Tomorrow the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee
(HELP Committee) will "mark-up" S 510, the Senate version of the
so-called "Food Safety" bill, last step before a full Senate vote
possibly within the next few days. Compared to the House Bill, the
Senate version is even worse according to Natural Solutions Foundation.
“Of course, getting the word out NOW to everyone you know so that they
can take action NOW is truly urgent,” states Ralph Fucetola, JD with
Natural Solutions.
The Senate bill, read at
http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.510: has an even weaker
Family Farm and Ranch, Community and Home Garden exemption than the bill
(HR.2749) that passed the House at the end of July.
‘This is a major emergency. We need your Push Back and we need it NOW!
Tomorrow could be too late,” says Fucetola.
“We pushed Monsanto and pushed back in Europe. Why not in the U.S.? Does
Push Back work? Do our voices matter? You bet,” he stated, adding,
“Push Back forced biotech giant Monsanto to take a backward step and
pull applications for European approval of two dangerous GMO corn types
off the European docket, to the tune of multibillions in profit.”
Fucetola states, “Even if you are among the 142,408 people who have
already taken action against these bills, we urge you, and every member
of your family and circle of contacts, and urge you in the strongest
possible terms, to do so again since the Action Item has now been
amended to reflect the passage of HR 2749 on July 30, 2009. Our voices
nearly defeated the whole bill, since we were able to cause two failed
attempts on the previous days before this bill was ramrodded through the
House.”
"If passed by the Senate, this ‘Food Fascism Bill’ will guarantee the
loss of clean, healthy food and independent farming in the US and the
complete, note, COMPLETE industrialization of the US food supply."
Natural Solutions recommends emailing the Health Education Labor and
Pension (HELP) Committee and your Senators at help_comments@help.senate.gov
Some success but Martial Law pending
Fucetola wrote the following in an emergency document now circulating
through the nation:
We have managed to get some protective exemptions into the bill for
small farmers who sell food directly to consumers or to restaurants, but
they are, frankly, weak and will not be enough to protect your food or
our farmers. But the Senate bill has much weaker protections, just
mentioning minor exemptions for restaurants once and farms twice.
We need to rally people immediately to submit this letter to the
Senate and contact their Senators to demand accountable voting on this bill.
The Obama administration is pushing new farm controls that will
drive small and independent farmers off the land to leave 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 bills so there will be no debate and
committee meetings are closed.
Change We Can Believe In?
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 but an
insidious process of "infecting" organic farming 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.
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. (Emphasis added)
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 it NOT pass the Senate.
More Push Back is needed for more protection for 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 organic
farmers and small farming and do not do not want independent farmers
regulated out of existence.
You do not want "Big Agra" regulations applied to organic and small
family farms and ranches or to natural/organic food products, including
Dietary Supplements.
To Amend S.510 or Any Food Safety Modernization Act or Similar Bill By
the Addition of the
Natural and Family Food and Farming Exclusion Amendment
To: The Members of the Senate of the United States of America:
Whereas the proposed Food Safety Administration within the Department of
Health and Human Services should focus its activities on the significant
public administration issues involving the capacity of large scale,
industrialized agriculture to threaten public safety,
Whereas organic and natural agriculture, family farms and ranches, and
natural or organic food products, including dietary supplements are not
a significant part of the food safety problem, and
Whereas Congress previously provided for an exemption for natural food
dietary supplements from the increased agency authority granted by the
FDA Modernization Act of 2007, through a rule of interpretation, added
as section 1011 of that Act, and has on numerous occasions exempted
small and family farms from the same level of regulation as has been
deemed necessary in the case of industrialized agriculture,
The citizens ascribing to this Petition therefore hereby request that
any Food Safety Modernization Act identical or similar to HR 2749 be
defeated, or that it, or any substitute for it be amended to exclude
organic and natural agriculture, family farms and ranches, and natural
or organic food products, including dietary supplements, through a rule
of interpretation, as follows:
"Rule of Interpretation
"No provision of this act shall be deemed to apply (a) to any home,
home-business, homestead, home or community gardens, small farm, organic
or natural agricultural activity, (b) to any family farm or ranch, or
(c) to any natural or organic food product, including dietary
supplements regulated under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education
Act of 1994."
We also note the language of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 USC sec
203 (s) (2) which provides, "(2) Any establishment that has as its only
regular employees the owner thereof or the parent, spouse, child, or
other member of the immediate family of such owner shall not be
considered to be an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production
of goods for commerce or a part of such an enterprise…" Language such as
this would be helpful to allay our concerns.
If the FDA Center for Food Safety is to be moved into a new Food Safety
Agency, then Dietary Supplements, regulated as foods under the Dietary
Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) should be included in such
agency, with the proviso that such substances, as foods, are deemed safe
when used as directed.
Furthermore, the ascribing citizens Petition the Congress of the United
States to declare it the public policy of the United States that organic
and natural agriculture, home and community gardens, family farms and
ranches, and natural or organic food products, including dietary
supplements shall be at all times free from suit, vexation, trouble,
penalty, or loss of their goods, for the inestimable values they confer
upon the public.
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