Opps!!!
I need to correct this.
I wrote this this morning.
I received an email from Senator Dinnne Feinstein
the Co-sponsor of S. 3767, and a call from Congresswoman
Susan Davis last night within an eight hour period. When
I wrote this blog this morning, the two women became one
in my mind. Congresswoman Susan Davis, who represents
our San Diego area, was at our local Hillcrest Farmers' Market
a few weeks ago.
HERE IT THE EMAIL I RECEIVED
FROM UNITED STATES SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN YESTERDAY
On Oct 26, 2010, at 3:09 PM, wrote:
Dear Mr. Goldman:
Thank you for writing to express your opposition to the "Food Safety Accountability Act of 2010" (S. 3767). I appreciate hearing from you and welcome the opportunity to respond.
I strongly support S. 3767, and I am a cosponsor of this legislation. I believe that all food producers should be required to produce food that is safe to eat and does not harm consumers. Producers who knowingly violate food safety procedures and distribute tainted food to the public should be held accountable for their actions. The "Food Safety Accountability Act" will protect consumers by authorizing criminal penalties when a company or individual knowingly adulterates or misbrands food that is intended to be sold.
I understand you have concerns regarding this legislation and parties who might unknowingly contaminate food. The Senate Judiciary Committee, of which I am a member, amended S. 3767 so that its criminal penalties are limited to persons who knowingly adulterate or misbrand food knowingly with conscious or reckless disregard of a risk of death or serious bodily injury.
On September 23, 2010, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed S. 3767. Please know that I will keep your concerns in mind should the full Senate consider this legislation.
Again, thank you for writing. If you have any further questions or comments, please contact my office in Washington, D.C. at (202) 224-3841. Best regards.
Sincerely yours,
Dianne Feinstein
United States Senator
In my head, when I wrote this, I was thinking of
Congresswoman Susan Davis,
who represents our district in Washington.
She was at the Hillcrest Farmers' Market a few weeks ago.
I attended one of her two hall meetings a few years back,
and had a photo taken with her. She played a positive roll
in the forming of the Hillcrest Farmers' Market in San Diego.
Shows it is best not to rush to print.
I often do that.
7:43 am
October 27, 2010
Proposed Food Safety Laws
are Unfit for Human Consumption
by Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener
I like Senator Dianne Feinstein.. I do not like her actions on S. 3767, The Food Safety Accountability Act, or for that matter the actions of any Senator who would vote yes on S. 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act without first backing a full on national conversation that slowly chews on Food Safety.
Senator Dianne Feinstein stands with many well meaning legislators in Washington who want Food Safety but do not understand that Real Food Safety is based on making sure—absolutely sure—that our local organic farmers are 100% exempt from any possible FDA restriction that would undermine rather than benefit authentic food safety in America. To give our already burdened local organic and other family farmers any more red tape as these laws would do is to get them out of bed every morning with a headache. Big Pharma gives no relief for what ails them or our failed industrial food system.
Local organic and small conventional farmers are already under the gun of restrictions either by the USDA or our well regulated local farm bureaus, that if anything are underfunded. Our farmers already invest too much time in beaurocratic paperwork. Water restrictions favor golf courses and land developers over food production that makes local small farmers an endangered species. Large industrial farmers have subsidies. Small farmers do not.
Our local farmers are on the front lines of authentic earth-based Food Security. It is a miracle that our food supply has not been under terrorist attack from outside, yet through our trade laws in the name of harmonizing with the FDA backed Codex, we favor farmers from other countries over our own. We make it hard for the locals to financially make it.
What is worse is when our food supply is under attack from inside our own borders and by the very people who we trust to enforce Food Rules. Clearly the FDA and Food Safety national leadership stands with Genetically Engineered foods that have never truly passed honest scientific testing. Clearly the FDA, that is asking for more regulatory power now favors industrial hygienic methods of Leafy Green manipulation. They are opposed to healthy bread and butter diversified farming practices that
have been the foundation of farming for 10,000 years. Clearly we are opposed now in California to Micro-farmers,
smaller farmers that truly stand outside conventional Labor practices,
farmers who need volunteers and students more than Workers Compensation
restrictions.
FDA has already shown itself 100% in favor of the International Codex Alimentarius Commission’s
natural supplement guidelines that want to water down the ability
of a person to manage their own health with vitamins and minerals here in the US as they have already done in Europe. Michael R. Taylor, our Food Czar has the ear of President Obama's
Food Safety group.
He is one of our key inspirations behind food safety laws. He has shown his disfavor of natural medicines while
establishing himself as one of the world leaders of Risk Assessment
Science-based toxicology that many claim is a faulty science for
evaluating the efficacy of real food and herbs. These in our emerging green economy will be our primary source for good health and prevention, and can bring our bankrupt health care system into balance.
