Food Safety Modernization act

[Awoke]

Senate Bill S 510 Food Safety Modernization Act vote imminent: Would outlaw gardening and saving seeds

(NaturalNews) Senate Bill 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, has been called "the most dangerous bill in the history of the United States of America." It would grant the U.S. government new authority over the public's right to grow, trade and transport any foods. This would give Big brother the power to regulate the tomato plants in your backyard. It would grant them the power to arrest and imprison people selling cucumbers at farmer's markets. It would criminalize the transporting of organic produce if you don't comply with the authoritarian rules of the federal government.

"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 (http://shivchopra.com/?page_id=2)

This tyrannical law puts all food production (yes, even food produced in your own garden) under the authority of the Department of Homeland Security. Yep -- the very same people running the TSA and its naked body scanner / passenger groping programs.

This law would also give the U.S. government the power to arrest any backyard food producer as a felon (a "smuggler") for merely growing lettuce and selling it at a local farmer's market.

It also sells out U.S. sovereignty over our own food supply by ceding to the authority of both the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Codex Alimentarius.

It would criminalize seed saving (http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/20...), turning backyard gardeners who save heirloom seeds into common criminals. This is obviously designed to give corporations like Monsanto a monopoly over seeds.

It would create an unreasonable paperwork burden that would put small food producers out of business, resulting in more power over the food supply shifting to large multinational corporations.

I encourage you to read more about this dangerous bill at the Food Freedom blog on Wordpress: http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/20...

Watch this excellent video on NaturalNews.TV which explains S.510 in more detail:
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=9209B...


Take action now or lose your right to grow your own food
Sign this petition at Citizens for Health:
http://www.citizens.org/?page_id=2312



http://www.naturalnews.com/030418_Food_Safety_Modernization_Act_seeds.html

[Vaughn Pollux]

This is the Codex we were talking about back in '07 coming to fruition (albeit 1 year late, it was said to be going into effect in winter '09).

It won't be stopped - don't waste your energy there. Better to prepare yourself to have access to the non-tainted stuff when it's restricted and/or not legal for sale.

[7th trump]

Senate Bill S 510 Food Safety Modernization Act vote imminent: Would outlaw gardening and saving seeds

(NaturalNews) Senate Bill 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, has been called "the most dangerous bill in the history of the United States of America." It would grant the U.S. government new authority over the public's right to grow, trade and transport any foods. This would give Big brother the power to regulate the tomato plants in your backyard. It would grant them the power to arrest and imprison people selling cucumbers at farmer's markets. It would criminalize the transporting of organic produce if you don't comply with the authoritarian rules of the federal government.

"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 (http://shivchopra.com/?page_id=2)

This tyrannical law puts all food production (yes, even food produced in your own garden) under the authority of the Department of Homeland Security. Yep -- the very same people running the TSA and its naked body scanner / passenger groping programs.

This law would also give the U.S. government the power to arrest any backyard food producer as a felon (a "smuggler") for merely growing lettuce and selling it at a local farmer's market.

It also sells out U.S. sovereignty over our own food supply by ceding to the authority of both the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Codex Alimentarius.

It would criminalize seed saving (http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/20...), turning backyard gardeners who save heirloom seeds into common criminals. This is obviously designed to give corporations like Monsanto a monopoly over seeds.

It would create an unreasonable paperwork burden that would put small food producers out of business, resulting in more power over the food supply shifting to large multinational corporations.

I encourage you to read more about this dangerous bill at the Food Freedom blog on Wordpress: http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/20...

Watch this excellent video on NaturalNews.TV which explains S.510 in more detail:
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=9209B...


Take action now or lose your right to grow your own food
Sign this petition at Citizens for Health:
http://www.citizens.org/?page_id=2312



http://www.naturalnews.com/030418_Food_Safety_Modernization_Act_seeds.html


First thing first,
Where did these quotes come from because they do not reflect what this bill is about, commercial venders growing and selling to the public.

