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Rep Dingell tells Senator Feinstein to Stop Blocking #S-510
Member of Congress John Dingell wrote Senator
Dianne Feinstein a letter asking her to stop blocking
the passing of #S-510. The bill was being slowed down
because she knew that BPA was unsafe and she thought
that through including an amendment to ban BPA
she could get this Food Safety issue handled.
Member of Congress, John Dingell, who was
more invested in the passage of a Food Safety
law that helping getting babies out of harm's way,
asked Senator Feinstein to basically stop pushing
for BPA to be banned. Her speech was one of the
most truth telling of any I heard on C-SPAN-2
during the #S-510 proceedings.
Date: 12/10/2010 10:46:47 AM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 41588 times
8:22 am
December 10, 2010
I have been watching
the progress of #S-510 for numbers of month.
I believe this bill is having difficulty coming into
law because it is basically against the law of nature.
There is something that wants to live now in our lives.
It is our Soul. It is the Soul of America.
The Soul of America is like a little Seed that
has been trampled down, but it is time,
for the sake of our future, that the Seed of America rise
up through each of our Seeds.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THIS?
I do not know how to express the legitimacy
of what I am saying other than in metaphor.
See if you can understand this metaphor:
MY QUOTE GOES HERE
We are in a Rock Your Soul Opera now
called Beet Keepers, Return!
We have lost our listening to the voice of nature.
Our heart beat is no longer beating to the rhythm of
nature. We are attempting to harmonize with laws
of trade that our soul less.
The world right now is in the hands of a few people
who are out of touch with the Soul of Humanity
and the Soul of America.
America the Beautiful, the national song,
wants to live again. That song wants to be heard.
A Great Shift happened.
Can you near me?
Most of us are truly the the living dead right now.
We are not eating real food.
We are living a lie. We have bought into a broken
system that basically feeds us and our animals enough
to keep us in the equivalent of hospital Life Support.
There is another force in life that is speaking now.
It is the very soul of humanity,
The very seed that wants to throw off
what is holding us down.
The Seed wants to come out of the box,
the coffin.
Lay down. Accept you are dead.
Feel the pain that you are broken,
Then hear some truth. Eat some truth.
The Truth outside my windom in my worm bin
is honest. Compost is honest. When I leave real fruit--
such as as Sapote--in a plastic bag--unattended--
it rots.
The other day I did this. I had to carry a big bag
of sapote to the worm bin. It was beyond ripe.
WHY DO WE HAVE BPA?
Why do we have BPA?
One of the reasons we have it was to stop the rotting
process of beans in cans.
We wanted to preserve beans so they would not
spoil so lined the cans with a chemical to preserve
them.
The chemical is not good for us.
It does harm.
Senator Dianne Feinstein wanted to get the chemical out.
Her effort to get it out was slowing down the movement
of the Food Safety Bill, so Rep John Dingell, a member of
the House of Representatives, called the Congress,
wrote here a letter asking her to stop blocking the bill.
HERE IS THE LETTER HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
CONGRESS MEMBER JOHN DINGELL WROTE TO
SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN
http://usfoodtrace.com/blog/dingell-tells-feinstein-to-stop-blocking-s510.php
The full text of the letter:
The Honorable Dianne Feinstein
United States Senate
331 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Senator Feinstein:
I am writing to express deep concern with the lack of progress being made in the United States Senate on critical food safety legislation. My concern stems from recent press accounts detailing the cause of delay on Senate consideration of S. 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act. Recent press accounts, including a July 11 Washington Post article titled Advocates Run Ads Urging Senate to Pass Food Safety Bill, indicate the cause for delayed consideration is your insistence on adding controversial language to the bill that would ban the use of Bisphenol A (BPA) in food and beverage containers.
While I am sensitive to your goals and believe that your intentions are virtuous, I respectfully ask that you reconsider your current obstruction on this issue and find a suitable compromise that would allow prompt consideration of critically needed food safety legislation.
