Posted on 03/07/2009 10:39:24 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Some say that if farmers don’t want problems from Monsanto, the simply shouldn’t buy Monsanto’s GMO seeds. But it isn’t quite that simple. Monsanto contaminates the fields, trespasses onto the land taking samples, and then sues, saying they own the crop.
Meanwhile, Monsanto is taking many other steps to keep farmers and everyone else from having any access at all to buying, collecting, and saving of normal seeds:
1. They’ve bought up the seed companies across the Midwest.
2. They’ve written Monsanto seed laws and gotten legislators to put them through, that make cleaning, collecting and storing of seeds so onerous in terms of fees and paperwork that having normal seed becomes almost impossible.
3. Monsanto is pushing laws that ensure that farmers and citizens can’t block the planting of GMO crops even if they can contaminate other crops.
4. There are Monsanto regulations buried in the FDA rules that make a farmer’s seed cleaning equipment illegal because it’s now considered a “source of seed contamination.”
Monsanto has sued more than 1500 farmers whose fields had simply been contaminated by GM crops.
Sources:
Surviving the Middle Class Crash February 5, 2009
Please explain.
Seeds ping
It’s a stealth attempt to control the food supply by restricting access to the seeds.
If they own the patents for the hybred seeds and influence, or pay off, legislators to pass laws that restrict or forbid planting of heirloom variety seeds, then Monsanto and other agricorporations can control food production.
It is so important to encourage and support the small family farms, so that food production will not be totally controlled by international agricorporations.
Think using food as a political weapon ! It is being done today in Africa.
Monsanto's Many Attempts to Destroy All Seeds but Their Own
It’s a stealth attempt to control the food supply by restricting access to the seeds.
If they own the patents for the hybred seeds and influence, or pay off, legislators to pass laws that restrict or forbid planting of heirloom variety seeds, then Monsanto and other agricorporations can control food production.
It is so important to encourage and support the small family farms, and maintain access to heirloom variety seeds, so that food production will not be totally controlled by international agricorporations.
Think using food as a political weapon ! It is being done today in Africa.
It’s a stealth attempt to control the food supply by restricting access to the seeds.
If they own the patents for the hybred seeds and influence, or pay off, legislators to pass laws that restrict or forbid planting of heirloom variety seeds, then Monsanto and other agricorporations can control food production.
It is so important to encourage and support the small family farms, and maintain access to heirloom variety seeds, so that food production will not be totally controlled by international agricorporations.
Think using food as a political weapon ! It is being done today in Africa.
Nothing says control quite as clearly as 'obey or starve'.
Sorry about the multiple posting.
“The Sheep Look Up.”
Note: I am posting this for information only. I have no association with the company and it is not and endorsement or a solicitation to purchase their products.
Do a FreeRepublic search on “Monsanto”. A lot of very informative threads will appear, going back for years. It’s NOT a trivial, non-consequential issue.
Some of the language in this bill .......... typical governmental-ese ..confounding, confusing. This new agency is separate from the FDA, the FOOD and Drug Administration’s mantel of responsibility.
Why?
If anyone can decipher this, please let us know what their motive is and the outcome they’re mandating.
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1 forcement functions that, as of the day before the
2 date of the enactment of this Act, are performed by
3 various components of the Food and Drug Adminis4
tration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
5 Administration;
6 (3) to modernize and strengthen the Federal
7 food safety law to ensure more effective application
8 and efficient management of the laws for the protec9
tion and improvement of public health; and
10 (4) to establish that food establishments have
11 responsibility to ensure that all stages of production,
12 processing, and distribution of their products or
13 products under their control satisfy the requirements
14 of this law.
15 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
16 In this Act:
17 (1) ADMINISTRATION.—The term ‘‘Administra18
tion’’ means the Food Safety Administration estab19
lished under section 101(a)(1).
20 (2) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Adminis21
trator’’ means the Administrator of Food Safety ap22
pointed under section 101(a)(2).
23 (3) ADULTERATED.—
24 (A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘adulter25
ated’’ has the meaning given that term in sec-
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1 tion 402 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cos2
metic Act (21 U.S.C. 342).
3 (B) INCLUSION.—The term ‘‘adulterated’’
4 includes bearing or containing a contaminant
5 that causes illness or death among sensitive
6 populations.
