Modernization Act vote imminent: Would outlaw gardening and saving seeds

Natural News ^ | 17 NOV 2010 | Mike Adams

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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.

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Now, what country did this in the early 20th century?

It's happening here.

Runaway Slave

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[bruinbirdman]

" It would grant the U.S. government new authority over the public's right to grow, trade and transport any foods. "

The law, of course, will be enforced by The Kenyan's new Food Stassi Political Agenda Enforcment Commissar.

yitbos

[papertyger]

Communists ALWAYS go after the food.

[goodnesswins]

I would think most Farmers Market purveyors of food are Democrats....this administration seems to want to piss EVERYONE off....this could get interesting!

[Texas Fossil]

Related Post:

Vote On the Motion to Proceed S.510 FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FDA Food Takeover)

From: Thomas Register | November 18, 2010

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2630786/posts

Posted on 11/21/2010 5:02:04 AM PST by Texas Fossil

[eclecticEel]

I can see the day coming when even your home garden Is gonna be against the law.

Bob Dylan - Infidels, Union Sundown, 1983.

[J Edgar]

The absolute sickening shame and disgrace is that nine (9) GOP Senators co-sponsored this bill.

Beware, RINOs at work!

Only a full-press phone and email show of outrage can save us from this total loss of freedom!

[J Edgar]

The absolute sickening shame and disgrace is that nine (9) GOP Senators co-sponsored this bill.

Beware, RINOs at work!

Only a full-press phone and email show of outrage can save us from this total loss of freedom!

[vigilante2]

Does this mean they want to grope my cucumbers?

[2ndDivisionVet]

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts

[gleeaikin]

I remember 40 years when the government tried to pass the Hosmer Bill to classify vitamins and minerals as over-the-counter drugs, rather than as supplements. It brought out a huge mass of people both liberal and conservative writing/called their congresspeople to vote against it. This sounds like it could do the same.

[Texas Fossil]

FUBO! And your minions.

Mess with my garden at your peril.

I am busy drying persimmons and picking up pecans now.

The last time subjecting Texas was tried, it was brief and a dismal failure.

Some things never change........

[dusttoyou]

Would appreciate naming them.

[Frank_2001]

I wonder how much SOROS has invested in the big agricultural companies. Less freedom for Americans means more money for Soros.

[swatbuznik]

I’m a lousy gardener... a VERY lousy gardener, but I should have the RIGHT to be a lousy gardener!!!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Can a law call a seed which is not intended to be eaten “food”? Seems like that would be simple to overturn as unconstitutionally vague.

[DTogo]

When rototillers become outlawed, only the outlaws will have rototillers??

[Dapper 26]

We can’t build enough prisons to enforce this law. Besides, too much ammo is already in the hands of the people.

[Domandred]

Bad enough I have to have my house EPA inspected for energy consumption before I sell it (which I’ll never do under these rules), but if some FDA/Homeland Security jack boot moron thinks he’s gonna look at my backyard garden they better come heavy...real heavy.

[Shadowstrike]

Will contact my Reps tomorrow!