S 510 is hissing in the grass | Food Freedom
By Steve Green
S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, 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 public’s 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 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
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 Monsanto’s 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. Clinton’s 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 husband’s 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
State Imposed Violence … to snatch resources of ordinary people
Corporate Rule
Reclaiming Economies
Oak snake image at Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park, Florida
http://snipurl.com/vrg6pEd. Note: Also see this piece by lawyers: Food Safety: The Worst of Both Bills (HR 2749 and S 510).
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236 Responses to S 510 is hissing in the grass
* Blackwater USA (now Xe);
* Union Carbide (Bhopal Disaster);
* BP Chemicals;
and the pharmaceutical giants
* Pfizer;
* Eli Lilly;
* SmithKline Beecham,
to name a few.
If B-P is selling it, you know it’s bad for the earth and ordinary people.
For sources, see my July 2008 article, NYC Elections Board Hires Spin Doctors for $6.5 million. I just had to focus on B-M for a moment; they’re as evil as Monsanto.
Thanks, Steve, for a terrific article.
Monsanto is wanting to have a monopoly over all the food supply, and is endeavoring to have a law passed, which will prevent americans from growing their own nutritious food, as well as have access to vitamin supplements. We know organic food is much more nutritious and cheaper than frozen or canned food grown and packaged by monsanto. Monsanto uses crops grown from genetically engineered modified seeds, which will not reseed.
I am an american, and I have the right to choose for myself, which foods I will consume and/or grow. As far as Im concerned, government had not show itself to be qualified to do ANYTHING over the past couple of years. I do not want a nanny govt trying to tell me what I will or wont eat. I am a sovereign person and a citizen of a sovereign country. I will continue to do as I see fit, regarding my intake of food or purchase of goods. I do not want a oligarchy dictating to me things which affect me personally, outside of drugs. By the way, vitamin supplements are not drugs, but govt wants to enrich the pharmeceutical companies further, by classifying them as such.
Govt needs to get their house in order or they will all be replaced in 2010 and 2012. We do not like the arrogance , audacity, and irresponsibility they are showing toward the American People and we will NOT tolerate it!!!!
This is quite frightening.
Could someone explain in more detail what number five would mean?
See http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/seeds-how-to-criminalize-them/
It means no one outside of a government approved agency or entity (namely Monsanto) will have the authority to handle, store, consume, or distribute seeds (all kinds). any violations would be handled by a body of “snitches” (we already have enough of them and can’t live without them), appointed by the gov’t after the law is passed. Sickening.
Hey Isaiah, number 5 means just what it says, you get caught with seeds that you’ve grown yourself and your in biggum trouble.
Eff them. Plain and simple.
They think they are going to tell you and I what to eat. Next they will tax the air we breathe.
Who’s going to enforce this and how?
They can tell it to my bullets.
Assholes.
They are going to tax the air you breathe it’s called CAP and TRADE
The Devil comes only to kill, to steal, and to destroy……John 10:10
I think the time for this is behind, it is really a good idea. This is for the benefit of us all, my family and I are all for S 510. People read about these bills and such, and immediately are lead to believe it’s something bad, it’s exactly the opposite folks. My Boss at work used to tell me all the time, Change is good… he was 100% right. And the passage of S 510 is the right thing for the USA.
Hey Morton,
I do read the bills. this is a horrible bill.
>>…This is for the benefit of us all…<<
Is that you, Obama?
I love debate – but just to let you all know, I delete comments that contain ad hominem attacks.
Ad hominem attacks are those that attack the person, instead of the ideas they’ve presented.
Let’s treat each other with respect.
Thanks
Charles Morton– this horrifying ignorance might just get this bill passed. I go to a local Farmers’ Market every week. This bill would severely impact every single one of these local farmers. It could make it illegal to grow a tomato plant in a pot on your deck. Charlie–wake up.
[Ed Note: Ad hominem portion removed.]
hey charles, who pays you? what part of someone owning your right to food and seeds does not sound inhuman?
I’ll bet you’re a REAL healthy guy huh? Can you say IRRADIATED food? What an idiot.
Aye Caramba!! Once again they come after us. . If I weren’t to feisty I’d get tired and give up. . but I’m too stupid, and too stubborn to give up so easily. . .
This bill will pass, and we will once again become as serfs. If we resist, we will be killed or put in concentration camps.
In the 1930′s, communist bolsheviks starved to death and murdered millions of Ukranian farmers – men, women, and children – when they refused to collectivize.
The descendants of these butchers now infest the highest levels of our government. They demand our unquestioned compliance while they destroy our country and our sovereignty.
Welcome to the NWO
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This will mean revolution against the state if this passes. Monsanto and others must never be obeyed at any price.
“I can see a day coming when even your home garden is going to be against the law” – Bob Dylan (jew), 1983 from the song “Union Sundown” on the album “Infidels”
prescient
Unfortunately there is a really strong chance that this bill will pass. The Obama administration just like the two which preceded it is filled with ex employees from monsanto and big pharma. These guys are evil incarnate and won’t stop until we the people demand a complete overhaul of our governmental system, from the president (macro) down to local city council (micro). The whole system has been compromised by greedy individuals.
agree city Govs have really already taken much rights away from their communities using zoneing laws. It’s very easy for them using zoning to take a persons house away or give fines in the thousands for ‘crimes’ such as not mowing their lawn properly or placing out trash on the wrong day. Many zoning prevents people having a home based business in the city, of any kind.
