Farmers, Food and Freedom Under Attack!! Take Action Now

One of my first reports was on Codex Alimentarius an extremely dangerous piece of true "fascist" legislation that is passing thought Congress. This is CRITICAL will negatively impact everyone who eats food. Ron PaulRon Paul needs everyone to help stop the enforcement of Bill HR 2749, please sign the petition for you and your family members and encourage everyone you know to do the same. This is it folks and it's not an exageration to say we're facing nothing less than a total loss of freedom to make healthy choices in nutrition and health supplements. This is an attack on healthy Americans and people all over the world, from a small group of elitists obsessed with population reduction. By forcing world populations to eat genetically modified foods, combined with toxins and pathogens in vaccines, within 12-18 months a whole range of illness's will begin appearing in millions of people and the health-care system will be overwhelmed. The whole thing is really pretty insane and like we're all waking up in a bad novel, or something from a bad Hollywood B movie. It's as though something is really out of whack with our world lately. A world where science fiction is becoming reality and reality is becoming the SciFi. But this is for real, I've been following it for several months and could hardly believe it when I heard it myself, thank god Ron Paul recognizes the danger in this bill and is standing up for the citizens of this country and beyond. The are a couple of good YouTube videos on Codex for those who want to learn more about this diabolical attack on our health freedom.
Link to website and to sign petition"

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

Educating the Senate: Do Not Suppress Organic and Small Farmers and Ranchers; Natural Food Products

Farmers, Food and Freedom Under Attack...

House Passed the Food Fascism Bill, HR 2749

We Have Three Weeks to Pursuade the Senate During Its Recess to Vote to Protect Food, Farmers and Freedom

NOTE: If you have already taken this Action Item, we encourage you, and every member of your family and circle of contacts to do so again since it has been amended to reflect the passage of HR 2749 on July 30, 2009 after two failed attempts on the previous days. Passed by the Senate will guaranteeing the loss of clean, healthy food and independent farming in the US and the complete industrialization of the US food supply. Now the question is what will the Senate do?

We did manage to get some protective exemptions into the bill for small farmers who sell food directly to consumers or to restaurants, but they are, frankly, weak and will not be enough to protect your food or our farmers.

We need to rally people immediately to submit this letter to the Senate and to visit with their Senators at home during their August vacation break to demand accountable voting on this bill.
The Obama administration is pushing new farm controls which will drive small and independent farmers off the land, literally leaving the field to Agribiz, (implementing all of Codex through complete HARMonization and allowing the FDA to declare Marshal law) through Congress as fast as possible and have coordinated the bills so there will be no debate and committee meetings are closed.
Transparency, change, undoing Bush's regulations, giving the public time to comment, grassroots anything? None are visible in the current legislative process. Our entire food system, and thus our health, is being given to the last people with any interest in quality or safety: Big Abgribiz. This is going on in the absence of public scrutiny. Those who do know what is happening, of course, have zero access to the process and to the major media. Meanwhile, the media is absent while Congress is moving at warp speed to sew this up.

There will be no direct, frontal assault on organic farming but an insidious process of "infecting" organic farming with regulations, "traceability" requirements, required practices and prohibitions enforced by truly draconian fines and prision terms for even minor offenses running to hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars and 8 years in prison for minor offenses.

Example: imagine Joel Salatin's wonderful organic farm under the direction of the USDA, with detailed instructions on what he must feed and when, how he must medically "treat" his animals and with what, what he must "spray" and when, ... you get the picture. These bills will industrialize all farms and insure the farmers are forced to buy chemicals and drugs. Organic is dead. As well as human control over the food supply. As well as health.
H.R. 2749 includes a weak exemption for farmer to consumer or restaurant sales because of the Push Back we generated. But the bill has now passed the House and it is imperative that it NOT pass the Senate. More Push Back is needed for more protection for farmers, gardeners, community farming, all local food production (including yours!) and food processing.

We've set up an Action Item for you to send an unmistakable message to your Senators. We must educate the Senate that you value organic farmers and small farming and do not do not want independent farmers regulated out of existence. You do not want "Big Agra" regulations applied to organic and small family farms and ranches or to natural/organic food products, including Dietary Supplements. We have prepared the following Petition to Congress with regard to this matter:

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PETITION

To Amend Any Food Safety Modernization Act or Similar Bill

By the Addition of the

Natural and Family Food and Farming Exclusion Amendment

To: The Members of the Senate of the United States of America:

Whereas the proposed Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services should focus its activities on the significant public administration issues involving the capacity of large scale, industrialized agriculture to threaten public safety,

Whereas organic and natural agriculture, family farms and ranches, and natural or organic food products, including dietary supplements are not a significant part of the food safety problem, and

Whereas Congress previously provided for an exemption for natural food dietary supplements from the increased agency authority granted by the FDA Modernization Act of 2007, through a rule of interpretation, added as section 1011 of that Act, and has on numerous occasions exempted small and family farms from the same level of regulation as has been deemed necessary in the case of industrialized agriculture,

The citizens ascribing to this Petition therefore hereby request that any Food Safety Modernization Act identical or similar to HR 2749 be defeated, or that it, or any substitute for it be amended to exclude organic and natural agriculture, family farms and ranches, and natural or organic food products, including dietary supplements, through a rule of interpretation, as follows:

“Rule of Interpretation

“No provision of this act shall be deemed to apply (a) to any home, home-business, homestead, small farm organic or natural agricultural activity, (b) to any family farm or ranch, or (c) to any natural or organic food product, including dietary supplements regulated under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994.”

We also note the language of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 USC sec 203 (s) (2) which provides, "(2) Any establishment that has as its only regular employees the owner thereof or the parent, spouse, child, or other member of the immediate family of such owner shall not be considered to be an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce or a part of such an enterprise..." Language such as this would be helpful to allay our concerns.

If the FDA Center for Food Safety is to be moved into a new Food Safety Agency, then Dietary Supplements, regulated as foods under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) should be included in such agency, with the proviso that such substances, as foods, are deemed safe when used as directed.

Furthermore, the ascribing citizens Petition the Congress of the United States to declare it the public policy of the United States that organic and natural agriculture, family farms and ranches, and natural or organic food products, including dietary supplements shall be at all times free from suit, vexation, trouble, penalty, or loss of their goods, for the inestimable values they confer upon the public.

Link to article and petition:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

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