Fwd: Four days to Food Fascism - "Food" bill S.510

[Don Appelbaum]

This was sent to me by one of our members.  I pass it on for you to look at. 

 

Sent:
Thu 22/04/10 04:10
1. Four Days to Stop Food Fascism!

Rumor
in DC is that the forced-industrialization of food production bill, 
S.510, will come to a vote in the Senate this week or next week. If you
value local, natural food production, NOW is the time to act! Please 
use this Action Item and send the message to the Senate: "NO FAKE FOOD 
SAFETY BILL". Demand strong, unequivocal protection for local, natural 
food production! Please forward this message to everyone you know and 
ask them to act too! 

Two action steps to take:

[1] Send an email to your Senators:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

[2] CALL your US Senators' offices; Just dial 800-828-0498 and make a call registering your strongly 
negative opinion of S. 510! If not now, when?

For 9 "talking points" about why
the bill is just as we've described it, see - 

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=5205


The Obama administration is pushing new farm controls which 
will drive small and independent farmers off the land, literally leaving
the field to Agribiz, (implementing all of Codex through complete 
HARMonization and allowing the FDA to declare Marshal law) through 
Congress as fast as possible and have coordinated the House bills so 
there will be no debate and committee meetings are closed. The story 
will not be the same in the Senate, if we can generate enough public 
outrage!

Transparency, change, undoing Bush's regulations, giving the 
public time to comment, grassroots anything? None are visible in the 
current legislative process. Our entire food system, and thus our 
health, is being given to the last people with any interest in 
quality or safety: Big Abgribiz. This is going on in the absence of 
public scrutiny. Those who do know what is happening, of course, have 
zero access to the process and to the major media. Meanwhile, the media
is absent while Congress is moving at warp speed to sew this up.

There will be no direct, frontal assault on organic farming and
dietary supplements, but an insidious process of "infecting" organic 
farming and nutrient products with regulations, "traceability" 
requirements, required practices and prohibitions enforced by truly 
draconian fines and prision terms for even minor offenses running to 
hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars and 8 years in prison for 
minor offenses... all under the guise of fake "food safety." 

Example: imagine Joel Salatin's wonderful organic farm under 
the direction of the USDA, with detailed instructions on what he must 
feed and when, how he must medically "treat" his animals and with what, 
what he must "spray" and when, ... you get the picture. These bills 
will industrialize all farms and insure the farmers are forced to buy 
chemicals and drugs. Organic is dead. As well as human control over 
the food supply. As well as health.


H.R. 2749 includes a weak exemption for farmer to consumer or 
restaurant sales because of the Push Back we generated. But the bill 
has now passed the House and it is imperative that NO version of "food 
safety" pass the Senate. More Push Back is needed for more protection 
for dietary supplements, farmers, gardeners, community farming, all 
local food production (including yours!) and food processing.

We've set up an Action Item for you to send an unmistakable 
message to your Senators. We must educate the Senate that you value 
DSHEA, organic farmers and small farming and do not - do not - 
want independent farmers regulated out of existence. You do not want 
"Big Agrabiz" regulations applied to organic and small family farms and 
ranches or to natural/organic food products, including Dietary 
Supplements.

We have prepared the following Petition to Congress with regard
to this matter: