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libertygrl
12-01-2010, 12:53 PM
December 1, 2010

The United States Senate has passed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S.510) yesterday by a vote of 73 to 25 demonstrating a clear mandate to destroy health freedom in America.

The House of Representatives approved a different version of the food safety bill in 2009; however, the bill’s sponsor Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said the House has agreed to adopt the Senate version, bypassing the need for a conference to integrate the two bills. Once approved, the bill will move on to President Barack Obama for his signature.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will now have more power to police all food companies under the bill. It gives the FDA unprecedented powers to preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes.

The bill will now:
- end United States sovereignty over its own food supply by insisting on compliance with the WTO, thus threatening national security.

- allow the government, under Maritime Law, to define the introduction of any food into commerce (even direct sales between individuals) as smuggling into “the United States.”

- impose Codex Alimentarius on the US, a global system of control over food. It allows the United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the WTO to take control of every food on earth and remove access to natural food supplements.

- remove the right to clean, store and thus own seed in the US, putting control of seeds in the hands of Monsanto and other multinationals, threatening US security.

- allow the government to mandate antibiotics, hormones, slaughterhouse waste, pesticides and GMO's.


- use food crimes as the entry into police state power and control. The bill postpones defining all the regulations to be imposed; postpones defining crimes to be punished, postpones defining penalties to be applied. It removes fundamental constitutional protections from all citizens in the country, making them subject to a corporate tribunal with unlimited power and penalties, and without judicial review. It is (similar to C-36 in Canada) the end of Rule of Law in the US.

Bill S. 510 essentially will strengthen all the forces that have led to the consolidation of the food supply in the hands of a few industrial food producers, while definitively harming small producers who give consumers the choice to buy fresh and health local foods.

Here are the names of the 73 US Senators who sold out the American public’s right to grow and sell crops from their own gardens and farms without government oversight, regulation or permission.

The November 30, 2010 US Senate vote on S-510, the FDA Food Modernization Safety Act:

