportunity for food safety controls will vanish “for a generation.” That’s just another form of fear-mongering. Unfortunately, the government-takeover artists have gone too far to turn back. They couldn’t get the National Animal Identification System (NAIS), so they moved to “food safety.” Believe me, if S510 doesn’t make it through Congress this time, they’ll soon be back with another scheme, and it will have just as little to do with food safety. I’ll bet the farm on that one.

onawah

14th December 2010, 22:05

Please take action NOW!
To get the action link, you will have to go here:

http://www.anh-usa.org/last-minute-washington-back-room-dealing-on-food-safety/

Last-Minute Washington Back-Room Dealing on Food Safety
December 14, 2010

Big GovernmentWe may have only one more chance to keep the dreadful so-called “food safety” language from becoming law through a legislative subterfuge. We have (quite literally!) up-to-the-minute information for you.

In the wake of the constitutional snafu over the Senate Food Bill, the House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution (CR) that was supposed to fund the government temporarily but which contained a sneak insert of the Senate food safety bill. It now appears that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will bring up the CR on Tuesday or Wednesday, because the CR expires on Friday the 17th.

One of the first amendments to the CR to be considered will be Sen. Dan Inouye’s omnibus spending legislation—and there is a good possibility that this amendment will be substituted in full for the House’s CR language. We originally heard that Sen. Inouye would not include the food safety language in the omnibus bill, but this is not the case. We have just learned that the food safety language is now included in the amendment.

An earlier version of this article noted that things can change very quickly on Capitol Hill, and that is doubly the case today! Sen. Inouye has earmarks in his amendment that he wants to protect, and we know that he was being pressured very strongly to add food safety to his omnibus bill, so some kind of deal has been struck to include “food safety” in a bill that is supposed to be about temporary government funding.

Unfortunately, this means that the Senate will now either consider the CR, which contains the food safety language, or will accept the substitution of the omnibus bill, which also contains the food safety language. This is one more example of the corrupt way Congress works. Legislation that could ruin small food producers—organic farms, small farms, mom-and-pop roadside stands, etc.— is just tacked onto a bill that must pass in order to keep the government running.

So we need to redouble our efforts and let senators know how this corrupt back-room dealing looks to average Americans. Please phone your senators TODAY, write them (or write them again!) with your concerns, and do everything you can to keep this “food safety” language from becoming law. It will completely transform the food and farming industries for the worse.

Our Action Alert—and especially the letter on that page, which we hope you’ll send to your senators—has all the technical bits spelled out in what we hope is a clear and concise manner. Please keep up the pressure in these last extraordinarily important moments! Please take action now!

onawah

15th December 2010, 19:14

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/750/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5367

Shell Game Continues - S. 510 Hidden in Inouye Amendment

December 15, 2010

By now you know that the House lame-duck leadership amended the “Continuing Resolution” Funding Bill - intended to keep the federal government running for another year - to include the language from S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. Unfortunately the House rushed to action last Wednesday and passed it, sending it along to the Senate. On Monday we told you that further action could happen anytime - that time has come.

Once the Senate has finished consideration of the Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2010, they intend to take up the Continuing Resolution, now referred to as the Omnibus Bill. Only now, Senator Daniel Inouye [D-HI] has attached an amendment containing - you guessed it - the dangerous language from S. 510.

The backroom dealing continues. The Senate must act quickly, since the chance to pass the Omnibus Bill expires Friday, December 17th. Make no mistake - your efforts are having an impact, and now we're in the home stretch with an 11th-hour victory in sight!

We have to keep holding lawmakers' feet to the fire and stop this dangerous policy from becoming law. The Senate can still strip S. 510 from the Continuing Resolution before passing it. Congress needs to recognize that:

--Combining a controversial regulatory bill with the Continuing Resolution to fund government operations is inappropriate at best, and at worst, shameful.

--It is even more disturbing that this has been done in spite of thousands and thousands of voters who have made it clear they believe that the federal government is too big and must stop over-regulating.

--S. 510 must be stripped from the Continuing Resolution so that Congress can decide to continue funding at a certain level without muddying the process with extraneous matters.

--We will be monitoring the Senate and expect them to act from principle and not the language from S. 510.

Please take a moment now and go to the link to help us kill S. 510 once and for all.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/750/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5367

onawah

15th December 2010, 20:55

Senate May Adjourn Friday...
S.510 Still Hidden in the Bills before the Senate!

After the US Senate finishes with the tax-extension bill [WHICH IS BEING VOTED ON -- RIGHT NOW!] it will take up the Continuing Resolution (now being called an "Omnibus Bill") that includes the fake "food safety" (but actually food control) bill. TONITE and TOMORROW are critical to our effort to preserve Health & Food Freedom!

Watch the Senate here: http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN2.aspx

PLEASE CONTINUE TO PUSH BACK NOW!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5303

A CR is supposed to continue the govt's programs temporarily until Congress votes an actual "budget." It is not supposed to include major regulatory initiatives, such as budget-busting spending increases of a trillion dollars... or S.510, the fake "food safety" bill.

PLEASE CONTINUE TO "MESSAGE" YOUR SENATORS, BY PHONE OR EMAIL,
TO OPPOSE ANY C.R. THAT DOES MORE THAN JUST CONTINUE CURRENT PROGRAMS!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5303

Here is what our friends at the Campaign for Liberty have to say about it:

"This week, the Senate will vote on a long-term Continuing Resolution (CR) that leaves spending at 2010 levels, makes over $1 trillion in appropriations for Big Government projects, and contains S. 510, the FDA's War on Food, as an attachment. Contact your senators and urge them to vote against the long-term CR on every vote - including cloture - and to support a short-term version that will fund the government only until the new Congress convenes and removes the S. 510 language."

The Continuing Resolution can only pass over the minority's objection if the majority forces the issue through cloture (limiting debate). Since the majority party lost its 60 vote majority, needed to invoke cloture, the only way this bill will pass is if certain faint-of-heart members of the minority party support it! It took several New England GOP Senators -- including Massachusetts' new Sen. Scott Brown who was elected with Tea Party support -- to pass S.510 the first time in the Senate. If these Senators hold firm, this will not happen again! If they side with the food fascists, we expect the voters will remember. And even six years from now Sen. Brown will be held to the promises he ignored!

Continue to tell your Senators that you STRONGELY OPPOSE the use of the Continuing Resolution (HR.3082, needed to keep Federal program operating through the Holidays) to force S.510 through the lame-duck Congress!

We urge support for a simple, short-term C.R. without new spending or programs!

Action Item here:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5303

This just in from our friends at Citizens for Health: "Once the Senate has finished consideration of the Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2010, they intend to take up the Continuing Resolution, now referred to as the Omnibus Bill. Only now, Senator Daniel Inouye [D-HI] has attached an amendment containing - you guessed it - the dangerous language from S. 510. The vote could happen this afternoon, so there's no time to waste!"

Time is short.
The consequenses of inaction are long, very, very long...
PLEASE USE THE ACTION ITEM EVERY DAY... OFTEN!

onawah

17th December 2010, 19:14

S. 510 On Life-Support - Let's Pull The Plug!
Take action at:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/750/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5396

December 17, 2010

Dear Citizen for Health,

By now you know that the House lame-duck leadership amended the “Continuing Resolution” Funding Bill - intended to keep the federal government running for another year - to include the language from S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. More than a week ago the House rushed to action and passed it, sending it along to the Senate. On Monday we told you that further action could happen anytime - that time has come.

Thanks to the unrelenting pressure brought to bear on lawmakers by the hundreds of thousands of Citizens for Health and their health freedom compatriots, Senator Harry Reid [D-NV] has pulled the Continuing Resolution/Omnibus Bill from consideration entirely, and Sen. Mitch McConnell [R-KY] has offered a simple one-page Continuing Resolution that only continues government spending as is, without new programs like S.510. This is a tremendous grassroots victory over big Agribusiness and the well-heeled interests that tried every trick in the book to pass S. 510.

Send a message now urging your Senators to stand firm against any efforts to resurrect S. 510!

However, there may be a trick or two left up their sleeves...

Proponents of S. 510 may still try to attach the bill's language to Sen. McConnell's Continuing Resolution, although the Senator would almost certainly block such an effort. Or, as our information suggests, Senator Reid may try to attach S. 510 language to another "must-pass" bill, hoping to force his colleagues to "hold their noses" and pass S. 510 along with it.

We have to keep holding lawmakers' feet to the fire! We need everyone, regardless of whether or not you've already sent a message to your Senators, to send one now urging them to:

--Support Sen. McConnell in resisting any effort to attach S. 510 language to his Continuing Resolution

--Further acknowledge the groundswell of opposition to S. 510 by resisting any effort to attach S. 510 to any bill or resolution

Health freedom advocates across the country have made their voices heard loud and clear and placed S. 510 on life-support - tell your Senators it's time to "pull the plug"!

Victory is imminent, and it would not have been possible without all of you who have been participating and helping to hold Congress accountable!

Take action at:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/750/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5396

The Citizens for Health Team

onawah

20th December 2010, 15:56

SENATE ADOPTS S.510 AGAIN!
BETRAYED BY THE GOP -

SENDS IT BACK TO HOUSE TUESDAY!
Action eAlert Permalinks: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/blastContent.jsp

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty..."
"No one's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Index: Gen. Bert: Sunday Night Update on S.510 - Coffee
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BETRAYED BY THE GOP -
SENATE ADOPTS S.510 AGAIN
SENDS IT BACK TO HOUSE TUESDAY!
FOOD FREEDOM NOT SAFE
WHILE CONGRESS IS IN SESSION!
Revised Action Here NOW!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5395

URGENT! PLEASE CALL YOUR CONGRESSPERSON MONDAY MORNING!
http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/mcapdir.html

onawah

20th December 2010, 21:10

S 510-- Betrayed By Senate Allies - Strike Back!

Take action here:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/750/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5407

Dear Citizen for Health,

Last last night, while pretending to debate the START treaty, our allies in the U.S. Senate betrayed their strongest supporters and, after promising us never to do so, gave unanimous consent to move S. 510, the dangerous FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, to the House for lame-duck passage.

According to The Hill:

“The Senate unexpectedly approved food safety legislation by unanimous consent Sunday evening, rescuing a bill that floated in limbo for weeks because of a clerical error.” (Read the whole article here).

Urge your Representative NOW to oppose H.R. 2571/S. 510!

Now Senator Tom Coburn [R-OK] has betrayed his promise to stand firm in the way of passing the bill by unanimous consent, and allowed the 11th-hour machinations that resulted in passage of S. 510 late Sunday night - with an unrecorded vote!

Next S. 510 heads to the House as part of H.R. 2751, with the unconstitutional revenue-raising clause removed. This means we have one last chance to stop efforts by big Agribusiness to control our food. The House meets Tuesday, 12/21/10, to consider passage of H.R. 2571/S. 510. That leaves less than 48 hours to save food freedom!

The critical moment is now, during the last couple days before the Holiday recess. At this point both sides of the debate are certainly feeling the fatigue of the ongoing struggle, which is why it is more important than ever to stand strong. This is not a time to give up, but precisely the time where your efforts are most critical. This may be no dance contest, but the last one standing will win!

We must keep on pushing back! Please use the updated action item every day, and forward it to anyone you know who wants to keep the freedom to choose what they put into their bodies!

