POSTED ON GRIST
NOVEMBER 14, 2010
7:36 am

http://www.grist.org/article/2010-10-30-the-fda-inspired-shutdown-of-two-smal...


"The proposed legislation, strongly encouraged by the Obama administration, sailed through the U.S. House last fall, and then through a Senate committee earlier this year. "

And then the legislation stalled."

This is incorrect information. The HR 2749, the bill that got through the House last summer in July, not as stated in the Fall, did not sail through. The House members were shocked and stunned the first time it came to the floor. There was an enormous internet outcry. The House members then regrouped, changed the rules, and brought it before the House the next day. The bill was never fully vetted. It would be a good research project to actually find out how educated any of those who voted for the bill actually read it or knew what it said.

We seriously need to Chew on Food Safety: A National Conversation is needed before weallow 100 senators to determine the fate of our food supply. These senators need a serious education. That is why I am launching a year long campaign to do so. God bless them, but they need to be reminded of the stanzas of our song "America The Beautiful!" Please start getting educated by reading the Huffington Post Blog I wrote. I want to read the stanzas in the shows before the vote.
It is the wrong move to give more regulatory power to the FDA now before they are vetted.

Google Chewing on Food Safety for lots more.


HUFFINGTON POST
CHEWING ON FOOD SAFETY:
A NATIONAL CONVERSATION IS NEEDED

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lesliex/chewing-on-food-safety-a-_b_750967.html


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.


Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener


READ THE POEM HERE
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THIS CONCERNS ME

Important!!! The Medical Debasing of America

Important!!!

in April 2011, European legislation,
which has already been passed, will come into force.
This will effectively mean that all herbal medicines
will disappear from the UK. No Ayurvedic (Indian) herbs,
no Chinese herbs, no Western herbs, no Tibetan herbs,
no herbs whatsoever. We will have access only
to treatments that are totally based
on pharmaceutical drugs
for treating our ailments.
With no access to the full range of herbal treatments,
all herbalists, Ayurvedic doctors, and TCM
or holistic practitioners will overnight be handicapped
in their attempt to help their patients.

http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1722247




FROM NATIONAL HEALTH FEDERATION

"There is not clear and consistent exemption language in all four bills as regards to supplements and small and organic farmers. These probably will not cause issues, but one can never be sure when unknowing bureaucrats get involved in implementing and enforcing whatever laws emerge at the end of the process.”

http://www.healthtruthrevealed.com/full-page.php?id=17533227310&&page=article



NO SENATOR IN HER/HIS RIGHT MIND
OUGHT TO BE VOTING ON S.510 WITHOUT
READING THIS FIRST

http://sustainableagriculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Sustainable-Food...



REACH YOUR SENATOR AT THIS LINK
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm


MY TAKE

Participation in Government can no longer
be a spectator sport.
Encourage local farming,
food growing, and those who
stand up for natural healing.

Chewing on Food Safety: A National Conversation
is needed before given the FDA more regulatory powers
over local farmers, good growing and natural products.

Sign the petition.
Get educated
before Senators vote soon on
Food Safety laws
s. 510 and s. 3767
or any versions thereof.






THE CAMPAIGN TO
EDUCATE WASHINGTON
ON REAL FOOD SAFETY
HAS BEGUN...

The Campaign to
Educate Washington on Real Food Safety
has begun. Join the "Dialogue on
Science, Ethics, and Food" on Facebook.

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CHEWING ON FOOD SAFETY:
A NATIONAL CONVERSATION IS NEEDED

Read and comment
on the Chewing on Food Safety:
A National Conversation is Needed
on the Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lesliex/chewing-on-food-safety-a-_b_750967.html


DON'T LEAVE THE FUTURE OF OUR FOOD
TO 100 SENATORS WHO MAY NEVER HAVE
EATEN REAL SAFE FOOD

Sign the Petition.
Don't leave the future of our food
to the hands of 100 Senators who
need more education on Real Food Safety now.


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Show your support now.
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We need to take action now.



BACKGROUND ON S.510
BACKGROUND ON S. 510

FOOD EDUCATORS
I HIGHLY SUPPORT


S 510: The Crisis, the Attack, the Kill

October 1st, 2010
By Rady Ananda


In this three-part series, Food Chain Radio host Michael Olson interviews key people in the food freedom movement. From gun-blazing bureaucrats who attack small food producers to legislation like S 510 which threatens to hyper-regulate whole food operators out of business, Olson questions guests about government motives, who's behind the legislation, and where the crisis really lies.