Alabama
Nay AL Sessions, Jefferson [R]
Nay AL Shelby, Richard [R]
Alaska
Yea AK Begich, Mark [D]
Yea AK Murkowski, Lisa [R]
Arizona
Nay AZ Kyl, Jon [R]
Nay AZ McCain, John [R]
Arkansas
Yea AR Lincoln, Blanche [D]
Yea AR Pryor, Mark [D]
California
Yea CA Boxer, Barbara [D]
Yea CA Feinstein, Dianne [D]
Colorado
Yea CO Bennet, Michael [D]
Yea CO Udall, Mark [D]
Connecticut
Yea CT Dodd, Christopher [D]
Yea CT Lieberman, Joseph [I]
Delaware
Yea DE Carper, Thomas [D]
Yea DE Coons, Chris [D]
Florida
Yea FL LeMieux, George [R]
Yea FL Nelson, Bill [D]
Georgia
Nay GA Chambliss, Saxby [R]
Nay GA Isakson, John [R]
Hawaii
Yea HI Akaka, Daniel [D]
Yea HI Inouye, Daniel [D]
Idaho
Nay ID Crapo, Michael [R]
Nay ID Risch, James [R]
Illinois
Yea IL Durbin, Richard [D]
Yea IL Kirk, Mark [R]
Indiana
Yea IN Bayh, Evan [D]
Yea IN Lugar, Richard [R]
Iowa
Yea IA Grassley, Charles [R]
Yea IA Harkin, Thomas [D]
Kansas
Not Voting KS Brownback, Samuel [R]
Nay KS Roberts, Pat [R]
Kentucky
Nay KY Bunning, Jim [R]
Nay KY McConnell, Mitch [R]
Louisiana
Yea LA Landrieu, Mary [D]
Yea LA Vitter, David [R]
Maine
Yea ME Collins, Susan [R]
Yea ME Snowe, Olympia [R]
Maryland
Yea MD Cardin, Benjamin [D]
Yea MD Mikulski, Barbara [D]
Massachusetts
Yea MA Brown, Scott [R]
Yea MA Kerry, John [D]
Michigan
Yea MI Levin, Carl [D]
Yea MI Stabenow, Debbie Ann [D]
Minnesota
Yea MN Franken, Al [D]
Yea MN Klobuchar, Amy [D]
Mississippi
Nay MS Cochran, Thad [R]
Nay MS Wicker, Roger [R]
Missouri
Not Voting MO Bond, Christopher [R]
Yea MO McCaskill, Claire [D]
Montana
Yea MT Baucus, Max [D]
Yea MT Tester, Jon [D]
Nebraska
Yea NE Johanns, Mike [R]
Yea NE Nelson, Ben [D]
Nevada
Nay NV Ensign, John [R]
Yea NV Reid, Harry [D]
New Hampshire
Yea NH Gregg, Judd [R]
Yea NH Shaheen, Jeanne [D]
New Jersey
Yea NJ Lautenberg, Frank [D]
Yea NJ Menendez, Robert [D]
New Mexico
Yea NM Bingaman, Jeff [D]
Yea NM Udall, Tom [D]
New York
Yea NY Gillibrand, Kirsten [D]
Yea NY Schumer, Charles [D]
North Carolina
Yea NC Burr, Richard [R]
Yea NC Hagan, Kay [D]
North Dakota
Yea ND Conrad, Kent [D]
Yea ND Dorgan, Byron [D]
Ohio
Yea OH Brown, Sherrod [D]
Yea OH Voinovich, George [R]
Oklahoma
Nay OK Coburn, Thomas [R]
Nay OK Inhofe, James [R]
Oregon
Yea OR Merkley, Jeff [D]
Yea OR Wyden, Ron [D]
Pennsylvania
Yea PA Casey, Robert [D]
Yea PA Specter, Arlen [D]
Rhode Island
Yea RI Reed, John [D]
Yea RI Whitehouse, Sheldon [D]
South Carolina
Nay SC DeMint, Jim [R]
Nay SC Graham, Lindsey [R]
South Dakota
Yea SD Johnson, Tim [D]
Nay SD Thune, John [R]
Tennessee
Yea TN Alexander, Lamar [R]
Nay TN Corker, Bob [R]
Texas
Nay TX Cornyn, John [R]
Nay TX Hutchison, Kay [R]
Utah
Nay UT Bennett, Robert [R]
Nay UT Hatch, Orrin [R]
Vermont
Yea VT Leahy, Patrick [D]
Yea VT Sanders, Bernard [I]
Virginia
Yea VA Warner, Mark [D]
Yea VA Webb, Jim [D]
Washington
Yea WA Cantwell, Maria [D]
Yea WA Murray, Patty [D]
West Virginia
Yea WV Manchin, Joe [D]
Yea WV Rockefeller, John [D]
Wisconsin
Yea WI Feingold, Russell [D]
Yea WI Kohl, Herbert [D]
Wyoming
Nay WY Barrasso, John [R]
Yea WY Enzi, Michael [R]


http://www.infowars.com/u-s-passes-most-restrictive-legislation-yet-against-health-freedom/

Madly_Sane
12-01-2010, 12:57 PM
Watch... soon they're going to put 'emotion killers' in the food and control our minds... nazi bastards.

hazek
12-01-2010, 12:59 PM
Land of the free and home of the brave huh? :)

Vessol
12-01-2010, 01:03 PM
Perhaps I should spend 50$ and go to some seed stores and buy up?

Madly_Sane
12-01-2010, 01:06 PM
and then throw them at gov't officials :D

libertygrl
12-01-2010, 01:16 PM
They must be laughing at us over in Europe wondering what it would take for Americans to take to the streets in large numbers. Porno Scanners didn't do it. Groping your private parts didn't do it. Controlling what we grow and eat now hasn't done it. When are Americans going to finally say enough is enough?? What will it take? Confiscating every one's PDA's or iPods???

