(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.