Posted on 08/01/2009 7:24:30 PM PDT by FromLori
Despite some really eloquent speeches to the contrary, our “for sale” House of Representatives passed the Food Fascism Act….euphemistically called a food safety act, by a margin of about 140 over the naysayer’s.
True to form, Rosa DeLauro spoke about things she knows nothing about and couldn’t care less; Rosa just loves her some Monsanto!
And that exclusion for farms??? Gone! And that includes you organic idiots who thought you had kissed enough behinds to have your industry excluded.
The newly revised bill that appeared overnight after the original was defeated 29th of July, now includes all those farms we were told would not be affected by this legislation. Of course those big agri-corporations made out like bandits. Biopiracy is going to have a profitable future thanks to the political whore’s in congress we call our representatives.
The entire HR 2749 bill was completely wiped and replaced with an amendment that was the text of another bill similar to, but far more lethal than the first. Now, please tell me again that backroom deals and pre-planned votes don’t happen in congress. To make it look bi-partisan, some Democrats voted no, and some Republicans voted yes. This was to make you think they had actually debated and considered what they all intended to do anyway.
The bill that passed does only two things……..it seizes control of food production and supply and then hands it over to big agri-corporations. The remaining content of the bill is a primer on enforcement……meaning all the powers they have granted themselves to prevent you from claiming Constitutional protections, and enabling them to violate your rights on multiple levels…..all for food safety of course.
There is NOTHING in this bill that will address, prevent or otherwise affect the safety of food. This was federal encroachment which will be extended to the states with the cooperation of state officials. This bill did nothing but establish a police agency, granting it massive and uncontrolled enforcement capabilities allowing it to make up even more rules to benefit its corporate sponsors, as it moves along.
Oh! And did I mention this will be done by expanding the FDA? The FDA for god’s sake!
A November 2007 report titled “Subcommittee on Science and Technology, FDA Science and Mission at Risk” doc was a scathing review of the not only the inadequacies of FDA, but the fact that it in no way can assure the safety of food in the United States.
That report cited the massive failure of FDA to perform even its basic functions, going on to declare the agency’s problems were the result of corporate influence and funding. It should have been declared defunct right then and there, but of course the lobbyists who stalk the hallways of congress on behalf bio-pirates and other parasitic corporations just wouldn’t hear of such a thing. I can only assume the report on the massive failure of FDA to operate on even a cursory level ended up in the restrooms to wipe the behinds of all those royal asses who hold down seats in the House and who voted today to end competition for industrialized corporate producers while wiping out family and independent operations.
And it wasn’t just the House that sold us out. In the last few months various organic associations and other assorted producers came out with what they described as “myths on the net” about the intention of these bills. Why…..these bills were not going to apply to family and independent farms and ranches and surely not to organic growers. That was just internet hysteria! I wonder who was hysterical last evening as this bill passed specifically bringing them under the expanded FDA authority? And drinks all around!
I have no doubt that dinner and drinks were being supplied last evening by corporate lobbyists as a way to thank House members for passing this seizure of the US food production and supply. FDA was probably pouring the champagne. I wonder if anyone thought to invite those organic groups?
Maybe they could give everyone a big dose of Vioxx when they arrive, spike it with a Gardasil shot and then wash it all down with a big giant super sized diet soda loaded with that yummy aspartame. This should all be followed by a meal consisting of gmo infected fruits and veggies with a big slab of genetically altered meat just oozing antibiotics, growth hormones and the residues from chemicals of all kinds, shipped in from a country who gave their word they “inspected” the food before shipping it.
After all, thanks to Henry Waxman and his cohorts in Constitutional Crime, that’s what is going to end up on our plates.
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“This bill OVERRIDES THE CONSTITUTION!”
And yet how many times when you try to tell people do they look at you as if you were stupid and say:
“That’ll never happen, it’s unconstitutional.”
I really don’t like this new Amerika.
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Draconian Food Safety Bill Passes the House
August 1st, 2009
http://www.fontcraft.com/rod/?p=1354
At 2,800 fps?
Pignose Waxman has been a very prolific little communist recently, hasn’t he.
And to think that we have to rely on the Kalifornia freaks in Beverly Hills and San Francisco to dump Waxman and Pelosi’s sorry ass!
I wonder how long it will take for Zer0 to appoint a “food Czar” to personally take over another 35 percent of the US economy!
Here is the link to the full .pdf of the document (160 pages)
http://www.govtrack.us/data/us/bills.text/111/h/h2749eh.pdf
It has some kind of weird special signing notice that goes with it. Proving it has not been tampered with??
I am not that gullible.
I had not thought of that. I do believe that you are correct.
I do hope that the stupid bastards that voted for him are happy.
BACHMANN? I just wrote out a check - glad I haven’t mailed it yet. Thanks for the info.
That’s exactly the feedback I’m getting.
People have grown so comfortable in assuming that all Americans have other Americans best interest at heart they are ignorant.
The feedback I’ve gotten tonight; “That’s a little extreme. I think they are just testing the companies to make sure we are safe.”
They won’t get it until they are in a situation with food shortages and by then it will be too late.
Thanks lays out the problems well hope all who have questions look it over and call the Senate and keep calling what a disaster if this fascist regime controls our gardens.
From http://www.fontcraft.com/rod/?p=1354
“This bill has now been quickly rammed through the House of Representatives. When it failed to get the required two-thirds majority on Thursday a vote was taken to set aside the rules and it was passed with a bare majority. Democrat support was very strong, but most Republicans opposed the bill, presumably on the grounds of natural opposition to the expansion of government bureaucracy and power which it represents. It will now go on to the Senate where there will be another opportunity to stop it from becoming law.”
I have the food grade water barrells too, but I only have three. However we have a pond so we could use that for bathing and washing clothes and use the water for drinking.
Thanks for posting, Lori. Be prepared.
Thank you very much for that info.
Reminding myself
• A mandatory annual fee of $500 for any facility that “holds, processes, or manufactures food,” a category defined so broadly that it would impact most of the small scale producers who sell things like cheese, bread, eggs and vegetables at farmers markets with a fee sufficiently high to shut many of them down.
Well, I guess that answers my question on the market on the town square every Saturday morning.
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You are right.
This Stealth Bill Bomb crap has to stop.
It MUST stop NOW.
Whatever it takes.
You are very welcome.
I have been saying he is just like Mugabe.
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