Showing posts with label food modernization safety act of 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food modernization safety act of 2010. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Citizens for Health Urge You to Contact Your Senators NOW!
Citizens for Health has been tracking the progress of The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, S.510. While the bill has been amended, it still has a long way to go for us to consider supporting it, and now that Congress is returning from Thanksgiving recess we need to increase pressure on lawmakers to oppose S.510.
Urge your Senators NOW to oppose S. 510!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/750/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5264
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. If it does pass the lame duck Congress we must urge President Obama to veto it. If he signs it into law, its enforcement must be resisted; its funding must be blocked; and its repeal must be sought. 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 reelection of any S.510 supporters in 2012.
The Senate will be addressing a series of procedural votes and the final vote on S.510 is scheduled for Tuesday, November 30, 2010. Use messages, phone calls [Senate: (202) 224-3121] - any mechanism you have - to insist that your Senators oppose the bill. If it should pass the Senate we will then fight to oppose it in the conference committee assigned to reconcile the House and Senate versions. If S.510 makes it through the committee, we will bring our weight to bear on both the House and Senate to oppose the final version of the bill. Through these efforts we will also build 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.
source: www.citizens.org
Monday, November 29, 2010
The S.510 Vote Has Been Delayed til Tuesday! CALL YOUR SENATORS AND TELL THEM TO VOTE "NO" ON S.510!
The phone lines were jammed in DC today, thanks to those who called their senators offices and urged them to vote "NO" on S.510, the giant step back known as "Food Modernization Act of 2010".
Here's the link to the senators contact information:
PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATOR'S DC OFFICE AND POLITELY SAY "VOTE NO ON S.510".
There's no need to elaborate, unless you feel compelled to do so. They will ask for your zip code -- and that's all there is to it. Every call is counted, and the senators get the sheets as they go into session, so they are aware of the sentiments of their constituency. Many people emailed, detailing their thoughts about the convoluted nature of the bill. Some have been surprised they heard back so quickly from their representative's offices. This bill is a very big deal, and requires everyone's attention.
For more information, read Mike Adam's newsletter here:
Mike closes this update with these thoughts:
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.
OC
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Take Action on S.510 - Push Back NOW!
Senate Bill S.510 is up for vote Monday. This bill, known as the "Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010", is not about food OR safety. It's about criminalization. Everyone knows that e.coli is from factory animals. Those who wrote this bill must think that you are pretty stupid to believe that factory animals have a place in organic farming and backyard gardens.
But wait...there's more criminalization!..... a 1099 reporting requirement, too, which will have small business owners running around to anywhere they spent over $600, turning them into paperwork pack rats.
And if S.510 isn't bad enough, there's a companion bill S.3767 which will reintroduce criminal penalties for anyone who sells what the government will later decides was 'adulterated' or 'misbranded' food, a provision which had been removed from the House-passed "Food Safety" version last year (HR.1279).
Dietary supplements are covered under this provision. It used to be that the FDA would send a warning letter telling a company its claims were illegal and the company would either change the claims or defend them. If this bill passes, FDA can simply start by bringing criminal charges any time it determines that a claim is not allowed.
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 House/Senate conference committee, if We the People allow S.510 to pass the US Senate!
What does this mean?
Here is what the bill actually says:
"S.3767 -- Food Safety Accountability Act of 2010 (Introduced in Senate - IS)
111th CONGRESS - 2d Session
To establish appropriate criminal penalties for certain knowing violations relating to food that is misbranded or adulterated.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
September 13, 2010
Mr. LEAHY (for himself, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, and Mr. FRANKEN) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To establish appropriate criminal penalties for certain knowing violations relating to food that is misbranded or adulterated.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Food Safety Accountability Act of 2010'.
SEC. 2. CRIMINAL PENALTIES.
(a) In General- Chapter 47 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
`Sec. 1041. Misbranded and adulterated food
`(a) In General- It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly--
`(1) introduce or deliver for introduction into interstate commerce any food that is adulterated or misbranded; or
`(2) adulterate or misbrand any food in interstate commerce.
`(b) Penalty- Any person who violates subsection (a) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both.'.
(b) Technical and Conforming Amendment- The table of sections for chapter 47 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
`1041. Misbranded and adulterated food.'."
Senate calendar:
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/d_three_sections_with_teasers/calendars.htm
Click here to find the link to your state representative contact information:Please contact your state representatives and tell them to vote "NO!" on S.510. Senate votes on this MONDAY, November 29, 2010.OC
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