Olson notes that the U.S. "has a serious food safety crisis, and so its agents, with guns drawn and warrants in hand, are breaking down the doors of the little people who sell food to their neighbors. But wait... which is in crisis: local food or industrial food?"

A quarter of the US - 76 million people - are sickened each year by foodborne diseases, and 5,200 die from them, David Gumpert wrote in The Raw Milk Revolution. Tracing outbreaks back to the original source is difficult and sometimes impossible for health authorities. But, in these interviews, in recent films, and in books, we learn that industrial food is to blame for the vast majority of people who become ill or die.*

Instead of shutting down large operators like Wright County Egg, which sold half a billion contaminated eggs, state and federal agents raid small businesses that caused no one illness. (Here's a recent story, not covered in the broadcast, but which adds to the list of small operators being targeted, who have not sickened anyone.)

Clearly, food safety is not the issue. Instead, we're advised, follow the money.

Over the past seventy years, food production has been increasingly monopolized into the hands of fewer and fewer farms. The graph below shows the number of US farms and their size from 1900 to 2007. Where we once had nearly six and half million farms, averaging 147 acres in size, the latest USDA figures show just over two million farms, averaging 418 acres in size. Averages hide the further concentration by farming giants which often lease several different plots. (Data from USDA and Ag Classrom. Click here for larger image.)

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2010/10/01/s-510-the-crisis-th...


LISTEN TO THESE VERY IMPORTANT
PROGRAMS

http://metrofarm.com/mf_Food_Chain_Radio.php




GOOD SUMMARY OF WHY S-510, The Food Safety Modernazation Act
needs to be OPPOSED

http://thegormleyfiles.blogspot.com/2009/10/senate-bill-510-825-billion-dolla...


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2009

Senate Bill 510: The $825 Billion Dollar Folly
By James J. Gormley

courtesy of NOW Foods

Are you a backyard grower of heirloom tomatoes you sell on your own property or at a local farmer’s market? If so, you will be in for a whopper of a surprise if Senator Durbin’s Senate Bill 510 (S.B. 510) passes: you may be receiving a visit from inspectors.

Products not grown according to designated standards will be considered adulterated and your business records will be subject to warrantless searches by inspectors from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), all this without any evidence that you have violated any law.

Wonder why the National Guard or Federal agents have effectively imposed martial law by quarantining your town? Under S.B. 510’s House counterpart bill, H.R. 2749 (Section 133b, “Authority to Prohibit or Restrict the Movement of Food”), sponsored by Congressman Dingell, the Secretary of Health and Human Services will have the power to prohibit all movement of all food within a geographic area, whether the food is in your grandmother’s grocery bag in her Toyota Hybrid or on a flatbed. No court order will be needed, just a phone call to the appropriate state official and a public announcement will be sufficient.

Upset that raw milk or raw milk cheeses (like feta) are no longer available in the U.S.? This could well happen thanks to the “performance standards” powers that would be granted to the FDA by S.B. 510, especially since the agency has made it clear that it is vehemently opposed to the consumption of raw milk products.

Amazed that U.S. food safety regulations strangely match those of other countries? Well, Section 306 of S.B. 510 would require “Recommendations to harmonize requirements under the Codex Alimentarius.”

And what about food supplement manufacturers, suppliers, distributors and health food stores? Will they be ensnared in this bill’s draconian, 1984-esque net? Very possibly so.

This all may seem far-fetched, but theoretically, this new law would give the government all this authority.

S.B. 510 (which would cost Americans $825 billion in 2010 alone) and the House of Representatives version of this bill, H.R. 2749, which did pass under suspended rules, do not address the root causes of the U.S.'s food safety problems, which were highlighted in both a recent campaign by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) and by a letter to 99 U.S. senators by the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund (R-CALF USA).

According to Citizens for Health (http://www.citizens.org/), if this proposed law is enacted it would:

• Undermine DSHEA and move the U.S. one step closer to harmonizing our standards under Codex with those of supplement-restrictive regimes like the European Union. (DSHEA, or the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, asserts that supplements are food and are safe for consumption unless proven otherwise – ensuring that millions of Americans are able to enjoy access to safe, effective and affordable dietary supplements).

