I am calling Senator Enzi in this video
made two weeks ago at the Hillcrest Farmers' Market.
Please call today and leave a message for a Senator
at 202) 224-3121..
ABSTRACT
Status of #S-510 and Food Safety Legislation, Dec 9, 2010
The CR was approved by a vote of 212 For and 206 Against,
with 8 Republicans not getting to vote December 8, 2010
Contact and get to know a member of Congress.
Be one of 1 million calls to the Capital Switchboard
at (202) 224-3121. Call for a national conversation on Food Safety
with all voices being heard on the issue before members of Congress
vote on this extremely important and far reaching bill.
On December 9, the Senators will attempt to gain
final passage of the bill that has been attached
to a must pass bill.
This is sloppy under the table
tactics without addressing the underlying issues
Democracy is not a spectator sport--
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post;
Former Senator John Vasconcellos, Politics of Trust Network.
Passage or not, this is just the beginning of a year long campaign
to educate Washington and inspire them through telling the story
of how one Farmers' Market--the Hillcrest Farmers' Market--
became mobilized.
I am asking you as well to contribute funds
today so I can create a Trust to buy the
Enchanted Garden Intentional Community Growing Grounds.
From here, we can demonstrate a hub where people everywhere
learn to grow a bit of our own food and see FM Foods prepared
from our kitchen.
Lettuce Keep the Beet together and regain our beat with nature
through growing one beet in a pot.
Be a Star in the Rock Your Soul Opera
called Beet Keepers, Return!
Your voice is needed today fully expressing.
Food as Medicine is here to help you express fully.
For those of you who haven't already heard, the House lame-duck leadership amended the “Continuing Resolution” Funding Bill - intended to keep the federal government running for another year - to include the language from S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. Unfortunately the House rushed to action last Wednesday and passed it, sending it along to the Senate. Senators plan to take up the Continuing Resolution once they've dispensed with legislation extending tax cuts, so further action could happen as soon as today, Monday, December 13th.
It is quite unusual to attach such an initiative to a bill authorizing continued government funding and operations.
Urge your Senators NOW to resist any effort to ram through S. 510!
And so, back to the Senate we go. Make no mistake - your efforts are having an impact, and we can't give up now! The House vote was very close: 212 to 205. This is a reflection of how your thousands of messages have helped a significant number of legislators stand firm in the face of pressure from big Agribusiness.
We have to keep holding their feet to the fire and stop this dangerous policy from becoming law. The Senate can still strip S. 510 from the Continuing Resolution before passing it. Congress needs to recognize that:
--Combining a controversial regulatory bill with the Continuing Resolution to fund government operations is inappropriate at best, and at worst, shameful.
--It is even more disturbing that this has been done in spite of thousands and thousands of voters who have made it clear they believe that the federal government is too big and must stop over-regulating.
--S. 510 must be stripped from the Continuing Resolution so that Congress can decide to continue funding at a certain level without muddying the process with extraneous matters.
--We will be monitoring the Senate and expect them to act from principle and not the language from S. 510.
Soldiers come home.
We honor our returning veterans
and send them back to school
to relearn how to grow food in
their own backyards.
A new middle class in America
is reborn. Children receive all the
plant based education they need,
and exude virtue that inspires
mothers, dads,
grandma and grandpa.
Young folks adopt elders.
A happy day returns as
farmers wake up
as Senators and all elected
say, "Happiness is organic."
The later verses
of "America the beautiful" sing out
throughout the Land:
*O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain...
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream
...beyond the years
...alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!
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