But seriously, what's it really going to take? Or are Americans just going to roll over and allow this continue? They are testing us to see how far we will allow them to go. So far, they are getting a free pass and the lack of action or even interest by the majority of people in this country is downright alarming and disgusting. :mad:

Vessol
12-01-2010, 01:17 PM
Why would Europe be laughing? They are in the same shit as us.

sailingaway
12-01-2010, 01:23 PM
I heard this was being bounced back to the senate on a rules issue (must originate in House). (That is also the Constitution, by the way.)

If so it will be caught in the GOP Senate shut down until after the Bush tax cuts are extended.

Anti Federalist
12-01-2010, 01:30 PM
I heard this was being bounced back to the senate on a rules issue (must originate in House). (That is also the Constitution, by the way.)

If so it will be caught in the GOP Senate shut down until after the Bush tax cuts are extended.

Huzzah for gridlock.

libertyjam
12-01-2010, 01:33 PM
I am so proud that both of my senators voted nay on this bill.

TexanRudeBoy
12-01-2010, 01:36 PM
They must be laughing at us over in Europe wondering what it would take for Americans to take to the streets in large numbers. Porno Scanners didn't do it. Groping your private parts didn't do it. Controlling what we grow and eat now hasn't done it. When are Americans going to finally say enough is enough?? What will it take? Confiscating every one's PDA's or iPods???

But seriously, what's it really going to take? Or are Americans just going to roll over and allow this continue? They are testing us to see how far we will allow them to go. So far, they are getting a free pass and the lack of action or even interest by the majority of people in this country is downright alarming and disgusting. :mad:

American's never will as long as the illusion of a different party taking over and "changing" things is there.

Romantarchist
12-01-2010, 01:39 PM
If you're reading this thread, you need to contact your state representatives and ask them to please create legislating stating that your state will not participate in the Food Safety Modernization Act. If we can't stop it in the U.S. House, let's nullify it. This isn't a suggestion. It's a command.

Anti Federalist
12-01-2010, 01:39 PM
They must be laughing at us over in Europe wondering what it would take for Americans to take to the streets in large numbers. Porno Scanners didn't do it. Groping your private parts didn't do it. Controlling what we grow and eat now hasn't done it. When are Americans going to finally say enough is enough?? What will it take? Confiscating every one's PDA's or iPods???

But seriously, what's it really going to take? Or are Americans just going to roll over and allow this continue? They are testing us to see how far we will allow them to go. So far, they are getting a free pass and the lack of action or even interest by the majority of people in this country is downright alarming and disgusting. :mad:

Americunts? In the streets revolting?

Pheh, you got a better chance of seeing god.

Anti Federalist
12-01-2010, 01:41 PM
I am so proud that both of my senators voted nay on this bill.

Judd Gregg is such a piece of shit.

While Ayotte is an unknown quantity at this point, it's hard to think how she could be worse.

Of course Shaheen would vote for it.

Rael
12-01-2010, 01:44 PM
Title is a bit misleading as the bill has not passed congress yet

Natalie
12-01-2010, 01:57 PM
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pacelli
12-01-2010, 02:02 PM
Alright libertygrl, apparently you neglected my post in your other thread on this topic, so I'd like to ask you to kindly back up your claim:


- remove the right to clean, store and thus own seed in the US, putting control of seeds in the hands of Monsanto and other multinationals, threatening US security.


Could you please provide the quotation from the actual text of the bill that mentions the prohibition on seed ownership and storing?

I'm not asking you to give me a link to a website. I'd like you to demonstrate your personal knowledge of the bill, having read it, and quote the section that places the restriction on seed ownership.

My claim is that the word "seed" does not appear once in the entire bill text, as evidenced by the fact that I've read the entire bill.

Please feel free to dispute my claim.

libertyjam
12-01-2010, 02:57 PM
SEC. 102. REGISTRATION OF FOOD FACILITIES.