As you may know, I am the author of H.R. 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act, comprehensive food safety legislation that will grant the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authorities necessary to ensure the safety of the nation's food supply. The case for food safety legislation has been made--each year approximately 76 million illnesses occur, more than 300,000 persons are hospitalized, and 5,000 die from foodborne illness. The urgency for a legislative solution is renewed with each new outbreak of illness from bad food. While not a companion measure, S. 510 includes many of the same authorities included in my legislation. H.R. 2749 passed the House in November 2009 overwhelmingly, with bipartisan support. Both bills will make the greatest improvements to food and drug law since 1938 and will save the lives of thousands of Americans.
There has been much debate over the years on the safety of the use of BPA in food and beverage containers. The topic invokes passionate reactions on both ends of the spectrum. FDA, the regulatory agency with the scientific expertise to responsibly weigh the risks and benefits of the use of BPA, has expressed some concern about the potential effects of BPA on the brain, behavior, and prostate gland in fetuses, infants, and young children. FDA is pursuing additional studies and is seeking public input and input from other expert agencies to provide greater clarity on potential health effects of exposure to BPA. I share their concern and worked with my colleagues in the House to include language in H.R. 2749 that reflects this concern.
I implore you to not allow the perfect be the enemy of the good. Time is running out. Our choices are becoming increasingly clear, we can either find middle ground, or we can become obstinate in our views and fail to meet any of our goals. It would be calamitous if a bill to protect American consumers from unsafe food cannot become law this year because of controversy over a single point.
Thank you for your consideration of this letter, and for all you do on behalf of American consumers.
With every good wish,
Sincerely,
John D. Dingell
Member of Congress
"Senator Feinstein, also a key champion of the proposed ban, disappointedly but with determination as well said:
The evidence against BPA is mounting, especially its harmful effects on babies and children who are still developing. I very much regret that the chemical industry puts a higher priority on selling chemicals than on the health of infants. I will not cease in my efforts to remove BPA from products where it can harm human health, and I urge consumers to vote with their pocketbooks by refusing to purchase products that contain BPA."
http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2010/11/26/chemical-industry-proposed-law-to-protec...
QUOTES FROM SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN
MADE ON THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE
IN BEHALF OF BABIES TAKING IN BPA DANGEROUS CHEMICAL
http://www.saferstates.com/2010/11/bpa.html
Industry continues to insist that BPA is not harmful. But one study shows us why we should be skeptical about research funded by the chemical industry. In 2006, the journal Environmental Research published an article comparing the results of government funded studies on BPA to BPA studies funded by industry.
The difference is stark. Ninety-two percent of the government- funded studies found that exposure to BPA caused health problems. Overwhelmingly, government studies found harm.
SENATOR FEINSTEIN CONTINUES
This battle may be lost, but, rest assured, I do not intend to quit. I have a deep abiding concern regarding the presence of toxins and chemicals with no testing in all kinds of products and all kinds of solutions that build up in our bodies. There is no precautionary standard in this country when it comes to chemicals.
You have to prove that a chemical is harmful before that chemical can be banned. But the evidence against BPA is mounting and especially its harmful effects on babies and children who are still developing.
Here is the argument. Here is what BPA is. It is synthetic estrogen. It is a hormone disruptor. It interferes with how the hormones work in the body, and this chemical is used in thousands of consumer products. It is used to harden plastics, line tin cans, and even make CDs. It is even used to coat airline tickets and grocery store receipts. It is one of the most pervasive chemicals in modern life.
Despite the loss of this amendment, the American people can still vote with their pocketbooks by refusing to buy products made with BPA. Ask the question in your grocery store. Go where they are not sold. Buy the products that do not use BPA. Public knowledge and awareness is important.
I EAT BEANS FROM EDEN FOODS
BPA FREE LINING CANS
READ ABOUT IT HERE
ON THE PLANT YOUR DREAM WEBSITE
http://plantyourdream.net/?p=112
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