FDA Says Seeds Are Food, and Potential Deadly Agents of Bioterrorism

Given the deluge of deceptive propaganda supporting passage of S 510, the Food ‘Safety’ Modernization Act, we feel it necessary to reproduce articles warning about the dangers of such legislation. The following 2009 article discusses the implications of a speech given by FDA Commissioner Lester M. Crawford in 2004 regarding seeds.  ~Ed.

Food Safety Regulations: Intended quicksand for sustainable agriculture
By Linn Cohen-Cole
January 8, 2009

Hidden inside regulations that are not voted on by any legislators representing the public are massive bars to all involvement in farming by small farmers.  The monopolistic, unconstitutional, destructive reality of those regulations appear obvious when time is taken to look carefully.

During Food Safety Vote: Hot mic catches senator saying agenda is ‘all rigged’

Chris Moody
The Daily Caller

A hot mic left on during a Senate vote Tuesday morning on the Food Safety Act caught a senator complaining that process of setting the agenda during the lame-duck session is “rigged.”

“It’s all rigged. The whole conversation is rigged,” said Colorado Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet. “The fact that we don’t get to a discussion before the break about what we’re going to do in the lame duck. It’s just rigged.”

US Senate passes the Patriot Act for Food, S510, by a vote of 73 to 25

“There’s a rat in the kitchen. Here’s what I’m gonna do, Gonna fix that rat…”

Dec. 3, 2010 UPDATE: S.510 contains “unconstitutional” provision, goes back to the Senate.

By Rady Ananda

Today, the US Senate passed the Patriot Act for Food, S510, by a vote of 73 to 25.  We can expect to watch the raids on natural foods increase, and we can expect continued malicious prosecution of growers, like the 2-acre gardener in Georgia.

COP 16 in Cancun privatizes forests

By La Via Campesina

COP 16 is doomed to failure

(Ciudad de México, November 28th)  The sixth Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16) is already seen as a failure that will affect the future of humanity, as its only result will be to strengthen the intention of transnational corporations (TNCs) to divert money away from the climate crisis, stated Alberto Gomez from La Via Campesina international coordination.

During the last moments of discussion, the proposals of the People’s Agreement signed in Cochabamba have been left aside. The trend is to favour carbon market and REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation), which supports global privatisation of forests, jungles and territories, explained Gomez.

Senate again moves S.510 forward

Nov. 30, 2010 UPDATE: US Senate passes the Patriot Act for Food, S510, by a vote of 73 to 25.

By Rady Ananda

Tonight, the U.S. Senate voted by 69 to 26 to move S.510 forward, ending debate on the Food Safety Modernization Act. They are now voting on the proposed amendments.

Wikileaks: State Dept. wants intel on African acceptance of GMOs

By Tom Laskawy
Grist

The Wikileaks release of U.S. State Department classified diplomatic cables may be problematic, but it has been quite a trove of information on the workings of our diplomatic corps. For the most part, the dump has confirmed things that we already knew about U.S. policy — and that seems to be the case regarding the one mention of agricultural policy in these thousands of emails and documents (no doubt there are more) to which I was alerted.

Tweeting the Senate debate on S.510

By Rady Ananda

You can follow my notes on the Senate debate on S. 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act via twitter: geobear.

These tweets are also posted on our site in the middle column, under the title:
S.510 DEBATE MONDAY 11/29

Why Senators Should Oppose S 510

By Deborah Stockton
National Independent Consumers and Farmers Association

Cloture Vote on S 510 Today, November 29-
Please Call Your Two Senators Immediately

Today, November 29, a cloture vote on Senate Bill 510 will determine if the bill then goes immediately to the Senate floor for a final vote.  Cloture requires 60 votes.  If there are fewer than 60, the bill will not go forward.  Let’s make sure the cloture vote fails.

PLEASE CALL YOUR TWO SENATORS AND ASK THEM TO OPPOSE CLOTURE AND OPPOSE S 510.

Senate schedule on S.510 vote: Monday, 4 pm

By Mike R.

Here is the Senate schedule for today, 11/29/2010. If you have not contacted your Senators yet, now is the time to do it. If you have, do it again. http://www.farmtoconsumer.org/aa/aa-19nov2010-s510-senate-vote.htm

At 4:00pm, the Senate will resume consideration of S.510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, as provided for under the previous order.

Patriot Act for Food: A close look at bizarre propaganda for S.510

Nov. 30, 2010 UPDATE: US Senate passes the Patriot Act for Food, S510, by a vote of 73 to 25.

By Rady Ananda
Food Freedom

Need a good laugh? Check out the bizarre reasoning offered in support of the Patriot Act for Food (S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act), which the U.S. Senate will vote on shortly (likely Monday). From a need to stop food smuggling, to the law is too old, to the terrorists are gonna get us, elites sure are shy on brains when it comes to credible propaganda. They must be drinking  fluoridated water and smoking Monsanto marijuana, or hoping you are.

