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IT'S BACK... Food Safety Modernization Act
« on: November 18, 2010, 01:42:17 AM »
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s510/actions_votes

Senate Bill S 510 Food Safety Modernization Act vote imminent:
http://www.naturalnews.com/030418_Food_Safety_Modernization_Act_seeds.html

1.  It puts all US food and all US farms under Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, in the event of contamination or an ill-defined emergency.  It resembles the Kissinger Plan.

2.  It would end US sovereignty over its own food supply by insisting on compliance with the WTO, thus threatening national security.  It would end the Uruguay Round Agreement Act of 1994, which put US sovereignty and US law under perfect protection.  Instead, S 510 says:

“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.”

3.  It would allow the government, under Maritime Law, to define the introduction of any food into commerce (even direct sales between individuals) as smuggling into “the United States.” Since under that law, the US is a corporate entity and not a location, “entry of food into the US” covers food produced anywhere within the land mass of this country and “entering into” it by virtue of being produced.

4.  It imposes Codex Alimentarius on the US, a global system of control over food. It allows the United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the WTO to take control of every food on earth and remove access to natural food supplements.  Its bizarre history and its expected impact in limiting access to adequate nutrition (while mandating GM food, GM animals, pesticides, hormones, irradiation of food, etc.) threatens all safe and organic food and health itself, since the world knows now it needs vitamins to survive, not just to treat illnesses.

5.  It would remove the right to clean, store and thus own seed in the US, putting control of seeds in the hands of Monsanto and other multinationals, threatening US security. See Seeds – How to criminalize them, for more details.

6.  It includes NAIS, an animal traceability program that threatens all small farmers and ranchers raising animals. The UN is participating through the WHO, FAO, WTO, and World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in allowing mass slaughter of even heritage breeds of animals and without proof of disease.  Biodiversity in farm animals is being wiped out to substitute genetically engineered animals on which corporations hold patents.  Animal diseases can be falsely declared.  S 510 includes the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), despite its corrupt involvement in the H1N1 scandal, which is now said to have been concocted by the corporations.

7.  It extends a failed and destructive HACCP to all food, thus threatening to do to all local food production and farming what HACCP did to meat production – put it in corporate hands and worsen food safety.

8.  It deconstructs what is left of the American economy. It takes agriculture and food, which are the cornerstone of all economies, out of the hands of the citizenry, and puts them under the total control of multinational corporations influencing the UN, WHO, FAO and WTO, with HHS, and CDC, acting as agents, with Homeland Security as the enforcer.  The chance to rebuild the economy based on farming, ranching, gardens, food production, natural health, and all the jobs, tools and connected occupations would be eliminated.

9.  It would allow the government to mandate antibiotics, hormones, slaughterhouse waste, pesticides and GMOs. This would industrialize every farm in the US, eliminate local organic farming, greatly increase global warming from increased use of oil-based products and long-distance delivery of foods, and make food even more unsafe.  The five items listed — the Five Pillars of Food Safety — are precisely the items in the food supply which are the primary source of its danger.

10. It uses food crimes as the entry into police state power and control. The bill postpones defining all the regulations to be imposed; postpones defining crimes to be punished, postpones defining penalties to be applied.  It removes fundamental constitutional protections from all citizens in the country, making them subject to a corporate tribunal with unlimited power and penalties, and without judicial review. It is (similar to C-6 in Canada) the end of Rule of Law in the US.

http://www.truthistreason.net/senate-bill-510-may-be-the-most-dangerous-bill-in-the-history-of-the-us

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Re: IT'S BACK... Food Safety Modernization Act
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2010, 01:51:39 AM »
Food Safety Bill Sets up Big-Small Food Fight

The U.S. Senate will hold its first procedural vote Wednesday morning on S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. If it passes the first procedural hurdle, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., will ask to go directly to a cloture vote on the full bill or begin 30 hours of debate, which then carries the bill's fate until after Thanksgiving.

The bill has some interesting dynamics. Large food processors, packers and the overall grocery industry support S. 510, but they want to ensure no exclusions exist. Small farmers, food markets, and small processors would have to follow the same rules as everyone else. Food Safety News reported Tuesday that "a group of 30 meat, pet food, and fresh produce industry groups sent a letter to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee chairman and ranking members, Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Michael Enzi (R-WY), respectively, urging key staff and lawmakers working on the bill to oppose a measure to exempt small farms and producers from the crux of the legislation.
"We believe an operation's size, the growing practices used, or its proximity to customers does not determine whether the food offered is safe," read the letter, which was signed by the American Meat Institute, the United Fresh Produce Association, and the United Egg Producers.

www.foodsafetynews.com

Some of the major ag/food-processing groups effectively state they will walk away from the bill if there are any exclusions for small producers.

Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., continues to push an amendment that would exempt small processors and farms that make less that $500,000 in sales to direct markets, restaurants or stores in a 400-mile radius of the processing facility, or in the same state. Those facilities would continue to fall under state or local regulations. Tester plans to hold a press conference about his amendment on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Tester picked up some support from apostles of the foodie, anti-Big Ag movement with a joint statement from authors Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser.