Send your message NOW - tell your Representative to vote "NO"!

Health freedom advocates across the country have made their voices heard loud and clear and stopped S. 510 at every turn - we must do so one last time, and ensure those who betrayed us know we will not forget when it comes time to vote.

Thank you for your perseverance,

The Citizens for Health Team

onawah

20th December 2010, 22:46

Please forward this message to everyone you know who cares about the Food Safety issue, and ask them to take action TODAY, since the bill will almost certainly be voted upon tomorrow, Tuesday 12/21.

Sunday night, in one of the most underhanded and outrageous legislative maneuvers we’ve seen, the Senate passed the language of S. 510, the Food Safety bill, by a unanimous consent agreement. It now goes to the House of Representatives. We have one last chance to stop it!
Take action here:
https://secure3.convio.net/aahf/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=643&JServSessionIdr004=m6piang542.app305b

As we told you last week, Democrats first attempted to attach the food safety bill to the short-term spending measure to keep the government running, but Republicans balked because they wanted to keep that measure clean. So last night, the Senate raised it as an amendment to a completely unrelated bill from the House of Representatives—H.R. 2751, the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act! Quite a number of reports, including some from other health organizations, have gotten many of these details wrong. The swift approval by unanimous consent caught some aides and lobbyists working on it by surprise. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) had promised to block the legislation, but lifted his objection at the final moment.

Reid announced he would send the legislation—this time attached to a House-originated measure—back to the lower chamber for final approval. Please contact Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and your own Congressional representative immediately and urge that the Food Safety language be completely stripped from H.R. 2751 the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act!

We believe Pelosi would prefer to bring up Food Safety “under suspension,” which is an expedited House procedure that requires a two-thirds vote to pass. We need you to urge her in the strongest possible terms to bring it up under regular order—no more expedited deals, no more underhanded maneuvers!
Tell her that the Senate’s passage of this bill at 10 p.m. on a Sunday night doesn't give the public an opportunity to weigh in—and you don’t want the same thing to happen in the House! Tell her this issue is too vital for you and your family’s health to allow it to be considered outside of regular protocols!

Please send a message to Ms. Pelosi and your representative TODAY!
https://secure3.convio.net/aahf/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=643&JServSessionIdr004=m6piang542.app305b

observer

21st December 2010, 00:27

The Senate sent S.510 back to the House with an unrecorded Unanimous Consent vote on Sunday Night. The House will vote on HR.2751 tomorrow (Tuesday). An already prepared letter to you Congressman can be found here:

http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/7025/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5020

If you are unfamiliar with this issue, here's a video that explains what's going-on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHUeyD_KCrI

To anyone concerned, your immediate response is required.....

onawah

21st December 2010, 01:19

There is an ongoing sticky thread on this subject on the News and Updates forum. I've been posting updates and action links there for some weeks now. Thanks for paying attention to this issue, though! I think it's really important.

observer

21st December 2010, 01:30

While Americans slip deeper, and deeper into an hypnotic state - under the magic spell of Christmas - the global elite are attempting another coup against the Mass of Humanity with this latest last minute attack to push this atrocious legislation through the lame duck session of Congress.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDskHi50gZM&feature=fvw

onawah

21st December 2010, 01:40

This one article with several links makes it easier to take action. The more emails and calls the House gets, the less chance this will pass this terrible piece of legislation.

Dear NaturalNews readers,

In the dark of night, the US Senate passed S.510 last night with a unanimous consent voice vote (not a single US Senator opposed it).

It's now headed back to the House for a possible vote on Tuesday.

We need your help to oppose this dangerous bill that could destroy small, local organic farmers and reduce the availability of local fresh produce.

If you enjoy farmers' markets or buy food from a CSA, your food supply is now in danger due to HR 2751 in the House of Representatives! (See more talking points below...)

Take Action Now to Protect Small Local Farms

Action item #1) Sign our petition at:
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/7025/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5020

(This will automatically email your appropriate representatives in Washington.)

Action item #2) Read our article (and forward it to others) at:
http://www.naturalnews.com/030789_Food_Safety_small_farmers.html

Action item #3) Read the Natural Solutions Foundation article and petition at:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7824eri

Action item #4) Read the urgent action alert from the Farm-To-Consumer Legal Defense Fund at:
http://www.farmtoconsumer.org/aa/aa-20dec2010-s510-in-hr2751-house.htm

Here are the talking points from FTCLDF on why this fake food safety bill is so dangerous to our future:

The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act is fundamentally flawed and is not in the best interest of small farmers, especially those who produce raw milk. The Act is a major threat to the local food movement.

1. FDA does not respect individuals' rights to obtain healthy, quality foods of their choice. The agency has stated, as a matter of public record that:

"There is no absolute right to consume or feed children any particular food."

"Plaintiffs' assertion of a 'fundamental right to their own bodily and physical health, which includes what foods they do and do not choose to consume for themselves and their families' is similarly unavailing because plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to obtain any food they wish."

FDA has even participated in armed raids on small-scale co-ops and membership organizations. This agency should not be given any additional power.

2. FDA has adequate powers under existing law to ensure food safety and effectively deal with foodborne illness outbreaks. FDA has power to inspect, power to detain product and can readily obtain court orders to seize adulterated or misbranded food products or enjoin them from being sold. The problem isn't that FDA needs more power; it's that FDA does not effectively use the power it currently has. The agency has power to inspect imported food yet inspects only 1% of food coming into this country from outside our borders.

3. S.510 does nothing to address many significant food safety problems in this country, such as those resulting from confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs), genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and various contaminants (e.g., BPA, pesticides, herbicides, etc.).

4. FDA has used its existing power to benefit the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries at the expense of public health (e.g., allowing the overuse of antibiotics in confined animal feeding operations and refusing to require labeling for genetically-modified foods). This bill does not address the fundamental problems at this agency in order to truly protect public health.

5. S.510 will expand FDA's involvement in regulating food in intra-state commerce, further interfering with local communities. State and local governments are more than capable of handling any problems related to food in intrastate commerce. All the major outbreaks of foodborne illness involve either imported food or food in inter-state commerce.

6. S.510 will hurt our ability as a nation to be self-sufficient in food production because it has more lenient inspection requirements for foreign than domestic producers creating an unfair advantage for food imports. Giving an advantage to foreign producers will only increase the amount of food imported into this country that does not meet our domestic standards. S.510 does not address food security -- the ability of a country to produce enough food to meet its own needs.

Thank you for your action in this urgent item. We will keep you posted on this news at www.NaturalNews.com

observer

21st December 2010, 10:23

Only hours left before the global elite take away your LAST freedom, folks.

Click the link.... Send the letter to your Congressman.... Do your part....

http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/7025/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5020

observer

21st December 2010, 23:06

Today will go down in history as a dark day for the Mass of Humanity.

The 'Food Safety Modernization Act' which passed Congress today at 4:50 pm with a 216 to 144 majority will 'harmonize' all food standards with Codex Alimentarius. What? You've never heard of that? Well, I think it's about time you go look it up, if you don't know what that is.

What does Codex do? Well, Codex wants to make all vitamin and mineral supplements "drugs."

Like to take high doses of vitamin C when you're not feeling well? Forget it.... After this bill becomes law, vitamin manufacturers will only be able to sell you 15mg doses.

You want your food labeled if it's genetically modified? No worries, because everything will be required to be genetically modified. Isn't that GREAT?

Like to buy 'organic'? You won't be able to. All food from now on must contain just the right amount of pesticides and chemicals.

So.... Where were you when the call was going-out to put a stop to this attack on our last freedom - our food? What will you tell your children when they ask?

Those reptiles are very clever at what they do....

onawah

22nd December 2010, 08:40

Both House and Senate Vote YES on Food Safety Bil
http://www.anh-usa.org/both-house-and-senate-vote-yes-on-food-safety-bill/

Moments ago, the House of Representatives passed the Food Safety bill—which the Senate, in one of the most underhanded legislative maneuvers we’ve ever seen, approved late Sunday night. It now goes to the president to be signed into law.

As we told you last week, Democrats first attempted to attach the food safety bill to the short-term spending measure to keep the government running, but Republicans balked because they wanted to keep that measure clean. So Sunday night, the Senate raised it as an amendment to a completely unrelated bill from the House of Representatives—H.R. 2751, the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act!

Incidentally, quite a number of reports have gotten many of these details wrong.

The House bill, which began life as the “Cash for Clunkers Temporary Vehicle Trade-in Program” (very fitting given this basket case of a “food safety” bill), had been on the Senate’s legislative calendar since June of 2009. Suddenly, in a flurry of activity, the text of the old S. 510 was repackaged as Senate Amendment 4830. This was then proposed “in the nature of a substitute” for the House bill, which means the text of the Senate amendment was completely substituted for the original text of the House bill. This was agreed to in the Senate by unanimous consent. The title of the bill was then amended, renaming it—you guessed it—the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act!

By the way, there were several different “Cash for Clunkers” bills that were sent back and forth between the Senate and the House, and one of those was passed into law. This one simply languished on the legislative junk pile until it could be resurrected—that is, until its shell could prove itself useful in a profoundly devious maneuver.

The reason the Senate took a bill already passed by the House and completely replaced its language with the food safety bill language was to get around the constitutionality issue that had been the bill’s downfall a few weeks ago. So now, technically, the Senate’s bill, with its tax provision, actually did originate in the House, even though it actually was drafted by and inserted by the Senate. An absolute end-run around the rules.

All at 10 p.m. on a Sunday night, when they thought no one would be watching. Our senators should be ashamed of themselves for acting so dishonorably.

The swift approval by unanimous consent caught some aides and lobbyists working on it by surprise. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) had promised to block the legislation, but he inexplicably lifted his objection at the final moment. Reid announced he would send the legislation—this time properly attached to a House-originated measure—back to the lower chamber for final approval.

Tuesday morning, the House voted on the Rules Committee’s “closed rule,” meaning that no amendments are allowed. It then went to the House floor, and after less than an hour of debate, the bill passed, 215 to 144.

After the holidays, we will publish a wrap-up of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, unraveling the timeline, outlining some of the important concessions ANH-USA won during the process, and discussing where we go from here.

onawah

22nd December 2010, 16:49

Congress sticks it to U.S. farmers with passage of food safety bill that will actually cause fresh produce to be more dangerous

http://www.naturalnews.com/030808_food_safety_bill_American_farmers.html

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030808_food_safety_bill_American_farmers.html#ixzz18rNfsxVZ
NaturalNews) The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2751 yesterday with a 216 to 144 vote (yes, many members of the House did not even vote). The so-called Food Safety Modernization Act now heads to the President to be signed into law.

When witnessing such a moment in history when the federal government greatly expands its power over an entire industry, it's important to understand the Law of Unintended Consequences. Virtually everything bad that happens after a bill gets passed is due to this Law of Unintended Consequences.

On the surface, the intention behind the food safety bill seems innocent enough: Let's all protect the food supply and prevent people from getting sick due to e.coli and salmonella exposure. But the reality of the result that emerges from the law is quite different.

Get ready for more dangerous, pesticide-ridden food from south of the border
Because the S.510 / HR 2751 food safety bill places an enormous new burden on U.S. farmers -- yes, even small farms that are supposedly "exempt" -- it's going to drive many farmers out of business.

