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Sunday, December 19, 2010

S 510 the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010

S 510 the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, The most dangerous bill in the history of the US

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 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:

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

Oak snake image at Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park, Florida

http://snipurl.com/vrg6p