U.S. Passes Most Restrictive Legislation Yet Against Health Freedom
PreventDisease
December 1, 2010
The United States Senate has passed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S.510) yesterday by a vote of 73 to 25 demonstrating a clear mandate to destroy health freedom in America.
The House of Representatives approved a different version of the food safety bill in 2009; however, the bill’s sponsor Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said the House has agreed to adopt the Senate version, bypassing the need for a conference to integrate the two bills. Once approved, the bill will move on to President Barack Obama for his signature.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will now have more power to police all food companies under the bill. It gives the FDA unprecedented powers to preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes.
The bill will now:
- end United States sovereignty over its own food supply by insisting on compliance with the WTO, thus threatening national security.
- 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.”
- impose 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.
- 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.
- allow the government to mandate antibiotics, hormones, slaughterhouse waste, pesticides and GMOs.
- use 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-36 in Canada) the end of Rule of Law in the US.
Bill S. 510 essentially will strengthen all the forces that have led to the consolidation of the food supply in the hands of a few industrial food producers, while definitively harming small producers who give consumers the choice to buy fresh and health local foods.
Here are the names of the 73 US Senators who sold out the American public’s right to grow and sell crops from their own gardens and farms without government oversight, regulation or permission.
The November 30, 2010 US Senate vote on S-510, the FDA Food Modernization Safety Act:
Alabama
Nay AL Sessions, Jefferson [R]
Nay AL Shelby, Richard [R]
Alaska
Yea AK Begich, Mark [D]
Yea AK Murkowski, Lisa [R]
Arizona
Nay AZ Kyl, Jon [R]
Nay AZ McCain, John [R]
Arkansas
Yea AR Lincoln, Blanche [D]
Yea AR Pryor, Mark [D]
California
Yea CA Boxer, Barbara [D]
Yea CA Feinstein, Dianne [D]
Colorado
Yea CO Bennet, Michael [D]
Yea CO Udall, Mark [D]
Connecticut
Yea CT Dodd, Christopher [D]
Yea CT Lieberman, Joseph
Delaware
Yea DE Carper, Thomas [D]
Yea DE Coons, Chris [D]
Florida
Yea FL LeMieux, George [R]
Yea FL Nelson, Bill [D]
Georgia
Nay GA Chambliss, Saxby [R]
Nay GA Isakson, John [R]
Hawaii
Yea HI Akaka, Daniel [D]
Yea HI Inouye, Daniel [D]
Idaho
Nay ID Crapo, Michael [R]
Nay ID Risch, James [R]
Illinois
Yea IL Durbin, Richard [D]
Yea IL Kirk, Mark [R]
Indiana
Yea IN Bayh, Evan [D]
Yea IN Lugar, Richard [R]
Iowa
Yea IA Grassley, Charles [R]
Yea IA Harkin, Thomas [D]
Kansas
Not Voting KS Brownback, Samuel [R]
Nay KS Roberts, Pat [R]
Kentucky
Nay KY Bunning, Jim [R]
Nay KY McConnell, Mitch [R]
Louisiana
Yea LA Landrieu, Mary [D]
Yea LA Vitter, David [R]
Maine
Yea ME Collins, Susan [R]
Yea ME Snowe, Olympia [R]
Maryland
Yea MD Cardin, Benjamin [D]
Yea MD Mikulski, Barbara [D]
Massachusetts
Yea MA Brown, Scott [R]
Yea MA Kerry, John [D]
Michigan
Yea MI Levin, Carl [D]
Yea MI Stabenow, Debbie Ann [D]
Minnesota
Yea MN Franken, Al [D]
Yea MN Klobuchar, Amy [D]
Mississippi
Nay MS Cochran, Thad [R]
Nay MS Wicker, Roger [R]
Missouri
Not Voting MO Bond, Christopher [R]
Yea MO McCaskill, Claire [D]
Montana
Yea MT Baucus, Max [D]
Yea MT Tester, Jon [D]
Nebraska
Yea NE Johanns, Mike [R]
Yea NE Nelson, Ben [D]
Nevada
Nay NV Ensign, John [R]
Yea NV Reid, Harry [D]
New Hampshire
Yea NH Gregg, Judd [R]
Yea NH Shaheen, Jeanne [D]
New Jersey
Yea NJ Lautenberg, Frank [D]
Yea NJ Menendez, Robert [D]
New Mexico
Yea NM Bingaman, Jeff [D]
Yea NM Udall, Tom [D]
New York
Yea NY Gillibrand, Kirsten [D]
Yea NY Schumer, Charles [D]
North Carolina
Yea NC Burr, Richard [R]
Yea NC Hagan, Kay [D]
North Dakota
Yea ND Conrad, Kent [D]
Yea ND Dorgan, Byron [D]
Ohio
Yea OH Brown, Sherrod [D]
Yea OH Voinovich, George [R]
Oklahoma
Nay OK Coburn, Thomas [R]
Nay OK Inhofe, James [R]
Oregon
Yea OR Merkley, Jeff [D]
Yea OR Wyden, Ron [D]
Pennsylvania
Yea PA Casey, Robert [D]
Yea PA Specter, Arlen [D]
Rhode Island
Yea RI Reed, John [D]
Yea RI Whitehouse, Sheldon [D]
South Carolina
Nay SC DeMint, Jim [R]
Nay SC Graham, Lindsey [R]
South Dakota
Yea SD Johnson, Tim [D]
Nay SD Thune, John [R]
Tennessee
Yea TN Alexander, Lamar [R]
Nay TN Corker, Bob [R]
Texas
Nay TX Cornyn, John [R]
Nay TX Hutchison, Kay [R]
Utah
Nay UT Bennett, Robert [R]
Nay UT Hatch, Orrin [R]
Vermont
Yea VT Leahy, Patrick [D]
Yea VT Sanders, Bernard
Virginia
Yea VA Warner, Mark [D]
Yea VA Webb, Jim [D]
Washington
Yea WA Cantwell, Maria [D]
Yea WA Murray, Patty [D]
West Virginia
Yea WV Manchin, Joe [D]
Yea WV Rockefeller, John [D]
Wisconsin
Yea WI Feingold, Russell [D]
Yea WI Kohl, Herbert [D]
Wyoming
Nay WY Barrasso, John [R]
Yea WY Enzi, Michael [R]
