Thread: EMERGENCY ALERT - STOP HARRY REID'S DANGEROUS BILL!

The thread for this was originally started here thanks to Kathyet:
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-218258.html , but I just wanted to make sure that people took greater notice of this since they will be voting tomorrow. Please read:

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.

CONTACT INFO OF SENATORS:

http://senate.gov/general/contact_infor ... rs_cfm.cfm

http://www.naturalnews.com/030418_Food_ ... seeds.html

I called my Congress people this morning to vote "NO" on this Bill if it comes up. The day they start telling me what I can grow in my garden is when words WILL NOT be used anymore. Take it as it is. I make NO apologies!

Michael Bennet of CO, response to this:

Thank you for contacting me regarding the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act, S. 510. I appreciate hearing from you.

In the wake of recent outbreaks of food-borne illness and nationwide recalls of contaminated food from both domestic and foreign sources, lawmakers in Congress have highlighted the need to modernize and strengthen our nation’s food safety system. Several food safety bills have been introduced in the 111th Congress—each one containing a different proposal for improving our food safety system.
In the Senate, S.510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, introduced by Senator Richard Durbin is one approach to improving food safety nationwide. The bill would amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to expand the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services to regulate food and give the FDA new authorities and resources.
S. 510 would require processing facilities to put in place preventative food safety plans and require importers to verify the safety of foreign suppliers and imported food. The bill also seeks to improve our ability to detect and respond to food-borne illness outbreaks by increasing the frequency of FDA inspections, improving surveillance systems, and giving the FDA the authority to recall products in the event of a food-borne illness outbreak.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee passed S. 510 on November 18, 2009. As a member of this Committee, I voted for this bill and remain committed to maintaining the safety of our food supply as well as doing all that I can to work to strengthen Colorado's agriculture industry.
It is important that these legislative proposals do not imperil the future of organic agriculture, small scale farmers, or backyard gardens. The growth of the organic food industry has been tremendous, and has become an increasingly significant sector of agriculture in Colorado and across America. Over 260 of Colorado’s farmers and ranchers have certified organic operations, with over 100,000 acres in organic production. In addition, Colorado has 61 organic food processors and handlers, which provide 920 jobs and boast $560 million in annual sales of certified organic products.
As a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) and the Senate Agriculture Committee, I will work with my colleagues to ensure a fair, comprehensive, and effective system is established that both improves the safety of our nation’s food supply and works for family farmers and producers of all sizes and types. I am optimistic that we will succeed in achieving these common goals.
For more information about my priorities as a U.S. Senator and about issues of importance to Colorado and our nation, I invite you to visit my website at http://bennet.senate.gov/. Again, thank you for contacting me.


Sincerely,

Michael Bennet
United States Senator

(worthless, I wanted to see him GO!)

I just got this from Campaign for Liberty:
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November 16, 2010


Dear North Carolina Friend of Liberty,

As you may have heard, Congress is returning from recess to finish out this year's business in Washington. After the "shellacking" the Democrats took from you on Election Day, they're looking to get as much done as they can before the losers are run out of town on a rail. This is the perfect time to start demanding some answers from Senator Richard Burr about his plan to determine what you can eat.

And let me warn you: if we don’t get some serious commitments from Senator Burr soon, then S. 510 might pass regardless of what happened on Election Day.

S. 510, the Food Modernization and Safety Act, uses a patchwork of rules and regulations on the food "industry" to throw America’s heartland under the government-subsidized corporatist bus as it crushes local and community producers of healthy food.

You see, we are facing one of the most dangerous periods for liberty: The Lame Duck session. This is when Congress comes back after Election Day and before the new Congress takes office in January. There is a nearly two month window where we have many senators who have lost their election - and are no longer accountable to their constituents - but are still able to vote.

I suspect this will be a desperate two months for many of our opponents. The Obama Administration lost many of its supporters in Congress on Election Day. They only have two months to get what they can.

Here’s why Senator Burr is so important. Senator Burr is one of the few Republicans who is a cosponsor of S. 510. This bill gives incredible powers to the federal government to control small local farms, basically determining the food you can eat.

It is amazing to me that we can see how government regulators ignored the problems on BP’s Deepwater Horizon gulf oil rig and somehow believe that we can trust them to regulate large food corporations.

What I expect we will see is more raids on small local food Coops of citizens who want Organic alternatives, like the raid in California where the FDA came into one Coop looking for “organic milkâ€

Reid should never have made it this Nov. I hope his lying, cheating, Pink-O commie ass gets busted for voter fraud!