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[Barbara Meyer <brbhums@gmail.com>]

"Here’s the best link on the concerns:
http://sustainableagriculture.net/blog/food-safety-action-alert/, from the
most credible organization on this in the country.

Instead of our Gov. and Ag Director, we need to get our Senators on board
with mitigating legislation … Neither Cantwell nor Murray so far seem to be
supporting the fixes explained on the above link.

So, if folks want to help influence the outcome, we’d be best off telling
people to call our Washington Senators
They have the power to do it."

Trudy Bialic | Director, Public Affairs/ Editor, Sound Consumer | PCC
Natural Markets | Seattle, Wash. 98105 | 206-547-1222

*
*
*Request to Lawrence London:*   Do you know* when* Steve Gordon posted the
S510 info to http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com???  The most recent posting I
can find that references S510 is from May 10, 2010.



Barbara
http://knowandgrowfood.blogspot.com/
"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget
ourselves."  -M. K. Ghandi


Hi Rene,

I too am concerned about general public interest and awareness
We try locally to inform some with a blog.  I'm wondering what others are
doing???
*
**In the meantime below are sites to stay informed on bill S510:*

"Take a look at this http://www.cornucopia.org/category/action-alerts/ -- it
discusses  S510.  This is a very valuable website to be aware of in any
event.  Also go to http://sustainableagriculture.net/category/food-safety/

Numerous organizations involved with sustainable and organic agriculture
have been on top of the issue and these two organizations mentioned will
keep you updated. As you know, congress is in recess at the moment, so check
back with these organizations….or send them an e-mail asking for further
info, and sign-up for their 'alerts'....."

*Thank you Leonard for alerting me to this bill!*

Barbara
http://knowandgrowfood.blogspot.com/


On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Rene Myers <solarkat12@gmail.com> wrote:

 As I am quite new to the Permiculture community, recently receiving my PDC,
> I have been a US Citizen for 36 years. I'd like to acknowledge the lack of
> citizens rising up to state their desire and need for clean, organic,
> sustainable food. Many communities are growing local and supporting their
> local farmers, but these are few and far between. We are not connecting the
> dots.
>


> As a means for communication, how are we as a united community able to
> disseminate information, particularly the proposed Senate Bill S510, to
> non-permies regarding the possibility of growing their own food to be
> illegal and that the structure for those crimes have not, nor will be
> determined once the bill has passed. Obviously this is only a small taste of
> what Bill S510 is offering, yet this is a fundamental ethical issue of human
> rights that is being prognosticated  against the Citizens of the United
> States. "Land of the Free" is no longer on the minds of the people, but "how
> can I get more, make more to pay off my debt??
>


> " What avenues do we, as a global PC community have to arm against this
> proposed agricultural control by corporations with governmental and world
> authority in their "back-pockets". I ask these questions in hopes that it
> will generate a discussion and think-tank on methods for communicating to
> the non-knowers what is happening with our basic rights to nutrition and our
> lives.
> In appreciation,
> ~Wren
>
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>> *Senate Bill S510 *Makes it illegal to Grow, Share, Trade or Sell
>> Homegrown Food
>> News - U.S. News
>> By Steve Green
>> http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com
>>
>> *S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010,*  may be the most
>> dangerous bill in the history of the US.  It is to our food what the 
>> bailout
>> was to our economy, only we can live without money.
>>
>> If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public's right to grow, own, trade,
>> transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes.  It
>> will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and
>> consumption of food and agricultural products of one?s choice. It will be
>> unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of
>> God ~Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower
>>
>> It is similar to what India faced with imposition of the salt tax during
>> British rule, only S 510 extends control over all food in the US, violating
>> the fundamental human right to food.
>>
>> Monsanto says it has no interest in the bill and would not benefit from
>> it, but Monsanto?s Michael Taylor who gave us rBGH and unregulated
>> genetically modified (GM) organisms, appears to have designed it and is
>> waiting as an appointed Food Czar to the FDA (a position unapproved by
>> Congress) to administer the agency it would create ? without judicial 
>> review
>> ? if it passes.  S 510 would give Monsanto unlimited power over all US 
>> seed,
>> food supplements, food and farming.
>>
>> *History*
>> In the 1990s, Bill Clinton introduced HACCP (Hazardous Analysis Critical
>> Control Points) purportedly to deal with contamination in the meat
>> industry.  Clinton's HACCP delighted the offending corporate (World Trade
>> Organization WTO) meat packers since it allowed them to inspect themselves,
>> eliminated thousands of local food processors (with no history of
>> contamination), and centralized meat into their control.  Monsanto promoted
>> HACCP.
>>
>> In 2008, Hillary Clinton, urged a powerful centralized food safety agency
>> as part of her campaign for president.  Her advisor was Mark Penn, CEO of
>> Burson Marsteller*, a giant PR firm representing Monsanto.  Clinton lost,
>> but Clinton friends such as Rosa DeLauro, whose husband?s firm lists
>> Monsanto as a progressive client and globalization as an area of expertise,
>> introduced early versions of S 510.
>>
>> S 510 fails on moral, social, economic, political, constitutional, and
>> human survival grounds.
>>
>

