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Dear Arthur,

November 19, 2010

The S.510 vote on November 17 was simply to

allow cloture (limit debate period); the vote on November 18 has moved S.510

to the Senate floor for a vote.

CALL Your SENATORS ASAP

Implore Them to Reject S.510

S.510 presents a major threat to

a.. the local food movement,

b.. States' autonomy to regulate food, and

c.. America's ability to be self-sufficient

in food production.

S.510 will significantly increase the power of

FDA, an agency which has stated on public record that the American people

have no ''fundamental right to their own bodily and physical health " and " do

not have a fundamental right to obtain any food they wish " .

S.510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act

of 2010 needs to be stopped!

Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121;

ask to be connected to your Senator's office.

OR

Go to www.Congress.org and

Enter your zip code on the right side under

" Get Involved " and click " Go "

Click on your Senators' names then click the

" Contact " tab to get the office phone number(s)

Clearly state that you are calling about S510,

the Food Safety bill.

Ask for your Senator to Vote Against S.510

Be sure to give your Zip Code.

If you get an answering machine, leave a brief

message and immediately call another office.

Ask Friends & Family to Call, too!

WHY AMERICANS NEED TO TAKE ACTION

S.510 will expand FDA's jurisdiction over

intrastate commerce and impose one-size-fits-all regulations that will make

it difficult for many small businesses to survive. See Talking Points at the

end.

How bad can a federal food safety bill be? Let

me count the ways! Better yet, let Senator Coburn give you a short video

tutorial on the underlying problems with S.510.

FDA's failure to exercise its current powers

hardly justifies rewarding the agency with expanded authority in the

aftermath of the egg recall and peanut butter fiasco.

Moreover, FDA has proven itself untrustworthy

to operate in the best interest of the American public as clearly seen in

allowing the nontherapeutic use of antibiotics in animals and its lax policy

regarding genetically modified foods.

Congress needs to get the message: Solve the

real food safety problems--the centralized food distribution system and

imported foods--and not regulate our local food sources out of business.

Go to www.farmtoconsumer.org/stopS510 to use

the online Reject S.510 petition to send a live email to your Legislators

and local newspaper editor.

Tell your Senators to protect local foods and

vote against S.510.

TALKING POINTS

1. FDA has more than adequate powers under

existing law to ensure food safety and effectively deal with foodborne

illness outbreaks. FDA has power to inspect, power to detain product and can

readily obtain court orders to seize adulterated or misbranded food products

or enjoin them from being sold. The problem isn't that FDA needs more power;

it's that FDA does not effectively use the power it currently has.

2. S.510 will give FDA extensive power to

regulate food in intrastate commerce; state and local governments are more

than capable of handling any problems related to food in intrastate

commerce. All the major outbreaks of foodborne illness involve either

imported food or food in interstate commerce.

3. S.510 will hurt our ability as a nation to

be self-sufficient in food production; it has more lenient inspection

requirements for foreign than domestic producers creating an unfair

advantage for food imports. Giving an advantage to foreign producers will

only increase the amount of food imported into this country that does not

meet our domestic standards. S.510 does not address food security--the

ability of a country to produce enough food to meet its own needs.

4. S.510 will provide a competitive advantage

to industrial food producers--the sector of the food system causing most of

the food safety problems; the bill will impose burdensome regulations on

many small businesses, a number of whom won't have the economies of scale to

comply with S.510's requirements.

5. S.510 does nothing to address many

significant food safety problems in this country, such as those resulting

from confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs), genetically modified

organisms (GMOs), and various contaminants (e.g., BPA, pesticides,

herbicides, etc.).

Web Addresses (urls) in this Edition

Suggestion: copy and paste the url into your

browser to navigate to the webpage if you are unable to click on it.

public record

http://www.ftcldf.org/litigation-FDA-status.htm

FDA Food Safety Modernization Act

http://www.farmtoconsumer.org/federal/111_Cong-S510.htm

Congress.org

http://www.congress.org

video

http://www.farmtoconsumer.org/news/news-coburn-video-092510.htm

untrustworthy

http://www.farmtoconsumer.org/news/news-29jan2010-food_safety.html

www.farmtoconsumer.org/stopS510

http://ftcldf.org/stops510

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