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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!
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Stop S.510!
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Thank You, Senator Coburn for Keeping a "Hold" on S.510!
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From the Natural Solutions Foundation Group



« The Controversy Continues: S.510 – the Fake “Food Safetyâ€

Here is another update

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?

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Kathyet