Posted on 11/29/2010 3:29:21 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
Senate action on legislation revamping the nation's food safety laws will be delayed until Tuesday morning.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced Monday afternoon that two amendments (Coburn earmark ban, Coburn substitute that pays for food safety --- neither of which are expected to get the 67 votes needed for passage) and final passage of the food safety legislation will start at 9:00 am Tuesday.
The final bill is expected to pass. The House still must vote on the bill as well but is expected to pass without much difficulty
(Excerpt) Read more at politics.blogs.foxnews.com ...
Treasonous espionage leak of 250,000 Federal government communications yesterday, and the Senate sees creating a Food Colossus as the first order of business in Lame Duck session. They definitely did not get the message 4 weeks ago.
I think Isakkson is lying but that doesn't matter, that he hates the Tester-Hagan Amendement is good news. Divide and conquer these statist bastards.
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You won't be wondering for long.
“Guess I’ll have to shoot and kill more of my own food. That is until they ban that too.”
Ah, there it is! That’s how they will take out hunting. By calling hunting “food” it can be regulated as food. So now that deer that the little people shoot... we need safety inspections. What if that poor little deer had Mad Cow??? Oh, we need to test them, all of them.
And it might have been dirty out there in those icky woods. We need clean meat handling practices! And mandatory food handling safety classes (at $500 a class). And certification... we can’t let the little people walk around the woods with nasty guns uncertified. And their guns need to be certified as meat harvesting devices.
It’s coming.
Whomever controls the farmland controls roads, bridges, rail lines, power lines, water transmission, etc as well as their food. Remove the farmers (clingers) from the red areas and let the international corporations run factory farms and the blues will have control. It’s called rural cleansing.
Small family farmers won’t resist. Noncompliance carries a 10 year prison sentence as well as forfeiting the family farm. Farms will be sold at fire sale prices.
Every single Senator agreed to put the bill to a vote after consideration.
and that, my FRiends, is why Im so cynical that this ship cant be turned around...
much longer and we're gonna be praying for the commies to fire up the ovens...
If we allow this to happen we will deserve the curses that will be heaped on our heads by those who come after us. At least those few who might actually survive such a tyranny, if we fail.
You are so very right!! You won’t even be able to get seeds to grow anything!
Gee! I sure wonder what Michelle Zero will do IF she can’t plant her garden at the White Hut? Will she get 10 yrs. for non-compliance too?
All PROGRESSIVE/NWO congresscritters?
Self ping.
Food Safety Bill plus inflation caused by the infusion of $600 billion, $75 billion per month into the economy will cause food prices to SKYROCKET!
HELLO? HELLO?
The Lame Duck Congress and the Federal Reserve are just amping up the deliberate detruction of the private sector economy because of the election results.
Does ANYONE reading this still believe that the leftist currently in control are not deliberately attempting to bankrupt this nation and destroy the private sector economy?
If they are not, what would they being doing differently if they were? Seriously, what?
Are the founding fathers coming back?
With luck they will delay debate on homosexualizing the military until next February.
They don’t have to. The torch has been passed, if we wish to keep it lit.
Safe FEAST Act hr 1332 [aka Famine Act. House version of ‘Safe Food’] freeper research
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2634952/posts
[Apparently not passed yet.]
Just heard on Beck that the bill passed.
17,000 new FDA employees and the bill is estimated to cost 1.4 Billion.
Yep, it’s intentional.
I still don’t get it. I’m wondering what the founding fathers WOULD have done had they had today’s technology. What I mean is with the internet and instant information and missiles that can hit anywhere in the world in a few minutes would as many freedoms have been granted.
Consider wiki-leaks. Had the founding fathers known this was possible would the 4th amendment have been so strong. Of course, it’s not very strong now but....
Translation:
Harry needs more time to line up the bribes needed to get this passed.
I found the following article interesting, but one of the comments even more interesting:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/1123/Food-safety-bill-101-What-are-the-facts-and-myths
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As most people are aware food contamination has been making headlines in recent years. This is a direct result of “Never let a good crisis go to waste; or if you do not have a crisis BUILD ONE” RULE of instituting special interest laws. In other words the Food Safety Crisis was coldbloodedly manufactured by the international Corporate food Cartel.
So when was “The U.S. has the safest food supply in the world” changed to “We need Safety Laws”? I can pinpoint the exact time and what changed. The first change was the 1995 ratification of the World Trade Organization with its Agreement on Agriculture. This opened up the USA to foreign food WITHOUT ADEQUATE INSPECTION. The Key phrase is:
“Aims to ensure that governments do not use quarantine and food safety requirements as Unjustified trade barriers...” WTO
The second cause of the Food Crisis was the scuttling of the old USDA inspection system and the adoption of the international HACCP food-safety system in 1996.