If s. 3767 passes, what dear Senator Dianne Feinstein, and other co-sponsors,
will become of natural supplement companies who stand up to tell the truth that their products improve people’s health and well being? Will they be fined for telling the truth? Natural supplements, when applied with common sense, and missing education are more valued in the eyes of a common organic beet that the best of Big Pharma that granted can do good.
Please. Sanity. Sanity now. We want total exemption for local organic farmers who show through their customer base that they
are Real Food Safe. High quality fresh local vegetables and fruits do not lie. People who have an opportunity to taste the difference know what is good for them.
We want no restrictions on the hard fought natural dosage allowances that give our blossoming natural product industry a foothold alongside the potentially
damaging effects of large pharmaceutical drug companies that have for many years done the research that the FDA then enforces.
How sane is it to imagine that we can count on the FDA, if S. 3767 passes in its present form, to protect our human rights to food freedom and the right to turn to the doctors of the soil—our local farmers—if we so choose?
Hypocrites, the father of medicine, would be arrested today for practicing food without a license. The FDA would bust him for raw milk and honey use as they have done to others who want Real Food Safety. FDA practices are totally upside down and inside out. They desperately need to turn their beat around with nature.
Let Louis Pasteur’s own words be heard when he recanted Pasteurization on his deathbed and said he had made a mistake about the germ theory. Truly we need to slow down and chew on food safety. We need a national conversation and full debate off and then on the senate floor before any bad food safety laws are passed.
The right to determine the future of our food supply is nothing we as a nation are willing to turn over to 100 senators who would vote
what they imagine is safe for us.
###
ERROR CORRECTION
Opps! In my original version of this Blog
intended for the Huffington Post, I confused
an email I received from Senator Dianne Feinstein
who is one of the co-sponsors of S.3767,
the Food Safety Accountability Act with
Congresswoman Susan Davis of the 53 Congressional
District. I attended a Town Meeting with Susan Davis
a few years back. She was at our local Hillcrest Farmers' Market
a few weeks ago. I missed seeing her.
Last night, I received an automated phone call from
Congresswoman's Susan Davis's office inviting participation
in an over the telephone Town Hall Meeting. I called in
to say I was interested in participating. I did not hear
back as yet.
RELATED
SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN
http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutDianne.Home
CONGRESSWOMAN
SUSAN DAVIS,
http://www.house.gov/susandavis/
A LOVE LETTER TO JOE THE FARMER
Please make a contribution for .99 cents for
a large size high resolution of this you can print
and have as a poster.
USE THE PAYPAL HERE
ON THE NEW PLANT YOUR DREAM WEBSITE.
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Dear Mr. Goldman:
Thank you for writing to express your opposition to the "Food Safety Accountability Act of 2010" (S. 3767). I appreciate hearing from you and welcome the opportunity to respond.
I strongly support S. 3767, and I am a cosponsor of this legislation. I believe that all food producers should be required to produce food that is safe to eat and does not harm consumers. Producers who knowingly violate food safety procedures and distribute tainted food to the public should be held accountable for their actions. The "Food Safety Accountability Act" will protect consumers by authorizing criminal penalties when a company or individual knowingly adulterates or misbrands food that is intended to be sold.
I understand you have concerns regarding this legislation and parties who might unknowingly contaminate food. The Senate Judiciary Committee, of which I am a member, amended S. 3767 so that its criminal penalties are limited to persons who knowingly adulterate or misbrand food knowingly with conscious or reckless disregard of a risk of death or serious bodily injury.
On September 23, 2010, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed S. 3767. Please know that I will keep your concerns in mind should the full Senate consider this legislation.
Again, thank you for writing. If you have any further questions or comments, please contact my office in Washington, D.C. at (202) 224-3841. Best regards.
Sincerely yours,
Dianne Feinstein
United States Senator
In my head, when I wrote this, I was thinking of
Congresswoman Susan Davis,
who represents our district in Washington.
She was at the Hillcrest Farmers' Market a few weeks ago.
I attended one of her two hall meetings a few years back,
and had a photo taken with her. She played a positive roll
in the forming of the Hillcrest Farmers' Market in San Diego.
Shows it is best not to rush to print.
I often do that.
7:43 am
October 27, 2010
Proposed Food Safety Laws
are Unfit for Human Consumption
by Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener
I like Senator Dianne Feinstein.. I do not like her actions on S. 3767, The Food Safety Accountability Act, or for that matter the actions of any Senator who would vote yes on S. 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act without first backing a full on national conversation that slowly chews on Food Safety.