These city govs. pay themselves with great health insurance and perks such as tax free ‘non profit’ set-ups.
The greed keeps them in power and it will take a mandate from ‘someone’ to make them stop opressing the common people. I wish we could toss away this crap and go back to the simple ‘golden rule’.
If home gardening truly is outlawed, then let’s all be outlaws. How can they possibly enforce everything they legislate? How is it that Cuba has a notorious regime, yet there are reportedly many farmers markets offering fresh produce? Can we learn from the example set there?
This is horrifying and tyrannical to a riotous level of oppression! I like gardening and eating fresh fruits and veggies from heirloom seeds that are NOT processed by big corporations. I prefer to avoid all the dangerously unhealthy amounts of sugar, aspartame, flouride, MSG, salt, and a host of other additives accumulating in our bodies.
This legislation is maddening and must be stopped. Freedom to garden is universal. God put Adam and Eve in a garden, not a shopping center!
Live free or die!
I am not a fan of the FDA and I am certainly concerned about the influence of companies like Monsanto on our food/agricultural policy. However, when I briefly reviewed the bill, I noticed that it specifically excluded not only food produced at one’s home, but also at all farms in general. I would appreciate if someone could please point to the place in the bill that implies home gardening will be outlawed, and, in general, how organic farms will be effected and forced to use certain kinds of seeds and pesticides, etc. I am obviously skeptical, yet open to the concerns expressed here, as I am very much involved in the organic/localvore movement, in terms of my own shopping and eating.
I’m with Alice. How come no one replied to her? I read the summaries at least, and it kept looking like home grown foods and family farms were excluded, as they are not considered “facilities.” This could just be a magic circle they’ve created, where you have to be a facility to grow food, yet homes are excluded from applying to be facilities – but I didn’t see that explicitly spelled out. There are a lot of other scary things going on here for sure (bans on seed saving, allowing certain unnamed corporations to not be inspected, etc.) but I can’t find where it says I’m going to jail for growing a tomato.
I am certainly against the bill, I just would like to see more specifics on this angle of objection to it. If you could point us to a section that’d be awesome.
Rady, congrats on the 100,000 mark. Food Freedom is always something I look forward to.
As far as the Food Safety bill, these measures will be placed on those in the system — and I like to tell folks to distance themselves from the system and become as independent as possible and interdependent upon those who are like-minded about self-sufficiency and local foods.–or else they will be subjected to a system whereby the natural law of caring and sharing itself is illegal.
thx, Augie… and big thx to Rense.com for featuring this article on his website.
chuckwagon’s and felio’s comments below get to the heart of this dastardly bill – what we are seeing is a collection of actions by the monsanto-owned federal government which will enable all that the author describes. S 510 is just a part of a multifaceted strategy.
I agree we need to step back from the system as much as possible; it’s too far gone; too corrupt. The only value they have is profit; all else is meaningless to captains of industry.
They’re pulling this in Canada and India and elsewhere, too – this battle is global.
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The bill is a collection of outrages, many of them hidden, as with the seeds. Seeds are not even mentioned in the bill but are covered as food, having been redefined as such by the FDA. So, if organic seeds themselves can be removed, even if farmers are excluded, what will they farm with? And if the Administrator has powers that can be inappropriate and invalid and yet not be subject to law, then what does it matter what the rest of the bill says about excluding home. That would just be an invalid order and yet how would anyone be rescued from it? So, while it may say such and such a group is excluded, the purpose is to destroy non-corporate food and other language will allow them power to harm.
Hi Alice
understand your concern and skepticism.
Homegardening will most likely not be outlawed, as I see it. it would be too radical, but if “they” decide, that the uncontrolled organic seeds you are using are a hazard to public health, they can enforce the law to propagate a legislation to ensure the slow but eventually effective outsourcing of seeds from without their control, starting with farmers. outsourcing the market of seeds and narrowing down the options, making “random” homegrown seeds illegal, to ensure national food security, will be a logical way of utilizing S510.
Recently Monsanto sued an organic farmer for “stealing” their patented GMO seeds. They landed in his field of crops and grew amidst his!
anywhere, he put all he got into the trials, nearly 100.000$ and they lost. so there is justice, if you have the will and courage to fight for it.
I strongly recommend everybody to gather such strenght to prepare for the future, ‘for we have not seen the least..
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US leadership wants to kill us the way Hitler wanted to kill the Jews. Dead.
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After reading the bill, using text from the article above that the author claims is in the bill, I can not verify any of the “facts” claimed by the author as actually being in this bill. I think this article is bogus. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-2749
John, the link you connected to is a different bill. This is the one the author is referring to: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-510
I know that some people are saying that we should contact members of the senate that allegedly represent us, but we have tried that before on other issues. And there is too much money and power at stake here for them to listen to us. Having said that, why shouldn’t I think about moving to, say Costa Rica?
lol. Costa Rica is under the thumb of neoliberal capitalism.
I had a wonderful medical vacation there back in January. The only way most ordinary people earn a living wage is in the criminal trades.
Much like here in the States. The minimum wage is legalized slavery – no one can live on it, yet tens of millions of us earn less than a living wage.
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I hope that everyone ignores this and revolts. If it takes a revolutiojn to get these guys out, so be it. Theyvcannot imprison a whole nation
sounds pretty wrong to me
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