It will also erect new barriers to farmers entering the food production business, and this is especially true for the small local farmers who grow food for local co-ops, farmers' markets and CSA organizations (Community Supported Agriculture). What we're going to see from all this, then, is the following:

• A reduction in the available SUPPLY of fresh local produce.
• A loss of local farming know-how and food sustainability.
• The financial failure of CSAs, food co-ops and small local markets.
• The loss of countless jobs that were related to local food production.
• An INCREASE in the price of local food, especially organic food.

Food safety bill does nothing to address food imports
At the same time these huge regulatory burdens are thrust upon U.S. farmers, there are no new regulations required for food grown outside the United States.

This means that food coming into the USA from Mexico, Chile, Peru or anywhere else does not have to meet S.510 food safety regulations at all. The FDA, after all, doesn't inspect greenhouses in Mexico or grape farms in Chile which export their products to the United States.

Furthermore, many dangerous chemical pesticides that have been banned in the USA are legal to use elsewhere, and foods treated with those pesticides are perfectly legal to import into the United States. So instead of buying food grown in the United States on small, organic farms, more U.S. consumers are going to be buying food grown elsewhere that's treated with extremely toxic pesticides.

Here are some of the unintended consequences of all this:

• An INCREASE in the importation of fresh produce from other countries.

• A worsening of the agricultural trade imbalance between the U.S. and other nations.

• An INCREASE in the pesticide contamination of fresh produce sold at U.S. grocery stores.

• An INCREASE in agriculture jobs in Mexico, Chile, Peru and elsewhere, even while agriculture jobs are lost in the USA.

• A DECREASE in the overall safety of the food supply because now the proportion of foods imported from foreign countries with little or no regulatory oversight will greatly expand compared to U.S. grown foods.

In effect, then, what Congress has done is impaired the competitiveness of U.S. farms, shifted farming jobs out of the country, increased the pesticide residues in fresh produce sold in U.S. grocery stores and harmed local food security and sustainability by driving small, local farmers out of business.

Such is the nature of the Law of Unintended Consequences. And such is the nature of just about everything that Big Government tries to do when it threatens to "solve problems" by expanding its regulatory control over almost any industry.

We need food security in America
What Congress fails to understand is that we need food security far more than we need more FDA regulations. The knowledge base of local farmers who know how to grow, harvest and distribute food is far more valuable to the security of our nation than preventing a relatively small number of people from getting sick from e.coli each year (even if such a trade-off were a simplistic equation, which it isn't). Because if we lose food security, then we become slaves to the big corporate food producers who are attempting to centralize food production and place food, seeds and crops under their absolute control.

A cynic might even suggest that was the whole purpose of the food safety bill in the first place: To destroy small farmers and centralize food production power in the hands of a few wealthy corporations. Whether that was the intent or not, it is certainly going to be the effect.

What Congress has done with this food safety bill, in effect, is to cripple America's food production know-how and poison the population with far more dangerous pesticide-ridden produce that will now be imported from other countries instead. This bill should have been called the "Mexico Farming Jobs Act" because it's going to shift countless jobs south of the border as farms in the USA realize they simply can't operate under the immense burden of FDA regulatory tyranny.

What's the definition of insanity?
It all makes you wonder what the members of Congress are really thinking. Don't they ever step back and attempt to consider the real-world ramifications of their actions?

Time and time again, the U.S. government seems to do the opposite of what would reasonably be required to solve problems. Think about it: When the U.S. government wanted to stop Wall Street bankers and investment firms from wasting money, it simply handed them a few trillion dollars in new money so they could waste more.

When the government wanted to end debt spending, it spent more debt money out of the foolish belief that you can somehow end your debt by going deeper into it.

When the government claimed it would reduce your health care costs and cover everyone with health insurance, it passed a sick-care law that has only seen health care costs spiraling out of control while insurers cancel policies and end coverage for many children.

And now, the government claims to be making your food safer even though the real impact of the new law will be to make your food far more dangerous while destroying U.S. farming jobs.

This is why those who really know government also know that they who govern best govern the least. Instead of trying to "fix" all the nation's problems by meddling with the actions of hard-working people trying to make a living (such as organic farmers), the government needs to simply get out of the way and let farmers produce their food without the heavy regulatory burden of the FDA -- an agency that we know is frequently engaged in actions that can only be called criminal in nature (http://www.naturalnews.com/030461_S...).

Get ready for skyrocketing food prices in 2011 - 2013
With the passage of this food safety bill, I am now publicly predicting skyrocketing food prices over the next two years. We will see fresh, local produce become increasingly more expensive and more difficult to acquire. Many local farmers will shutter their businesses, and farming know-how will be lost for perhaps a generation. The damage that will be done to America's food security and agricultural base is incalculable.

Such is the price we shall all pay for allowing our representatives in Washington to once again violate our Natural Right to grow food and exchange it for goods or cash with our neighbors. The reason this Natural Right was never even mentioned in the US Constitution, by the way, is because the right to grow your own food without government interference is such an obvious "Natural Right" (a God-given right, or a right that is self-evident) that our forefathers never imagined such a right would be infringed by the federal government.

Or if a right were ever infringed by the federal government, our forefathers were certain that the citizens of the United States of America would exercise their other Constitutional rights to nullify the attempted overreaching authority of the federal government and thereby restore their freedoms. Sadly, such a solution does not work when the majority of the population is lulled into a false sense of freedom by a government that deliberately lies to them on a daily basis. Freedom does not exist with the vast majority of the population has no interest in defending it.

Vegetable gardeners can learn something from marijuana growers
Better buy yourself some heirloom seeds while you have the chance. Plant your stealth garden and cover it with camouflage so the government can't see it and order you to destroy it. Soon, backyard vegetable gardeners will need to operate like marijuana growers and start hiding their food from government's prying eyes.

No doubt the U.S. federal government will start using spy satellites to identify "unregistered gardens" that will be targeted for termination. Soon, small farmers may even be raided by armed FDA agents who terrorize their operations and seize cabbages. Seriously.

It sounds crazy today, I know. But a decade ago, no one thought the government would ever outlaw raw cow's milk and arrest ranchers for selling milk to their neighbors, and that's now happening on a regular basis.

In five years, FDA farm raids may be routine. That is, if there's anything left of the federal government (as we know it) in five years. I'm not sure how long they can keep up the financial house of cards, frankly. Always remember this enlightening fact: The entire federal government is just one paycheck away from collapse. I wonder how long FDA inspectors will keep harassing farmers if their paychecks stop? Remember, FDA employees have no loyalty to anything other than their paychecks. Once the money from Washington stops, the army of FDA mercenaries collapses virtually overnight.

And the resilient farmers of America will win in the end, I have no doubt. If I had to choose to live on a deserted island with either ten North Carolina farmers or ten FDA bureaucrats, the choice would be a no-brainer. Farmers can keep you alive. FDA bureaucrats will only stab you in the back, steal your coconuts, and refuse to do any actual work on their own.

They are, after all, parasites who feed on taxpayer dollars and lend nothing of value to society. If the FDA actually did anything useful at all, it would have banned mercury fillings to protect the public from mercury toxicity (http://www.naturalnews.com/030741_m...).

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030808_food_safety_bill_American_farmers.html#ixzz18rJermHo

onawah

23rd December 2010, 05:18

Yesterday, the House Voted to Join the Senate in Giving Big AgBiz a Holiday Present... US, the US, Our Freedom, Our Bodies and Our Food! Thanks, Guys and Gals, for Globalizing the US Faster and Further

You think you have won, don't you? Well, You Haven't. Your betrayal of your trust just means we fight harder.
Starting with an email to Michelle Obama, The First Lady, a Mother, a Wife and the Champion of Eliminating Childhood Obesity, a Condition Caused by Toxic and Contaminated, Industrialized Food!

Take Action NOW and Help Mobilize EVERY Mother, Wife, Activist, EATER, Parent, Grandparent and HealthCare Professional in the US To Do the Same!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5421
See the New Action Plan Here.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5421

And join us for the discussion on the Dr. Rima Reports
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Dr. Rima's Open Letter to Michelle Obama
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7879
HR.2751 [S.510] Food Control Bill Reguations

"Dear Michelle, please intervene..."

Natural Solutions Foundation is an international NGO (nongovernmental organization) that seeks to educate decision makers about the benefits of natural solutions to many societal issues. Wtih the help of YOU, our "Mouse Warriors" we express our views to those decision makers. Together, we sent over six million emails to them regarding the fake "food safety" (really "food control") bill S.510/HR.2751 which just passed the Lame Duck Congress on December 21, 2010.

While we ultimately may not have stopped this new law in the Congress, the law that was adopted is a different creature than we would have faced had we not opposed it every step of the way. Recall, the first version of the bill that passed the House in July ‘09 had severe penalties and no significant exemption for local production and distribution. The version that passed the Senate at the end of November 2010 not only had no such severe penalties, but did have a rather weak exemption for some local production and distribution.

It also did not have, as it might have, without our Push Back, two draconian bills that had been introduced in the Senate to prepare the way to add their terms to the final “food safety” bill; these were Sen. McCain’s discredited S.3002 which would have brought Dietary Supplements under even greater Federal control and the “criminalization of speech about food claims” bill, S.3767, introduced by the majority party “leadership” late in the session. The criminal penalty bill, while remaining a future risk, went nowhere, after over a hundred thousand messages of opposition. Opposition to McCain’s attempt to legislate Codex compliance was so great that he withdrew his own support from his own bill a month and a day after introducing it in February 2010. And the final "FDA Food Safety Modernization Act" as adopted has a somewhat stronger local food exemption, with a limited inflation escalation clause, so the exemption may become somewhat meaningful, depending on how the final regulations are written.

The Action Item to the White House, below, is the first step in educating decision makers regarding those regulations.

1. We are starting a campaign asking Michelle Obama, as an organic gardener, to support the vetoing of the bill -- and for the White House to intervene in the FDA regulation-making process to make sure that certain concerns get addressed:

a. Implementing the exemption for local production and distribution in the least burdensome way.

b. Assuring that Section 104’s “in the interest of national security” clause is not used to create secret regulations favoring Big AgBiz and,

c. No “back-door” HARMonization of our food freedoms with international Codex Alimentarius restrictions.

2. We will seek to prevent any funding for this increase in Federal power in the new Congress.

There is much to be concerned about in the bill as adopted by the Congress, including the potential for secret regulations in violation of due process that section 104 seems to allow, the convoluted procedure for local food production exemptions, and the "road map" the new law provides for rapid "HARMonization" of our food freedoms with international Codex restrictions...

onawah

23rd December 2010, 05:21

December 22, 2010

Dear Citizen for Health,

By now you've probably heard that yesterday the House of Representatives passed the S. 510, The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. It now goes to the president to be signed into law.

This is a serious blow for all of us that toiled relentlessly to stop this dangerous legislation, and you may be tempted to just pack it in. We can't give in - that's just what they want!

Send a message to the President NOW and urge him to veto H.R. 2751!
Take action at:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/750/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5420

The swift passage of the bill, given the machinations the bill's supporters engaged in throughout the process, really doesn't come as much of a surprise. What is surprising is that it was passed despite the objections voiced by millions of Americans that responded to alerts from Citizens for Health and its allies in the health freedom movement. Also surprising is that even though Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) promised to block the legislation, he suddenly lifted his objection in time to allow passage of the bill.

