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PENDING LEGISLATION
ON THE FOOD SAFETY MODERNIZATION ACT.
#s-510. Where is in at in the Senate?
Why is the Bill being talked about in secret????

7:13 AM
April 10. 2010

There was a time when people gardened,
and when people had time to talk.

In other times, we clearly spent time with each other
as we gardened. We had women in the home.
We were hanging out while we picked weeds.
We had chants and songs that kept our communities
together as we gardened. Mothers were so in
sync with the soil that when it was time to give
birth the would naturally give birth.

Maybe that is an ideal, but it is an idea that
comes into the mind this morning,
as I reflect on how little time we each have for anything.

Our small family farmers and local organic farmers
spend a lot of their time in red tape.
They have more and more stress making ends meet.

The amount of red tape that they will be asked
to do in the name of food safety
will likely increase when the passage of #s-510.
The Food Safety Modernization Act.
Some people say this is part of the plan
on the part of Big Ag to help eliminate the
competition from small farmers. Impending
legislation will give the Big Ag folks and the small
ones the same number of restrictions,
many say. The Big Ag folks can afford to hire throngs of record keepers
and labor to keep tract of sources of food.
The little farmers are already maxing out and
what they can do to pay the bills and find time
to work in the field. This is only one issue
regarding the Pending Food Safety Bill
I would like to see everyone know,
and I want to see discussed at our
upcoming 2010 Cultivating Food Justice
Conference at SDSU April 24-25, 2010.

There are going to be many, many fascinating
and informative talks and discussions,
and wonderful music, merriment, and ceremony
to cap off a week of fantastic Earth Day time
activities in San Diego.

Every person alive today wants Food Safety
and Safe Food, but are we reallly having an open forum
about what Safe Food is, and how to have Save Food?

This gets into an issue of Food Justice.

We do not have time to live.
We do not have time to eat.
Many of us are holding it together.
We do not have time to enjoy sitting down together
and enjoying each other's company.

Raj Patel, in one of his latest blogs
called "Down with the Clown"
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1603415
Points out
that the noted Ronald McDonald has been
brainwashing our kids for decades now.
This too brings up issues of Food Safety,
but our Factory Farms part of the discussion
now in Washington???? Here is another issue,
is it only the kids that have and are being
brainwashed about food? If a kid was
brainwashed decades ago by Ronald,
exactly who ever really taught us
any better???

Have each of our Senators watched
"Food Inc," or is that considered an irrelatant
part of the discussion about Food Safety?

Certainly there are tons of things showing up
on the web to help people realize that if perchance
they drink a glass of raw milk they will certainly be
poisoned, and yet just yesterday, I was asking one
of my own housemates, who was exuberant about
receiving a very special order of raw cream, and
butter from back East, why is was not dead yet.

The Raw Milk issue is another question
buried in #s-510.

Should not this too be openly discussed?


I am hearing rumors that the upcoming
discussions on #s-510 are being held behind
closed doors right now on the hill.

I keep looking on the internet for information
about this. I cannot find it.

I keep seeing more and more stories about why
we need to pass #s-510, the Food Safety Modernization Act,
but I do not see too many dialogues on Science, Ethics, and Food
to allow us to really talk about this subject materials
of all aspects of Food Safety.

Why is this subject behind down behind closed doors?

Am I mistaken about this?

Dear Senator, please help me understand.

WEST A PRICE POSITION ASKING
FOR AMENDING OR OPPOSING
THE (FDA) MODERN SAFETY MODERNIZATION ACT
http://www.westonaprice.org/WAPF-Action-Alert-on-Food-Safety-Bill.html

March 10. 2010


BILL MARLER POSITION


I landed a few hours ago from DC, and will be turning around on Monday AM to head back - rumor has it that S. 510 might actually move - I do not want to miss it. On the way, I'll detour through Minneapolis to give a series of lectures of Foodborne Illness Litigation, or as I like to tell future business folks - "Why it is a bad idea to poison your customers."


CITIZENS FOR HEALTH ON #s510
http://www.citizens.org/?p=1769


“One of the ways that you keep sustainable agriculture from having a full voice in the process is: you load up the process. We don’t have the resources either in people, in time, or in money to engage a lot of issues all at once,” adds Hamil.
“There needs to be a statement about the timing of such things. We still have seasonal agriculture in this country. You don’t ask, in the middle of tomato planting season or tomato harvesting season, for somebody to review a tomato rule, you do that in the wintertime–that should be specifically mandated.”

APRIL 9, 2010
ON FOOD SAFETY

http://ow.ly/1wSwM


WALL STREET JOURNAL

By JEAN SPENCER

WASHINGTON—Congress's food-safety fight is nearing an end but small farmers still have a bone to pick with the legislation.

The Senate version of a food-safety bill has attracted broad bipartisan support and is expected to pass easily soon after Congress returns from recess next week. Iowa Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, a co-sponsor, predicted it would be "on the president's desk by May." But small farmers worry the measure's fees and inspection requirements would be ruinously expensive and are pushing for exemptions.

"I know people who have been small farmers for 25 to 30 years who are looking to get out of the business because food safety is becoming so alarmist," said Mary Alionis, whose eight-acre Whistling Duck Farm in Grants Pass, Ore., sells produce to farmers markets and restaurants.


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UPDATE ON #s.510
FDA FOOD SAFETY MODERNIZATION ACT

http://ow.ly/1wSwM


Harkin: S. 510 Could Be Signed by May
Source: http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2010/03/key-senator-food-safety-bill-could-be-s...

by Helena Bottemiller | Mar 04, 2010
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) predicted Tuesday that, if all goes well, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, S. 510, will be "on the President's desk by May."
As chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP)--which unanimously approved the Senate's version of the food safety legislation in November, Harkin tends to stay in the loop on food safety issues in the Senate.
The pending bill has been stuck behind the health care gridlock for months, after the House approved a similar measure last July.
After a series of lobbying pushes and public calls for action, the Senate has yet to consider S. 510. First, there was the Thanksgiving push, where consumer and public health advocates asked for revamped food safety laws by turkey day.
Leading food safety lawyer, and an early candidate for undersecretary for food safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bill Marler, even sent t-shirts to each and every senator to encourage action on the bill in the fall.
After Thanksgiving, there was the Christmas push. Advocates again called for action, this time calling for a bill on the President's desk before Christmas. The bill was voted out of committee, but remained stuck behind health care reform.
Then came the recent Valentine's Day push. Victims from the 2009 Peanut Corporation of America peanut butter outbreak sent letters to the senators urging action before the Hallmark Holiday.
Now the effort is up against another holiday: Easter.
As Sen. Harkin, noted at an appropriations agriculture subcommittee hearing earlier this week, the bill is now "about ready to go."
"We're hopeful we'll have the food safety bill on the Senate floor, if not this work period, then it'll be at the top of the list when we come back after Easter," Sen. Harkin said at the hearing.







 

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