[Awoke]

Yes, Vaughn. It is going to get much worse.
Case in point:

Ottawa man challenges Ontario law banning unlicensed slaughter for private consumption

By Mohammed Adam, The Ottawa Citizen November 23, 2010



Mark Tijssen's family home was raided by members of the Intelligence and Investigations Section of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ottawa Police on Nov. 13, 2009, while he was preparing a pizza dinner for children. Tijssen's family has been slaughtering their own animals and handing that skill from father to son for at least three generations.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/3536109.bin?size=620x400

Photograph by: David Gonczol, The Ottawa Citizen


OTTAWA — An Ottawa man charged under the Ontario food-safety law said Tuesday his battle with the provincial government is about much more than slaughtering a pig to share with a friend.
Mark Tijssen says the battle is fundamentally about the right of individuals to eat what they choose in their own homes without government interference.

Tijssen, a major in the Canadian Forces, said he has a right to slaughter an animal for private consumption without being subjected to “a warrantless after-dark armed raid” and the prospect of a $100,000 fine.
“At the heart of this case is food choice. Our right to choose what we consume and control what we consume,” Tijssen said after an appearance before a justice of the peace. “It is very important to me that I be able to feed my children the food of my choosing and eat the food of my choosing but it is also important that my friends can do the same thing.”

Tijssen was charged last year with running an unlicensed slaughterhouse, failing to have an animal inspected both before and after slaughter, and distributing meat. The charges arose after a friend left Tijssen’s property in November last year carrying about 40 pounds of pork from a pig they had slaughtered on his Carlsbad Springs property. The pork was confiscated.

Tijssen was in court Tuesday seeking the return of equipment seized in the raid, and to ask that the case be heard by a provincial court judge — not a justice of the peace.
The Crown argues a justice of the peace is qualified to hear the case. The government also wants to keep the equipment as exhibits in the case.

Tijssen is representing himself. He said there is no reason for the government to hold the equipment because he has acknowledged that he slaughtered the pig. There is therefore nothing to prove. He also argued that the charge violates his Charter rights and therefore the trial needs a trained judge.
Justice of the Peace John Balkwill said he has no power to send the case to a provincial court judge; rather, Tijssen has to bring a motion in the higher court to ask a judge there to take control of the file. He ruled that Tijssen’s fridge and table should be returned but other items, including a saw, cutting board and 40 pounds of pork would be held.
Balkwill got assurances from the Crown that the pork is preserved by freezing. Trial is set for Feb. 14 to 17.

The case has become something of a cause celebre among area farmers, many of whom showed up Tuesday to support Tijssen. In the crowd was Michael Schmidt, a Durham-area farmer who has become a celebrity himself after being found not guilty on 19 charges of distributing raw milk. He sat by Tijssen’s side in court. Schmidt, has been travelling the country to drum up support for food freedom, said Tijssen’s case represents the worst of overregulation and government’s continuing effort to insert itself into people’s lives. Schmidt said he doesn’t understand why hunters can kill game that might have chronic wasting disease and give the meat to whomever they please without inspection but farmers can’t do the same with domestic animals that are far safer and healthier.
“The government has no place in people’s stomachs,” he said.
Denis St. Pierre, a retired dairy farmer from Winchester, called the proceedings a “kangaroo court” that is an insult to taxpayers.
“I was raised on a farm where we killed our own beef and now these government rules are prohibiting people from killing your own meat. The hunters can do it but the farmers can’t. We’re regulated to death.”

The case revolves around Ontario’s Food Quality and Safety Act. Under the law, that is intended to protect consumers from ingesting dangerous food, people are allowed to butcher an animal for personal use only.


http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Ottawa+challenges+Ontario+banning+unlicensed+slaug hter+private/3874374/story.html

[palani]

Before you get upset at proposed regulations by the FDA you might have a peek at their functional definition of food

http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodDefense/Bioterrorism/ucm121313.htm


the definition in section 201 (f) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act applies:
i.e., "(1) articles used for food or drink for man or other animals, (2) chewing gum, and (3) articles used for components of any such article."

Now this comes with an automatic 1st amendment exception should charges ever be brought. The bible states that man was to have dominion over animals. He was not to be considered an animal.

The same language is used in all the criminal drug statutes.