7 (4) AGENCY.—The term ‘‘agency’’ has the
8 meaning given that term in section 551 of title 5,
9 United States Code.
10 (5) CATEGORY 1 FOOD ESTABLISHMENT.—The
11 term ‘‘category 1 food establishment’’ means a food
12 establishment (other than a seafood processing es13
tablishment) that slaughters, for the purpose of pro14
ducing food, animals that are not subject to inspec15
tion under the Federal Meat Inspection Act or poul16
try that are not subject to inspection under the
17 Poultry Products Inspection Act.
18 (6) CATEGORY 2 FOOD ESTABLISHMENT.—The
19 term ‘‘category 2 food establishment’’ means a sea20
food processing establishment or other food estab21
lishment (other than a category 1 establishment) not
22 subject to inspection under the Federal Meat Inspec23
tion Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, or the
24 Egg Products Inspection Act, that processes raw
25 seafood or other raw animal products, whether fresh
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1 or frozen, or other products that the Administrator
2 determines by regulation to pose a significant risk of
3 hazardous contamination.
4 (7) CATEGORY 3 FOOD ESTABLISHMENT.—The
5 term ‘‘category 3 food establishment’’ means a food
6 establishment (other than a category 1 or category
7 2 establishment) that processes cooked, pasteurized,
8 or otherwise ready-to-eat seafood or other animal
9 products, fresh produce in ready-to-eat raw form, or
10 other products that pose a risk of hazardous con11
tamination.
12 (8) CATEGORY 4 FOOD ESTABLISHMENT.—The
13 term ‘‘category 4 food establishment’’ means a food
14 establishment that processes all other categories of
15 food products not described in paragraphs (5)
16 through (7).
17 (9) CATEGORY 5 FOOD ESTABLISHMENT.—The
18 term ‘‘category 5 food establishment’’ means a food
19 establishment that stores, holds, or transports food
20 products prior to delivery for retail sale.
21 (10) CONTAMINANT.—The term ‘‘contaminant’’
22 includes a bacterium, chemical, natural toxin or
23 manufactured toxicant, virus, parasite, prion, phys24
ical hazard, or other human pathogen that when
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1 found on or in food can cause human illness, injury,
2 or death.
3 (11) HAZARDOUS CONTAMINATION.—The term
4 ‘‘hazardous contamination’’ refers to the presence of
5 a contaminant in food at levels that pose a risk of
6 human illness, injury, or death or are capable of
7 reaching levels that pose such risk during the shelf
8 life of the product.
9 (12) FOOD.—The term ‘‘food’’ means a product
10 intended to be used for food or drink for a human
11 or an animal and components thereof.
12 (13) FOOD ESTABLISHMENT.—
13 (A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘food estab14
lishment’’ means a slaughterhouse (except those
15 regulated under the Federal Meat Inspection
16 Act or the Poultry Products Inspection Act),
17 factory, warehouse, or facility owned or oper18
ated by a person located in any State that proc19
esses food or a facility that holds, stores, or
20 transports food or food ingredients.
21 (B) EXCLUSIONS.—For the purposes of
22 registration, the term ‘‘food establishment’’
23 does not include a food production facility as
24 defined in paragraph (14), restaurant, other re25
tail food establishment, nonprofit food estab-
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1 lishment in which food is prepared for or served
2 directly to the consumer, or fishing vessel
3 (other than a fishing vessel engaged in proc4
essing, as that term is defined in section 123.3
5 of title 21, Code of Federal Regulations).
6 (14) FOOD PRODUCTION FACILITY.—The term
7 ‘‘food production facility’’ means any farm, ranch,
8 orchard, vineyard, aquaculture facility, or confined
9 animal-feeding operation.
10 (15) FOOD SAFETY LAW.—
**SNIP**
TITLE I—ESTABLISHMENT OF
4 THE FOOD SAFETY ADMINIS5
TRATION
6 SEC. 101. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FOOD SAFETY ADMINIS7
TRATION.
8 (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—
9 (1) IN GENERAL.—There is established in the
10 Department of Health and Human Services an agen11
cy to be known as the ‘‘Food Safety Administra12
tion’’.
13 (2) HEAD OF THE ADMINISTRATION.—The Ad14
ministration shall be headed by the Administrator of
15 Food Safety, who shall be appointed by the Presi16
dent, by and with the advice and consent of the Sen17
ate, for a term of 5 years, and who may be re18
appointed.