Tuesday morning the House voted to allow no amendments, after which the bill went to the House floor and was passed after less than an hour of debate.

The legislation that includes S. 510 will be touted as a bi-partisan victory for the White House, and, most likely, signed by the President. However, we cannot sit idly by and fail to let the President know that he is flouting the will of millions of Americans if he signs it.

Let the President know he is ignoring millions of Americans if he signs H.R. 2751!

Finally, this is not the end of our opposition to this power-grab by big Agribusiness. The Citizens for Health team is conferring on next steps as you read this. Possible options under consideration are efforts to repeal the bill or to draft our own bill that would strip the objectionable S. 510 language from the bill passed by the House.

Stay tuned after the holiday for further updates from Citizens for Health, and further opportunities to make your voice heard in this fight - it isn't over until we say it is!

Thank you for your perseverance,

The Citizens for Health Team

Rocky_Shorz

26th December 2010, 23:26

Food Safety Act: 18 Changes To Food Safety The New Law Will Bring (PHOTOS)

The Food Safety Modernization Act, passed by the U.S. Senate December 22 and headed for President Obama's signature, aims to enhance the safety of food produced in America and imported from overseas, and to prevent food-borne illness.

The $1.4 billion bill mainly expands the reach and regulatory powers of the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA oversees production of all food products with the exception of meat, poultry and dairy, which fall under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Here are 18 key changes the Food Safety Modernization Act will bring to food production and consumption in America:...

Once enacted, the law gives The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the power to directly issue a food recall. Previously, the agency had to arrange a voluntary recall with the company in question. This new provision is designed to expedite negotiations between the FDA and the food company, and in some cases circumvent the process all together...

Companies that require re-inspection or recall may be subject to a fee designated by the FDA...

Every two years at minimum, the FDA will be required to identify the most significant food threats -- food-borne contaminants, disease -- and disperse new science-based outlines and regulations for food production companies...

Under the new law, the FDA must establish offices in at least five foreign countries that export food to the United States in an effort to improve food oversight...

Upon request, the FDA will gain expanded access to food production facility records. The agency may obtain records for tracking purposes or if there is reason to suspect a potential public health risk...

The law gives the FDA power to suspend a food production facility if a possible health risk is suspected. A new registration process will take place twice a year and companies must meet updated requirements or risk suspension...

Food production facilities must alert the FDA, through writing, of all identified hazardous practices currently in place and their plans to implement preventive measures going forward...

The new law will give the FDA the power to set nationwide standards for producing and harvesting fresh produce. Additionally, the FDA will publish updated safety guidelines for specific fruits, vegetables and designated high-risk produce which they define as raw agricultural commodities. The bill also includes exemptions for small food companies and local farms that may be unable to reach standards designed for larger companies...

The FDA, along with the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Agriculture, will issue regulations that prevent food companies from knowingly including illegal additives, chemicals or other substances in their food products...

Health and Human Services, along with the Department of Education, will develop food allergy management guidelines. Schools and early childhood programs may then voluntarily implement them. Programs deemed successful by the Secretary of Health And Human Services will be eligible for federal grants...

Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Department of Homeland Security, will have to prepare a specific response and recovery outline in case of a food-borne illness outbreak. Grocery stores will now be responsible for actively alerting customers of latest product recalls...

Under the new law, the FDA must increase the frequency of its inspections. High-risk food production facilities will be inspected every three years while low-risk facilities will be visited within seven years of the law's passing. Each year the FDA must report to Congress the frequency and cost of inspections...

The FDA, in coordination with the produce industry, will create a new method of effectively tracking and tracing fruits and vegetables, to ensure any contaminated produce is located and recalled in a safe and timely manner...

The FDA may require certification or other forms of assurance for high-risk food imports. Consequently, the FDA may refuse to import food products that are lacking required certification...

The FDA will have the authority to review the current food safety practices of countries importing products into America. The Secretary of Health and Human Services will work with foreign governments to streamline the inspection of foreign food facilities...

The FDA will be given additional funding to incrementally increase the size of its field staff in order to manage the agency's expanded responsibilities.

Huffington link with Pics (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/23/food-safety-bill_n_800236.html#s213438)

irishspirit

28th December 2010, 12:43

Vermont drafts food sovereignty resolution to protect health, food freedom

(NaturalNews) In response to the recent passage of "food safety" bills S. 510 and corresponding H.R. 2751, the Vermont Coalition for Food Sovereignty has drafted its own resolution called "The Vermont Resolution for Food Sovereignty." Crafted to declare and protect the food and health freedom rights of all Vermont citizens, the resolution is essentially a warning to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it does not have jurisdiction over the food choices of the People of Vermont.

The resolution declares that food freedom is a "fundamental prerequisite to life," and that individuals have every right to save seeds, grow what they wish, and buy and sell the fruits of their labor without interference from an over-zealous, tyrannical government. And if any federal official tries to infringe on these rights, the People "shall resist any and all" of them.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030827_food_sovereignty_Vermont.html#ixzz19PTFsorn

observer

28th December 2010, 22:42

Huffington link with Pics (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/23/food-safety-bill_n_800236.html#s213438)

Rocky_Shorz,

I'm not clear on the point of your comment #94, apparently you haven't read any of the data already posted in this thread - all from very credible web sources.

After reading over the quote you have included in your comment, and going to the Huffington link you provided I find it very confusing regarding the legislation it is reporting on. After perusing the link, I couldn't even find your quote. I have to conclude the entire report is an 'apologist' summery of a very dangerous piece of legislation.

Are you suggesting this Food Safety Moderization Act is a good thing? If this is the case, I must assume you are in here as a debunker.

When this legislation becomes law the citizens of the US will be loosing a very fundimental freedon....

Rocky_Shorz

28th December 2010, 22:55

observer I know you aren't new to forums or the web, if you go to the link I provided it shows pictures and below each picture is the quotes I posted showing what the media says this bill is about...

I'm in California and we really don't care what the Feds think anyways, we re-write anything they mess up and go by the laws of our state, not the feds...

being 25% of the national economy has its advantages.

observer

28th December 2010, 23:34

observer I know you aren't new to forums or the web, if you go to the link I provided it shows pictures and below each picture is the quotes I posted showing what the media says this bill is about...

So then Rocky_Shorz,

I take it you are supporting what the media is saying ?

Here's just a tidbit to show you how the media is misrepresenting this legislation....

From the text of the legislation, Under TITLE IV--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS:

SEC. 404. COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS.

"Nothing in this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) shall be construed in a manner inconsistent with the agreement establishing the World Trade Organization or any other treaty or international agreement to which the United States is a party."

In layman's terms this paragraph is giving the FDA authority to comply with the United Nations treaty that includes Codex Alimentarius - a World Trade Organization treaty. Codex limits the potency of all vitamins and dietary supplements.

The citizens of the U.S. have just given-up their rights to choose what they consume....

Where does you Huffington article discuss this ???

Go to this link and inform yourself:

http://www.natural-health-information-centre.com/codex-alimentarius.html

observer

28th December 2010, 23:48

P.S.

When one quotes from a website, it is a matter of courtesy to link the specific page one is quoting from. Entering a link to a page that requires the review of 19 separate pages to find the quote is somewhat confusing.

Rocky_Shorz

29th December 2010, 00:07

well the pictures really had no meaning so I took the time to condense it down to a single quote to save everyone time.

sorry if it was confusing, I'm still digging through info trying to figure out if it really will affect me at all.

I don't buy from farmer's market's and I don't have a garden...

I'm thinking of planting a bunch of Peppermint now that Europe is having their's on the verge of restrictions...

I'll be contacting Guido to get it onto the black market... ;)

seriously though, wouldn't you rather have Afghanistan farmers growing huge fields of peppermint instead of Opium poppies to be made into Heroin?

Let's take a few items that we use in our daily lives like fresh mint for tea and allow 3rd world countries to make it for us...

Think of Saffron, 3 or 4 little twigs of it off each flower, we pay $21/Ounce

http://www.saffron.com/imgs/saf/best_saffron.jpg

The latest figures on world saffron production: Iran 150/170 Mt., Greece 5/7 Mt., Morocco 2/3 Mt., Kashmir 2/3., Spain 1Mt. or less, Italy 100 kilos or less. just imagine how many people have jobs picking this herb just so we have a special spice for meals...

now at 21 it won't replace opium, but take it away from the public by making it illegal and the price would sky rocket...

you'd have the big ol fat and happy French chef down on the corner scoring some fresh herb...

at $250 an ounce...

The more I study the bill the more I think it is about the money it will create for Government...

if you export cheap produce to America, it will affect your future...

bluestflame

29th December 2010, 03:06

herbs are remedial if you know how to pick the right one was watching a vdeo about some substance that's in virtually all plant life and the body also synthesiuses it , can't remember the name of it

dddanieljjjamesss

29th December 2010, 16:29

dimethaltryptaline? DMT

onawah

29th December 2010, 19:35

Action eAlert Permalinks: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/blastContent.jsp

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty..."
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
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Extraordinary Webinars and Seminars
Food Freedom Action Plan
email Michelle Obama
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Join our second annual war council this Sunday; hear from some leading voices advocating for health and food freedom; review the triumphs and tragedies of the past year; consider where we go from here: de-funding the new food control law; petitioning the government to demand redress for the deadly swine flu (and new seasonal flu) vaccine, among other issues. Listen live, and chat, at this special web site: www.HealthFreedomPortal.org -- the meeting will be co-chaired by Maj Gen Bert Stubblebine (US Army ret) the President of Natural Solutions Foundation and Dr. Rima E. Laibow, MD, its Medical Director. Time: Sunday, January 2, 2011 from 9 to noon Central time. Webinar link will be available at the Health Freedom Portal. More info: www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7925.

Everyone who worked so hard to hold off the massive increase in Federal food control represented by the fake “food safety” bill passed by the House [4:50 PM 12.21.10] deserves our sincerest thanks.

Action Item to the White House: “Michelle, Please Intervene…”
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5421

What we gained although we lost…

While we ultimately may not have stopped this in the Congress, the law that was adopted is a different creature than we would have faced had we not opposed it every step of the way. Recall, the first version of the bill that passed the House in July ‘09 had severe penalties and no significant exemption for local production and distribution. The version that passed the Senate at the end of November 2010 not only had no such severe penalties, but did have a rather weak exemption for some local production and distribution.

It also did not have, as it might have, without our Push Back, two draconian bills that had been introduced in the Senate to prepare the way to add their terms to the final “food safety” bill; these were Sen. McCain’s discredited S.3002 which would have brought Dietary Supplements under even greater Federal control and the “criminalization of speech about food claims” bill, S.3767, introduced by the majority party “leadership” late in the session. The criminal penalty bill, while remaining a future risk, went nowhere, after over a hundred thousand messages of opposition. Opposition to McCain’s attempt to legislate Codex compliance was so great that he withdrew his own support from his own bill a month and a day after introducing it in February 2010. And the final bill adopted today has a stronger local food exemption, with an inflation escalation clause, so the exemption may become meaningful, depending on how the final regulations are written.

lamest of Lame-ducks feathering their nests…

This is what happened, after the GOP Senators turned their back on us (see: http://timyurl.com/GOPbetrayal) letting the majority party have its way late Sunday night: the House gave cursory consideration to the matter and our representatives were given a few minutes to cast their votes, today, Tuesday. The vote was 216 to 144 with many Republicans failing to even vote “No!” to show their support for Food Freedom. A few brave Democrats also stood with the voters in voting against 4,000 new FDA inspectors; secret regulations; effective Federal take-over of State food inspection agencies; HARMonization with Codex Alimentarius’ restrictions one step closer…

Of course, we cannot allow this to stand. What are our next steps? What is the Plan?