(a) Updating of Food Category Regulations; Biennial Registration Renewal- Section 415(a) () is amended--
(1) in paragraph (2), by--
(A) striking ‘conducts business and’ and inserting ‘conducts business, the e-mail address for the contact person of the facility or, in the case of a foreign facility, the United States agent for the facility, and’; and
(B) inserting ‘, or any other food categories as determined appropriate by the Secretary, including by guidance’ after ‘Code of Federal Regulations’;
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively; and
(3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
‘(3) BIENNIAL REGISTRATION RENEWAL- During the period beginning on October 1 and ending on December 31 of each even-numbered year, a registrant that has submitted a registration under paragraph (1) shall submit to the Secretary a renewal registration containing the information described in paragraph (2). The Secretary shall provide for an abbreviated registration renewal process for any registrant that has not had any changes to such information since the registrant submitted the preceding registration or registration renewal for the facility involved.’.
(b) Suspension of Registration-
(1) IN GENERAL- Section 415 () is amended--
(A) in subsection (a)(2), by inserting after the first sentence the following: ‘The registration shall contain an assurance that the Secretary will be permitted to inspect such facility at the times and in the manner permitted by this Act.’;
(B) by redesignating subsections (b) and (c) as subsections (c) and (d), respectively; and
(C) by inserting after subsection (a) the following:
‘(b) Suspension of Registration-
‘(1) IN GENERAL- If the Secretary determines that food manufactured, processed, packed, received, or held by a facility registered under this section has a reasonable probability of causing serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals, the Secretary may by order suspend the registration of a facility--
‘(A) that created, caused, or was otherwise responsible for such reasonable probability; or
‘(B)(i) that knew of, or had reason to know of, such reasonable probability; and
‘(ii) packed, received, or held such food.
‘(2) HEARING ON SUSPENSION- The Secretary shall provide the registrant subject to an order under paragraph (1) with an opportunity for an informal hearing, to be held as soon as possible but not later than 2 business days after the issuance of the order or such other time period, as agreed upon by the Secretary and the registrant, on the actions required for reinstatement of registration and why the registration that is subject to suspension should be reinstated. The Secretary shall reinstate a registration if the Secretary determines, based on evidence presented, that adequate grounds do not exist to continue the suspension of the registration.
‘(3) POST-HEARING CORRECTIVE ACTION PLAN; VACATING OF ORDER-
‘(A) CORRECTIVE ACTION PLAN- If, after providing opportunity for an informal hearing under paragraph (2), the Secretary determines that the suspension of registration remains necessary, the Secretary shall require the registrant to submit a corrective action plan to demonstrate how the registrant plans to correct the conditions found by the Secretary. The Secretary shall review such plan not later than 14 days after the submission of the corrective action plan or such other time period as determined by the Secretary.
‘(B) VACATING OF ORDER- Upon a determination by the Secretary that adequate grounds do not exist to continue the suspension actions required by the order, or that such actions should be modified, the Secretary shall promptly vacate the order and reinstate the registration of the facility subject to the order or modify the order, as appropriate.
‘(4) EFFECT OF SUSPENSION- If the registration of a facility is suspended under this subsection, no person shall import or export food into the United States from such facility, offer to import or export food into the United States from such facility, or otherwise introduce food from such facility into interstate or intrastate commerce in the United States.
‘(5) REGULATIONS-
‘(A) IN GENERAL- The Secretary shall promulgate regulations to implement this subsection. The Secretary may promulgate such regulations on an interim final basis.
‘(B) REGISTRATION REQUIREMENT- The Secretary may require that registration under this section be submitted in an electronic format. Such requirement may not take effect before the date that is 5 years after the date of enactment of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.
‘(6) APPLICATION DATE- Facilities shall be subject to the requirements of this subsection beginning on the earlier of--
‘(A) the date on which the Secretary issues regulations under paragraph (5); or
‘(B) 180 days after the date of enactment of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.
‘(7) NO DELEGATION- The authority conferred by this subsection to issue an order to suspend a registration or vacate an order of suspension shall not be delegated to any officer or employee other than the Commissioner.’.
(2) SMALL ENTITY COMPLIANCE POLICY GUIDE- Not later than 180 days after the issuance of the regulations promulgated under section 415(b)(5) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (as added by this section), the Secretary shall issue a small entity compliance policy guide setting forth in plain language the requirements of such regulations to assist small entities in complying with registration requirements and other activities required under such section.
(3) IMPORTED FOOD- Section 801(l) () is amended by inserting ‘(or for which a registration has been suspended under such section)’ after ‘section 415’.
(c) Clarification of Intent-
(1) RETAIL FOOD ESTABLISHMENT- The Secretary shall amend the definition of the term ‘retail food establishment’ in section in 1.227(b)(11) of title 21, Code of Federal Regulations to clarify that, in determining the primary function of an establishment or a retail food establishment under such section, the sale of food products directly to consumers by such establishment and the sale of food directly to consumers by such retail food establishment include--
(A) the sale of such food products or food directly to consumers by such establishment at a roadside stand or farmers’ market where such stand or market is located other than where the food was manufactured or processed;
(B) the sale and distribution of such food through a community supported agriculture program; and
(C) the sale and distribution of such food at any other such direct sales platform as determined by the Secretary.
(2) DEFINITIONS- For purposes of paragraph (1)--
(A) the term ‘community supported agriculture program’ has the same meaning given the term ‘community supported agriculture (CSA) program’ in section 249.2 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulation); and
(B) the term ‘consumer’ does not include a business.
(d) Conforming Amendments-
(1) Section 301(d) () is amended by inserting ‘415,’ after ‘404,’.
(2) Section 415(d), as redesignated by subsection (b), is amended by adding at the end before the period ‘for a facility to be registered, except with respect to the reinstatement of a registration that is suspended under subsection (b)’.

