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Senate Bill S510 Makes it illegal to Grow, Share, Trade or Sell Homegrown Food

source: http://www.firetown.com/blog/2010/08/05/raiding-organic-food-stores-a-sign-of-new-times/

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Since the story first broke, a lot has happened. One reason for this could be that food is being poisoned. Collecting rainwater is now illegal in many states. Your intake is being controlled. For more information, visit the following articles as well:

"Raiding organic food stores. A sign of new times?" at: http://www.firetown.com/blog/2010/08/05/raiding-organic-food-stores-a-sign-of-ne...

"Collecting rainwater now illegal in many states as Big Government claims ownership over our water." at: http://www.theworldsprophecy.com/collecting-rainwater-now-illegal-in-many-states...

"Why do people in America refuse to take active interest in their future?" at http://www.firetown.com/blog/2010/08/03/why-do-people-in-america-refuse-to-take-...

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S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US. It is to our food what the bailout was to our economy, only we can live without money.

“If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes. 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

It is similar to what India faced with imposition of the salt tax during British rule, only S 510 extends control over all food in the US, violating the fundamental human right to food.

Monsanto says it has no interest in the bill and would not benefit from it, but Monsanto’s Michael Taylor who gave us rBGH and unregulated genetically modified (GM) organisms, appears to have designed it and is waiting as an appointed Food Czar to the FDA (a position unapproved by Congress) to administer the agency it would create — without judicial review — if it passes. S 510 would give Monsanto unlimited power over all US seed, food supplements, food and farming.

History
In the 1990s, Bill Clinton introduced HACCP (Hazardous Analysis Critical Control Points) purportedly to deal with contamination in the meat industry. Clinton’s HACCP delighted the offending corporate (World Trade Organization “WTO”) meat packers since it allowed them to inspect themselves, eliminated thousands of local food processors (with no history of contamination), and centralized meat into their control. Monsanto promoted HACCP.

In 2008, Hillary Clinton, urged a powerful centralized food safety agency as part of her campaign for president. Her advisor was Mark Penn, CEO of Burson Marsteller*, a giant PR firm representing Monsanto. Clinton lost, but Clinton friends such as Rosa DeLauro, whose husband’s firm lists Monsanto as a progressive client and globalization as an area of expertise, introduced early versions of S 510.

S 510 fails on moral, social, economic, political, constitutional, and human survival grounds.
1. It puts all US food and all US farms under Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, in the event of contamination or an ill-defined emergency. It resembles the Kissinger Plan.

2. It would end US sovereignty over its own food supply by insisting on compliance with the WTO, thus threatening national security. It would end the Uruguay Round Agreement Act of 1994, which put US sovereignty and US law under perfect protection. Instead, S 510 says:

COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS.

Nothing in this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) shall be construed in a manner inconsistent with the agreement establishing the World Trade Organization or any other treaty or international agreement to which the United States is a party.

3. It would allow the government, under Maritime Law, to define the introduction of any food into commerce (even direct sales between individuals) as smuggling into “the United States.” Since under that law, the US is a corporate entity and not a location, “entry of food into the US” covers food produced anywhere within the land mass of this country and “entering into” it by virtue of being produced


It imposes Codex Alimentarius on the US, a global system of control over food. It allows the United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the WTO to take control of every food on earth and remove access to natural food supplements. Its bizarre history and its expected impact in limiting access to adequate nutrition (while mandating GM food, GM animals, pesticides, hormones, irradiation of food, etc.) threatens all safe and organic food and health itself, since the world knows now it needs vitamins to survive, not just to treat illnesses.

5. It would remove the right to clean, store and thus own seed in the US, putting control of seeds in the hands of Monsanto and other multinationals, threatening US security. See Seeds – How to criminalize them, for more details.