“...when USDA “officials initially described HACCP to the industry in the mid-90’s, the agency made the following enticing promises:
* “Under HACCP, the agency will implement a ‘Hands Off’ role in meat inspection.
* “Under HACCP, the agency will no longer police the industry, but the industry will police itself.
* “Under HACCP, the agency will disband its previous command and control authority.
* “Under HACCP, each plant will write its own HACCP Plan, and the agency cannot tell plants what must be in their HACCP Plans.” agpolicy.org
In other words government inspectors now check paperwork instead of checking food. Even the Food Inspectors are complaining about this new system.
Mr. Stan Painter, Chairman, National Joint Council of Food Inspection Locals stated in his Apr 17, 2008 Testimony into the Congressional Investigation of the Hallmark/Westland Meat recall:
It (the recall of Hallmark/Westland Meat) highlights one of the problems that we have attempted to raise with the agency ever since 1996 when the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) inspection system was put in place. There seems to be too much reliance on an honor system for the industry to police itself. While the USDA investigation is still on going at Hallmark/Westland, a couple of facts have emerged that point to a system that can be gamed by those who want to break the law. It (HACCP) shifted the responsibility for food safety over to the companies .
Mr Painter’s testimony was “discounted” by both the USDA and Congress despite the fact that “Over 1000 non-compliance reports – weighing some 16 pounds — were turned over” as a result of a FOIA request. Worse as the Washington Post stated “Food inspections have dropped from a robust 50,000 in 1972 to about 5,000 today, meaning that U.S. food processors are inspected on average about every 10 years.” So they do not even get their paper work checked!!!
An example of the results of these two polices is the reintroduction of bovine tuberculosis into the USA.
In 1995, before WTO, California did 10,576 TB tests in cattle after HACCP and the WTO agreement on Ag, it was cut to 1,425 by 1999. Meanwhile per the WTO Agreement on Ag the USA borders were opened to Mexican cattle and a Mexican cattle Assoc was responsible for the Santa Teresa, NM cattle port-of-entry”- RESULT TB found in New Mexico, California Oklahoma and other states. The Media TRUMPED the INCREASE of testing from 1,425 to 2,500 but said NOTHING about the DECREASE from 10,576 Even worse a TEXAS ANIMAL HEALTH COMMISSION Report says not only is the US government shutting down testing labs but with ”the discontinuation of first-point testing, slaughter testing will become the primary method for brucellosis surveillance.... An animal identified through slaughter testing as possibly infected is no longer living and therefore additional testing of that animal is not possible. As a result, the process to be followed requires the identification of the herd the animal came from and conducting a whole herd test to determine whether or not infection is present in the herd. “
So now we will introduce a law that will make farmers have to deal with lots of red tape. Later the exemptions for small farms and gardens will be quietly removed and the “Commerce Clause” section from HR875 will be reinstated:
“in any action to enforce the requirements of the food safety law, the connection with interstate commerce required for jurisdiction SHALL BE PRESUMED TO EXIST.”
The Commerce Clause: (Wickard v. Filburn)
The Court’s opinion:
“[The wheat] supplies a need of the man who grew it which would otherwise be reflected by purchases in the open market. Home-grown wheat in this sense competes with wheat in commerce.”
As Epstein commented, “Could anyone say with a straight face that the consumption of home-grown wheat is ‘commerce among the several states?’”
Have we learned nothing from the 1913 Federal Reserve Act and its 100 amendments that has landed us in an economic recession owing the bankers 1/2 or more of what we earn in return for their counterfeit excuse me FIAT money?
In case you doubt the existence of the Food Cartel:
“The sudden discovery of a global pandemic of international cartels in the mid 1990s, after a hiatus of a half century, is puzzling. That the greatest number and most injurious conspiracies should be clustered in the food and feed ingredients industries adds another element of mystery to the puzzle.” - Purdue University
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stanleyman [Moderator] 6 days ago
The Tester amendment is a FRAUD. I am a small farmer — very few small farmers (if any) sell MOST of their harvest directly to restaurants, food coops or farm stands — usually these forms of sales are a small part of a small farmers business. Most of us grow some corn or soy beans that have to be sold to a bigger wholesaler — so essentially there are no exceptions. Remember if the hard left political types like the Huffington Post like something you better think twice about it.
“Yes. Farmers who sell most of their harvest directly to restaurants, food co-ops, farm stands, and farmers’ markets wouldn’t have to register with the FDA under SB 510.”
I expected a far better analysis from a respected journal like the Christian Science Monitor. Get somebody other than a city boy to do your writing on agricultural issues.
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