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The FDA and USDA have routinely used the Federal Register to “update” the food safety system, always granting themselves far reaching authority and empowering themselves far beyond the intent of the original legislation that created these blights on America.”
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And the Republicans joined right in!
I can only imgaine that the halls of the Senate were virtually awash in “funding” from lobbyists as Republicans joined Democrats in the greatest assault on agriculture ever launched by our own government.
It seems there is no stopping the nefarious Harry Reid (D) NV. With the country screaming no to the ill conceived S.510 Fake Food safety bill, Reid was successful in attaching the agricultural police state bill to a non-related bill and rammed this piece of garbage through the senate once again.
And where were those Republicans who got the message from voters that things needed to change? Well…they were right in there voting yes along with the Democrats. Even Senator Tom Coburn (R) OK., jumped on the band wagon and voted to pass this attack on food production and supply into law. Its just amazing what bags of corporate lobbying money can do to politicians.
S.510 Fake Food Safety bill was passed quickly late Sunday afternoon; a vote taken when the Senate could be assured few were watching or even aware that the vote on the criminalization of independent and family agriculture was taking place. Like rats scurrying across the deck of a sinking ship, senators lined up one by one to vote against the best interest of their districts and in favor of the industrialization of agriculture. And like rats, they hurriedly scurried away before their presence was detected. Rats are like that.
“Tonight we unanimously passed a measure to improve on our current food safety system by giving the FDA the resources it needs to keep up with advances in food production and marketing, without unduly burdening farmers and food producers,” Reid said in a statement.
This statement by Reid is an outright lie. He knows better than anyone else this bill has nothing to do with food safety. What is relevant in this statement is the alluding to “marketing (exports) and “food production (gmo, cloning etc.,) He also knows that the CDC report that was withheld for more than a year prior to shoving this attack on America by its own government, indicated food borne illnesses were markedly declining contrary to the phony emotional drivel of Senator Durbin on the senate floor prior to the last vote on S.510.
Reid went on to say that this was the first time in almost a century that the food safety system was updated. This is also a blatant lie.
The FDA and USDA have routinely used the Federal Register to “update” the food safety system, always granting themselves far reaching authority and empowering themselves far beyond the intent of the original legislation that created these blights on America. All S.510 will do is to unlawfully empower these agencies to openly construct a police state in agriculture with an eye on making the continuance of family and independent farming and ranching so untenable, so riddled with onerous regulations, reporting requirements, warrantless searches and seizure of private property, unnecessary licensing, property rights violations, and the abrogation of individual rights in order to benefit corporations and all the costs associated with these acts of aggression against independent agriculture, that many farmers and ranchers are already bailing out ahead of the FDA Gestapo plans.
Jean Halloran, director of Food Policy Initiatives at Consumers Union, said, “This is a wonderful day for consumers.” Well, actually Jean…no it isn’t.
Unfortunately for Ms. Halloran, this bill will not relieve the problem of contaminated food. This is not a wonderful day for consumers as this bill conspicuously did not contain any provision which identified or corrected the major causes of food borne illness. All HACCP (self-inspection) protections for corporate industrialized producers and processors, the sector where most contamination occurs, remain in place.
Nothing in the bill punishes or halts trade from countries such as China who have a long and sordid history of shipping contaminated food products into the US. There are no fines, penalties or other hindrances to prevent these contaminated products from being continually dumped into our food supply.
Halloran went on to say: This bill gives FDA essential tools like mandatory recall authority to insure that the food we eat is safe.”
This bill gave the FDA a lot more than mandatory recall authority, and the last place I would look to ensure food safety is the FDA. We have only to look at the cancerous history of the FDA in regards to pharmaceuticals to know that this agency should have been the last one considered to stand guard on our food supply. How many people have been harmed, maimed, or killed as a result of FDA approved drugs that were lethal, yet approved for use on the public? Anything for a buck, right? When will we see Senator Durbin on the floor of the senate lamenting that?
This bill also authorized the hiring of thousands of new agents but these new agents won’t be on the docks inspecting imports before they enter the food supply and they won’t be used to increase the number of inspections in processing plants. No….these new agents will be attacking domestic farmers and ranchers and they will do it knowing all the while that they are infringing on idividual rights, property rights and in clear violation of multiple Constitutional protections meant to prevent this very kind of thing from happening.