"S510 is the most important food safety legislation in a generation. The Tester amendment will make it even more effective, strengthening food safety rules while protecting small farmers and producers. We both think this is the right thing to do." --Eric Schlosser & Michael Pollan stated.

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Re: IT'S BACK... Food Safety Modernization Act
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2010, 11:08:15 AM »
Cliff notes please.

Is this another democrat attempt to screw the farmers and ranchers?

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« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2010, 11:13:51 AM »
3.  It would allow the government, under Maritime Law, to define the introduction of any food into commerce (even direct sales between individuals) as smuggling into “the United States.” Since under that law, the US is a corporate entity and not a location, “entry of food into the US” covers food produced anywhere within the land mass of this country and “entering into” it by virtue of being produced.


Dirtbags....some of the locals in my state have started a co-op type thing where they just meet in an arranged parking lot on arranged dates and trade food.  A lot of small farms, so it works great.  I'm sure these assholes would ban that under the guise of this shit law.


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« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2010, 11:16:07 AM »
I hope this gets crushed.

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« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2010, 01:45:39 PM »
Cliff notes please.

Is this another democrat attempt to screw the farmers and ranchers?
It's going to grow government by creating a new massive agency like the TSA that will be all over the country policing everything produced or grown.  They'll put the same new laws and requirments in the bill on a small farm that they do the giant corporations.  It also words things so that nothing the US does food wise can go against WTO.  There's more but I don't want to end up cliff noting the cliff notes ;D 

It's going to cost taxpayers a lot and have more people from the government breathing down our necks....

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« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2010, 01:47:03 PM »
I hope this gets crushed.
It's looking like they're going to get it passed as of right now.

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« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2010, 01:53:08 PM »
It's looking like they're going to get it passed as of right now.

Why did I know that was the case.

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« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2010, 03:02:50 PM »
It's looking like they're going to get it passed as of right now.

Damn - this govt is so out of freaking control its nuts. 

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« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2010, 03:35:14 PM »
11/16/2010
-Urgent Legislative Alert!-

by Darrell Castle
Constitution Party National Committee Vice-Chairman


Call Your Senator Now!!!
 

Monsanto’s Food Safety Bill S-510 Set for
Vote Today
November 16, 2010

Senate S-510 (better known as the Food Safety Bill) is set for a cloture vote in the U.S. Senate today, November 16, 2010.

Cloture is a parliamentary procedure that allows the senators to cut off debate and vote on a bill immediately thereafter.

Advocates of the bill claim they have 90 votes: many more than would be necessary to end cloture and pass the bill.

The Food Safety Bill was introduced in the Senate by Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill), but it has many co-sponsors, including Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. It appears to have been designed and written by Michael Taylor, who was Monsanto’s lawyer and VP for many years before being appointed to the FDA to oversee the introduction of genetically modified foods (GMO’s) into the American marketplace.

Without trying to become more technical than I am capable of, S-510 would transfer all food production and consumption in the United States from regulation by a myriad of federal agencies that now control it to one new, very powerful agency set up under the Department of Homeland Security. This department would transfer to the Department of Defense in the event of any, as yet undefined, emergency. I don’t know about you, but I find that thought very frightening.

Here are just a few of the things S-510 purports to do:

•Preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes.
•It will more than likely make Michael Taylor (mentioned above) the Food Czar.
•End U.S. sovereignty over its own food supply by forcing compliance with WTO guidelines.
•Even direct sales of food between individuals could be defined as smuggling under the language of the bill.
•Codex Alimentarius, a global system of control over food and food supplements, would control all U.S. food and supplements. Access to natural food supplements would be removed under Codex rules.
•Control of all seeds would transfer to Monsanto and other global multinationals.
•The National Animal Identification System ( NAIS ) would be enacted, forcing bio-chipping and other identification and tracking methods for all animals, whether food or pets.
•What is left of the American food system would be transferred into total control of Multinational Corporations under the guise of global governance.
This brief article is not meant to be definitive, but is instead intended to give people a short idea, in the brief time we have left, of what they will face if this bill passes.

Call your senators right now, to oppose S-510!

Darrell Castle
Vice-Chairman
Constitution Party National Committee

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Re: IT'S BACK... Food Safety Modernization Act
« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2010, 03:38:51 PM »
Reid: Food Safety Too Important For Parisan Delays(if harry likes it,it's bad!)
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ^ | November 18, 2010 | U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid




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Washington, DC— Nevada Senator Harry Reid made the following remarks on the Senate floor this morning to urge swift passage of food safety legislation.  Below are his remarks as prepared for delivery:

“No one in America should have to worry if their salad or sandwich is going to kill them.  No one in the Senate should prey on that fear, or play with it like a political football.