1. We are starting a campaign asking First Lady, wife of POTUS, mother, organic gardner and childhood obesity activist Michelle Obama, to help veto the bill and for the White House to intervene in the FDA regulation-making process to make sure that our very serious concerns get addressed:

a. Implementing the exemption for local production and distribution in the least burdensome way,
b. Assuring that Section 104’s “in the interest of national security” clause is not used to create secret regulations favoring Big AgBiz &
c. No “back-door” HARMonization of our food freedoms with international Codex Alimentarius restrictions.

2. We will seek to prevent any funding for this increase in Federal power in the new Congress.

3. We continue to urge families to develop their own square foot gardens and become as independent as possible from the attempt to control our food to restrict our freedoms. See: www.FoodFreedomeJournal.org.

We are deeply grateful for the support that the Health and Food Freedom Movement received from so many individuals and organizations across the educational/political/civic spectrum. Groups as diverse as Organic Consumers, Farmers and Gardeners; family ranch, dairy and farm groups; major Tea Party alliances, including Tea Party Patriots; Freedom Advocates (like Campaign for Liberty, Downsize DC) joined with health freedom groups such as Health Freedom USA, Natural News and Citizens for Health followed our lead and fought with vigor and dedication against food fascim in this bill. There are other significant issues about which members of this transpartisan coalition will no doubt work together over the next months and years. This is an inestimable benefit in the long struggle for Liberty…

The struggle for Health and Food Freedom is far from over!
Join us at the 2011 War Council on line, this Sunday:
www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7925

Thank you all,

Maj Gen Bert Stubblebine (US Army ret), President
Rima E. Laibow MD, Medical Director
Ralph Fucetola JD, Counsel
Natural Solutions Foundation Trustees

PS – We discuss and review Health and Food Freedom issues on the Dr. Rima Reports, Sundays 9 to noon, Central time- www.HealthFreedomPortal.org

PS #2 – Continuing the struggle, as we will, requires ever more resources… please help us by donating here:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189

Rocky_Shorz

29th December 2010, 19:39

If you can buy it at a clean, well-lighted store, if it's "all natural," it's not going to do you serious harm, right? That's what many Americans assume about dietary supplements. But while most supplements are probably fairly benign, CONSUMER REPORTS has identified a dozen that according to government warnings, adverse-event reports, and top experts are too dangerous to be on the market. Yet they are. We easily purchased all 12 in Feburary in a few days of shopping online and in retail stores.

These unsafe supplements include Aristolochia, an herb conclusively linked to kidney failure and cancer in China, Europe, Japan, and the U.S.: yohimbe, a sexual stimulant linked to heart and respiratory problems; bitter orange, whose ingredients have effects similar to those of the banned weight-loss stimulant ephedra; and chaparral, comfrey, germander, and kava, all known or likely causes of liver failure. (For a complete list of the "dirty dozen," see the table on page 15.)

U.S. consumers shelled out some $76 million in 2002 for just three of these supplements: androstenedione, kava, and yohimbe, the only ones for which sales figures were available, according to the Nutrition Business Journal, which tracks the supplement industry.

The potentially dangerous effects of most of these products have been known for more than a decade, and at least five of them are banned in Asia, Europe, or Canada. Yet until very recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had not managed to remove a single dietary supplement from the market for safety reasons.

After seven years of trying, the agency announced a ban on the weight-loss aid ephedra in December 2003. And in March 2004 it warned 23 companies to stop marketing the body-building supplement androstenedione (andro).

Despite these actions against high prone supplements, whose dangers were so well known that even industry trade groups had stopped defending them, the agency continues to be hamstrung by the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA, pronounced de-shay). While drug manufacturers are required to prove that their products are safe before being marketed. DSHEA makes the FDA prove that supplements on the market are unsafe and denies the agency all but the sketchiest information about the safety record of most of them.

"The standards for demonstrating a supplement is hazardous are so high that it can take the FDA years to build a case," said Bruce Silverglade, legal director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington, D.C., consumer-advocacy group...

full story... (http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-115405678/dangerous-supplements-still-large.html)

observer

30th December 2010, 11:06

After re-reading through this thread, It appears to as though some of those commenting just don't really 'get' the implications of what is actually going-on with this legislation.

Here's a 40 minute video that should be watched by anyone wanting to make a comment on this issue. Pay particular attention to the history of Codex as Dr. Laibow lays-out the foundational information in the beginning of the clip - the history is relevant to the future:

Laibow, Dr. Rima E. - Nutricide, Criminalizing Natural Health -

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634&hl=en

Note: Dr Laibow mentions some dates that have already passed-by in the segment. The effects of this World Trade Organization Treaty are global in impact. Codex is already fully implemented in the European Union.

The United States Is Next....

heyokah

30th December 2010, 15:10

FAKE "FOOD SAFETY" (REALLY "FOOD CONTROL") BILL ON ITS WAY TO WHITE HOUSE!
PUSH BACK MUST ACCELERATE! VETO IT! ACTION ITEM HERE: "Michelle, please intervene..."

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWwRAf3pPSQ

conk

4th January 2011, 21:15

Signed by Obama. Too late. God only knows what all is in that bill. We'll see in the coming years as the real intent unfolds. I can be pretty certain that it will not be good for most of us.

onawah

4th January 2011, 22:57

Observer wrote:"After re-reading through this thread, It appears to as though some of those commenting just don't really 'get' the implications of what is actually going-on with this legislation. "
Agreed!
The following should also help shed some light on what just happened.

http://www.anh-usa.org/the-food-safety-saga-our-job-is-just-beginning/

The “Food Safety” Saga: Our Job Is Just Beginning
January 4, 2011
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The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act had more twists and turns than a big-city sewer system. Unexpected passage of the legislation at the very end of the lame duck Congress does not bring the story to a close. The fight goes on.

Regulations will need to be developed, which the FDA will try to do out of sight, but which we will monitor closely. The FDA will need funding to do the work, which means more legislation. And there may be other legislative opportunities to help pull back this seeming victory for agribusiness, factory faming, and its allies in Washington.

We have to keep educating Capitol Hill about the dangers of CAFOs, the main source of food contamination, and about the benefits—both to our health and our economy—of small farmers and especially local organic farmers. We need, in short, to keep the government from destroying what’s best about agriculture in this country. Big Food may have won this round, but they have most certainly not won the war.

Before we turn to the future, it’s also worth reviewing the story of what actually happened with this legislation. There has been a great deal of confusion about what took place, and it’s important to set the record straight. We also need to remember that natural health and family farming won some concessions along the way, concessions that kept this legislation from being far, far worse than it is. All of these concessions were won by a broad coalition of tireless health freedom advocates, while some of them-especially in the areas of potential CODEX regulation and supplements-were won specifically by ANH-USA, and we’re proud of those accomplishments. This is more proof that when we all work together, we can move mountains.

Here’s the full timeline:

March 2009: Senate introduces FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510). The bill languishes in committee for nine months, then is placed on the Senate’s legislative calendar.

June 2009: House introduces Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, or FSEA (H.R. 2749). Bill was designed to completely revamp the FDA and grant expansive authority with no oversight and contained provisions of significant concern to small farms (especially organic farms), small food producers, and supplement makers, including sharply increased criminal and civil penalties for violations of FDA regulations—up to ten years in jail and fines of up to $100,000 for individuals and $7.5 million for corporations, regardless of their size—just for making completely true statements about a food or supplement or referring to peer-reviewed science without prior FDA permission.

The bill was put on a fast track, and ANH-USA sprang into action. We placed a full-page ad in Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper, calling on Congress to amend the bill. We also printed up copies of the ad, and had them hand-delivered to each congressional office. Our members deluged Congress with messages and phone calls. Unfortunately, the House passed the bill by a vote of 283 to 142.

November 2009: The original language of the Senate bill appeared to commit the US to the concept of harmonization of our food and supplement safety laws with a global standard, the Codex Alimentarius. The global standard is very likely to reflect European standards, which are extremely hostile to dietary supplements. ANH-USA was able to get the bill amended so that it no longer requires the development of a plan to harmonize with Codex; now the bill calls for a plan “on whether and how” to harmonize.

April 2010: Still concerned that the inclusion of Codex language in the bill could be used to support future US harmonization with Codex standards on dietary supplements, ANH-USA succeeds in getting new language that specifically exempted dietary supplements from US harmonization with Codex. In addition, while we did not work on this aspect of the issue ourselves, we were very pleased to see that supplements were also exempted from the “hazard analysis and risk-based preventive controls” section of the bill.

September 2010: Noting that the Senate’s version of the bill didn’t have the extra-harsh penalties of the House bill, Sen. Leahy introduced a new bill, the Food Safety Accountability Act, or FSEA (S. 3767), which used language similar to that found in the House bill. Even worse, the bill would not necessarily hold accountable a company that tainted a product, even on purpose, if this type of adulteration occurred before the product was sold by a distributor. So much for “accountability.”

Once again, ANH-USA and its allies acted quickly and mounted a protest, and succeeded in getting the Leahy bill amended so that it would no longer be possible to use the bill’s language to send a supplement producer to jail for ten years just for citing legitimate science.

November 2010: One of the Senate bill’s big sticking points was how it would affect small farmers and food producers. Some small-farm and organic food advocates warned that the legislation would destroy their industry under a mountain of paperwork. Working with the natural health community, ANH-USA succeeded in winning inclusion of an amendment from Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), which exempts from some of the bill’s provisions any producers with less than $500,000 a year in sales who sell most of their food locally.

Still concerned about the language in the Leahy bill, we kept up the pressure, and thanks to all the phone calls, letters, and email messages that you sent to your senators, we were told that the FSEA language would be kept out of S. 510 entirely.

In addition, the House agreed that if the Senate’s bill passed, the House would accept the Senate’s version in place of its own. The House bill was far, far worse, and contained the ten-year jail terms—so this meant that ten-year jail terms should not be in a final Food Safety bill.

On November 30, the Senate bill passed 73 to 25, and sent it on to the House for approval.

December 1: The House rejects the Senate bill because it contains a revenue-raising (i.e., taxing) provision. The Constitution requires all revenue-raising provisions to arise from the House.

December 10: House passes a Continuing Resolution, which is supposed to provide temporary, stopgap funding for the government while budget bills are worked out. But this CR included the language of the Senate food safety bill. The CR is sent to the Senate for approval.

December 14: Sen. Inouye attempts to get an omnibus spending bill substituted for the CR. While we were told originally that the food safety language would not be part of the omnibus bill, it appeared that a deal was struck to include food safety.

December 17: A number of senators, mainly Republicans, decide to support neither the omnibus bill, which contained a lot of “pork” (funding for local projects with little or no national significance) nor the CR from the House, but instead wanted a one-page CR that would keep the government open for the next two months. This left the food safety bill once again out in the cold.

