Voice Your Opinion on Food Safety #s-510
A massive outpouring of public response is needed.
in the face of Food Safety Legislation fast moving
through Congress.
Date: 8/15/2009 10:14:21 AM ( 15 y ) ... viewed 2341 times
Updated
March 23, 2010
3:52 PM
SOME information here needs to be updated.
#s-510, FOOD SAFETY MODERNIZATION ACT
UPDATE
http://www.carolinafarmstewards.org/alert_foodsafety_mar10.shtml
WILL ADD HOT LINKS
TO EXPLAIN CONCEPTS ABOVE
Is this What you call
Food Safety???
Your Voice is needed now!
New Food Codes
aim to harmonize
the US with industrial GMO Global Ag,
restrict local farmers behind
a mountain of extra red tape,
and extend FDA Regs
to the level of Farmers' Markets.
New laws are rushing through Congress.
Is this what you call Food Safety?
Google BEET KEEPERS to get
the Full picture. Take action
to secure our food supply.
WHERE DOES #HR 2749 STAND NOW?
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1471928
August 15, 09
DECLARATION OF HEALTH FOOD
AND AGRICULTURE
http://fooddeclaration.org/downloads/food_declaration_04.pdf
ACTION ALERT!
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL FARMER NOW
Ask the Senate to Amend
THE FOOD SAFETY MODERNIZATION ACT,
S-510 THAT COMES IN SEPTEMBER.
ASK FOR A THOROUGH DISCUSSION OF
FOOD SAFETY and an EXPLORATION
of HEALTHY SMALL DIVERSIFIED FARMING
PRACTICES that aid HEALTHY FOOD SAFETY.
THE FOOD SAFETY ENHANCEMENT ACT,
known as #HR 2749 passed the
House July 29. It seeks to GIVE THE FDA
more REGULATORY POWERS OVER LOCAL
AGRICULTURE.
Sign a petition Online to express your concerns.
This Petition automatically fills
in your Representatives and Senators names
and allows you to modify the existing
suggested words of the petition.>
Bills desiring to legislate Food Safety
need to be fully discussed,
not rushed through the legislative process
into Law.
2.
THIS IS THE PAGE
WHERE COMMENTS ARE
RECORDED ABOUT THE
LEAFY GREEN GUIDELINES
NOW BEING CONSIDERED BY
THE FDA
You are commenting on a NOTICES:
Draft Guidance for Industry: Guide to Minimize
Microbial Food Safety Hazards of Leafy Greens;
Availability (Document ID FDA-2009-D-0348-000
Availability (Document ID FDA-2009-D-0348-000
FOR MORE INFORMATION
about the GREEN LEAFY GUIDELINES
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1471422
See numbers of PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOGS
below about The FOOD SAFETY ENHANCEMENT ACT.
TOUR THE HILLCREST FARMERS MARKET,
August 23. 2009 Links, photos, and info
about one of the USA last bastions
of Real Food.
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1469848
WHAT DO SKUNKS EAT?
Explore the connections between
our FDA and the international Rules and Regs of
the Codex Alimentarius Commission.
Current legislation, THE FOOD SAFETY
ENHANCEMENT ACT 2009, passed by
the House July 30, aims to
bring our nation harmonize with this international
Food Safety Body, whose leader
says that Health has nothing to do with
Nutrttion, and Pharma Drugs are here
to mitigate disease.
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1467854
Start here..
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4:44 AM
August 5, 09
The Full Moon
LEAFY GREENS GUIDELINES FROM THE
FDA 7/31/09.
Right on Schedule as Promised--Leafy Greens Guidelines from FDA.
Saturday morning thoughts before doing some
Finances.
Written in the aftermath of
the FOOD SAFETY ENHANCEMENT ACT
that passed the House of Representatives
July 30. THESE GUIDELINES
express part of the Mindset
behind the bill that now goes
to the Senate in September:
The FDA is looking for feedback
about the new guidelines.
Uploaded
10:35 PM
August 1, 09
Many who testified before the
House Ag Committee July 16, said the bill
needed work. Some amendments
were added, but major flaws still exist
in the bill that passed the House.
#usbill #HR 2749
on FOOD SAFETY NEEDS WORK
says PRESS RELEASE FROM
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FOLLOW JULY 16 OPEN Hearing.