• Give the FDA unprecedented control over farms and direct-to-consumer distributors. If passed, the bills would charge facilities an annual $500 registration fee, require additional record keeping, and expand FDA authority to quarantine geographic areas for alleged food safety problems – all without significantly improving food safety.

• Cost U.S. taxpayers trillions of dollars ($825 billion in 2010 alone) while providing fewer physical inspections and less food safety overall.

• Harm U.S. organic farmers by imposing overlapping regulations.

• Hurt food supplements and health-food stores by imposing standards that are already covered by the AER (Adverse Event Reporting) Law, cGMPs (current Good Manufacturing Practices) and food facility registration.

• Cripple local food co-ops, farm stands, independent ranchers and artisanal food producers by imposing unnecessary standards and unfair bureaucratic burdens.

Clearly, S. 510, while purporting to increase food safety would actually leave consumers more vulnerable to foodborne disease since the FDA would be required to use a risky, risk-based food safety system rather than doing old-fashioned, effective physical, on-site inspections in plants, factory farms and slaughterhouses, where the actual food safety concerns are.

Furthermore, the U.S. has abrogated its duty to inspect and enforce food safety standards, both here and abroad, by allowing processing plants to regulate themselves under a failed system; and it has embraced policies that have driven independent U.S. farmers and ranchers out of business and replaced them with corporate-owned, industrialized food production units that are known to cut food safety corners to maximize corporate profits.

So what do we need to do?

Click here for an opportunity to send a letter opposing S.B. 510 as it is currently written.

Gormley Take Away: As of this writing, our nation is over $11.8 trillion in debt. Let’s not add $825 billion more (actually several trillion dollar over the next few years) for a bureaucratic monster to be foisted upon an already deeply flawed U.S. food-safety system. S.B. 510 is sadly, and ironically, not about food safety, although I wish it were. It’s about food madness, pure and simple, and it must be fixed … or stopped. Sphere: Related Content
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LAUNCHING OF
CAMPAIGN TO EDUCATE WASHINGTON
ON REAL FOOD SAFETY









The fact is, the FDA has a long history of going after small food producers for seemingly minor problems, and leaving the big ones to do their thing, no matter how serious their transgressions. Perhaps that's why the doubts about the food safety legislation are expanding. It could be that more legislators are coming to appreciate that giving the FDA expanded authority will do more to hurt small food producers than it will to reduce food safety problems.





6:48 am
November 12, 2010


EDUCATING WASHINGTON ON REAL FOOD CAMPAIGN
FOLLOWUP

These are drafts of the words that will go with the
Real Food Gifts intended to help Senators get educated
about Real Food Safety.

The launching of the Campaign to Educate Washington
about Real Food Safety took place November 6-7
at the Pacific Symposium 2010, as part of the
yearly event help November 4-7
at the Catamaran Resort Hotel & Spa,
San Diego.


DRAFT TWO





LINKS


THROUGH THE LAUNCH OF THE CAMPAIGN TO EDUCATE WASHINGTON
WE ALL CALLED TO EDUCATE THE PEOPLE OF "AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL"
ON REAL FOOD SAFETY, AS WELL AS REACH OUT TO THOSE WE ARE ELECTING TO DO OUR BIDDING.

We can no longer leave the fate of the future of our food to 100 Senators
who will vote on Food Safety the Week of November 17, 2010



THIS IS A DRAFT OF A NOTE TO GO WITH A PROPOSED GIFT BASKET,
ONE OF MANY STRATEGIES THAT NEED TO BE DEVELOPED


Educating Washington
on Real Food Safety

Dear Senator, times are shifting.
Please enjoy this introduction to Real Food,
the cornerstone of Food Safety in America.
Eden Organic Foods sent me this lovely food basket
that I want to give as a gift to you from Beet keeper Members
and sponsors around “America The Beautiful”
and from caring people around the world you trust in your willingness
to enter into Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Food.
Sound economic stability has been and will always
be whole, pure, natural foods, fresh and locally grown
by sustainable farming practices. We claim our inherent right to grow
our own foods and access natural medicines.
Please engage with us showing us how any other course of action
can truly lead us to a more healthy future.
Together we can end contamination
of our Food Supply.

The Campaign to Educate Washington On Real Food Safety
is sponsored by the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Food. Join us on Facebook.


