the food safety act just passed

[chad]

heard on the radio. from the link below:

The bill gives new authorities to the Food and Drug Administration, including: access to facility records in a food emergency.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/11/congress-does-something-food-safety-bill-passes-senate/67202/

[sirgonzo420]

that's just awesome

[midnight rambler]

that's just awesome


Yeah it is. Not only does this bill facilitate the creation of a "food emergency", they can then manage that emergency. Sweet!

And they were so very thoughtful, they took out the restrictions on bisphenol-A, making this bill the best of everything.

[chad]

i am screwed if they ever look at the records of honeyville grain.

:P

[Apparition]

Doesn't it have to be passed in the House and then merged and voted on again in both chambers before it can be signed into law?

I honestly hope so, so that they'll lack the time to pass it in a few weeks but, then again, they're trying to pass every awful bill through this lame-duck session anyway.

[chad]

it does have to pass the house, but they already have the votes to pass it. the senate was the sticker.

[Filthy Keynes]

Henry Kissinger must be proud. He has been working on this since the early 1970's.

[sirgonzo420]

Henry Kissinger must be proud. He has been working on this since the early 1970's.


Gee.... I wonder what tribe he's from...

[chad]

my message to america: go prep food now.

edit: DOOM ALERT. i am starting to think about that giant heirloom seed vault under the ice cap is maybe by design. maybe they really are getting ready to kill off all of the food via monsanto sterilization. this is getting too coincidental for my liking.

[sirgonzo420]

my message to america: go prep food now.

edit: DOOM ALERT. i am starting to think about that giant heirloom seed vault under the ice cap is maybe by design. maybe they really are getting ready to kill off all of the food via monsanto sterilization. this is getting too coincidental for my liking.


uh... yeah

[Ares]

I think I found out why it was passed.

They added this provision:

The new legislation also includes exemptions for farmers selling less than $500,000 each year that directly market to consumers in a 275 mile areas, reports CBS News.

The small business provision may have been crucial to the bill's passage, as the legislation's chief opponents were advocates for buying locally produced food and small farm operators, AP reports.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/30/national/main7102973.shtml

[midnight rambler]

I think I found out why it was passed.

They added this provision:

The new legislation also includes exemptions for farmers selling less than $500,000 each year that directly market to consumers in a 275 mile areas, reports CBS News.

The small business provision may have been crucial to the bill's passage, as the legislation's chief opponents were advocates for buying locally produced food and small farm operators, AP reports.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/30/national/main7102973.shtml


They'll fix that little oversight later.

[Ares]

I think I found out why it was passed.

They added this provision:

The new legislation also includes exemptions for farmers selling less than $500,000 each year that directly market to consumers in a 275 mile areas, reports CBS News.

The small business provision may have been crucial to the bill's passage, as the legislation's chief opponents were advocates for buying locally produced food and small farm operators, AP reports.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/30/national/main7102973.shtml


They'll fix that little oversight later.


True, probably hide the provision repeal in a budget bill for passage in a lame duck session....

[RJB]

Henry Kissinger must be proud. He has been working on this since the early 1970's.


Gee.... I wonder what tribe he's from...
Uh... Mohican?

[Bigjon]

I think I found out why it was passed.

They added this provision:

The new legislation also includes exemptions for farmers selling less than $500,000 each year that directly market to consumers in a 275 mile areas, reports CBS News.

The small business provision may have been crucial to the bill's passage, as the legislation's chief opponents were advocates for buying locally produced food and small farm operators, AP reports.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/30/national/main7102973.shtml


They'll fix that little oversight later.


Just like the Federal Reserve Act, get it passed and amend it later.

[madfranks]

my message to america: go prep food now.

edit: DOOM ALERT. i am starting to think about that giant heirloom seed vault under the ice cap is maybe by design. maybe they really are getting ready to kill off all of the food via monsanto sterilization. this is getting too coincidental for my liking.


It's because Monsanto's genetically engineered seeds grow sterile plants which produce no seeds of their own. If (or when?) something goes wrong and the world is left with dead plants and no seeds, they can go retrieve heirloom seeds from the big vault underground. What a plan, eh?

[Awoke]

Yeah, but here is teh problem:

Monsantos GMO Canola strain is so aggressive that it has litereally over-written the genetic code of every Canola plant on our Continent. Fact.

I beielve that there is not a single non-GMO Canola plant left on planet earth at this point, but I am going off memroy, so I can't state that as fact until I stumble across the resources I used to research that at the time.
I know that North America only has GMO canola at this point.

Now, the have also engineered plants so that if you plant them, and they grow, they will not bear fruit without the use of their Monsanto sprays. The plants will grow barren without it.

Add to that, the suicide gene.

So then, if Monsanto is engineering suicide plants for each type, and they are genetically agressive as well so the overwrite any plant that they pollinate, nothing will reproduce without the use of the chemicals as a catalyst, and when they do produce fruits, they seeds are sterile.

You (The Farmer) are forced to buy their seed, and forced to buy their sprays, and then you must buy seed again next year, because the seeds are sterile.

If people can't see the implications of Monsanto being in charge of our produce food supply, they certainly won't be prepped.


EDITed for typos


And yeah, you should be scared at the thought of the seed vault. How long would the pollen float around on earth if it was reduced to a barren rock? Even after wiping out every plant and replanting heritage seeds, chances are they genetics would still be overwritten.

[ShortJohnSilver]

Are there GMO potatoes ? My thinking is that it might be good to get well acquainted with more potato recipes...

[mick silver]

i think i need to order more seeds . before you are no longer allow too . can you buy potato seeds .if so were a good place to order some

[Apparition]

It appears that the House will likely just accept the Senate bill so that 0bumhole can sign it into law and please the corporatist overlords:


House leaders have indicated that they would accept the Senate version of the bill to avoid the time-consuming conference process and quickly send the legislation to President Obama's desk. Proponents hope to have the legislation signed into law by the end of the lame-duck session.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/29/AR2010112903881.html

[sirgonzo420]

Guess who the 2nd largest shareholder of Monsanto is...


George Soros!


Guess what ethnicity he is....


:D

[mick silver]

is he a jew ........... ill take ethnicity for two hundred

[sirgonzo420]

is he a jew ........... ill take ethnicity for two hundred


DING DING DING!!!

Here's a tidbit; from a jewish source no less! :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros

Soros was born in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary, the son of the Esperantist writer Tivadar Soros. Tivadar (also known as Teodoro) was a Hungarian Jew, who was a prisoner of war during and after World War I and eventually escaped from Russia to rejoin his family in Budapest.[8][9]

The family changed its name from Schwartz to Soros in 1936, in response to growing anti-semitism with the rise of fascism. Tivadar liked the new name because it is a palindrome and has a meaning. Although the specific meaning is left unstated in Kaufman's biography, in Hungarian, soros means next in line, or designated successor; and, in Esperanto, it means "will soar".[10] Tivadar taught George to speak Esperanto from birth. George Soros later said that he grew up in a Jewish home and that his parents were cautious with their religious roots.[11]