Senate Bill S 510: Would outlaw gardening and saving seeds

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Gotholic

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Senate Bill S 510 Food Safety Modernization Act vote imminent: Would outlaw gardening and saving seeds

Tuesday, November 16, 2010
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com

(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 (https://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/seeds-how-to-criminalize-them/), 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.
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Source - more there.

“If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.”
~Thomas Jefferson, 1778

"There is No Right to Consume or Feed Children Any Particular Food; There is No Generalized Right to Bodily and Physical Health; There is No Fundamental Right to Freedom of Contract."
~US Dept of Health & Human Services and US Food & Drug Administration, 2010
 
Mirlyn

Mirlyn

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If you try to google for this bill, you get many sites with the full text of the proposed bill. If you add "tsa" or "seeds", its an entire page of blogs, no bill text.

Hmm.
 
MrBishop

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The Senate voted this week 74 to 25 to proceed with S.510 Food Safety Act, which gives FDA more power to recall product and require stricter standards for keeping food safe. This had operators of smaller farms and advocates for locally produced food worried that the bill’s requirements would force them out of business. Democratic Senator Jon Tester of Montana has put forth an amendment that would allow farmers who make less than $500,000 a year in revenue and sell directly to consumers, restaurants, or grocery stores within 275 miles of their farms to avoid the expensive food safety plans required of the larger operations. State and local authorities would still have oversight over the farms. The Senate will finalize the vote on the bill after Congress’ Thanksgiving recess.
http://calorielab.com/labnotes/20101119/small-farms-exempt-from-food-safety-bill-s510/

The original bill meant that if you grew it for yourself - that was fine. If you sold it to others (like at a farmer's market), it had to be traceable back to you in case you made somebody sick. (Makes sense, eh). This means registering yourself and getting an inspection of your patch.

This doesn't outlaw gardening or saving seeds - but if you want to turn your patch into a business - you need to make sure that your food is safe. No Shit Sherlock!
 
ResearchMonkey

ResearchMonkey

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Dumb law and I don't see why anyone will stand for this outside of the corporate farming community.

Yeah, I plan on ignoring it completely. I'm only growing food for research purposes.
 
Gonz

Gonz

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MrBishop said:
This doesn't outlaw gardening or saving seeds - but if you want to turn your patch into a business - you need to make sure that your food is safe. No Shit Sherlock!
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If government doesn't control it, it's dangerous?
 
MrBishop

MrBishop

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Gonz said:
If government doesn't control it, it's dangerous?
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If the food that you grow and sell can't be traced back to you in case you poison someone then you can go on poisoning people to your heart's content?

Free Speech
Free Press
Free Poisoning!

Not GVT control, Gonz. Legal agreements signed onto in order to do business.

The bits of S510 that were kept don't put GVTs in charge of what you grow anymore than S1435 puts GVT in change of prison rape.
 
2minkey

2minkey

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this is the same kind of shit that got us drinking boiled to fuck milk instead of raw milk, which is vastly superior.

"a lot of those little guy farmers will cutting corners on safety. by golly, they can't afford to be as safe as we are. ever been to a small farm? they're filthy."

-direct quote (as best i can remember it) from a agribusiness CEO
 
ResearchMonkey

ResearchMonkey

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"we only want seat belt in cars, we would never force anyone to wear them"

"the tax will be voluntarily and will never exceed 1.5%"
 
Gonz

Gonz

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2minkey said:
this is the same kind of shit that got us drinking boiled to fuck milk instead of raw milk, which is vastly superior.

"a lot of those little guy farmers will cutting corners on safety. by golly, they can't afford to be as safe as we are. ever been to a small farm? they're filthy."

-direct quote (as best i can remember it) from a agribusiness CEO
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The best restaurants I've been to are "holes in the wall". We used to travel to some of those filthy dairies & get our milk. If people knew where their food comes from, they can trace it.

Bish...if you buy your food from Bird-Eye, it probably should be labled. If you go to the local farmers market, wash it. Local control & local food, whenever possible.
 
2minkey

2minkey

bootlicker
yeah gonz i totally agree.

the "filthy little farm" rhetoric is all over in the bigger food companies, who want to stomp on them and remove the competitive threat.
 
2minkey

2minkey

bootlicker
it's not smoke and mirrors - it's fairly obvious.

it's not the government exactly, it's big business making the gubmint do what it wants.
 
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