GIVING THE FDA MORE AUTHORITY
IS NOT THE ANSWER

http://www.grist.org/article/2010-10-30-the-fda-inspired-shutdown-of-two-smal...




GRIST ARTICLE

Shutdown of two small cheesemakers raises more doubts about food-safety legislation 43


BY David Gumpert
1 NOV 2010 12:20 PM

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MORE: Business, cheese, Congress, FDA, Food, food safety, Politics, raw dairy
Editor's note:

Are you confused about whether to support the Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510)? You're not alone. We've decided to ask the major players to debate its pros and cons for an upcoming Food Fight roundtable -- watch for it late next week.

In all the acrimony that has settled over Washington, one major legislative matter has continued to receive bipartisan support: food safety legislation intended to give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration vastly expanded powers to reduce the amount of contaminated food getting into distribution.

Highly publicized outbreaks over the last few years involving everything from spinach to peanut butter to ground beef to eggs have only seemed to heighten the support from consumer groups and the media alike. Grist contributor Elanor Starmer last week argued that we have a serious food safety problem only this legislation can resolve. The proposed legislation, strongly encouraged by the Obama administration, sailed through the U.S. House last fall, and then through a Senate committee earlier this year.


The FDA hasn't helped its cause among foodies and farmers in the last few weeks by involving itself in the shutdown of two premium-quality raw-milk cheesemakers -- Morningland Dairy in Missouri and Estrella Family Creamery in Washington -- because of the presence of the pathogen listeria in some cheese samples or on the premises. Now, you might say, isn't this just an example of the FDA doing its job by protecting us from pathogens?

It might be a positive thing except for two problems. First, neither of these cheese producers has made anyone ill in many years of operations, including the last few months, since the presence of the pathogens was discovered. Indeed, scientists are divided about the danger of listeria in trace amounts, and some have advised the FDA to change from a zero-tolerance approach to something more realistic, given the ubiquitous presence of listeria.

Second, the FDA almost never shuts companies down for the simple presence of pathogens. It gives them opportunities to clean things up. Indeed, it rarely shuts companies down even after people get sick. The Iowa factory farms that sent out salmonella-tainted eggs that sickened upwards of 1,200 people last summer are a prime example. They recalled about 500 million eggs, but were never forced by the FDA to shut down their operations. It wasn't until mid-October that one of the culprits, DeCoster's Quality Egg LLC, even received a warning letter, which is typically the first step leading to more severe FDA actions.

The FDA has said any number of times that it needs the new food-safety legislation to provide it with the authority to go after producers like the big egg companies. Yet the agency's dairy division, responsible for both eggs and cheese, had no trouble initiating or encouraging tough court and regulatory action against a couple of tiny cheese producers. Why is it unable to do the same to large egg producers actually making many people very sick?

The fact is, the FDA has a long history of going after small food producers for seemingly minor problems, and leaving the big ones to do their thing, no matter how serious their transgressions. Perhaps that's why the doubts about the food safety legislation are expanding. It could be that more legislators are coming to appreciate that giving the FDA expanded authority will do more to hurt small food producers than it will to reduce food safety problems.


http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/urgent_gmo_salmon/?akid=221.94279.JEk...



FDA coverup on GMO Salmon

Last week we were alarmed to learn that officials at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) intentionally withheld a damning report from the public that provided conclusive evidence that GMO salmon pose a serious threat to endangered Atlantic salmon if accidentally released into the wild. It is appalling that a federal agency would knowingly hide information from the American public on something as important as our food safety.

Join us in telling the FDA to reject GMO salmon and demand that all transgenic food animals are labeled. Act today, there's no telling what else AquaBounty and the FDA are also hiding!


Act today to tell the FDA to reject GMO salmon and demand labeling for all GMO food products, including GMO salmon and all transgenic food animals.

By failing to release this document prior to the September 19th public hearing on AquaBounty’s GMO salmon, the FDA continues an alarming trend that this agency and the U.S. government have engaged in since GMO foods first appeared in the 1990s.

After nearly 20 years of “approving” GMO food products, the FDA is still hiding basic facts about the impacts that GMO foods potentially have on human health and the environment. Previously, the FDA came under fire after the approval process of rBGH in milk when concerns raised by scientists and several independent studies showing harm were also ignored. [2] Such willful deceit not only set the course for future approval of GMOs, but also created a deep-seated mistrust of the FDA’s approval process.