[Awoke]

The Food Safety Modernization Act: The US Government's Assault on "Food Freedom"
Tester Amendment to food ‘safety’ bill puts lipstick on a pig
By Rady Ananda
Global Research, November 23, 2010


The voice of controlled opposition wants Americans to believe that the Tester Amendment to S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, elevates the bill to something we should adopt. The Tester Amendment puts a bandaid on a head wound. It does not stop the most lethal agency in American history from seizing control of the food supply from farm to fork.

Even though Big Ag now opposes S 510, we should continue to oppose the bill, as it amounts to a federal assault on food freedom. Agribusiness giants have always opposed the exemption provided in the Tester Amendment. Now that it’s included in the current form of S.510, they’re only making clear that they oppose giving any wiggle room to competition. But from their sudden opposition to S 510, because it now includes an amendment they have always opposed, the public is being lulled into a false sense of confidence in S 510.

The Tester Amendment amounts to putting lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig, and it still needs to be slaughtered.

The Tester Amendment does not go far enough. As the dollar crashes, how much is $500,000 a year going to be worth? That’s the lower revenue limit on food producers affected by the amendment; and it only exempts them from having to submit a food safety plan. This exemption does not exclude them from everything else in the bill. Small producers will still be wiped out by the hyper-regulation proposed in S 510, as will non-exempt medium-sized producers. History is repeating itself: small and medium-sized meat packers were destroyed by Bill Clinton’s HACCP – the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point plan adopted under the guise of food safety. Meat did not get any safer; all that happened was that fewer meat packers exist today.

Michael Vail, chief editor of Blacklisted News, wrote about weaponizing food. “Speaking of food as a weapon, consider the genetic experimentation on our food supply. Recently many biotech start up groups had been putting Cholera vaccines in rice and using Africans as lab rats. Who wants to eat a T-bone steak when the cow is cloned or genetically modified to give you your yearly vaccinations?”

Mike Adams has catalogued FDA behavior in support of his theme that this is the last agency the American public needs “protecting” its food supply. “The FDA is responsible for far more deaths of Americans than all the terrorist events in the history of the world — combined.” He cites several FDA-approved drugs that have caused tens of thousands of deaths. One drug alone — Vioxx — has killed more people than Americans killed in Vietnam. He shows how the FDA has criminalized nutrition information from natural sources — to protect Big Pharma profits.

He goes further:
“The FDA is the single most deadly agency that has ever existed in the history of the United States.”

He states:
“Over the last 20 years the FDA has killed more Americans than the total number who died in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and even the Civil War — combined!"

The FDA also approves (by not regulating) nano-sized particles into food. A “nano” particle is one-billionth of a meter in size. That tiny size allows it to cross the blood-brain barrier thus posing a significant health risk. Without testing for health consequences and thus proving its loyalty to food safety, the FDA turns a blind eye and allows these adulterants in the food supply.
Consider the title of S 510: “Food Safety Modernization Act.” By modernize, the FDA intends to force everyone to adulterate the entire US food supply with drugs (like antibiotics), chemicals (like chlorine), genes from other organisms, and whatever new profit-making adulterant that corporations create. Food producers will be forced to use pesticides, which we then ingest to our detriment. Forced irradiation and pasteurization will be the “safe” standard under which all producers must comply.

S 510′s traceability requirements suggest foods can be injected with nano-tracers and other technologies to follow food in the human stomach back to its source. Even if that dystopic scenario isn’t immediately implemented, the paperwork for food tracing will wipe out medium sized producers and distributors. Imagine having to turn over your private food club client list to your competitors (represented by the FDA). How easy will it be for acts of sabotage from multi-billion dollar corporations to wipe out your small business?

Natural, normal food will be criminalized by S 510, and we know this because of all the current food raids on natural producers and distributors, while allowing giants like Wright County Egg to sell contaminated food for decades. This war on normal food is ongoing– even before giving the FDA an additional $1.6 billion and complete control over all food.

