Keep S. 510 from controlling our Food and Our Lives!
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(The following is from the Natural Solutions Foundation. Please read and support our efforts by taking the advised action steps. Thank you for your help in arresting this dangerous bill.)
They say "no person's life, property or liberty are safe when Congress is in session…" To this we must add, "nor is our right to grow and use our own food, as families and communities". We are happy to report that some of our friends in the Freedom Movement, including Citizens for Health and Downsize DC have joined in S.510 Push Back, and have also set S.510 Action Items urging their supporters to message the US Senate. We applaude their efforts and remind everyone that we need hundreds of thousands of emails flooding the Senate if we are to keep our Food Freedom! Please help by widely circulating this information and Dr. Rima's hard-hitting S.510 video.
For more than a year, the plan to capture (and kill) clean, local, organic, independent and safe farming, has been winding its way through Congress, supported by the party in control of the White House and Congress, as well as the "too-big-to-fail" AgraBiz industry.?? Last year, the devastating HR 1279 passed the House, although working with patriots like Ron Paul, "We the People" put up a good battle, delaying it for quite a while. However, at the end of the day, a good battle followed by a loss is still a loss.?? Then the field of battle shifted to the US Senate's version, S.510, where we've held the forces of Big Agra and Big Gov at bay for nearly a year…??
During one memorable weekend in November 2009 over 150,000 emails to Senators tied the bill up in the HELP committee with its chairman, Senator Tom Harkin remarking about the "thousands" of emails. He promised that the (sic) food safety bill would not impose Codex Alimentarius restrictions in the USA.?? We didn't believe him and when, in February, Senator McCain introduced the "companion" so-called "dietary supplement safety" bill, S.3002, we mobilized the Health Freedom "Mouse Warriors" and in one month and one day, and several hundred thousand emails later the Senator was forced to withdraw support for his own bill, opining that its major points could be covered by S.510!??
Then in mid-July, the congressional majority leadership issued its "short list" of bills it wanted to push to passage before the August recess. The good news was: S.510 was not on the list!?? The bad news is that the bill's handlers could "sneak it through" the Senate as a "unanimous consent" non-controversial matter when the Senate returns in September!?? That is, unless opposing Senators put a "hold" on the bill, which means it cannot be treated as non-controversial. On the way to recess, the Senate HELP committee reported the bill out, without the amendment from Senator Tester, that would have offered a bit of protection to family farms and ranches, home and community gardens, farmers markets…??
Please send the Action Item below to your Senators, demanding that the "hold" the bill! How does a Senator do that? The Senator has one of his or her staff members call the staff of the Senate Cloak Room. The staff is responsible for non-controversial, unanimous consent bills. That's where this bad bill stops!
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