Hi to everyone! Here's VERY IMPORTANT information, about which you NEED to know!!

"THANKS" for your time and attention!

Tom/Gen. 1:29.
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BEWARE THE FOOD POLICE! HR 875/S425 WOULD NATIONALIZE FARMING - DESTROY ORGANICS - EVEN ATTACK YOUR PRIVATE GARDEN!‏
John C. Hammell – I.A.H.F.

The New Administration is pushing Farm Control, that will drive Organic Farms out of Business: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epXNJNjYBvw


Buried in the bills are FINE print, that will FORCE farmers to buy and use pesticides and to comply with SEVERELY ONEROUS red tape (ostensibly to "protect consumers") or be driven out of business by GIGANTIC fines!
It is “claimed” and being presented to establish a "Food Safety Administration" within the Department of Health and Human Services to so-call "protect" the public from food-born illnesses, but as usual, NOTHING, that happens in D.C. is actually the way that it seems on the surface- it’s ALL smoke and mirrors - ALL LIES!!!
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) deserves burial by phone call, fax, email and IRATE personal visits for sponsoring the SLIMIEST piece of legislation that I've seen in a very long time: HR 875 The (So Called) Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-875


This bill already has 31 co-sponsors, who most likely NEVER read anything MORE than the PREAMBLE to the bill, which seems reasonable enough, but as usual, the DEVIL is in the DETAILS. Peter Defazio (D-OR) is even co-sponsoring this. He needs to REMOVE his name, and I think he will, once he realizes what’s ACTUALLY in this bill. He is normally on our side against HUGE corporate powers like Monsanto, but in this case he's clearly making a MISTAKE!
What’s driving this despicable P.O.S. was the recent contaminated Peanut Plant in Georgia.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,497425,00.html


As usual, Monsanto's lobbyists are up to NO good, however, and they've STUCK language into this bill, that needs to be YANKED-OUT of there PRONTO - and we're ALL going to have to do some work to make that happen!
If we don't, you can say goodbye to ALL of that NICE organic produce, that you buy at your health food store, in the organics section of your supermarket, from the farmers markets, and you can even expect to have the Fedstapo show up on your doorstep to FINE you for growing a garden in your own yard! This is how overly BROAD that the bill language in this thing is!
Check it out: Full Text: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:h875:


HERE IS WHAT’S SPECIFICALLY WRONG AND WHAT YOU CAN DO:
This bill is sitting in committee and I am NOT sure, when it is going to hit the floor. One thing, that I do know, is that very FEW of the Representatives have read it. As usual, they will vote on this bill based on what someone else is saying. URGE your members to read the legislation and ask for opposition to this DEVASTATING piece of legislation. DEVASTATING for everyday folks like you and I, but GREAT for factory farming operations like Monsanto, ADM, Sodexo and Tyson to name a few.

I have NO doubt, that this legislation was HEAVILY influenced by lobbyists from HUGE food producers. This legislation is so broad-based, that technically someone with a little backyard garden could get fined and have their property seized!! It will affect ANYONE, who produces food, even if they do NOT sell it, but ONLY consume it. It will literally put ALL independent farmers and food producers out-of-business due to the HUGE amounts of money, that it will take to conform to factory farming methods!

If people choose to farm without industry standards, such as chemical pesticides and fertilizers, they will be subject to a variety of HARASSMENT from this completely NEW agency, that has NEVER before existed! That's right, a whole NEW governmental agency is being created just to POLICE food, for our own protection, of course.

DO NOT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT, READ THIS LEGISLATION YOURSELF.
The MORE people, who read this legislation, the MORE insight, that we are going to get, and be able to share.
Post your observations and insights below.
URGE your members to read this legislation and to OPPOSE the passage of this legislation!

Pay SPECIAL attention to AND read in it's entirety:
• Section 3 - the definitions portion of the bill.
• Section 103, 206 & 207.

Red flags, that I found and I am SURE that there are MORE ...........
• Legally binds state agriculture departments to ENFORCE federal guidelines, effectively taking away the States’ power to do ANYTHING other than being “Food Police” for the FEDS.
• Effectively CRIMINALIZES organic farming, but doesn't actually use the word organic.
• Affects anyone growing food, even if they are NOT selling it, but are consuming it.
• Affects anyone, that’s producing meat of ANY kind, including wild game.
• Legislation is so broad-based, that EVERY aspect of growing or producing food can be made ILLEGAL! There are NO specifics, which is BIZARRE, considering how LONG, that the legislation is.
• Section 103 is almost ENTIRELY about the administrative aspect of the legislation. It will allow the appointing of officials from the factory farming corporations and lobbyists and classify them as experts and allow them to determine and interpret the legislation. Who do you think that they are going to side with?
• Section 206 defines what will be considered a food production facility and what will be enforced for ALL food production facilities. The wording is so broad-based, that a backyard gardener could be fined and more!
• Section 207 requires that the State's Agriculture Dept. act as the “Food Police” and ENFORCE the federal requirements. This takes away the State’s power and is in violation of the 10th amendment.
• There are many more BAD things about this bill, but by the time I got this far into the legislation, I was so ALARMED, that I wanted to bring everyone's attention to it.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:s425:


During times of Stalin’s regime, the nationalization of farming methods took place. This enabled his administration to gain control over the food supply. He used food rations to control the population.

Last word...... Legislate religion and enforce gag orders on ministers on what can and can't be said in the pulpit, instituting regulations FORCING people to rely FULLY on the government, control the format of money (cash, plastic or digital), seeds and food.

I haven't read any of the Senate's version of the bill, because I’ve been pouring through the House's version. Here is the link and I hope some of you can take a look and post your observations and insights below.

S 425 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:s425:


There’s also a chance, that as this bill moves through Congressman Waxman's Energy and Commerce Committee, he could use it as a vehicle for attacking the Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act of 1994, which DEFENDS our access to dietary supplements. Waxman is DSHEA's biggest OPPONENT in Congress and he's never had MORE power, than he has now. IAHF is especially monitoring this aspect of the bill, but the rest is VERY BAD as it is!!
Things that you can do:
1. Contact your members at 202-224-3121 (Capital Switchboard) and ask them to oppose HR 875 and S 425. While you are at it ask them if they personally have read the legislation and what their position is? If they have NOT read the legislation, then ask them to read it and politely let them know that just because other representatives are NOT reading the legislation and voting on it does NOT mean, that they can do the SAME thing.
2. Get in touch with local farmers and food producers by attending a local farmers market and asking them how you can understand further the implications, that this will have on them.
3. Attend a local WAPF meeting, as a good start to learning about what is going on in farming and local & state initiatives. The website is http://www.westonaprice.org/localchapters/index.html

4. Check out the Farmers Legal Defense Fund at http://www.ftcldf.org/index.html

5. Find-out, who sits on your State’s agriculture and farming committee and contact them with your concerns.
6. Continue to contact your elected officials and let them know your position on legislation and why .
7. Get ACTIVE at the local and State levels as this is the QUICKEST way to initiate change!