This bill represents an overt assault on the people of the United States by their own government. The groups chiming in, in support of this bill either didn’t read it, didn’t understand what they were reading or didn’t care. This is not and never was about food safety.
This is the theft and seizure of the US food supply on behalf of corporations, who were conspicuously protected in this bill.
One more time, Mr. Reid:
“Tonight we unanimously passed a measure to improve on our current food safety system by giving the FDA the resources it needs to keep up with advances in food production and marketing, without unduly burdening farmers and food producers,” Reid said in a statement.
And to think this man told this lie while staring blankly into a camera all the while knowing that what he had just done would adversely affect millions of lives and end any safe production of food from local sources. The key to the private joke Reid is alluding to are the words “unduly burdening”. I guess its all relative. If you aren’t likely to be affected by the egregious bills you concoct, the burden may not seem “undue” to you.
Senator Reid along with 99 other senators were not at all adversley affected by this attack on agriculture. In fact, the majority of them profited quite well from voting for corporations and the eradication of domestic independent agriculture.
Shame on all of you!
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What Senators got paid off to pass S.510?
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CDC report on the decline of food borne illnesses
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zim
Jun 12, 2011 @ 10:07:04
I can only urge Obama to veto this bill.
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Joe in JT
Jan 20, 2011 @ 12:57:25
Everybody thinks money is where the power lies but that’s not true. The real power over citizentry is food. Control the food and you control the people. Monsanto now has terminator seeds technology and it’s spreading “fast”. Soon you won’t be able to find airloom seeds that you can save and regrow next year. You’ll have to buy Monsanto seed every year at a steep price. Also Monsanto genetically modified their seeds to only grow if sprayed with their Round-Up ($30 per gallon). This is serious folks. You better plant a garden with real seeds because soon airloom seeds will be more scarce than a pretty picture of Joan Rivers.
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ppjg
Jan 17, 2011 @ 14:37:16
Liberal supreme court?? Where did you get that from? There are 3 liberals on that court…..the rest are hard core conservatives. It was Roberts, chief justice who pushed this forward and who helped write the opinion. Hard right, christian conservative.
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JRBeaman
Jan 17, 2011 @ 10:37:21
Bribery? Theft? Graft? Corruption?
That’s what we get when the liberal Supreme Court says money donated to politicians is considered part of free speech.
Harry Reid is a traitor and should be dealt with accordingly.
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wilson
Dec 24, 2010 @ 08:31:38
The United States is a Zionist host nation . They’re using our military to depopulate the Muslim world, while they loot and destroy our nation from the inside.
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ppjg
Dec 21, 2010 @ 17:06:40
You are absolutely right….they don’t. Thats why they used the APA to create privately held corporate federal agencies to do the dirty work for them.
You also right in that they cannot delegate authority they do not have. Has any one of your legislators federal or state, stepped up and said “wait!” We don’t have the authority or power to do this! Well…no they haven’t!
People routinely comply with laws that are essentially null and void on their face.
Have you tried speaking with any of your senators or representatives about this? No? Why not?
This is about far more than carrots from your garden. But this is probably the only thing you could come up with in an attempt to trivialize this.
In Wisconsin and Minnesota, USDA/state AG night time raids on farms have been going on for some time. Property seized and stolen, businesses interferred with, families held at gun point while the house was trashed. We have video. i don’t think they were looking for carrots from Mary’s garden.
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Curt Scott
Dec 21, 2010 @ 15:18:38
Contrary to the giant misconceptions voiced here, -DC does NOT have general jurisdiction in the States to regulate how Mary-Mary makes her garden grow. If they can’t regulate guns near schools (US vs. Lopez), -then how are they going to regulate carrots at your vegetable stand? DC CANNOT give itself what it does not have. (
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However, -if you keep voicing these LIES as “fears”, –people will come to believe them true & then the law won’t matter because people will do whatever they’ve been lead to believe. Paid “your” taxes yet? …
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Mihail
Dec 21, 2010 @ 13:46:48
You people want to know the truth,who is behind all these pain in Usa?Please read this book for free.Who is Esau-Edom.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19745589/Who-is-EsauEdom
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ppjg
Dec 21, 2010 @ 04:44:46
Everyone is asking that same question. coburn was the last best hope we had and as usual we put our faith in the wrong place. We have to fight back on the state level. Go after these governors and demand that they refuse the federal contracting and accompanying bribery money called cooperative funding. This could be stoped at your state line…..but I can guarantee you no one will do anything. Marti
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Abigail adams
Dec 21, 2010 @ 04:06:21
I want to hear from Senator Coburn. What happened to him holding the line for us?