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July 18, 09
1:10 PM
FOR MORE READ
IT's ABOUT TRADE: FSEA #HR2749 HURTS SMALL FARMERS
and
RESOLVING OUR NATIONAL FOOD EMERGENCY
Is this What you call
Food Safety???
Your Voice is needed now!
New Food Codes
aim to harmonize
the US with industrial GMO Global Ag,
restrict local farmers behind
a mountain of red tape,
and extend FDA Regs
to the level of Farmers' Markets.
New laws are rushing through Congress.
Is this what you call Food Safety?
Google BEET KEEPERS to get
the Full picture. Take action
to secure our food supply.
7:58 AM
August 15, 09
Health Reform and Food Safety go hand in hand.
Both these issues are being pushed through congress now.
Neither legislation focuses on the essential solution:
Real progress asks us to harmonize with the
Beat of Nature. Through growing a bit of our own
food, we regain our connection with the garden itself.
The garden, as much as a literal place, where foods
grow, is a metaphor for consciousness.
One unbroken wholeness in flowing movement,
that is the definition of consciousness itself.
More than this today, we have a consciousness
that is splintered. One hand does not know
what the other is doing.
I would suggest a simple solution;
Grow a beet. Through doing this, we
can begin to regain the beat of nature.
BECOMING LAW NOW,
UNLESS WE TAKE ACTION
A massive awakening is needed.
Local farming is jeopardized.
We all have too much on our plate
to do anything about the speeding train
that is pushing another kind of world
upon us.
WHAT TO DO NEXT?
Declaration for
HealtHy fooD
anD agriculture
We,
the undersigned, believe that a
healthy food system is necessary to
meet the urgent challenges of our
time. Behind us stands a half-century of industrial
food production, underwritten by cheap fossil fuels,
abundant land and water resources, and a drive to
maximize the global harvest of cheap calories. Ahead
lie rising energy and food costs, a changing climate,
declining water supplies, a growing population, and
the paradox of widespread hunger and obesity. 4
These realities call for a radically different approach to food and agriculture.
We believe that the food system must be reorganized on a foundation of
health: for our communities, for people, for animals, and for the natural
world. The quality of food, and not just its quantity, ought to guide our
agriculture. The ways we grow, distribute, and prepare food should celebrate
our various cultures and our shared humanity, providing not only sustenance,
but justice, beauty and pleasure. 4 Governments have a duty to protect
people from malnutrition, unsafe food, and exploitation, and to protect the
land and water on which we depend from degradation. Individuals, producers,
and organizations have a duty to create regional systems that can provide
healthy food for their communities. We all have a duty to respect and honor
the laborers of the land without whom we could not survive. The changes we
call for here have begun, but the time has come to accelerate the transformation
of our food and agriculture and make its benefits available to all.
We believe that the following twelve principles should frame food and ag-
riculture policy, to ensure that it will contribute to the health and wealth of
the nation and the world. A healthy food and agriculture policy:
Forms the foundation of secure and prosperous societies, healthy 1
communities, and healthy people.
Provides access to affordable, nutritious food to everyone.2
Prevents the exploitation of farmers, workers, and natural resources; 3
the domination of genomes and markets; and the cruel treatment of
animals, by any nation, corporation or individual.
Upholds the dignity, safety, and quality of life for all who work to feed us. 4
Commits resources to teach children the skills and knowledge essential 5
to food production, preparation, nutrition, and enjoyment.
Protects the finite resources of productive soils, fresh water, and 6
biological diversity.
Strives to remove fossil fuel from every link in the food chain and 7
replace it with renewable resources and energy.
Originates from a biological rather than an industrial framework.8
Fosters diversity in all its relevant forms: diversity of domestic and 9
wild species; diversity of foods, flavors and traditions; diversity of
ownership.
Requires a national dialog concerning technologies used in production, 10
and allows regions to adopt their own respective guidelines on such
matters.
Enforces transparency so that citizens know how their food is 11
produced, where it comes from, and what it contains.
Promotes economic structures and supports programs to nurture the 12
development of just and sustainable regional farm and food networks.
Our pursuit of healthy food and agriculture unites us as people and as
communities, across geographic boundaries, and social and economic lines.
We pledge our votes, our purchases, our creativity, and our energies to this
urgent cause.
6:55 PM
August 16, 09
Very telling articles
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Merrigan-as-the-show-Mons-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole...
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