Like the Patriot Act? You’re gonna love the Food Safety Modernization Act

12/22/2010: House passes food control bill; now awaiting Obama signature

By Rady Ananda

Down to the wire – the bill will likely be voted on this Monday, November 29. Farmers, slow food activists, natural food growers and distributors have condemned the federal government seizing control of how food is grown and sold. Yet, every day, in corporate and first tier “alternative” media sites, support for the bill is promoted. Here’s why you shouldn’t fall for the psyops.

Two Declarations for Farm and Food Freedom

By David Augenstein
Journal of Living Food and Healing

Two international figures came out last week to make serious statements about farm and food freedom. Sir Julian Rose and the ICPPC Manifesto and Michael Schmidt with his  Edmonton Declaration. Michael sent me his and Julian sent his to Kimberly Hartke. I thought it appropriate to tie these two together.

Tester Amendment to food ‘safety’ bill puts lipstick on a pig

By Rady Ananda
Food Freedom

The voice of controlled opposition wants Americans to believe that the Tester Amendment to S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, elevates the bill to something we should adopt. The Tester Amendment puts a bandaid on a head wound. It does not stop the most lethal agency in American history from seizing control of the food supply from farm to fork.

Even though Big Ag now opposes S 510, we should continue to oppose the bill, as it amounts to federal assault on food freedom. Agribusiness giants have always opposed the exemption provided in the Tester Amendment. Now that it’s included in the current form of S.510, they’re only making clear that they oppose giving any wiggle room to competition. But from their sudden opposition to S 510, because it now includes an amendment they have always opposed, the public is being lulled into a false sense of confidence in S 510.

The Tester Amendment amounts to putting lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig, and it still needs to be slaughtered.

Full Spectrum Dominance: 8 Examples of How the Government Is Taking Total Control of Our Food, Our Health, Our Money and Even Our Dignity

By Michael Snyder
Blacklisted News

Over the past several decades, no matter which political party has been in power the government has continued to become a larger part of our lives. These days many people are speaking of the “nanny state” that we have created, but the reality is far worse than that. The truth is that the government has become a gluttonous, out of control behemoth that is gobbling up everything in sight and that is attempting to exert full spectrum dominance over our lives. Today, the government seems to have an insatiable hunger to watch us, track us and control us. Now they even want to feel our private parts before we get on an airplane. No matter what politicians we send to Washington D.C., it just seems to get worse and worse. Anyone who still believes that we live in “the land of the free” is completely and totally delusional.

The New Politics of Starvation and Weaponized Food

By Michael Vail
Blacklisted News

“We may find in the long run that tinned (canned) food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.” –George Orwell

“If starvation is cheap and requires low levels of technology, why not always use it?” –Michelle Jurkovich (George Washington University)

Food and its production has been a principle concern since the beginning of time. Governments monitor the food supply very carefully for the sake of national security. The fluctuation in the price of core goods can make life very hard for everyone. The poorest people in Haiti resorted to eating mud cookies and in Ireland the government is handing out free cheese as their economy crumbles under the burden of debt. Give us our daily bread because a hungry citizenry can bring a nation to ruin.

Support the Farm Raid Fund: Join the Civil Rights Movement of our time

By Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

America is at war.   This war is not being waged in the streets of Baghdad or the mountains of Afghanistan. This war is being waged against the small farms of America by the Executive Branch of the US Government, specifically the USDA and the FDA.

The Health Tyrants: Codex Alimentarius, part 2

By Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post

Excerpt from Codex Alimentarius: The End of Health Freedom

The health commission of Codex Alimentarius, and the subsequent legislation to come from it, has provable roots to Nazism, Communism, eugenics, and one-world government initiatives.  Let’s put forth a few of the names and philosophies of the tyrants responsible for this proposed global health tyranny.

Alex Jones and Mike Adams on GMOs, vaccines, farm raids, FDA, more (VIDEO)

Aired October 1, 2010

S 510 Food Safety? The FDA has killed far more people than contaminated eggs or lettuce

By Mike Adams
Natural News

Proponents of Senate Bill 510 — the Food Safety and Modernization Act — keep trying to claim that we need the FDA to protect us from tainted eggs, lettuce, onions and spinach. On the surface, it seems like a reasonable argument: No one should ever die from unsafe food in America, right?

But to accomplish a net reduction in deaths, you’d need to grant power over the food supply to some organization that actually respects human life… and the FDA is not that organization. In fact, as we have documented here on NaturalNews over the last seven years, the FDA is responsible for far more deaths of Americans than all the terrorist events in the history of the world — combined!

S.510 summaries from around the web

By Rady Ananda
Food Freedom

Various organizations have posted their analysis of what the impact would be from S. 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, which was moved out of committee yesterday, for a full vote by January 17, 2011. Drawing only from those which oppose S. 510, below are summaries of some of those analyses, along with a link to contact your Senators: