Fwd: Urgent: S 510 Slipped into House Bill, vote this afternoon

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From: Linn Cohen-Cole <lcohencole@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:37 AM
Subject: Re: Urgent: S 510 Slipped into House Bill, vote this afternoon
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On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:39 PM, National Independent Consumers and Farmers Association <nicfa@earthlink.net> wrote:

Urgent: S 510 Slipped into House Bill, vote this Urgent: S 510 Slipped into House Bill, vote this

National Independent Consumers and Farmers Association 8 December, 2010 ---PLEASE BROADCAST--- S 510 Slipped into a House Bill - Vote this afternoon S 510 has been slipped into the House Continuing Resolution that funds the government into 2011.  The vote on that bill is expected this afternoon in the House.  The bill has to go back to the Senate after that.  There is probably not enough time to reach Representatives.                                          PLEASE STAY WITH THIS.           CALL YOUR SENATORS TO TAKE THE FOOD SAFETY BILL OUT OF                                   THE CONTINUING RESOLUTION BILL.                       Please act now if you don't want this bill to become law. Tell your Senators that the FDA has been raiding farms, buying clubs and small dairies from New York to Washington state and all in between, sending out SWAT teams to hold families at gunpoint in pre-dawn raids.  Read about the latest raid and earlier raids.  S 510 gives sweeping new authority to the FDA to control the food you want to eat.  The amendments to the bill provide little to no protection for the vast majority of farms.  And these "exceptions" for some farms can be removed if the FDA feels there is "reason to believe" that a farm has a contamination issue - they will not need evidence. The FDA's track record of aggressively persecuting small farms, food buying clubs and small dairies speaks for itself.  This, and the fact that the FDA has stated in court that you have no right to consume any particular food, no right to bodily or physical health, and no right to contract is enough reason to not give the FDA any more control over your food.  Please tell your Senators you are smart enough to decide what you want to eat, and not to give the FDA any more power.   ACTION:  1.  Please call your Senators to take the food safety bill out of the Continuing Resolution Bill. Ask to speak to the aide who handles food safety.  Tell them that the FDA has been sending out SWAT teams to raid small farms, food buying clubs and small dairies for several years and this bill would only give the FDA more power.  Tell the aide this bill will make food safety issues worse by eliminating smaller farms - where the healthiest food comes from, and consolidating food production into the industrial facilities that are the primary cause of food safety problems. The Tester-Hagan amendment requires extensive paperwork, does not fix the basic problems with the bill, and gives uncertain protection to only a tiny number of farms.  Yours for food freedom, Deborah Stockton, Executive Director National Independent Consumers and Farmers Association (NICFA) nicfa@earthlink.net http://www.nicfa.com Our purpose is to promote and preserve unregulated direct farmer-to-consumer trade that fosters availability of locally grown or home-produced food products. NICFA opposes any government funded or managed National Animal Identification System.

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