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Bob Kemp
Dec 20, 2010 @ 23:55:39
Hi –
I admit I was surprised at unanimous consent to include the S. 510 language in another bill since I live in Texas and have had correspondance with Sen. Cornyn assuring me he opposes the Food Safety Modrnization Act. In fact, 24 other Senators have also voted against the act and I wondered why any of them would refuse to object to this move.
I just wrote Sen. Cornyn asking for an explanation. It’s quite possible I’m not familiar with the Senate legislative process and am misunderstanding the meaning of this action.
It may be there’s another reason that they refused to oppose unanimous consent that doesn’t lead to this act being passed. I can’t imagine how even one of 25 Senators opposed to an act would fail to object to a consent when it would lead directly to the act’s passage. Surely they weren’t all absent from the vote.
Bob
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walt
Dec 20, 2010 @ 20:48:37
What would happen if the Farmers neighbors in the county were all bird hunting in his field at the same time with shotguns when the so called authorities showed up?
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pdaddy
Dec 20, 2010 @ 19:00:11
To “Colonel Ted Westhusing”
Not cool at all. That Col. supposedly died from a “self-inflicted” gunshot wound in Iraq in 2005. Have some respect for the dead.
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Robert
Dec 20, 2010 @ 18:27:19
Find sources of organic heirloom seed stock and obtain as much as you can NOW. Learn to can your veggies…learn how to take some of your crop to seed and store them for next year. The constitution protects you…any law that violates the constitution is null and void. It just got serious people! Time to act to protect your health! Picket fence in your backyard and put up square foot gardens…easy to maintain.
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rik
Dec 20, 2010 @ 16:50:34
Soon..It will be too late to stop this de facto dictatorship from ruling America forever.
The Land of the (used to be) FREE and home of the(used to be) BRAVE is pretty much finished.It has been stolen from us…all of it.
They robbed us,they raped us, then they laughed when when went down without a fight..WE will all have to live with the fact that WE let it happen….now WE will reap what THEY have sown.
A bitter harvest. AMERICA (R.I.P.)
AMERIKKA INC.
Land of the weak,home of the slaves.
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Randall
Dec 20, 2010 @ 14:36:06
I’ve heard it said, that the most important invention ever made was the simple plow. This implement made it possible for people to put their skills to more important things other than wasting time growing and taking care of their crop.
Instead of everyone growing crops, one farmer could grow enough for 10, even 100’s of people.
This has turned out to be dangerous, as Monsanto has proven.
It looks like the human race must devolve back to growing their own. That is if the traitors of D.C. allow it. (s510).
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Colonel Ted Westhusing
Dec 20, 2010 @ 14:28:56
Rise up. Stop cowering in fear, don’t you realize your 1st and 2nd Amendment shield you, that the government is your employee, that you own and control it – not the other way around.
Overthrow them: Congress, the Administration, and the Supreme Court, which recently declared corporations, including foreign-owned, have a right to contribute an unlmited amount of money to any politi al campaign.
Overthrow them. The NSA and CIA and military contractors that control your lives as much as the officials that the 20 individuals that contol the US vetted into power.
Wake up.
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Bill
Dec 20, 2010 @ 14:10:52
They just passed the same crap in Canada……..
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Di, Cerrillos,NM
Dec 20, 2010 @ 12:56:53
I can only urge Obama to veto this bill. This is deceiteful. My little garden is not a threat to Monsanto or Cargill. I have only had food poisoning after eating in restaurants.
I would like Mr. Reid to drink a bottle of baby formula from China on the floor of the Senate. I’ll bet he won’t.
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TJsMom
Dec 20, 2010 @ 12:44:39
Well, I’m not giving up my horses or my garden. When gardens are outlawed, only outlaws will have gardens. MOLON LABE!
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