“Yet that’s exactly what’s happening.  If you follow the Senate every day, you might not be surprised to see our Republican friends turn food safety in a partisan, political issue.  But if you’re just trying to keep yourself and your family healthy, you might be appalled.  And rightly so.

“You might also be troubled to learn that our food-safety system hasn’t been updated in almost a century.

“Food processing, production and marketing have surely advanced over the last hundred years, but our safety measures haven’t.  New contaminants come up every year, but our safety measures don’t keep up. 

“That’s because our FDA doesn’t have the authority or resources it needs to keep up. 

“This bill will fix that.  It will greatly improve this important system, and it will keep regulatory burdens on farmers and food producers to a minimum.  It simply gives the FDA the authority to recall contaminated foods, to find out where those dangerous foods came from, and to stop them from getting to our grocery stores.

“It’s a bipartisan bill.  The HELP Committee passed it unanimously.  But somewhere between the committee and the Senate floor, making sure the food we eat isn’t poisonous has somehow become a partisan issue.  That’s unacceptable.

“Food poisoning kills as many as 5,000 Americans every year.  Food-borne illnesses sicken one in four people every year.  Surely if 25 Senators – a quarter of the Senate – got food poisoning this year, we’d do something about it – and we wouldn’t think twice about which political party those Senators identified with.

“People often think of food poisoning as an upset stomach that goes away in a few hours or a day.  And sometimes, yes, that’s all it is.  But sometimes it is much worse. 

“I have met with families who have been seriously sickened by the food they’ve eaten – people who were hospitalized for weeks and months and came very close to death.  In some cases, they will deal with the results of their food poisoning for the rest of their lives.

“I’ve told, in this chamber, the story of a girl named Rylee Gustafson from Henderson, Nevada.  When she was 9 years old, she ate a salad that almost killed her.  There was spinach in that salad, and E. coli in that spinach.  Rylee got seriously ill and went to the hospital.  Three others who got E.coli from fresh spinach died. 

“I’ve also told the story of the Rivera Family from Las Vegas.  Linda Rivera ingested E. coli from some cookie dough.  Soon, she was in a coma.

“Then, just a few days ago, the CDC alerted us to another E. Coli outbreak.  Thirty-seven Americans have gotten sick from a brand of cheese sold in the West, including two in Nevada.

“So why have we waited this long to make our food safer?  Why are we still playing these games?  The answer is nothing more than politics.  It’s shameful.  And it should end today.”


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Re: IT'S BACK... Food Safety Modernization Act
« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2010, 03:39:25 PM »
It's shocking Monsanto would be involved in this.. ;D

We are fucked..

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« Reply #12 on: November 18, 2010, 04:02:51 PM »
It's shocking Monsanto would be involved in this.. ;D

We are fucked..
they say they don't have any opinion on it.  they don't have to, all their former employees and financial recipients in government are happy to do that for them.

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« Reply #13 on: November 18, 2010, 04:56:31 PM »
they say they don't have any opinion on it.  they don't have to, all their former employees and financial recipients in government are happy to do that for them.

What a Despicable company Monsanto is...


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« Reply #14 on: November 18, 2010, 05:58:07 PM »
So did this pass?

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« Reply #15 on: November 18, 2010, 06:07:41 PM »
So did this pass?

It passed the first stage and is now up for a final vote in the senate. It is looking as of now like it has the votes to pass.

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« Reply #16 on: November 18, 2010, 06:28:28 PM »
It passed the first stage and is now up for a final vote in the senate. It is looking as of now like it has the votes to pass.

I thought it was up for vote today for some reason.

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« Reply #17 on: November 18, 2010, 06:45:42 PM »
I thought it was up for vote today for some reason.

My understanding is it was up for a vote to see if they would debate and have a vote.

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« Reply #18 on: November 18, 2010, 06:51:16 PM »
My understanding is it was up for a vote to see if they would debate and have a vote.
correct.

For everyone interested, you can keep track of the actions and votes here:
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s510/actions_votes

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« Reply #19 on: November 18, 2010, 08:29:13 PM »



This is disgusting.

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« Reply #20 on: November 18, 2010, 08:50:38 PM »
Will this mean farmer's markets will be outlawed?

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« Reply #21 on: November 18, 2010, 08:51:05 PM »
My understanding is it was up for a vote to see if they would debate and have a vote.

Ok gotcha, I totally wasn't paying attention.

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« Reply #22 on: November 19, 2010, 10:18:17 AM »
The political board is obviously made up of people dumber than bricks if they are falling for this nonsense yet again.

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« Reply #23 on: November 19, 2010, 10:22:33 AM »
The political board is obviously made up of people dumber than bricks if they are falling for this nonsense yet again.

Go the fuck away - you are not welcome here.    I used to like you, but posting pics of peoples' kids is beyond the pale.  After the crap you pulled - you really need to look in the mirror and ask yourself some serious questions.     


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« Reply #24 on: November 19, 2010, 10:24:21 AM »
Go crawl back in your hole Frik. Don't know who that is? Well its your twin

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