19 (3) DELEGATION.—All the authorities and re20
sponsibilities assigned to the Secretary of Health
21 and Human Services in the food safety law are here22
by assigned to the Administrator.
23 (b) DUTIES OF ADMINISTRATOR.—The Adminis24
trator shall—
25 (1) administer and enforce the food safety law;
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1 (2) serve as the food safety leader within the
2 Department of Health and Human Services and co3
ordinator of all Department activities related to en4
suring the safety, quality, and proper labeling of the
5 food supply;
6 (3) represent the United States in relevant
7 international food safety bodies and discussions;
8 (4) promulgate regulations to ensure the safety
9 and security of the food supply from all forms of
10 contamination, including intentional contamination;
11 and
12 (5) oversee within the Department of Health
13 and Human Services—
14 (A) in consultation with the Director of the
15 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, all
16 activities related to foodborne illness surveil17
lance and investigation of foodborne illness out18
breaks;
19 (B) implementation of food safety inspec20
tion, enforcement, and research efforts to pro21
tect the public health;
22 (C) development of consistent and science23
based standards for safe food;
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http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h875ih.txt.pdf
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Talk about shock and awe ... every area, every industry, every part of our lives now has new scrutiny, oversight, and modification to suit their new collectivist order.
**Rahm Emanuel: “You never want to waste a crisis”
I still don’t get the references I’ve read about seeds or heirloom seeds mentioned regarding this bill. I’ve done a search for seed, seeds, and garden in the document, and those words aren’t there.
Anyone with more detailed info, please let me know. I’m telling everyone with a backyard, they need to grow something to eat that they don’t have to buy.
A blog about this
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HR 875 Would Essentially Outlaw Family Farms In The United States
http://shepardpolitics.blogspot.com/2009/03/hr-875-would-essentially-outlaw-family.html
bump .... time to lay in seed supplies. These bastards are going for a total Sovietization of the USA.
Including FAMINE.
~~PONG!
What a bunch of Bull Punky.
Anyone who wants to save seed from one year to the next simply purchases Non-Patented seed. They can save seed from this seedstock into infinity.
I am not a big fan of Monsanto. But neither am I a fan of those who want to hijack technology someone else has paid for, without paying a user fee.
It’s not about patent infringment. It’s about attempting to gain a monopoly of seed production and sales by devious political maneuvering in order to prevent competition from heirloom variety seeds.
Destroy the competition to enhance the corporate bottom line, or to gain political power through control of food production. That’s the agricorporate mindset.
Present day international corporations, and the familiar agricorporations are international, have no conscience, no sense of moral or civic responsibility and no allegiance to any country. It’s all about greed.
Americans need to wake up and protect their food supply.
I listen to the Derry Brownfield Show every weekday.
It is a great show. He got screwed over by Monsanto last year when he said something on his show that they didn't like and forced the radio network Learfield - which he helped create - to fire him. Just do a search if you want to find out more on that.
Anyways he quickly got back on air and says exactly what he wants about them and others.
This show from last July is one of the shows dealing with Monsanto.
Can listen to older shows by looking at past shows and Podcast/Mp3.
If anyone wants to listen to his show but don't have a station in their area I know you can listen online on KSMO. Look under the Listen Options link for others on Derry's site.
His show airs M-F at 10-11am CT time.
They fake compassion -- look at The One, that's his schtick, which so many fools are buying (at least 56% at latest polls).
Michael Pollan's Omivore's Dilemma; The End of Food (forget the author's name); Joel Salatin's Everything I want to do is illegal (he's GREAT!)...these are all along the same theme, from both political spectra -- food is a neccessity, and can be used as a weapon of control.
We've been so spoiled when it comes to food in America. We were the world's breadbasket. Now we're becoming the world's high fructose corn sweetener supplier.
Not to be pessimistic, but I call Obamanation the Mugabe of America for a reason -- Zimbabwe used to be the breadbasket of Africa....now it's an inflation-ridden hollow shell of a country. I recall reading about the "veterans" who were used by Mugabe to terrorize the White farmers (to include the Black Africans who worked for them on the farms - they didn't escape the rapes and the terror) -- the veterans/thugs were "given" the farms, and realized, "oh, this is harder than it looks." DUH. Now look at Zimbabwe.
Yet, over half our country voted for Mugabe junior. Great.
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