December 19: At 10 p.m. on a Sunday night, in one of the most underhanded legislative maneuvers we’ve ever seen, senators took an old House bill that had been languishing on the legislative calendar for a year and a half, removed all of its text and completely substituted the text of S. 510, then changed the title. What had been the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act was now the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act with a new number, H.R. 2751. It was identical in every way to the old S. 510, except that this was now technically a House bill, which got over the earlier constitutionality issue. This was agreed to in the Senate by unanimous consent, and the bill was sent back to the House.

Note that twenty-five senators who had previously voted against the bill were part of the unanimous consent agreement. Even one of them could have denied unanimous consent, in which case the bill would most likely have died. These senators were also participating in a legislative trick that made a mockery of the Constitution.

December 21: After less than an hour of debate, the bill passed in the House, 215 to 144. This included Yes votes from legislators who had been voted out of office in November, but who were making one last use of the “lame duck” session—something the 20th Amendment to the Constitution was trying to prevent when it was originally enacted. Seventy-four members of the House had already left for the winter break and did not vote.

Henry Waxman, still chair of Commerce Committee during the lame duck session of Congress and an arch foe of natural health and health freedom, famously said that nothing is ever settled for good in Washington. We can’t help but agree with him when it comes to the botched Food Safety Act.

onawah

17th January 2011, 06:51

"Speaker Boehner: Do not fund this law!"
Go to this link to read more and take action:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5421

01.16.11 Update:
FDA Subcommittee Chair -
When asked if his party intended to withhold funding for implementation he said: "I think we will. We have a lot of concerns about the necessity of putting 18,000 food police on the streets and the kitchens of America. The trend in food safety has been very, very favorable.
I'm not sure that this kind of investment is going to give any returns that justify it."
Rep. Jack Kingston, Georgia

KEEP THE PRESSURE UP! USE THIS ACTION ITEM DAILY
UNTIL THE LAW IS UNFUNDED!

Natural Solutions Foundation is an international NGO (nongovernmental organization) that seeks to educate decision makers about the benefits of natural solutions to many societal issues. Wtih the help of YOU, our "Mouse Warriors" we express our views to those decision makers. Together, we sent over six million emails to them regarding the fake "food safety" (really "food control") bill S.510/HR.2751 which passed the Lame Duck Congress on December 21, 2010.

Dr. Rima to Michelle Obama:
Barack Should Have Vetoed the Food Control Bill
The current White House occupant signed the bill into law 01.04.11.

While we ultimately may not have stopped this new law in the lame-duck Congress of 2010, the law that was adopted is a different creature than we would have faced had we not opposed it every step of the way. Recall, the first version of the bill that passed the House in July ‘09 had severe penalties and no significant exemption for local production and distribution. The version that passed the Senate at the end of November 2010 not only had no such severe penalties, but did have a rather weak exemption for some local production and distribution.

It also did not have, as it might have, without our Push Back, two draconian bills that had been introduced in the Senate to prepare the way to add their terms to the final “food safety” bill; these were Sen. McCain’s discredited S.3002 which would have brought Dietary Supplements under even greater Federal control and the “criminalization of speech about food claims” bill, S.3767, introduced by the majority party “leadership” late in the session. The criminal penalty bill, while remaining a future risk, went nowhere, after over a hundred thousand messages of opposition. Opposition to McCain’s attempt to legislate Codex compliance was so great that he withdrew his own support from his own bill a month and a day after introducing it in February 2010. And the final "FDA Food Safety Modernization Act" as adopted has a somewhat stronger local food exemption, with a limited inflation escalation clause, so the exemption may become somewhat meaningful, depending on how the final regulations are written.

This Action Item is to the White House & new Speaker of the House, the FDA oversight subcommittee Chairman, and your Member of Congress. It is the first step in educating decision makers regarding the new law and any regulations issued under it.

1. We want the White House to intervene in the FDA regulation-making process to make sure that certain concerns get addressed:

a. Implementing the exemption for local production and distribution in the least burdensome way.

b. Assuring that Section 104’s “in the interest of national security” clause is not used to create secret regulations favoring Big AgBiz, violating the promises of "transparency" and,

c. No “back-door” HARMonization of our food freedoms with international Codex Alimentarius restrictions!

2. We seek to prevent any funding for this increase in Federal power in the new Congress; this includes especially the budget-busting 4,000 new FDA food control inspectors: Speaker Boehner, Chairman Kingston, just say "NO!".

There is much to be concerned about in the bill as adopted by the Congress, including the potential for secret regulations in violation of due process that section 104 seems to allow, the convoluted procedure for local food production exemptions, and the "road map" the new law provides for rapid "HARMonization" of our food freedoms with international Codex restrictions...

The struggle continues!

Thank you,

Natural Solutions Foundation

Maj Gen Bert Stubblebine (US Army ret) - President
Rima E. Laibow, MD - Medical Director
Ralph Fucetola JD - Counsel

Dr. Rima Reports every Sunday, 9 - noon, Central
Listen and chat:
www.HealthFreedomPortal.org

Please visit us at www.healthfreedomusa.org

Cigan Mojia

17th June 2011, 19:54

What do genetically engineered salmon, school lunch standards, and a controversial abortion pill have in common? They're all part of the House agriculture appropriations bill that passed Thursday by a vote of 217 to 203.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/06/17/137226525/agriculture-funding-bill-passes-house-odd-amendments-and-all

...the bill cuts more than $650 million from the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program...
Details of the Bill can be found here:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h.r.2112:

Lifebringer

17th June 2011, 20:09

I can't help but say this: What the H3//!!!
Next it will be illegal to breath your neighbors air on the sidewalk.

That's the f it, this means war.

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I see these demons are at it again. What did the RA-EL say? WE were overrun with demons and the antichristians blaspheming his gospel.

Rut roh Rorge.

Rut roh!

Lifebringer

17th June 2011, 20:16

You forget the greedy corporate Monsanto Monopoly politicians with their hands in all the stocks of NEEDS and kitchen tables across America.

Doesn't Batcrap Bachmann own some of the corporate farms as well as a few Republicans moving to Iowa to take over the farmland their and gift it to the agribusiness monopoly Monsanto.

For real for real, this is an insult to intelligience of average humans who luck up on a seed to grow and save on their budgets, or share with the family next door who's breadwinner has lost their job. It would be a lot more people on public assistance, if granny didn't have a garden or Mrs Smith or Jones growing tomatoes.

Cigan Mojia

21st June 2011, 08:42

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axU9ngbTxKw

Speaking of Monsanto, this is from a while ago, but still something to consider...

onawah

6th July 2011, 18:56

Political control Freaks take over Farmers Market
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8T3QBJvLy0&feature=player_embedded#at=235

onawah

4th August 2011, 03:30

Time to bump up this thread again!
PUSH BACK FOR HEALTH FREEDOM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HyMEtOGxDU&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HyMEtOGxDU&feature=player_embedded

There is a request for funding, but the information given as well is worth waiting that out.

Natural Solutions is doing a great job helping us to fight for our health freedoms. There are actions that can be taken daily to flood Congress with emails over a period of weeks and months, and it seems to have an effect.

Here is their latest article with links:

FDA & White House Attacks
Threaten Access to Nutrients

During 2007 the Natural Solutions Foundation warned the American public that Ted Kennedy’s last gift of power to the Federal bureaucracy, the so-called FDA Modernization Act of 2007 (what we call the FDA Enabling Act) would seriously threaten our Health and Food Freedom.

Although we fought hard to make sure language was kept in that bill “exempting” dietary supplements, the DSHEA Exemption (and you sent over 150,000 emails over one weekend!) we were not holding out much hope that this massive increase in FDA power would not be used against our freedom of choice… despite the fact the the law is clear and the statute had specific exemption language.

We were specially worried about language in the Act that would let FDA ban interstate commerce in any FOOD that had ever been studied for medical use.

That’s right, Congress gave FDA authority to ban any food… why? Indeed, why would Congress believe it had power under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution to control what food free Americans grow and use?

We leave the answer to such questions to the philosophers and psychiatrists…

Read the rest here:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=9982

Action Items

Food Control Executive Order #13575
The Threat and the Action Items:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=9985

(Stop FDA Power Abuse!)
http://tinyurl.com/FDApowerabuse
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=7473

(Support Ron Paul’s RAW MILK BILL)
http://tinyurl.com/RawMilkFreedom
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6822#Action

(Hold Big Pharma and FDA Responsible for Vaccine Harms)
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5708#Action

(Do Not Fund Food Control Law!)
http://tinyurl.com/NoFoodControl
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5421#Action

(State sovereignty for Food Freedom and Real Food Safety)
http://tinyurl.com/StateFood
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5622#Action

(SAY NO TO GMOs)
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2049

(SAY NO TO NUCLEAR POWER)
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5731#Action

(LEAVE OUR VITAMINS ALONE)
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5448#Action

Videos and Blog Entries

Responding to a Weaponized World Video

http://youtu.be/_HyMEtOGxDU

Original Weaponized World Video
Please help make this video "viral" - share this link!
http://youtu.be/glNWJ2-c6Ts

Push Back includes educating decision makers when you - and your contacts - send your Congressional reps and other decision makers emails through our Educate Decision Makers system.

URGENTLY IMPORTANT:
ACT NOW!
Updated Food Freedom Action Item
http://tinyurl.com/nofoodcontrol

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We've proven that PUSH BACK works... that your emails to decision makers DO make a difference! Read more about our Accomplishments - yours and ours - Click Here.

We can only fight for, and win, health and food freedom

TWINCANS

4th August 2011, 04:48

SB S510 Will Allow Government
To Put You In Jail ....

S510 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US. (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-510 )

"If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public's right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes. It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one's choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God." It is similar to what India faced with imposition of the salt tax during British rule, only S 510 extends control over all food in the US, violating the fundamental human right to food." ~ Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower....

Source: http://www.rense.com/general91/dehe.htm

That's already in place in the UK since the EU.

onawah

4th August 2011, 18:07

Here's an example of what's happening in the US now:
Dear NaturalNews readers,

The government is at it again, conducting a triple armed raid yesterday on raw foods advocates in California. All in one morning, state and federal authorities raided a raw foods buying club, a raw milk farm, and a private home, resulting in the arrest of three people who are now all being charged with conspiracy. (One of them is also being slapped with the additional crime of "falsely labeling cheese," if you can believe that...)

Welcome to the new food slavery police state, my friends... USA style. NaturalNews broke this story today, and it was picked up by InfoWars.com, DrudgeReport.com and countless other blogs and news websites (thank you all for posting our news and spreading the word).

Here's the scoop: Read this story first about the raid itself:
http://www.naturalnews.com/033220_Rawesome_Foods_armed_raids.html

From there, we posted the on-scene raw video footage showing state and federal agents stealing the entire product inventory from Rawesome Foods:
http://www.naturalnews.com/033221_Rawesome_Foods_raw_milk.html

We then published details on the conspiracy charges being leveled against all three people:
http://www.naturalnews.com/033222_raw_food_conspiracy.html

That was followed by the announcement of a massive public protest to be held this morning (Thursday, Aug. 4th) at 7:45 am at the LA County Courthouse:
http://www.naturalnews.com/033223_Rawesome_Foods_public_protest.html

From there, we published the Rawesome Foods raid search warrant and showed that the law enforcement thugs who conducted the raid grossly violated the warrant:
http://www.naturalnews.com/033224_Rawesome_Foods_search_warrant.html

And then we put out some photos from the raid, showing how the government stripped the shelves bare at Rawesome Foods and engaged in the total destruction of the entire inventory, including pouring raw milk down the drain to make sure that nobody could drink it! (It's like an Orwellian book burning!)
http://www.naturalnews.com/033225_Rawesome_Foods_photos.html

We've begun collecting donations for the Rawesome Foods legal defense fund at www.ConsumerWellness.org and I'm also appearing on the Robert Scott Bell Show today to discuss this issue: www.NaturalNewsRadio.com (starts at 11am central time).

