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Skriven 2010-08-15 22:17:09 av Matt Munson (1:218/109)
Ärende: Very dangerous bill
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Hello everybody.


I know this is political, but its in relation to our right to eat and possess
the food of our choice.
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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 publics 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 ones 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
Monsantos 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.
Clintons 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 husbands 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.

4.  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.

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.

For further information, watch these videos:

Food Laws  Forcing people to globalize
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia-P4rL2IWc

State Imposed Violence  to snatch resources of ordinary people
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onw_PkVvpts&feature=related

Corporate Rule
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PwqUQ_HIlg&feature=related

Reclaiming Economies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXoJHG-er7A&feature=related


Matt

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