Senate Bill S 510 Food Safety Modernization Act Vote Imminent: Outlaws Gardening And Saving Seeds!

[SallyRand]

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

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(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

Do it today! This is really important.

In addition, the Cornucopia Institute recently sent out an urgent call-to-action email containing the following information: (http://www.cornucopia.org/2010/11/a...)

How to protest Senate Bill 510

1) Go to Congress.org and type in your zip code in the box in the upper right hand corner.

2) Click on your Senator's name, and then on the contact tab for their phone number. You can also call the Capitol Switchboard and ask to be directly connected to your Senator's office: 202-224-3121.

3) Once connected ask to speak to the legislative staff person responsible for agriculture. If they are unavailable leave a voice mail message. Be sure to include your name and phone number.

Give them this message in support of the "Tester Amendment" which would exempt small farms from S.510:

"I am a constituent of Senator___________. I ask that he/she support the Tester Amendment to the food safety bill. The Tester Amendment will exempt the safest, small, owner-operator farms and food facilities and farmers who direct market their products to consumers, stores or restaurants. Food safety legislation should not create inappropriate and costly regulatory barriers to family farms and the growing healthy food movement in the drive to crack down on corporate bad actors. Please support the Tester Amendment and market opportunities for small and mid-sized family farms, and small food processing facilities."

You may also wish to explain that you oppose the Food Safety Modernization Act in its entirety, and it is a destructive, freedom-crushing law that will destroy the future of food in America.

Remember, America has already lost control over its money supply to the Federal Reserve (nearly a hundred years ago). America has lost its health due to the medical industry and its profit-from-sickness agenda. Now we may lose our right to grow our own food and save our own seeds if Senate Bill 510 passes.

This is a dangerous, tyrannical law that would thrust the American people into an age of darkness and malnutrition. It would criminalize many of the very people growing our food and turn food production into yet another corporate monopoly.

Please take the time right now to contact your U.S. Senator and voice your strong opposition to this bill.

http://www.naturalnews.com/030418_Fo...Act_seeds.html

More here:

http://www.truthistreason.net/senate...tory-of-the-us

"Nov. 17th Update: Senate Bill 510 is now on the Senate floor where a vote is expected shortly. Yesterday, the Motion to Invoke Cloture passed on a vote of 74-25, sending the bill forward for a vote with shortened debate. A final vote is expected over the weekend.

Oct. Update: At the beginning of October, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) announced that he had sidetracked Senate Bill 510. The very next day, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) announced that he would bring the bill up during the lame duck session because he had the votes to pass it.

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."

[fatfoo]

I don't know if this law can be practically applied. There are not enough workers for arresting purposes. People could be growing tomatoes in pots on their windowsills.

[SallyRand]

Originally Posted by fatfoo

I don't know if this law can be practically applied. There are not enough workers for arresting purposes. People could be growing tomatoes in pots on their windowsills.

Granted but all it takes is a few high profile busts to get the sheeple in line and why is Barack H.Obama's pimp, Harry Reid promoting it?

[epitome]

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/...mp/~c111i61huV

Not as scary as InfoWars is making it sound.

[NaughtyVisions]

Originally Posted by SallyRand

Granted but all it takes is a few high profile busts to get the sheeple in line and why is Barack H.Obama's pimp, Harry Reid promoting it?

You actually responded to a fatfoo post...

[Caligari]

Monsanto is all over this, they created the "terminator gene" which effectively renders the plants unable to produce viable seeds forcing farmers to re-buy their GMO bullshit.

Not only that, these terminator seeds are all over the world now and have corrupted naturally growing crops once again rendering their seeds unviable.

It has been said that in reality Monsanto controls about 2/3rds of the world's food supply, and they are certainly out to control ALL OF IT.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/f...monsanto200805

Have a great night!

[bhutocracy]

Quick someone tell Michelle Obama she's committing a crime with the Whitehouse garden! Deathpanels! Deathpanels!

[DateDoc]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/organic.asp

[Vendzilla]

Our food has already been so fucked over by the government it's scary.

[gleem]

Originally Posted by fatfoo

I don't know if this law can be practically applied. There are not enough workers for arresting purposes. People could be growing tomatoes in pots on their windowsills.

exactly, that's why they will need to hire an army of people to enforce, which is the plan.

[Dcat]

Originally Posted by DateDoc

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/organic.asp

Snopes.com ..lol

http://www.thejemreport.com/content/view/235/1/

[SallyRand]

Originally Posted by DateDoc

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/organic.asp

DateDoc, the article I posted is not based on the email to which the Snopes citation refers and does not mention some of the people referred to in that citation.

The problem with laws like this is that they grow in power and illegitmate autority like The Blob.

For example did you know that the Federal Commuincations Commissioni (FCC) was originally only given the power to assign licenses and frequencies for radio boradcasters in the FCC Act of 1934, as amended 1935? Most of what the FCC does is by administrative ruling, which is given the force of law but in reality is not law.

Same for a number of other government agencies like BATFE which has actually ruled that certain firearms are machine guns even though no firearm matching the description in the circulars has ever been found?

The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) operates much in the same manner.

We have entirely too many laws and our Federal government is out of control.

[IllTestYourGirls]

Originally Posted by epitome

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/...mp/~c111i61huV

Not as scary as InfoWars is making it sound.

Thats what people said when one farmer 100 years ago got regulated and need to conform to the Feds for crops he was growing to eat. Now they use that as precedent to regulate everything under the sun.

[SallyRand]

Originally Posted by Dcat

Snopes.com ..lol

http://www.thejemreport.com/content/view/235/1/

Thank you for this post!

Positive rep! ;)

[Agent 488]

get a life.

[SallyRand]

Originally Posted by Agent 488

get a life.

Now, now, there Agent 488, don't you get your panties in a bunch!

[Rochard]

People are fucking sheep.

Trust me, if you start making tomatoes in your back yard that kill people, Homeland Security will be busting your door down.

This law changes nothing.

[Phoenix]

man its getting depressing out there

[SallyRand]

Originally Posted by Rochard

People are fucking sheep.

Trust me, if you start making tomatoes in your back yard that kill people, Homeland Security will be busting your door down.

This law changes nothing.

Yes, the general public is indeed composed of sheep but I've never found a home-grown tomato that killed anyone except for the one I threw at that mean little bastard who lived next door.

Of course I had put a rock inside it!