> 1.  It puts all US food and all US farms under Homeland Security and the
>> Department of Defense, in the event ofcontamination or an ill-defined
>> emergency.  It resembles the Kissinger Plan.
>>
>> 2.  It would end US sovereignty over its own food supply by insisting on
>> compliance with the WTO, thus threatening national security.  It would end
>> the Uruguay Round Agreement Act of 1994, which put US sovereignty and US 
>> law
>> under perfect protection.  Instead, S 510 says:
>>
>> COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS.
>>
>> Nothing in this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) shall be construed
>> in a manner inconsistent with the agreement establishing the World Trade
>> Organization or any other treaty or international agreement to which the
>> United States is a party.
>>
>> 3.  It would 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.? Since under that law,
>> the US is a corporate entity and not a location, ?entry of food into the 
>> US?
>> covers food produced anywhere within the land mass of this country and
>> entering into it by virtue of being produced.
>>
>> 4.  It imposes 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.  Its bizarre history and its expected impact in limiting 
>> access
>> to adequate nutrition (while mandating GM food, GM animals, pesticides,
>> hormones, irradiation of food, etc.) threatens all safe and organic food 
>> and
>> health itself, since the world knows now it needs vitamins to survive, not
>> just to treat llnesses.
>>
>> 5.  It would 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. See Seeds ? How to criminalize them, for more
>> details.
>>
>> 6.  It includes NAIS, an animal traceability program that threatens all
>> small farmers and ranchers raising animals. The UN is participating through
>> the WHO, FAO, WTO, and World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in
>> allowing mass slaughter of even heritage breeds of animals and without 
>> proof
>> of disease.  Biodiversity in farm animals is being wiped out to substitute
>> genetically engineered animals on which corporations hold patents.  Animal
>> diseases can be falsely declared. S510 includes the Centers for Disease
>> Control (CDC), despite its corrupt involvement in the H1N1 scandal, which 
>> is
>> now said to have been concocted by the corporations.
>>
>> 7.  It extends a failed and destructive HACCP to all food, thus
>> threatening to do to all local food production and farming what HACCP did 
>> to
>> meat production ? put it in corporate hands and worsen food safety.
>>
>> 8.  It deconstructs what is left of the American economy. It takes
>> agriculture and food, which are the cornerstone of all economies, out of 
>> the
>> hands of the citizenry, and puts them under the total control of
>> multinational corporations influencing the UN, WHO, FAO and WTO, with HHS,
>> and CDC, acting as agents, with Homeland Security as the enforcer.  The
>> chance to rebuild the economy based on farming, ranching, gardens, food
>> production, natural health, and all the jobs, tools and connected
>> occupations would be eliminated.
>>
>> 9.  It would allow the government to mandate antibiotics, hormones,
>> slaughterhouse waste, pesticides and GMOs. This would industrialize every
>> farm in the US, eliminate local organic farming, greatly increase global
>> warming from increased use of oil-based products and long-distance delivery
>> of foods, and make food even more unsafe.  The five items listed, the Five
>> Pillars of Food Safety,  are precisely the items in the food supply which
>> are the primary source of its danger.
>>
>> 10. It uses 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-6 in Canada) the end of Rule 
>> of
>> Law in the US.
>>
>>
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