Despite the voice of controlled opposition trying to convince the American public that the Tester Amendment will solve all the problems with S 510, many food freedom agtivists recognize this is a red herring. One letter to the editor was titled, “Pry my turnip from my cold, dead hand.” The highly-touted exemption diverts attention away from the many, serious problems with S 510, like:

► It does not address the real causes of food safety issues stemming from the centralized, industrialized food supply chain;

► It ensures that international trade agreements have supremacy over local laws;

► It destroys States’ rights to define a culturally-appropriate legal platform under which food is produced and distributed;

► It transfers authority over food regulation enforcement from the FDA to the Department of Homeland Security, which brought us the liberty-killing, child-molesting TSA, which disastrously handled the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which has genocidally turned its eyes away from the ongoing BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico;

► It extends a failed and destructive HACCP to all food, thus threatening to do to local food production and farming what HACCP did to meat production – it eliminated small and medium-sized meat packers; and

► It significantly increases FDA’s power, an agency which has stated on public record that the American people have no “fundamental right to their own bodily and physical health” and “do not have a fundamental right to obtain any food they wish.”

Would you trust your diamonds to someone who believes you don’t have a right to them? Clearly, the FDA, and S 510 in particular, is part and parcel of the totalitarian police state being implemented under the plan known as Full Spectrum Dominance.

Finally, we cannot ignore that Monsanto is behind the food “safety” legislation being foisted on us. We cannot ignore that the US Secretary of Agriculture was once dubbed “Biotech Governor of the Year.” We cannot ignore that President Obama has appointed a GMO and pesticide pusher as the US Agricultural Trade Representative. We cannot ignore that he nominated Monsanto-defender Elena Kagan to the US Supreme Court, who sits there now with former Monsanto attorney, Clarence Thomas.

In Seeds of Destruction, F. William Engdahl issues a warning: “In the mid-1970’s Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a protégé of the Rockefeller family and of its institutions stated, ‘Control the food and you control the people.’”

The same cast of characters now seeks such control under the guise of food “safety”. Make no mistake, the FDA and legislation like S 510 is about food control — not food safety. If it were about safety, we’d be seeing legislation that banned concentrated animal feeding operations, that banned indiscriminate use of antibiotics, that banned pesticides and BPA. We don’t, because the FDA is not about food safety any more; it is a federal agency wholly captured by Big Pharma, Big Food and Big Chemicals.

It is massively deceptive for corporate media and food groups to now suggest S. 510 should be supported because Agri-Biz opposes the Tester Amendment. Instead, hold firm our course and reject S. 510 in its entirety.

The Senate is expected to vote on it in the next several days. Drop in at The Atlantic and post a comment telling Marion Nestle why we reject S 510 – even with the Tester Amendment. More importantly, tell your Senators.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22073

[gunDriller]

you know, i bet that when you cross the border into California from Oregon, and they ask you if you have any produce, if you say "yes, homegrown apples", they will pull you over.

but if you say, "i have some fruit from Safeway", they wave you on through.

FSMA in practice ?

Moral of the story - at the CA Ag. crossing, the correct answer is, "i have some fruit from Safeway".

[Awoke]

Is there a boarder check between states?

[MetalsMan]

Is there a boarder check between states?


Yes, between Oregon and California there is.

It's on the California side. Crazy stuff. :o

[Filthy Keynes]

Is there a boarder check between states?


Yes, between Oregon and California there is.

It's on the California side. Crazy stuff. :o


I wish we could put a border around our own houses. But then again.... the government owns the land and rents it out to us. Since they OWN the land, it's not surprising that they get to tell you what you can and can't grow on THEIR land.

[basplaer]

Is there a boarder check between states?

There is a checkpoint along the I-15 southbound in southern CA aroung Minneola as well as one near Bishop, CA all looking for agricultural contraband.

[MetalsMan]

Is there a boarder check between states?

There is a checkpoint along the I-15 southbound in southern CA aroung Minneola as well as one near Bishop, CA all looking for agricultural contraband.



... And these check-points have been there for a LONG time.

They're called California Agricultural Inspection Stations
http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/pe/ExteriorExclusion/borders.html

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

The Montana state constitution says that you have an inalienable right to have access to a clean and healthy lifestyle. This law would be unconstitutional in Montana.