Coverage also continues on InfoWars.com and PrisonPlanet.com where I was a guest yesterday on the Alex Jones Show, which has covered all the top food freedom issues including the persecution of Julie Bass (the home gardener) in Oak Park, Michigan.

This story is all breaking fast, and we expect to have more on-scene videos from LA County, perhaps by the time you read this. Watch NaturalNews.com for announcements and additional photos, videos or documents related to this case.

We did not publish any other stories today, as we were totally focused on the armed raids against Rawesome Foods. (I'm exhausted... been covering this personally for 13 hours straight..."
**************************************************************************************************** *************************************"Photos from Rawesome Foods raid prove government agents illegally stole entire inventory of buyer's club

Thursday, August 04, 2011

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/033225_Rawesome_Foods_photos.html#ixzz1U5FEAA5r
(NaturalNews) NaturalNews is now publishing some of the very first photos taken in the aftermath of the Rawesome Food raids, which involved a multi-agency raid against Rawesome Foods for selling unpasteurized milk and raw cheese (http://www.naturalnews.com/033220_R...). These photos show how Rawesome Foods has been stripped bare by state and federal agents who engaged in what can only be called an act of government-sponsored terrorism against innocent small business owners.

As NaturalNews reported earlier, the warrant that was issued to authorize the Rawesome Foods raid specifically stated that "various samples of any food products present may be taken for laboratory analysis." (http://www.naturalnews.com/033224_R...) But instead of taking only "various samples," the LA County Dept. of Agriculture authorities engaged in the wholesale theft of the entirety of Rawesome Foods' inventory. (See photos below.)

This, of course, has the effect of instantly putting Rawesome Foods out of business through the government-achieved destruction of their entire inventory. The scene at Rawesome Foods earlier today, in fact, saw California state agents pouring raw milk down the drain and gathering up the rest of the products to be hauled off to be destroyed.

This is not a lawful search of a facility for the purpose of protecting public health; it's a mob style government-engineered economic hit on a small business that provides a valuable service to society.

The pictures reveal the truth
(Note from OP: I don't know how to copy the photos here, but to see them, you can go to the article at:
http://www.naturalnews.com/033225_Rawesome_Foods_photos.html )

NaturalNews publishes Rawesome Foods raid search warrant; reveals government agents violated search guidelines

Wednesday, August 03, 2011
(NaturalNews) The recent act of government-sponsored terrorism against Rawesome Foods in Venice, California was authorized by a woman named Michelle LeCavalier. She signed the warrant which stated that she believed there was property at Rawesome Foods that was "used as the means of committing a felony." (What, the raw cheese? Did someone cut the cheese and cause a silent-but-deadly felony nuisance?)

The warrant goes on to state that the law enforcement agents should search "all rooms, attics, refrigerators, freezers... purses, wallets, briefcases and vehicles of both James Stewart (Rawesome Foods) and Sharon Palmer (Healthy Family Farms)."

The warrant also grants them the permission to inspect, copy and even seize all computer files, video camera files, audio recording files and all the data of all computers.

Additional items to be seized, as described in the warrant, include:

• Any evidence of "interstate transportation" (so they can charge these people with felony FEDERAL crimes).

• All membership agreements of their current members (customers); this way they can intimidate customers, too.

• Documents concerning the Right To Choose Healthy Foods (RTCHF) organization, which fights for food freedom at www.RawMilk.org (the government is going after these advocacy groups, too, with their terrorist tactics).

• All tax records (so they can try to find some tax error and then charge them with federal tax fraud).

• All real estate transactions, billing records, purchasing records and club records.

• All emails, receipts, cash register data, credit cards receipts, inventory records and so on.

• All computers and electronic devices. The warrant shows that government terrorists stole both Dell and Apple computers from Rawesome.

• All address books, telephone numbers, contacts, client lists, business cards, etc. This is so the government terrorists can contact Rawesome Foods customers and then conduct illegal raids on their homes for buying "contraband" raw milk.

... and a lot more, including prescription medication bottles, employment records, keys and much more. Read the warrant yourself at:
http://www.naturalnews.com/files/Ra...

Government terrorists destroy entire Rawesome Foods inventory
The warrant also states that "various samples of any food products present may be taken for laboratory analysis." But this, of course, is not what happened at all. Instead of taking a few samples, the government terrorists from the LA County Dept. of Agriculture poured all the milk down the drain, then stole all the vegetables, fruits, cheese and eggs and loaded them up into a truck and drove away, leaving Rawesome Foods completely empty.

In other words, they stole or destroyed the ENTIRE INVENTORY of Rawesome Foods! (We have photos to prove this and will be posted them soon...)

They also made off with over $4,500 in cash belonging to the owner James Stewart.

This destruction, of course, was an act of terrorism, not the carrying out of a search warrant. This is why I am accurately referring to these people as government-sponsored terrorists.

The signatures of the Property Clerk, Agent and Supervisor on the warrant are all completely illegible, obscuring their names (government terrorists don't want to be identified by name, so they make sure their names are unreadable).

The only name legible on the warrant is Michelle LeCavalier, whose office failed to return our repeated phone calls. (We spoke with the public affairs department and asked for a return call to get a statement. No return call has yet been received.)

Who is Michelle LeCavalier?
I want to know who this state employee is and why she is engaged in authorizing acts of terrorism against innocent citizens of California. Attempts to find out more about LeCavalier have so far failed, although NaturalNews has confirmed that she is a California state employee who worked under the Dept. of Health at one point.

If you have any information about Michelle LeCavalier, or a link to an online photo of her, please let us know. This woman needs to be held accountable for her role in authorizing acts of government terrorism against the People.

A government out of control
What this Rawesome Foods raid demonstrates is the depths of the evil of Big Government and its incessant desire to enslave the people by denying them their natural born rights. We are watching a criminal, terrorist government engage in acts of war against innocent small business owners who are serving an important public interest by providing health-enhancing, wholesome and non-processed foods to members of the public. This is a service that should be lauded, not targeted for termination.

This combination of government thugs from both California and the federal government have maliciously carried out the following crimes:

• The KIDNAPPING of James Stewart and Sharon Palmer.

• The THEFT of cash from Rawesome Foods.

• The DESTRUCTION of private property by destroying all the raw food products at Rawesome Foods.

• The HACKING of computers and electronic devices found at Rawesome Foods.

• The CONSPIRACY to commit the above acts, of which Michelle LaCavalier is perhaps the most guilty.

And why did the government commit these heinous crimes against innocent people? Did Rawesome Foods harm anyone? Nope.

Did any customers complain about Rawesome Foods? Not at all. Customers LOVE the place!

Did Rawesome Foods place public health at risk in any way? Certainly not. Raw milk is healthier than dead, processed, pasteurized milk.

So WHY did the government decide to target this business for its planned acts of terrorism designed to destroy its business operations and imprison its owners? Because the government wants to take away your access to real food!

Just as the FDA is now trying to take away your access to nutritional supplements through its new NDI regulations (http://naturalnews.com/032912_FDA_d...).

Big Government actively seeks to destroy health and freedom
Under the leadership of President Obama, you see, the U.S. government is now in the business of destroying public health, unleashing genetically modified organisms across the country (http://www.naturalnews.com/033022_S...) and denying your right to choose your own food or medicine!

Julie Bass, the Michigan gardener, was recently threatened with 93 days of jail for growing tomatoes in her own front yard (http://www.naturalnews.com/032960_J...).

A farmer in Missouri, Armand Bechard, has been threatened by authorities there for selling raw milk (http://www.naturalnews.com/030974_r...).

Amish farmers have been threatened multiple times for producing raw milk on their own family farms (http://www.naturalnews.com/030974_r...).

What's clear from this pattern is that our government is out of control and a serious threat to food freedom in America. If we don't reign in this runaway rogue government, we are all going to end up as junk food mind slaves with no freedoms at all (and no health, either).

I'm surprised these goons in California even bothered with a warrant. Why not just throw the Fourth Amendment out the window and raid the store without a warrant? It's all lawless and criminal anyway. The fabricated warrant only serves to slap the illusion of "right" on a document that's being used by a criminal government to terrorize small business owners and drive honest folks out of business.

Please donate to the Rawesome Foods legal defense fund. We are collecting donations right now through www.ConsumerWellness.org and sending 100% of all donations straight to Rawesome. James Stewart is right now facing $123,000 in bail, which is over 300% larger than the bail typically set for murderers!

Massive public protest announced against government-sponsored terrorism of Rawesome Foods in California
http://www.naturalnews.com/033223_Rawesome_Foods_public_protest.html
NaturalNews) As promised, a massive public protest is now being announced to give the members of the public an opportunity to voice their outrage against today's arrest of three raw foods advocates who are all being charged with conspiracy.

Rawesome Food raid videos begin to emerge from the scene where federal terrorists vandalized raw milk business

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/033221_Rawesome_Foods_raw_milk.html#ixzz1U5IVBsCf
(NaturalNews) From the SWAT-style armed raid on the raw milk buying club known as Rawesome Foods, clandestine video footage is starting to emerge. Although the footage is shaky and low quality (from a cell phone), it shows law enforcement thugs stealing raw milk, cheese, vegetables and even mangos from the Rawesome Foods store and loading them up into a large truck.

NaturalNews was sent these videos by people on the scene. Watch them at: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A...

The same people from the raid also told us that they witnessed law enforcement pouring all their raw milk down the drain. Essentially, the cops, FDA and CDC were engaged in VANDALISM against a health food business.

Make no mistake: This is law enforcement engaged in acts of terrorism against small farmers and honest raw foods retailers. These are mob-style tactics of intimidation, business disruption, cash confiscation and inventory destruction. Chicago gangster mobs couldn't have done a better job!

Watch these videos yourself and you'll see some of what happened on the scene. More videos and photos are being sent to NaturalNews, and we will keep you posted on this story.

Again, the short video of raw footage is available at:
http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A...

Keep following NaturalNews for more breaking news on this story. We will also announce an upcoming protest planned in L.A.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/033221_Rawesome_Foods_raw_milk.html#ixzz1U5IjoBrc

Breaking news: Multi-agency armed raid hits Rawesome Foods, Healthy Family Farms for selling raw milk and cheese

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/033220_Rawesome_Foods_armed_raids.html#ixzz1U5ItYb66

The protest will be held at the LA County Courthouse located at:
210 West Temple, Division 30
Los Angeles

Arrive there at 7:45 am to join the protest, which needs to be in full swing early, because the court hearing for James is scheduled at 8:30.