6. It includes NAIS, an animal traceability program that threatens all small farmers and ranchers raising animals. The UN is participating through the WHO, FAO, WTO, and World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in allowing mass slaughter of even heritage breeds of animals and without proof of disease. Biodiversity in farm animals is being wiped out to substitute genetically engineered animals on which corporations hold patents. Animal diseases can be falsely declared. S 510 includes the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), despite its corrupt involvement in the H1N1 scandal, which is now said to have been concocted by the corporations.

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7. It extends a failed and destructive HACCP to all food, thus threatening to do to all local food production and farming what HACCP did to meat production – put it in corporate hands and worsen food safety.

8. It deconstructs what is left of the American economy. It takes agriculture and food, which are the cornerstone of all economies, out of the hands of the citizenry, and puts them under the total control of multinational corporations influencing the UN, WHO, FAO and WTO, with HHS, and CDC, acting as agents, with Homeland Security as the enforcer. The chance to rebuild the economy based on farming, ranching, gardens, food production, natural health, and all the jobs, tools and connected occupations would be eliminated.

9. It would allow the government to mandate antibiotics, hormones, slaughterhouse waste, pesticides and GMOs. This would industrialize every farm in the US, eliminate local organic farming, greatly increase global warming from increased use of oil-based products and long-distance delivery of foods, and make food even more unsafe. The five items listed — the Five Pillars of Food Safety — are precisely the items in the food supply which are the primary source of its danger.

10. It uses food crimes as the entry into police state power and control. The bill postpones defining all the regulations to be imposed; postpones defining crimes to be punished, postpones defining penalties to be applied. It removes fundamental constitutional protections from all citizens in the country, making them subject to a corporate tribunal with unlimited power and penalties, and without judicial review. It is (similar to C-6 in Canada) the end of Rule of Law in the US. ...



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156 comments // Senate Bill S510 Makes it illegal to Grow, Share, Trade or Sell Homegrown Food

  • telcod
    • +3
      telcod  

    • Guess the corporations don't want their poisoning monopoly broken by some 80 year old grand mother growing turnips. Time to recall all the elected morons. That would probably leave about a dozen or so. Maybe a dozen. Maybe one or two. OK, we gotta start over and make sure we don't elect anyone who thinks like us. Down the rabbit hole, Alice. And who grew the loaf of French bread in the picture?

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
    • +2
      JanforGore  

    • http://current.com/technology/89905705_hr-875-the-organic-farm-tyranny-bill.htm

      HR 875 is along the same lines, not distinquishing between small and large farms, or CAFOS, with very vague language which has been condemned by farmer organizations, organic organizations, and people on both sides of the aisle for leading to the eventual death of small farms and organic farming in this country. All you need to do is to see the large shadow of Monsanto and other agro business companies that hangs over this country, and you can understand how this bill and others like them can wind up being hazardous to small farms in America.

    • 1 year ago
  • treewolf39
    • 0
      treewolf39  

    • Section 310 -
      Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop and implement a strategy to better identify s and prevent entry into the United States of smuggled food; and (2) notify the DHS Secretary not later than ten days after identifying a smuggled food that would cause serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals. Requires a press release to warn consumers and vendors about a potential threat from smuggled food if certain requirements are met.
      I was unaware we had a smuggled food problem. This is a tool to create a problem.

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
  • unimatrix0
    • +3
      unimatrix0  

    • The bill only provides regulations for the public safety. Just because some farmer claims to be growing organic does not excuse the produce from proper inspection and regulation.

      The bill will not prevent people from growing their own food, or trading that food with their neighbors.

      Check out the source, some wingnut blog.

      Some of you people are so gullible it makes me laugh.

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
    • 0
      JanforGore  
    • unimatrix0:

      And the cost of that paperwork and regulation will more than likely bog small farms down in mounds of paperwork and fees while huge CAFOS get loopholes to get away with it as well as the distributors of the food who many times are the cause of illness. There is more to this than your black and white analysis without even dessiminating the meaning of any of these bills simply because you too are a political partisan just like certain RWers.