Senator Dianne Feinstein stands with many well meaning legislators in Washington who want Food Safety but do not understand that Real Food Safety is based on making sure—absolutely sure—that our local organic farmers are 100% exempt from any possible FDA restriction that would undermine rather than benefit authentic food safety in America. To give our already burdened local organic and other family farmers any more red tape as these laws would do is to get them out of bed every morning with a headache. Big Pharma gives no relief for what ails them or our failed industrial food system.
Local organic and small conventional farmers are already under the gun of restrictions either by the USDA or our well regulated local farm bureaus, that if anything are underfunded. Our farmers already invest too much time in beaurocratic paperwork. Water restrictions favor golf courses and land developers over food production that makes local small farmers an endangered species. Large industrial farmers have subsidies. Small farmers do not.
Our local farmers are on the front lines of authentic earth-based Food Security. It is a miracle that our food supply has not been under terrorist attack from outside, yet through our trade laws in the name of harmonizing with the FDA backed Codex, we favor farmers from other countries over our own. We make it hard for the locals to financially make it.
What is worse is when our food supply is under attack from inside our own borders and by the very people who we trust to enforce Food Rules. Clearly the FDA and Food Safety national leadership stands with Genetically Engineered foods that have never truly passed honest scientific testing. Clearly the FDA, that is asking for more regulatory power now favors industrial hygienic methods of Leafy Green manipulation. They are opposed to healthy bread and butter diversified farming practices that
have been the foundation of farming for 10,000 years. Clearly we are opposed now in California to Micro-farmers, smaller farmers that truly stand outside conventional Labor practices, farmers who need volunteers and students more than Workers Compensation restrictions.
FDA has already shown itself 100% in favor of the International Codex Alimentarius Commission’s natural supplement guidelines that want to water down the ability of a person to manage their own health with vitamins and minerals here in the US as they have already done in Europe. Michael R. Taylor, our Food Czar has the ear of President Obama's Food Safety group.
He is one of our key inspirations behind food safety laws. He has shown his disfavor of natural medicines while establishing himself as one of the world leaders of Risk Assessment Science-based toxicology that many claim is a faulty science for evaluating the efficacy of real food and herbs. These in our emerging green economy will be our primary source for good health and prevention, and can bring our bankrupt health care system into balance.
If s. 3767 passes, what dear Senator Dianne Feinstein, and other co-sponsors, will become of natural supplement companies who stand up to tell the truth that their products improve people’s health and well being? Will they be fined for telling the truth? Natural supplements, when applied with common sense, and missing education are more valued in the eyes of a common organic beet that the best of Big Pharma that granted can do good.
Please. Sanity. Sanity now. We want total exemption for local organic farmers who show through their customer base that they
are Real Food Safe. High quality fresh local vegetables and fruits do not lie. People who have an opportunity to taste the difference know what is good for them.
We want no restrictions on the hard fought natural dosage allowances that give our blossoming natural product industry a foothold alongside the potentially damaging effects of large pharmaceutical drug companies that have for many years done the research that the FDA then enforces.
How sane is it to imagine that we can count on the FDA, if S. 3767 passes in its present form, to protect our human rights to food freedom and the right to turn to the doctors of the soil—our local farmers—if we so choose?
Hypocrites, the father of medicine, would be arrested today for practicing food without a license. The FDA would bust him for raw milk and honey use as they have done to others who want Real Food Safety. FDA practices are totally upside down and inside out. They desperately need to turn their beat around with nature.
Let Louis Pasteur’s own words be heard when he recanted Pasteurization on his deathbed and said he had made a mistake about the germ theory. Truly we need to slow down and chew on food safety. We need a national conversation and full debate off and then on the senate floor before any bad food safety laws are passed.
The right to determine the future of our food supply is nothing we as a nation are willing to turn over to 100 senators who would vote
what they imagine is safe for us.
###
ERROR CORRECTION
Opps! In my original version of this Blog
intended for the Huffington Post, I confused
an email I received from Senator Dianne Feinstein
who is one of the co-sponsors of S.3767,
the Food Safety Accountability Act with
Congresswoman Susan Davis of the 53 Congressional
District. I attended a Town Meeting with Susan Davis
a few years back. She was at our local Hillcrest Farmers' Market
a few weeks ago. I missed seeing her.
Last night, I received an automated phone call from
Congresswoman's Susan Davis's office inviting participation
in an over the telephone Town Hall Meeting. I called in
to say I was interested in participating. I did not hear
back as yet.
RELATED
SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN
http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutDianne.Home
CONGRESSWOMAN
SUSAN DAVIS,
http://www.house.gov/susandavis/
A LOVE LETTER TO JOE THE FARMER
Please make a contribution for .99 cents for
a large size high resolution of this you can print
and have as a poster.
USE THE PAYPAL HERE
ON THE NEW PLANT YOUR DREAM WEBSITE.
NEW PLANT YOUR DREAM WEBSITE
http://pr4progress.org/plantyourdream/