The same cast of characters now seeks such control under the guise of food “safety”. Make no mistake, the FDA and legislation like S 510 is about food control — not food safety. If it were about safety, we’d be seeing legislation that banned concentrated animal feeding operations, that banned indiscriminate use of antibiotics, that banned pesticides and BPA. We don’t, because the FDA is not about food safety any more; it is a federal agency wholly captured by Big Pharma, Big Food and Big Chemicals.
Date: 12/19/2010 12:21:06 AM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 16989 times
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December 18, 2010
SENTATOR JOHN TESTER NAILED IT
IN HIS WORDS HERE on #S-510
hOWEVER IT WAS WATERED DOWN
He deserves an award from the
Campaign to Educate Washington on Real Food Safety
COMMENT ON THE UTUBE
Thanks, John, but what are we doing begging for our rights? I feel sorely disappointed in the whole system. We earn our livelihood at farmer's markets and we're having to find amendments just to save our skin! We're giving more power to an incompetent federal agency to destroy more family farms. Why? This smells a lot like the stuff I step in after the cows pass by....
greenlance123 1 month ago
ON THE ISSUE OF GOODBORNE ILLNESS
CDS, AFTER FOUR YEARS,
RELEASED NEW STATS THAT LOWER
ITS NUMBERS ON HOW MUCH FOODBORNE ILLNESS
WE HAVE
Despite the voice of controlled opposition trying to convince the American public that the Tester Amendment will solve all the problems with S 510, many food freedom agtivists recognize this is a red herring. One One letter to the editor was titled, “Pry my turnip from my cold, dead hand.” The highly-touted exemption diverts attention away from the many, serious problems with S 510, like:
► It does not address the real causes of food safety issues stemming from the centralized, industrialized food supply chain;
► It ensures that international trade agreements have supremacy over local laws;
► It destroys States’ rights to define a culturally-appropriate legal platform under which food is produced and distributed;
► It transfers authority over food regulation enforcement from the FDA to the Department of Homeland Security, which brought us the liberty-killing, child-molesting TSA, which disastrously handled the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which has genocidally turned its eyes away from the ongoing BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico;
► It extends a failed and destructive HACCP to all food, thus threatening to do to local food production and farming what HACCP did to meat production – it eliminated small and medium-sized meat packers; and
► It significantly increases FDA’s power, an agency which has stated on public record that the American people have no “fundamental right to their own bodily and physical health” and “do not have a fundamental right to obtain any food they wish.”
Would you trust your diamonds to someone who believes you don’t have a right to them? Clearly, the FDA, and S 510 in particular, is part and parcel of the totalitarian police state being implemented under the plan known as Full Spectrum Dominance.
Finally, we cannot ignore that Monsanto is behind the food “safety” legislation being foisted on us. We cannot ignore that the US Secretary of Agriculture was once dubbed “Biotech Governor of the Year.” We cannot ignore that President Obama has appointed a GMO and pesticide pusher as the US Agricultural Trade Representative. We cannot ignore that he nominated Monsanto-defender Elena Kagan to the US Supreme Court, who sits there now with former Monsanto attorney, Clarence Thomas.
In Seeds of Destruction, F. William Engdahl issues a warning: “In the mid-1970’s Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a protégé of the Rockefeller family and of its institutions stated, ‘Control the food and you control the people.’”
The same cast of characters now seeks such control under the guise of food “safety”. Make no mistake, the FDA and legislation like S 510 is about food control — not food safety. If it were about safety, we’d be seeing legislation that banned concentrated animal feeding operations, that banned indiscriminate use of antibiotics, that banned pesticides and BPA. We don’t, because the FDA is not about food safety any more; it is a federal agency wholly captured by Big Pharma, Big Food and Big Chemicals.
It is massively deceptive for corporate media and food groups to now suggest S. 510 should be supported because Agri-Biz opposes the Tester Amendment. Instead, hold firm our course and reject S. 510 in its entirety.
The Senate is expected to vote on it in the next several days. Drop in at The Atlantic and post a comment telling Marion Nestle why we reject S 510 – even with the Tester Amendment. More importantly, tell your Senators.
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