    • 1 year ago
  • unimatrix0
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      unimatrix0  
    • JanforGore:

      I am more than willing to grant that there are legitimate policy disputes about fees and factory farming loop holes, these are legitimate and worthwhile issues to discuss.

      However, the headline reads: "Senate Bill S510 Makes it illegal to Grow, Share, Trade or Sell Homegrown Food" which is simply false.

      While there is buried in the story a legitimate concern, that does not change the fact that the post is misleading, false, conspiracy theory non-sense.

      Do you really believe the gov. is trying to prevent you from growing food?

    • 1 year ago
  • bailey78
  • JanforGore
    • 0
      JanforGore  
    • unimatrix0:

      Yes I do believe that to a point based on the makeup of the FDA, their collusion with agribusiness and chemical companies, their absolute disregard for regulation that pollutes our environment with transgenic contamination and poisons and the sections of the bills I posted that should they stay as is will indeed put an undue and unfair burden on small farmers who will never be able to compete with the industrial pseudo agricultural policies of the likes of a Monsanto that then will have control over the food industry. That is no conspiracy theory, that is happening right now, and not only in this country.

    • 1 year ago
  • Progresshiv
  • mojojuju
  • unimatrix0
  • libertyforall
  • mojojuju
  • CalgarC
    • +1
      CalgarC  

    • FUCK YOU MR. GOVERNMENT!!! I am sick of all of this shit. i will grow what i want when i want where i want... no law will stop me... just like piracy this will never end

    • 1 year ago
  • versasrev
    • +6
      versasrev  

    • I want some better sources... or at least a link to the bill before I even begin to consider this real. If you are really passionate about this then you should endeavor to give people the most accurate, and legitimate sources possible. Failing the existence of those sources you should provide us with evidence to your claim (in this case the bill).

      Without any of this information your story rates at best as here-say or at worst a conspiracy theory.

      Provide the evidence and I will indeed be a supporter, do not and I will ignore your outcries.

    • 1 year ago
  • CalgarC
  • treewolf39
  • JanforGore
  • CalgarC
  • KSirys
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      KSirys  
    • treewolf39:

      can you let us know what you think of the bill once you're done? I've been working on a business project that has taken a lot of my time and I would like to know more if possible...

    • 1 year ago
  • KSirys
  • versasrev
  • versasrev
    • +1
      versasrev  
    • treewolf39:

      Yes the CRS is indeed the preeminent source on issues such as these...

      After looking at the summary I really don't see evidence for the claims made by the article. I do see potential problems and loop holes with this bill, in regards to it's control of imports to the U.S. and it being superseded by any other treaties or WTO regulations.

      I really don't see any evidence for claims about individuals growing plants to consume, although I could see how an increase in regulations that a proposed could be damning to smaller businesses. I'm going to have to delve down into the actual Bill before I can be certain, but I get the feeling that this bill operates similarly to others in that it hammers out the guidelines and leaves the specifics up in the air, to be determined either by state officials, organizational officials, or just decided upon at a later time. If my hunch proves to be correct then the bill inherently does not allow, these claims to exist, anymore than it would disallow them.

      It's really hard to say though; if you have found your interpretation to be vastly different than mine, or you find a specific area that contradicts my interpretation let me know.

    • 1 year ago
  • treewolf39
    • 0
      treewolf39  
    • KSirys:

      I read the bill summary and I think it sounds good for people who are afraid of thinking for themselves.

      Section 103 -
      Requires each owner, operator, or agent in charge of a food facility to: (1) evaluate the hazards that could affect food; (2) identify and implement preventive controls; (3) monitor the performance of those controls; and (4) maintain records of such monitoring. Deems facilities required to comply with certain food-specific standards to be in compliance with this section. Requires the Secretary to promulgate regulations to establish science-based minimum standards for conducting a hazard analysis, documenting hazards, implementing preventive controls, and documenting such implementation. Prohibits the operation of a facility that manufactures, processes, packs, or holds food for sale in the United States if the owner, operator, or agent in charge of such facility is not in compliance with this section. Delays implementation of this section for small businesses.

