Horrified by Congressional Bill S 510

They're calling it The Food Safety Modernization Act. What a complete and total misnomer. Or, to quote Al Pacino, "what a crock of shit."

When congress made it possible years ago to patent seeds, I wasn't made aware of it until after-the-fact. Most of you know what this has done to the independent farmer. For those who don't, in a nutshell, it basically allows evil conglomerates like Monsanto to sue independent and family farmers for trying to maintain their farm and their livelihoods for using Monsanto's "patented" seeds for their crop. No other "modern" or industrialized nation allows for seed patents, but the U.S. does and I'm certain it was due to lobbying and money in the pocket handed out by pharmaceutical-turned-agricultural-greed-machines like Monsant and Cargill.

The Food Safety Modernization Act, S 510, which I hope will soon be on the denied, proverbial cutting room floor, is a bill that will make it illegal to grow, share, and sell home grown anything. 

It seems to be somewhat under the radar right now and is being touted as a food safety act is not only a crock of shit, it is in the same vain as the aforementioned seed patent bill that passed years ago and has devastated and bankrupt independent and family farmers.

Think about it. That basil plant you have or the tomatoes your neighbor grows would be made illegal under this bill. But that's not who they're after, in my opinion. I think they want to centralize agricultural power even more, so that the organic, independent, family farms will become illegal and eventually extinct.

Not only that, it would give all the power of seeds and farming to pharmaceutical conglomerates like Monsanto and Cargill.

Below is what I received about this. If you can share this with anyone you know who can reach a lot of people, please do so. 

To me, this is totally unconstitutional. Prior to the European settlement, the Native-Americans reportedly lived in complete harmony with the land. Ownership of land, seeds or plants was not only dismissed it was unheard of. The European settlers who many of us are decedents of were absolutely dependent upon their right and ability to grow and live off of their own land and food. The right to plant our own food, and have the freedom to choose the food we eat is at the very core of this country's foundation.

It's just craziness!

Don't be fooled by this bill being called a Food Safety Modernization Act. Congress has denied proposed bills that would require GMO-labels on GMO food products. If they refuse to put labels just informing citizens we'll be eating GMO food, I can't believe they have our best interest in mind with this so-called "food safety" measure. 

We still have choice and a voice. Share this blog with everyone you know who cares about our freedom to choose what food we eat. Also, let the senators on the list below know how you feel. Here's a sample letter I received from Aajonus Vonderplanitz, the PhD in nutrition that I follow. By the way, during his studies in nutrition, he researched how mammals respond to food, and especially raw food, whereas a lot of conventional nutrition is based upon analyzing the food only, not how mammals process and respond to certain foods, so....his nutrition findings are extremely sound.

Love to all of you and to our freedom!

Here are a few links and here's the information I received about this bill.

Performance without Pain

DProgram.net

Govtrack.us

We cannot assume that someone else will protect our rights. Each person needs to write a letter. SB S510 is perhaps one of the most scandalous bills to ever have been written that could jeopardize your right to choose the foods you want to eat.

Please send the following senators listed below a sample letter below, or write one and send yours.

Dear Congress(wo)man,
I am deeply concerned with your sponsorship of Senate Bill 510.  That bill represents another hideous attempt to place more power into the hands of centralized government and robs individual citizens and states.  The greatest danger to mankind is that this bill allows complete manipulation of America's food supply and threatens to strip us of our freedoms to grow, sell, and buy food and make doing any of those natural things crimes punishable by imprisonment. It would be a crime to grow food and share it with my friends and neighbors. The act of generating and supporting this bill is in itself criminal to our Constitution to which you are not immune.  Not only remove your sponsorship from Bill S510 but defeat it. Thank you.

Sincerely,
(your name)

Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) is the sponsor of this bill.

Co-sponsors are:
Lamar Alexander [R-TN]
Jeff Bingaman [D-NM]
Richard Burr [R-NC]
Roland Burris [D-IL]
Saxby Chambliss [R-GA]
Christopher Dodd [D-CT]
Michael Enzi [R-WY]
Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]
Judd Gregg [R-NH]
Thomas Harkin [D-IA]
Orrin Hatch [R-UT]
John Isakson [R-GA]
Edward Kennedy [D-MA]
Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]
Ben Nelson [D-NE]
Tom Udall [D-NM]
David Vitter [R-LA]

Write these senators today and tell them to revoke their support of Senate Bill 510!
Senate Bill S510 Will Make It Illegal to Grow, Share, Trade or Sell Homegrown Food
by Steve Green

S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010,  may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US.
    “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.
Monsanto says it has no interest in the bill and would not benefit from it, but Monsanto’s Michael Taylor who gave us rBGH and unregulated genetically modified (GM) organisms, appears to have designed it and is waiting as an appointed Food Czar to the FDA (a position unapproved by Congress) to administer the agency it would create — without judicial review — if it passes.

 S 510 would give Monsanto unlimited power over all US seed, food supplements, food AND FARMING.

History
In the 1990s, Bill Clinton introduced HACCP (Hazardous Analysis Critical Control Points) purportedly to deal with contamination in the meat industry.  Clinton’s HACCP delighted the offending corporate (World Trade Organization “WTO”) meat packers since it allowed them to inspect themselves, eliminated thousands of local food processors (with no history of contamination), and centralized meat into their control.  Monsanto promoted HACCP.

In 2008, Hillary Clinton, urged a powerful centralized food safety agency as part of her campaign for president.  Her advisor was Mark Penn, CEO of Burson Marsteller*, a giant PR firm representing Monsanto.  Clinton lost, but Clinton friends such as Rosa DeLauro, whose husband’s firm lists Monsanto as a progressive client and globalization as an area of expertise, introduced early versions of S 510.
S 510 fails on moral, social, economic, political, constitutional, and human survival grounds.

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 Organization 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.

For further information, watch these videos:
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