Statement from the Organic Consumers Association

Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009

Tell Congress to Improve Food Safety by Stopping Factory Farming


Source: http://capwiz.com/grassrootsnetroots/issues/alert/?alertid=12878056


HR 875, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, is a limited-vision attempt by moderate Democrats and Republicans to craft food safety legislation to address the out-of-control filth and contamination that are inherent in our industrialized, now globalized, "profit-at-any-cost" food system. This being said, OCA does not support HR 875 in its present form, given the fact that, if the bill's regulations were applied in a one-size-fits-all manner to certified organic and farm-to-consumer operations, it could have a devastating impact on small farmers, especially raw milk producers who are already unfairly targeted by state food-safety regulators. Although the OCA deems this bill somewhat well-intentioned, we are calling on Congress to focus its attention on the real threats to food safety: globalized food sourcing from nations such as China where food safety is a travesty and domestic industrial-scale and factory farms whose collateral damage includes pesticide and antibiotic-tainted food, mad cow disease, E.coli contamination and salmonella poisoning. And, of course, Congress and the Obama Administration need to support a massive transition to organic farming practices.

Yeah, the powers that be are going to make SURE we are ingesting toxic chemicals! This is cramming the poisons down our throats, unwillingly, on our food supply. Control of the food supply is one of their biggest weapons in population control. We need to contact our Reps about this, for sure, if this is in the offing. We need to stay active with our petitions. How are we going to get around this and what else is going on that destroys our freedoms? Good question.
EDIT: most congressmen are unaware of the contents of the bills they sign (there isn't time to read (discuss all the possible, future implications/applications/loopholes) of all of it before they are voted upon), and there is always the "covert" there of which the Patriot Act is a good example.

Hi Ya'll,

What did we think would happen when we Rejected our own Creator and give Power to the Beast over us?

It is then what ever the Crooked Politicians decide whom we have put into office !

Didn't I read that folks wanted Change with this last election?

Looks like you are getting change, but maybe it isn't what you expected?

Cause and Effect !

Smile Tis your choice.