SEC. 206. FOOD PRODUCTION FACILITIES.

(a) Authorities- In carrying out the duties of the Administrator and the purposes of this Act, the Administrator shall have the authority, with respect to food production facilities, to–

(1) visit and inspect food production facilities in the United States and in foreign countries to determine if they are operating in compliance with the requirements of the food safety law;

(2) review food safety records as required to be kept by the Administrator under section 210 and for other food safety purposes;

(3) set good practice standards to protect the public and animal health and promote food safety;

(4) conduct monitoring and surveillance of animals, plants, products, or the environment, as appropriate;

(5) collect and maintain information relevant to public health and farm practices.

(b) Inspection of Records- A food production facility shall permit the Administrator upon presentation of appropriate credentials and at reasonable times and in a reasonable manner, to have access to and ability to copy all records maintained by or on behalf of such food production establishment in any format (including paper or electronic) and at any location, that are necessary to assist the Administrator–

(1) to determine whether the food is contaminated, adulterated, or otherwise not in compliance with the food safety law; or

(2) to track the food in commerce.

(c) Regulations- Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture and representatives of State departments of agriculture, shall promulgate regulations to establish science-based minimum standards for the safe production of food by food production facilities. Such regulations shall–

(1) consider all relevant hazards, including those occurring naturally,and those that may be unintentionally or intentionally introduced;

(2) require each food production facility to have a written food safety plan that describes the likely hazards and preventive controls implemented to address those hazards;

(3) include with respect to growing, harvesting, sorting, and storage operations, minimum standards related to fertilizer use, nutrients, hygiene, packaging, temperature controls, animal encroachment… and water….

Ah, such a little paragraph, and so much evil packed in it. Notice they mention harvesting, sorting and storage operations? Notice they never mention seeds, but they are precisely what those words cover.

Now, watch how they will be able to easily criminalize seed banking and all holding of seeds. First, to follow how this will be done, you must understand that:

1. There is a small list inside the FDA called “sources of seed contamination” and
2. The FDA has now defined “seed” as food,
3. So seeds can now be controlled through “food safety.”

Those seeds (so far) include:

*seeds eaten raw such as flax, poppy sesame, etc.;
*sprouting seeds such as wheat, beans, alfalfa, most greens, etc.;
*seeds pressed into oils such as corn, sunflower, canola, etc.;
*seeds used as animal feed such as soy ….

That includes most seeds. It may even be all seed, given how they are skilled at ‘new’ definitions.

And what are the “sources of seed contamination” per the FDA? They include only six little items:

*agricultural water;
*manure (but not chemical pesticides or fertilizers);
*harvesting;
*transporting equipment;
*seed cleaning (sorting) equipment; and
*seed storage (storing) facilities.