      This bill would be very hard to implement without becoming food Nazi's. I think it lays the control ground-work for big government.

    • 1 year ago
  • treewolf39
    • 0
      treewolf39  
    • versasrev:

      I had about the same take. As we have found out time and time again more government is not better government. I saw a giant loophole of throwing business to testing facilities.

    • 1 year ago
  • CalgarC
  • KSirys
  • KSirys
  • CalgarC
    • 0
      CalgarC  
    • KSirys:

      thats one of the reasons why i left... michigan is the HQ for the worst of the GMO food... it all goes to michigan then gets distributed around the country... so i used college as an excuse to move to canada, lol i chose a school in ottawa. wow what a difference. i take my bike downtown using the bike path every weekend (if i can) with a backpack and load up on "real" food :D

      a few months ago when my mom was visiting i was able to get organic pasta, sauce and organic garlic bread to feed six people for just under 10 bucks :D

    • 1 year ago
  • KSirys
  • CalgarC
    • 0
      CalgarC  
    • KSirys:

      ottawa is the closest thing to europe... i cant wait i wanna move to ibiza spain soon :D

      p.s. don't visit any of the cities that border america. american kids like to get drunk over there because of the drinking age and its quite a mess

    • 1 year ago
  • EmperorThan
    • +4
      EmperorThan  

    • So Michelle Obama would be breaking the law and the White House would be in possession of the 'controlled substance' of their homegrown food garden?

      I'll actually support this bill then hahahahaha just because I want to see DEA agents hacking up the White House food garden and burning it like a marijuana crop.

    • 1 year ago
  • ReverandG
    • -7
      ReverandG  

    • I suggest you all buy seeds and seal them in air tight packaging. These are Democrats pushing this crap people, Read the Bills.

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
    • 0
      JanforGore  
    • ReverandG:

      That's misleading. BOTH parties have been pushing this. Bush was also just as much or moreso into Monsanto that he had so many people in his administration going through their revolving door that it would make your head spin. This is a problem concerning both parties, so can we please for once can the partisan politics?

    • 1 year ago
  • Dagum
    • 0
      Dagum  
    • ReverandG:

      Doesn't have anything to do with republicans or democrats. This type of obnoxious invasion of the lives of private citizens would just as easily and gleefully be passed by a republican congress. Corporate Agriculture hedges their bets and funds candidates on both sides of the isle.

    • 1 year ago
  • CalgarC
  • ReverandG
    • -3
      ReverandG  

    • Control Transportation,Control Health Care, Control Guns don't allow the people to defend their rights or hunt, Control the Financial Markets, Control Food Supplies, Control all Water and all aspects of human life " for their own good ". The New World Order,
      what's next require all people over 35 are to die in ritual murders....Logans Run..
      come to fruition.

    • 1 year ago
  • EmperorThan
  • Omnomynous
    • +3
      Omnomynous  

    • Well the vast majority of us are quite comfortable breaking other laws (speeding counts) so?

      Now it's not just a few whiny potheads complaining, now it's every home gardener, that little old lady across the street who only grows those perfect squashes to give away...

      This whole idea is a crock of shit, the corporations growing food industrially aren't required to give consumers (or seemingly the FDA) a detailed printout of just how everything was done verifying things weren't contaminated.... If they did we wouldn't have half the recalls.

      Just break the law, really what would they do about civil disobedience on that level. The prospect of making the whole country break the law doesn't seem like something the government would want to do. Because the easier it is to rationalize breaking this one the easier to break that one, until we're questioning every law on the books... Yaye!

    • 1 year ago
  • TomTucker
  • JanforGore
    • +8
      JanforGore  
    • Image

    • http://current.com/news/90232364_food-safety-enhancement-act-of-2009-would-put-s...

