Stop Food Safety Bill-Strip out of bill-Contaact Senators

[Guest guest]

National Health Freedom Coalition

supports the following Action Alert from

National Health Freedom Action

S510, The Food Safety Bill, Has Been Passed by

the House and Sent to the Senate for Approval.

In the Senate, the bill may be included and voted on in the context of a

larger bill. Please contact your senators and ask them to reject the

language of the Food Safety Bill wherever it should appear.

_Click here to contact your senators_

(http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/850/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5347)

S510 was passed in the House by wrapping it into a larger appropriation

bill, Continuing Resolution HR 3082. It has now been sent back to the Senate

for final approval. This bill, despite the inclusion of positive

amendments such as the Tester amendment, to exempt small businesses and

organic

farmers from certain requirements, will still have adverse effects on these

businesses.

S510 greatly expands FDA authority, introducing huge and burdensome

regulations on food producers of all kinds. Large food corporations can afford

to comply with these regulations, but small ones may not be able to, and

they may have to shut down.

S510 will mandate Hazard Analysis and Risk-based Assessment Controls for

all “facilitiesâ€, and a farm will be considered a “facility†if it

sells

anything processed like sun-dried tomatoes, jams from their own fruits, or

fermented vegetables! (See Fall 2010 Wise Traditions article Chameleon

Politics by Judith McGeaery, Esq.)

S510 - gives the FDA power to set “safety standards†which will govern

how farmers can grow and harvest their crops! This gives FDA expansive

rulemaking capability over the way food is produced and creates a great

compliance burden for small farmers. Even the exempted certified organic

farmers

could find additional standards forced upon them.

TELL YOUR SENATOR HOW TO TRULY CREATE FOOD SAFETY:

THE REAL DANGER is eating produce from factory farms which deplete the

soil, produce sprayed and contaminated with toxic herbicides and pesticides.

THE REAL DANGER is meat, milk and eggs produced from caged animals in

overcrowded filthy environments, force-fed with genetically modified grains,

(GMO’s), antibiotics, and hormones. These unhealthy animals are prone to e

coli, salmonella and other infections, and they create dangerous products

for American consumption.

TELL YOUR SENATOR, YOU CAN MAKE A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE by promoting the

sources of real, healthy food in our country. Promote policies that support

and encourage small farmers and organic farmers raising healthy animals and

healthy produce on good soil, and selling locally to the many citizens

that are wisely gravitating to these healthy food products. Please support

and encourage this movement, not quash it!

Tell your senator to stop regulating out of business small farms and

operations that are providing essential nutrients to local people. Please do

not give increased power to the FDA to harass farmers that are wisely

outside of the big corporate industrial food system.

Take Action NOW! Demand that your Senators stop this bill and go to the

real source of dangers in the Food Supply!

Even if you have contacted your senators before, it is important to do

this again now. Let your senators know how damaging this bill would be. Keep

your calls and emails coming to oppose S510.

_Click here to contact your senators_

(http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/850/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5347)