Please keep your protests non-violent in nature and bring your signs, shirts and more. LA newspapers and media have already indicated they will be on scene. NaturalNews video journalists will also be on the scene filming whatever goes down. Videos will be posted on www.NaturalNews.TV

Bring your own cameras, too, and record your own photos and videos. Please post on NaturalNews.TV and we will likely link to your video in upcoming coverage of this event.

We apologize for the very short notice of this public protest, but we are publishing details about this story as quickly as we can. The story is breaking big and has already reached millions of listeners on the Alex Jones Show (www.InfoWars.com) and millions of readers through the Drudge Report (www.DrudgeReport.com), which has linked to NaturalNews as the breaking news source for this story.

Once the mainstream media starts covering this story, they will twist it around and LIE about it as they always do. NPR already did a hatchet job on this group following a previous raid. Only independent media (like NaturalNews) can be trusted to bring you the honest story on this without some corporate or government agenda.

There are already misinformed accusations that Rawesome Foods was not licensed as a retail business. But that's incorrect information: Rawesome Foods is a private buying club and not a retail business that's open to the general public. People can't just walk in off the street and shop there like a regular grocery store. Thus, Rawesome does not have to be licensed like a regular grocery store. They are a private buyer's club.

What went down in Venice, California today was clearly an act of government-sponsored terrorism against innocent citizens who are only "guilty" of selling healthful foods that are in huge demand by happy, healthy members (customers). That the selling of healthful raw milk cannot even be tolerated by the thuggish, corrupt government criminals who run the state of California (and the federal government) today is a powerful statement of just how much freedom we've already lost... and how hard we're all going to have to fight back against tyranny to restore our basic food freedoms.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/033223_Rawesome_Foods_public_protest.html#ixzz1U5Hseo7c

Breaking news: Multi-agency armed raid hits Rawesome Foods, Healthy Family Farms for selling raw milk and cheese

Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/033220_Rawesome_Foods_armed_raids.html#ixzz1U5Jcts4V

(NaturalNews) This is a NaturalNews exclusive breaking new report. Please credit NaturalNews.com. A multi-agency SWAT-style armed raid was conducted this morning by helmet-wearing, gun-carrying enforcement agents from the LA County Sheriff's Office, the FDA, the Dept. of Agriculture and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control).

This story is now being followed and widely reported on InfoWars (www.InfoWars.com) and the Drudge Report (www.DrudgeReport.com). See updates below...

Rawesome Foods, a private buying club offering wholesome, natural raw milk and raw cheese products (among other wholesome foods) is founded by James Stewart, a pioneer in bringing wholesome raw foods directly to consumers through a buying club. James was followed from his private residence by law enforcement, and when he entered his store, the raid was launched.

Law enforcement demanded that all customers (members) of the store vacate the premises, then they demanded to know how much cash James had at the store. When James explained the amount of cash he had at the store -- which is used to purchase product for selling there -- agents demanded to know why he had such an amount of cash and where it came from.

James was handcuffed, was never read his rights and was stuffed into an unmarked car. While agents said they would leave behind a warrant, no one has yet had any opportunity to even see if such a warrant exists or if it is a complete warrant.

Law enforcement then proceeded to destroy the inventory of the story by pouring the milk down the drain and / or confiscating raw cheese and fresh produce for destruction. Video now posted at NaturalNews.TV: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A...

Note to NaturalNews readers: We believe this was an ILLEGAL raid being conducted mob-style by government thugs who respect no law and no rights. This is an all-out war by the government against people who try to promote healthy raw and living foods.

James is now being held at the Pacific division police department at Centinela and Culver in Los Angeles. He is being held at $123,000 bail with no possibility of using bail bonds. Law enforcement has demanded that if he comes up with the money to cover bail, he must disclose to them all the sources of that money. (This is an illegal demand!)

Massive public protests are needed to teach these criminal law enforcement agencies that they cannot illegally arrest and persecute individuals merely for buying and selling raw milk and cheese. We are organizing a public protest day in cooperation with James. Please watch NaturalNews for an announcement of that. Story is developing...

Right now, James needs help raising money with his legal defense needs. Our non-profit Consumer Wellness Center is currently serving as the collection point for donations. You may donate right now at www.ConsumerWellness.org (100% of the donations go directly to James' legal defense needs, the Consumer Wellness Center keeps nothing).

See this video of James Stewart talking about his farm:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foKg...

Story on InfoWars.com:
http://www.infowars.com/raw-food-ra...

Here's background on Healthy Family Farms which was also targeted in the raid:

Healthy Family Farms in Santa Paula, California:

"Healthy Family Farms is a sustainable, pasture-based farming operation. We raise all our livestock on pasture. We raise all of our animals from birth. We do not feed any of our animals soy, choosing instead to feed animals as they are designed to be fed. This results in healthy, sturdy animals needing no hormones, antibiotics, or other artificial "enhancements." We harvest our animals humanely by hand before they are delivered to the farmers markets. We never freeze our products. In addition to farmer's markets sales, we have an active CSA, which offers discounts to our valued members."

Watch NaturalNews.com for more breaking news on this story. We are fed up with these illegal mob-style raids against the raw foods community! It is time to protest and fight back against tyranny!

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/033220_Rawesome_Foods_armed_raids.html#ixzz1U5JKCCsg

Maia Gabrial

4th August 2011, 18:24

I've been collecting all kinds of seeds for months now. When the time comes, I'll plant them and I WILL grow them....That is my right as a divine sovereign being of planet Earth of which I'm a citizen of. Planetary citizenship overrules all national citizenship....

dddanieljjjamesss

4th August 2011, 21:00

gotta get these 'ideas' off your back
because they prevent you from doing it
but when everyone is either farming or in jail,
we will end up farming in jail and they can rot in their own violence and saccharine food supply

onawah

8th August 2011, 16:42

For the latest on the Rawsome Foods raid, from today's Natural News newsletter:
"Dear NaturalNews readers,

I've spent the entire weekend engaged in investigative journalism on the Rawesome Foods raid, and we've turned up some hard-hitting breaking news on the case:

First, we have the breaking news story on the eyewitness account of government agents stealing $9,000 in cash from James Stewart after they put him in handcuffs:
http://www.naturalnews.com/033257_Rawesome_Foods_cash.html

Next, I published a very important piece about civil rights and why Rawesome Foods is a private buyer's club that does not need a government license to distribute food to its members:
http://www.naturalnews.com/033255_Rawesome_Foods_license.html

I interviewed Gary Cox, an attorney at the Farm-To-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, who explains the laws and the fundamental legal rights of individuals to enter into cow share, goat share or "farm share" contracts:
http://www.naturalnews.com/033256_Gary_Cox_legal_defense_fund.html

I also interviewed Lela Buttery from the front lines of the Rawesome Foods raid, and she gives a detailed account of what really happened:
http://www.naturalnews.com/033254_Rawesome_Foods_Lela_Buttery.html

If you're playing catch up on this issue, here's an overview of the top videos to watch, which will show you what's going on (see the protests yourself):
http://www.naturalnews.com/033258_Rawesome_Foods_videos.html

You can also hear several of my audio interviews on this topic at:
http://soundcloud.com/naturalnews/sets/naturalnews-updates

By the way, we have more breaking news coming out on this case, including a story about the old media blackout on this story, and we also plan to publish the names of the government tyrants who masterminded this entire operation!

Watch for those stories this week at NaturalNews.com, where we are the #1 source breaking this story across the globe. Nobody has provided coverage of this issue that comes even close to the stories, interviews and videos we're putting out on this, so thank you for your support!

onawah

8th August 2011, 18:11

8 Reasons Raw Foodies Are Dangerous Extremists (Satire)
by Eric Blair
Activist Post

http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/8-reasons-raw-foodies-are-dangerous-extremists-satire/

This week, the United States government, working closely with local authorities, heroically raided and arrested raw-food terror kingpin James Stewart in Venice, California. Stewart, who runs the private healthfood cartel, Rawesome Foods, “posed a major threat to the establishment,” claimed an unnamed but armed, undercover double-agent involved in the arrest.

After two SWAT-style stings in one year, Stewart now faces several felony charges including: conspiracy to sell milk to minors; conspiracy to operate a private club without paying protection money to the authorities; conspiracy to educate the masses; and conspiracy to make people healthy and independent.

The authorities warn that the news of Stewart’s arrest and pending environmental tribunal may awaken his cult of followers, called foodies. These extremists typically come from the political left, once believing that boisterous regulations were actually for the public’s safety. They are generally a peace-loving group, but with their bright smiles, chiseled bodies and fully-functional minds, they may prove to be a formidable threat in the war of ideas against the establishment.

These foodies, hopped up on natural vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, no longer believe the FDA or the government is there to protect them. For our safety, such nonconformity must not be tolerated.The establishment must do everything it can to make an example of Stewart and his accomplices before the contagion of natural health awareness spreads to critical mass.

Food choice is a privilege that must be fully enforced with more firearms and badges in order to maintain the corporate-government monopoly over food. Anyone who demands food freedom should be considered a threat — not just to themselves, but to society as a whole. And like animals backed into a corner, foodies who lose their rights should be considered dangerous extremists and monitored like al-Qaeda.

“Without the corporate-state food monopoly, we would all starve,” warned Michael Taylor, former Monsanto executive and current head of the FDA food safety division. He added, “Therefore, these foodies are a direct threat to national and international security, and their freedom must be smoked out. You’re either with us or against us.”

Furthermore, so-called natural health experts challenging the State’s health recommendations should be taken to re-education camps, or have their assets seized for intent to commit crimes against humanity. Likewise, normal citizens growing food for neighborly trade should face felony charges of “intent to sell.” The loss of food freedom is a small price to pay for the safety and rule by the genetically modified majority.

Here are eight reasons why raw foods should be illegal, and foodies should peacefully give up their rights:

1. Big Brother knows best: Citizens aren’t smart enough to make proper health choices. That’s why they gave their rights and authority over to the State in the first place. The FDA protects them from their neighbor’s eggs that come from chickens that eat bugs and worms, not the genetically-approved feed. Gross!

2. Amish farmers have pitchforks: Given the sordid history of peasants fighting their masters with pitchforks, Amish farmers should be considered armed and dangerous if a food revolution takes root.

3. Health Effects: Raw milk, like many other raw foods, is a “superfood,” loaded with vital antioxidants. Healthy food makes strong independent humans who are difficult to control.

4. Economic Threat: The sick-care industry is about 20% of the U.S. economy. Big Ag and Big Pharma are utterly dependent on keeping the public away from healthy foods. Supporting underground organic food cartels is a risk to economic recovery.

5. BGH and GMO: Bovine Growth Hormone and GMO-fed milk creates more patients for Big Pharma than grass-fed raw milk. Dairy farmers that use BGH and subsidized GM feed maximize profits the American way. Natural dairy farmers hate technology and advancement.

6. Contagion: If more people are allowed to discover the benefits of raw milk, they may get addicted to other natural health foods and remedies not offered by central controllers. As such, raw milk should be treated as a gateway food.

7. Black Markets: Some food cooperatives operate as private clubs, or through barter systems. In other words, they operate outside of the reach of the corporate government. This is a shadowy world where illegal currencies are traded and tax revenues are difficult to extort for the public good.

8. Regulators: The staff of the FDA and CDC are people too. They need to pay mortgages and put processed food on the table. They wouldn’t have such a generous budget without taking away the rights of small farmers and foodies. Naturally, this angers foodies and may cause them to revolt.