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Food Freedom site--I like this point of view
Food Freedom site--I like this point of view
Update on SB-3767
September 28, 2010
Date: 9/28/2010 7:21:52 AM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 24563 times
5:22 am
September 28, 2010
I LIKE THIS FOOD FREEDOM SITE.
LOTS OF GREAT LINKS and Articles.
About
This site is a non-commercial blog devoted to those articles that address food freedom, food safety and national food sovereignty – the right of nations to determine food safety standards despite trade agreements.
Discussion is welcome! Comments are moderated for relevance and civility.
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5:46 am
REPRINTED FROM THE FOOD FREEDOM
SITE
http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/senate-judiciary-committee-amende...
“If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.” ~Thomas Jefferson
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"There is No Right to Consume or Feed Children Any Particular Food; There is No Generalized Right to Bodily and Physical Health; There is No Fundamental Right to Freedom of Contract." ~ US Dept of Health & Human Services and US Food & Drug Administration, 2010
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"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." 9th Amendment US Constitution
THIS IS FROM PETE KENNEDY
OF THE FARM TO CONSUMER LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/senate-judiciary-committee-amende...
Under section 103(c) of the manager’s package, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) would be authorized to issue regulations “with respect to activities that constitute on-farm manufacturing or processing of food that is not consumed either on that farm or another farm under common ownership” for purposes of Section 415 of the FDCA [21 USC 350d—“Registration of Food Facilities]. In other words, any farm that manufactures or processes food would be regarded as a “food facility” and subject to the HARPC requirement unless the current definition of “manufacture/process” is changed.
Such farms would also be subject the inspection requirements contained in section 201(a)-Section 421 of the bill [p. 90]. Under section 103(c)(1)(D)(i), the HHS Secretary would have the discretion to exempt a farm from the HARPC and inspection requirements if the farm is only involved in manufacturing/processing low-risk foods. It is the Secretary who determines what foods are low-risk, meaning there is no mandate under the bill for the Secretary to exempt any food from the HARPC and/or inspection requirements.
5 Big Issues with the Global Food System
Senate Judiciary Committee Amended S 3767,
Not out of the woods yet
Posted on September 24, 2010 by geobear7|
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By Dr Rima Laibow
Natural Solutions Foundation
While a good start, the “serious” harm amendment (HEN10891) added to S 3767, the Food Safety Accountability Act, by the Judiciary Committee on September 23rd is not sufficient to protect food distributors from bureaucratic and criminal harassment.
Latest from the Beltway: 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!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4878
Stop S.510!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613
Thank Senator Coburn for Keeping a “Hold” on S.510!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4856
The Senate Judiciary Committee Considered S.3767 In Its Executive Business Meeting yesterday… and amended it!
The Devil, they say, is in the details. Yesterday’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?
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4878
Maybe, if Congress wants to criminalize distributing things
that are harmful to the public… maybe, just maybe,
it should criminalize “knowingly” introducing dangerous drugs
(including vaccines) into commerce, like Vioxx, Avandia, Flu Vaccines, Bextra, for a very few examples.
But, then, there might be a lot of drug company executives
and maybe even some FDA officials who would face criminal charges… Certainly, we need to continue to oppose S.3767,
Sen. Leahy’s bill that could criminalize commercial
speech about food (or at least food distributed in interstate commerce), whenever FDA or FTC decides subsequently that the claims
about the food were not substantiated
to the liking of some bureaucrat.
The “serious” harm amendment (HEN10891)
added by the Judiciary Committee on September 23, 2010
is not sufficient to protect food distributors
from bureaucratic and criminal harassment.
We the People need protection against over-zealous regulators
who will destroy small producers
while big companies can afford
the legal talent needed to escape penalties.
Instead, our communities need to be protected by law
from Federal Government interference
in local and natural food production and distribution.
We need a Food Freedom Amendment,
such as we proposed last year when the House
was considering its version of S.510 a
nd which we have continued to urge:
Food Freedom Amendment
“No provision of Federal Law giving regulatory oversight to any Federal department or agency shall be deemed to apply (a) to any home, home-business, homestead, home or community gardens, small farm, organic or natural agricultural activity, (b) to any family farm or ranch, or (c) to any natural or organic food product, including dietary supplements, as protected under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994.”
Food Freedom is part of Health Freedom, and an essential part of the Liberty that all free people have a right to expect. Legislators have a responsibility to protect that freedom from the bureaucracy they foist on us. Local oversight of local food production would be far superior to big govt poking into all our local activities. Reducing central govt power would enhance the overall health of our society.
S.3767 Coupled with S.510 Could Reach the Senate Floor
For a Vote Early Next Week!
CONTINUE PUSH BACK NEEDED!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613
One other bright note: we knew that the possibility existed that because Sen. Dr. Tom Coburn has blocked the easy passage of S. 510, its language could be inserted into S. 3767 as an end run around Sen. Coburn’s hold. Again, because of our continued opposition and vigorous activism,
that did not happen.
WE ARE NOT OUT OF THE WOODS YET. WE HAVE A LONG WAY
TO GO BEFORE THIS BEAST IS DEAD
Continue to take action NOW and mobilize your contacts… NOW!
What else can you do? Join Our 510/3767 Club NOW!
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189
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3 RESPONSES TO SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE AMENDED S 3767, NOT OUT OF THE WOODS YET
Dr. Paul Blake, N.D. | September 25, 2010 at 1:51 am | Reply
Thinking
Here we go again the FDA proving
that it cannot be trusted to protect the people of this country.
If they protected us the way they protect big business
we would not see the health disaster we are in today.
U.S. Senate bill 3767 is trying to criminalize
telling the truth about dietary supplements,
putting vitamin makers in jail for up to ten years
if they link their websites to scientific studies about their products,
from Mike Adams the Health Ranger.
How absolutely nonsensical, affirming that the FDA
has got its priorities all turned around. E
xactly 11 people died in the last 25 years
related to taking a vitamin supplement or herb
out of the billions of supplements and herbs
taken every month.
This is from the Poison Control Center USA
via Orthomolecular Medical News.
We obviously need new management
in the FDA if they are going to waste their time
on this kind of power grabbing nonsense.
They are absolutely terrified that the American public
will learn the truth about how to stay healthy
and avoid taking their dangerous drugs
that kill thousands every month. Dr. Paul Blake, N.D.
Rady | September 25, 2010 at 5:45 pm | Reply
or maybe just toss the FDA…
or let the FDA and USDA only oversee standards
for international trade — but let trade within the US,
within and between states, be handled by the states.
FDA and USDA only care about big biz anyway…
the ones who said it was okay to feed dead cows to cows
, thank you for BSE.
They have no interest in protecting human health;
they’re all about protecting profits.
So, I say, get rid of ‘em.
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