Today, in 2010, neither American citizens nor farmers can afford to allow the public distrust to continue at this critical juncture in reforming our nation’s food system. The U.S. government must get serious about protecting the American public over corporate profits and the imaginary benefits of patented genes.

Tell the FDA to reject GMO salmon and label all GMO foods, especially transgenic food animals.

At the public hearing in September, the FDA’s advisory committee was split in their recommendation to make a decision on GMO salmon, with several committee members criticizing the poor science submitted by AquaBounty and calling upon the FDA to demand more rigorous independent scientific review despite the agency’s previous decision weeks earlier that GMO salmon were “safe” for human consumption. [3]

Perhaps they know something we're not allowed to know?

According to the Federal Biological Opinion issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 2003, the FDA was informed that it was unsafe to raise “transgenic salmon in open-water net pens pursuant to the U.S. Endangered Species Act.” [4]

The report went on to further say that existing scientific studies and “escape reports from the aquaculture industry” indicate that GMO salmon escaping into the wild from open-net pens “were reasonably certain to occur” and the danger these escaped salmon posed to wild Atlantic salmon included the ability to "competete for mates, food [and] nest sites" and that “interbreeding with wild Atlantic salmon will result in genetic modifications to the wild population” that would render “the wild fish less fit for survival.” [5]

Scientific studies show that the release of just 60 GMO salmon could eradicate wild Atlantic salmon populations of 60,000 fish in less than 40 fish generations. [6]

Perhaps it should come as no surprise that the FDA is back to its old tricks again when it comes to hiding science and approving GMOs, but the Obama administration promised something better when they ran for office and it’s time to demand that they live up to their promises.

Tell the FDA to reject GMO salmon and label all GMO foods, especially transgenic food animals.

Thank you for participating in food democracy,

Dave, Lisa and The Food Democracy Now! Team

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THE BILL ITSELF s510
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c111:2:./temp/~c111SiRPKN::


NATIONAL HEALTH FEDERATION
GOOD POINTS

http://www.thenhf.com/article.php?id=987


In essence, though, this bill proposes total Federal government control over and tracking of food production, distribution, and sales – supposedly to ensure “food safety” but which powers in fact would be unconstitutional and unnecessary. Under S.510/H.R.2749, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would empower the government to regulate food production at all levels, up and down the chain of production. This seems quite laughable seeing that for some time now mainstream media headlines have reported that the FDA is unable to keep up with food-safety regulation at any level, so, why add to their already unattainable workload?
Then, as a kicker, the bill provides for criminal prosecution of those producers, manufacturers, and distributors who fail to comply with the new laws, and punitive property seizures and large fines for each offense upon conviction. And for those who have been following Codex, you have almost certainly not missed the fact that S.510/H.R.2749’s “science-based” approach tracks that found in Codex food guidelines.


http://www.healthtruthrevealed.com/full-page.php?id=17533227310&&page=article


sa.org.

Fortunately, many others strongly oppose S.510 and, with two exceptions, virtually all of its fly-swarm of legislative attachments. NHF National Lobbyist Lee Bechtel notes that “NHF has concerns with S.510 and S.3767 as well as the House food-safety bills, not because of some of the blurring line claims being made, but because of the potential confusion with S.3767 and the House bills over these lines and potential impact between these bills and the S.510/H.R.2749 food-safety bills. There is not clear and consistent exemption language in all four bills as regards to supplements and small and organic farmers. These probably will not cause issues, but one can never be sure when unknowing bureaucrats get involved in implementing and enforcing whatever laws emerge at the end of the process.”

As for S.510’s prospects for passage as of this date, The Hill’s Alexander Bolton just reported, “Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, hopes Congress will pass food-safety legislation Reid tried to bring to the floor last week. Democratic leaders pulled the bill even though they could have had enough votes to stop a Republican filibuster. Durbin, who has made food safety a high priority, later told reporters that it could have taken nearly a week to jump through the procedural hoops necessary to pass the bill.” (See http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/121223-dems-stuff-lame-duck.)


