Posted on 11/30/2010 8:12:29 AM PST by combat_boots
I am looking for the names of those who voted for it. Please post if you have them
So, those putting our food supply in mortal danger from the Republican party are Grassley, Lugar, Snowe, Alexander, Enzi, Voinovich, Kirk and Gregg. Did I miss anyone? What in the world is wrong with these people?
$$$$$. Still think they’ve been paid off...or threatened.
...”Troy Bullock-TN says: November 30, 2010 S 510 fails on moral, social, economic, political, constitutional, and human survival grounds.
http://laughterandliberty.com/senate-bill-s510-explained-sort-of/
1. It puts all US food and all US farms under Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, in the event of contamination 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 illnesses.
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. S 510 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.
S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act*, 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”...
This post bears repeating.
When they come to get my tomatoes, potatoes and carrots, they better bring guns.
15 out of 40 REPUBLICAN senators voted for the bill. There is absolutely no way this isn’t going to pass the house.
That vote wasn’t even close. Even after the new Senate is seated, they would have 60 votes for the bill. And I bet the republican leadership in the house wouldn’t be able to stop it in January even if we could delay it until then.
Almost every evil and genocidal dictator was a socialist.
I am not sure we could stand to know what actually transpires in that wasteland.
I wonder how S. 1619 is coming along....shouldn’t be long for a vote the way things are going.
Sadly, you’re right on some. However, several who were on that list did vote against it.(Bless their hearts!)
I was only thinking about the ones who voted for the bill, not those who had some sense.
Don’t we have a congresscritter voicing opposition? I need some verbal backup.
Who is Troy Bullock of TN?
Looks like Vitter did too. I’m both surprised and disappointed.
It seems like forcing someone to buy any product is affecting their ability to purchase something else, thus affecting interstate commerce of another industry.
The "substantial effects" doctrine only requires that Congress "find" that something has "a substantial effect on interstate commerce" in order for Congress to claim the authority to regulate it. There's no requirement that the regulation have the objective of enabling or fostering interstate commerce. It empowers them to cripple and destroy interstate commerce if they so choose. For example, the EPA was authorized under the substantial effects doctrine, as an exercise in "regulating interstate commerce", and the Constitutional authority of every regulation they enact is based on that doctrine.
Yeah......depressing ain’t it? It is going to be a long time til January if these Republicans keep this up : /
May God give us strength.
Tatt
Here I was hoping that the message from the American people in November would inspire some, and make others hesitate.... it appears to have done neither : \
May God bless.
Tatt
Does this still have to pass the House?
Yes it does go back. Already the word is that the House is saying they are wanting to pass it as is from the Senate to get it done : /
January sure looks like a long way away with all of these enabling Republicans in both Houses.
When do they go home!?!?
May God give us the strength to fight them.
Tatt
75 republicans voted for it. Good luck with that...
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