      Actually as laid out in the HR bill, it would impose fees on small farmers that could well break them. That in turn would impact their ability to stay in business. These bills also do not have proper regulations for factory farms and unfairly penalize small farmers as the source of food illness, when much of it comes from CAFOS. Although reading this, I think NAIS was rescinded.

      So it isn't "wing nut" propaganda as many sites including the Organic Consumers Association have reported on this, nor should it like everything else on this site simply be degraded down to a left or right issue. This is indeed about the ability of small family farmers to stay in business. Small family farms in America are becoming extinct due to industrialization of agriculture, unfair subsidies and consolidation of our food industry under companies such as Monsanto and Cargill in collusion with this government, particularly the FDA.

    • 1 year ago
  • unimatrix0
  • TomTucker
  • ReverandG
  • versasrev
  • bailey78
  • dariusvons
  • chris50
    • 0
      chris50  

    • OK What I read is that they are trying to insure that the food we grow is not contaminated. I see that food must pass certain test. Is that not a good thing?
      I want to understand this, so please show me.

    • 1 year ago
  • s_peak
    • +5
      s_peak  
    • Image
    • chris50:

      Well that was the idea behind the FDA, right? ... but time and again we are shown that the FDA is a corrupt organization, as well. The FDA (and EPA for that matter) take kickbacks that impact our safety. That's pretty much the bottom line... and they're a federal organization (no surprise there, eh?).

      http://vegnet.osu.edu/news/currentvn21-06_files/image002.jpg

      E.Coli outbreaks are generally on the rise. Improper farming practices and a lackluster FDA are to blame for this, basically.

      The food you get from your neighbor is almost guaranteed to be free of toxins like Atrozine (used to be known as "Agent Orange" when it was used in Vietnam as a weapon) that are used as pesticides. Produce from the grocery store will, without a doubt, be covered in at least one potentially carcinogenic (or deadly) chemical. What I'm saying is... all of the infrastructure that has been built up around making food for millions of people is entirely unsafe, ignorant, and unsustainable... and the FDA supports it.

      Taking away people's ability to grow and share food isn't going to help us stay healthy. Smaller, poly-culture farms are our only way out of this mess. What kind of society do we live in, anyway, where we are forced to rely on our government to tell us what's safe to eat? Aspartame is a highly toxic food additive that is consistently shown to cause neurological damage. Corn Syrup, Splenda, etc... there are tons of examples of things that have been deemed "safe" by the people who sell us food.

      It's sickening that they're trying to pass off homegrown food as unsafe... when in fact, they're only protecting their corporate backers (the food industry is rich and powerful, after all) and we're all supposed to eat that up?

      Bah.

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
    • 0
      JanforGore  
    • s_peak:

      Exactly. These bills make no distinquishing between CAFOS and the neighbor next door if they fall under THEIR definitions and that will if passed as written put small farmers who can't compete out of business.Thank you for understanding this. This government is not on the side of organic or small farmers. If they were agribusiness and their subsidies ( which are already squeezing many small farmers) would not have as much precedence and influence over policy, nor would people be penalized for NOT using pesticides on their crops. That is actually absurd. This is indeed another way to actually give advantage to their corporate allies. And while the title of this may be exagerated to some, the jist of the vague language in some of these bills is clear. Actions speak louder than words, and there are many small farmers in this country who will attest to that.

    • 1 year ago
  • dariusvons
    • 0
      dariusvons  
    • chris50:

      it's NOT about "contamination" that's just the excuse they use (site safety and security when actually taking away your true security and safety) but your right to produce your own food, and your right to sell it.

    • 1 year ago
  • kyackr
    • +2
      kyackr  

    • it's not so much government being too big .. it's about corporatism being completely out of control !!
      a healthy government .. a for the people type government would be keeping this kind of BS from happening

    • 1 year ago
  • NorwegianHammer
  • Dagum
  • ReverandG
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