Added
11:33 pm
November 13, 2010


THE ESSENCE OF ANASTASIA"S MESSAGE:
http://www.ringingcedars.com/materials/book-1-afterword.pdf


As it happens, the most obvious and significant things often go the most easily unnoticed. This is
particularly true about Russia’s dacha movement. Judge for yourself — Anastasia and Vladimir Megré
were the first to speak about the importance of dachniks. Now it turns out that according to widely avail-
able official statistics, published every year in Russia’s primary statistical source Rossiya v tsifrakh, over
35 million families — and this amounts to 70% of the country’s population — grow their own food on
their plots and collectively provide far more vegetables, fruit, and even meat and milk than the whole
country’s commercial agriculture taken together.


But could it be possible that all diseases are curable through such interaction with plants, as Anastasia
argues? It would take a complex and lengthy scientific study to test this hypothesis. Fortunately, this
is not necessary, as — in addition to a growing number of personal testimonials from thousands of
people — there is factual evidence at hand that can dispel any doubts. Over centuries and millennia
the Hunzakut, a people living in a valley in northern Pakistan, have been practising an agriculture very
similar to the one described by Anastasia. Eating food exclusively from their family garden plots and
thus establishing a closed loop of matter- and information-exchange between people and their plants,
they are recognised as the most healthy and long-living people on Earth. The Hunzakut commonly live
to more than 100 years, and men becoming fathers at age 90 is not a rarity.9 Can it be that this infor-
mation exchange between an individual person and a plant Anastasia talks about is the missing link to
understanding human nutrition? Even in the absence of scientific studies, why not try it? The science
will catch up.


TO MICHAEL OLSON
Michael,

You are doing a great job. Thank you.
I want to read the last stanza's of "America the Beautiful" on your show and participate in the discussion. Please go to the Huffington Post
and read my blog on Chewing on Food Safet:
A National Conversation is needed.

Google Chewing on Food Safety
for lots more.

I want to read the poem I wrote on this.

This is no time to give over the future of our food
to 100 senators who need a serious education on
what real food is, no less food safety.



HUFFINGTON POST
CHEWING ON FOOD SAFETY:
A NATIONAL CONVERSATION IS NEEDED

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lesliex/chewing-on-food-safety-a-_b_750967.html


READ THE POEM HERE
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1708802


CUREZONE STORY WITH 6000 page views
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1697407


CAMPAIGN TO EDUCATE WASHINGTON ON REAL FOOD SAFTY
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1722917


Fwd: URGENT: Food Safety Vote Next Week
Posted by: "Leslie Goldman" plantyourdream@cox.net yourenchantedgardener
Sat Nov 13, 2010 6:24 pm (PST)





Begin forwarded message:

> Quote of the Day: "Given sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine." --
> Woody Page, Denver sports columnist
>
> S. 510 will make your food more expensive and less safe. It will
> drive many small farms out of business. The leaders of the "lame
> duck" Congress want to pass this falsely named "food safety" bill
> NEXT WEEK, but . . .
>
> They'll need 60 votes to break Sen. Coburn's "hold" on the bill.
>
> That means we can defeat S.510 with just 40 votes, but we must
> apply the pressure now!
>
> Please send a letter right now telling your Senators to oppose S. 510.
>
> You may borrow from or copy this letter . . .
>
> S.510 will crush family farms and small businesses with excessive
> regulations - even though they were NOT the source of recent food
> safety problems.
>
> S.510 also violates the Fourth Amendment by allowing the FDA to
> invade and search farms and food producers without court permission.
>
> If you think the FDA will use this new power responsibly, think
> again. David Gumpert reports that the FDA shut down two raw-milk
> cheese-makers for the presence of the pathogen listeria, even
> though . . .http://tinyurl.com/2e5x2sq
>
> * Nobody got sick
> * The FDA almost never shuts down companies for the mere presence
> of pathogens - even when people DO get sick
> * Companies have previously been allowed to clean things up, rather
> than shut down.
>
> If the FDA is starting to behave like this now, just imagine how
> abusive it will be under S.510?
>
> Finally, it must be stressed that big agribusiness has been the
> source of most recent food safety problems. S.510 will make this
> problem worse by burdening small producers, and driving them out of
> business. This will make our food supply more centralized, less
> diverse, and more dangerous.
>
> Please STOP S.510. This Congress must NOT pass any food safety
> bill. Remember, the voters have repudiated this Congress, and it's
> heavy handed ways.
>
> END LETTER
>
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