Did you know that seed cleaning equipment is THE single most critical piece of equipment for sustainable agriculture? It is how we collect organic seed. It is the machinery used after the season, when plants “go to seed,” to separate out (sort) the seeds from the plant material so the farmer can collect (harvest) and then save (put in storage) seed for the next year at little cost. With his own seed, the farmer also stays free of patented, genetically engineered, corporately privatized seeds.

This year, 2009, one item on the “sources of seed contamination” list is suddenly illegal in some parts of this country – seed cleaning equipment.
To get the drift, perhaps you need to know that the people who clean seed are being wiped out, as well.

How can they make such vital equipment illegal? Quietly, first of all, so as not to alert organic farmers who have a lot of political ties. And by saying it contaminates food. And by applying their innocent and reasonable sounding “minimum standards.”

“Contaminate” is their favorite word since the public fears the deadly contamination that industry itself – not farmers – has caused. That fear is valuable. Scare the public and it is easy to get “food safety standards” set without anyone reading them. 39 progressive co-sponsors leap on, thinking this is about “food safety.” But it is only about the use of “food safety,” not the reality of it

For to eliminate seed cleaning equipment, the FDA simply sets minimum “food safety” standards for seed cleaning (the simple separation of seed from plant) such that a farmer would need a million to a million and a half dollar building and/or equipment to meet the new requirements … per line of seed.

On the ground, where reality lives, a farmer in the Midwest who has been seed cleaning flax for 40 years with his hand made seed cleaner now can’t sell his flax on the market anymore. Never mind there are NO instances of anyone ever having gotten sick from seed cleaning equipment. And a farmer in another part of the Midwest who has been cleaning wheat, corn and soy for years with one single perfectly fine piece of equipment would now need three to four and half million dollars for three separate pieces of equipment, in order to satisfy the “food safety” standards.

The FDA isn’t so high-bar setting when it comes to other things like melamine in baby formula. Though it has proven to sicken and kill infants, initially the FDA just denied the melamine was in all the corporate baby formula but when people found evidence that it was, the FDA then quickly supplied a “food safety” standard that defined whatever level of melamine that was in the formula as fine.

This game playing about “food safety” standards – one to eliminate farmers by setting the bar so high no one can climb, and one to protect industry by setting the bar so low nothing need be done – is nothing new but now it is being suddenly extended to seeds. And it comes with penalties that make bankrupting farmers in an instant, very easy.

The effort to eliminate both seed cleaners and seed cleaning equipment tips us off to who is behind this (shhh) and to this new means of controlling seeds and makes it possible to see just a few suspect words in this bill, and sense where things are heading.

Organic farmers are not aware of any of this happening. It appears the organic community is being treated with kid gloves until HR 875 and related bills should be passed, coddled so they don’t get wise to what’s afoot. And they are too disconnected from traditional farmers to be aware of how the USDA has been tromping on them for years.

So organic farmers have missed the handwriting on the wall for themselves.

Plus, plain ol’ farmers have a history of no one listening to them, which is too bad in general but now it’s blatantly dangerous because it is they who are the ones bringing the warning that these bills are not just bad but deadly. The organic community, lulled by its own seeming safety, hasn’t heard or understood.

But given what just happened with seed cleaning equipment (sorting), the method and the intent are exposed. ”Food safety” is the weapon, with public fear, kept at a high pitch, as the driver. After which, those running this game only need to set the bar at a “food safety” level impossible to meet and apply horrendous punishments for not complying. Farmer is either crushed by that pincer move, or quits. Either way, his land is up for grabs.

And those severe punishments are essential to control groups which will see the whole thing for what it is – insane in terms of farming and anything to do with health, a threat to survival, and driven solely by profit and power.

So, one crucial piece of equipment (seed cleaning) is illegal now and without most people realizing. And simply because a single “foods safety” bar has been raised.

In time, as more and more farmers are forbidden from using their equipment, significant sources of organic seeds will begin to dry up, at which point the organic community would begin to ask what was going on. By then, it will be too late.

