which will be coming up for vote today. I've posted about this draconian and ill thought out bill that will cost us untold billions of dollars, create layers of bureaucracy, and give giants like Monsanto even more power, but will do very little to keep our food safe. Great thanks to The Lonely Conservative for alerting us to today's vote and providing us with contact info:
Click here to find out how to contact your senator. Make sure you start calling early in the day and don’t stop.
These Republicans voted on the original so they should be specifically targeted.
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN)
Enzi (R-WY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Johanns (R-NE)
LeMieux (R-FL)
Lugar (R-IN)
Snowe (R-ME)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
From Right Side News:
On Monday, November 29, 2010, Congress will be back in session at 2:00pm and here some of what will be happening with the Food Safety Bill.
S. 510 is basically Obamacare for the food industry. It will create 17,000 new bureaucrats, whose job is going to be to harass small farmers. It will create huge regulatory burdens for small family farms and even for those who want to grown their own food. This will choke out small farms. For those who like to buy their own healthy food, forget it. It will no longer be available.
At 4:00pm, Senate will resume consideration of S.510... as provided for under the previous order.
Judy Aron, of Consent of the Governed, has tremendous fact-filled post - and we thank her!At 6:30pm, the Senate will proceed to a cloture vote on the substitute amendment to S.510. Under the agreement reached on Thursday, if cloture is invoked, 4 motions to suspend the rules would be in order. Upon disposition of the motions, the Senate will proceed to vote on passage of the bill, as amended. Senator Reid would like to complete action on the Food Safety bill on Monday. As a result, senators should expect a late night of voting.
S.510 - Creation Of The Food And Garden Police
S. 510: the "FDA Food Safety Modernization Act" makes it a crime for you to grow your own produce and sell it to anyone else without expensive oversight by the government. Other parts of the bill are just as reprehensible.
If this moronic piece of legislation does become the law of the land, you can say goodbye to farmers markets, organically grown produce, raw milk – and other kinds of foods that increasing numbers of Americans have been producing as well as specifically looking to purchase from. Truth be told, it will just be way too expensive for the small producers to comply with all of these new federal regulations and policies. And that is the point - to drive these small producers out of business in favor of huge agri-businesses. It also makes companies like Monsanto the chief controller of all seeds and ultimately of what is grown. It is legislating and blessing food monopolies.
You can be certain that this bill has less to do about food safety, and definitely more to do with federal and corporate control over our food supply. This also comes on the heels of King Obama appointing yet another Czar; that would be an attorney who has fought for and represented Monsanto, as FDA Food Safety Czar! Like we need a Monsanto cheerleader to determine what foods are safe and what are not!
Read the rest of this very informative article and then get on the phone and call your Senator"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." - Food Freedom
Click here to find out how to contact your senator.
Update:
From American Thinker: The Federal Farming Power Grab Scheduled for Senate Vote Today
2 comments:
This bill doesn't regulate farms or gardens. It regulates larger food processors.
Your Reps sold you out the day they got sworn into Office.
Its us against them.
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