Why? Because look at the last item on the list – (seed) storing facilities.

Farmers, gardeners, seed saving exchanges, seed companies, scientific seed projects, and seed banks, all require sorting. All are working overtime to protect biodiversity that is rapidly disappearing specifically because of genetic engineering. As Monsanto began reducing access to seeds, people around the world have worked hard to compensate.

But now the effort is to take over the whole game, going after even these small sources of biodiversity – by simply defining seeds as food and then all farmers’ affordable mechanisms for harvesting (collecting), sorting (seed cleaning) andstoring (seed banking or saving) as too dirty to be safe for food.

Set the standard for “food safety” and certification high enough that no one can afford it and punish anyone who tries to save seed in ways that have worked fine for thousands of years, with a million dollar a day fine and/or ten years in prison, and presto, you have just criminalized seed banking.

The penalties are tremendous, the better to protect us from nothing dangerous whatsoever, but to make monopoly over seed absolutely absolute. One is left with control over farmers, an end to seed exchanges, an end to organic seed companies, an end to university programs developing nice normal hybrids, and an end to democracy – reducing us to abject dependence on corporations for food and gratitude even for genetically engineered food and at any price.

When you know that Monsanto with the help of the US government plundered ancient and rare seed banks in Iraq that held seeds with a genetic heritage (a biohistory belonging to all of us) going back thousands of years and then made it a crime for farmers there to collect or use their own normal and non-patented seeds off their own land, you see how extreme the intent to control is.

Now, perhaps it is possible to see how the identical thing is being done here, only it comes in a heavily disguised way – through “food safety” that isn’t “food safety” at all – and quietly sits in only one tiny little paragraph within a very large bill (and with no reference to seeds at all).
cont.

http://www.govtrack.us/embed/sample-billtext.xpd?bill=s111-510&version=es&nid=t0%3Aes%3A70
http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/seeds-how-to-criminalize-them/

libertygrl
12-01-2010, 05:53 PM
Why would Europe be laughing? They are in the same shit as us.


Because at least they take to the streets and mass protest. We don't do anything here.

oyarde
12-01-2010, 05:57 PM
If McCain had been in office when all this was going on, I think a lot more people would be upset. People attacked Bush for pretty much every thing he did. Obama is the best thing that ever happened for the globalists. Suddenly all the anti-war protestors and everyone else disappeared. I do not think the vast majority of Americans are ever going to wake up.

Obama is a godsend for the globalists , you are so correct .

Madly_Sane
12-02-2010, 11:53 AM
Next thing you know, they're going to ban hunting :rolleyes:

Noob
12-02-2010, 01:58 PM
Food Safety Bill Passes Senate
More Action Needed to Rescue Local Organic Farming from One-Size-Fits-All Food Safety Bill!


http://capwiz.com/grassrootsnetroots/callalert/index.tt?alertid=14909896

Noob
12-02-2010, 03:14 PM
George Soros And Food Safety


A questionable food safety bill in search of a crisis passed the Senate, but may hit a snag in the House. This power grab of the nation's food supply may end up benefiting a certain Hungarian billionaire.

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/555462/201012011900/George-Soros-And-Food-Safety.htm

silentshout
12-02-2010, 03:18 PM
Disgusted at all of the Ds voting yes. Most liberals i know love small organic farms and co-ops...WTF?

idirtify
12-02-2010, 03:19 PM
This is similar to the health care takeover, only with food instead of medicine; where you have an already-heavily-regulated industry now in the stages of getting overtaken by government. But let’s be real and not forget that this takeover is only the end-result of the extremely common fear, probably still present in many members here, that food is important enough to justify SOME regulation. Well here’s to all you misguided folks who still think SOME government intrusion is good for SOME industries: YOUR unjustified fear is what originally let government in the door and has now led to this inevitable result. GEE THANKS! So before you so righteously go posting angry objections to this current takeover attempt, please re-refer to the Martin Niemoeller quote and purge yourself of any thought that it wouldn’t hurt to have SOME food regulation – or this takeover will only be your own fear coming back to bite you in the arse.