Senate Passes Food Bill
- Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:00pm by
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed legislation Tuesday to make food safer in the wake of deadly E. coli and salmonella outbreaks, potentially giving the government broad new powers to increase inspections of food processing facilities and force companies to recall tainted food.
The $1.4 billion bill, which would also place stricter standards on imported foods, passed the Senate 73-25. Supporters say passage is critical after widespread outbreaks in peanuts, eggs and produce.
Those outbreaks have exposed a lack of resources and authority at the FDA as the embattled agency struggled to contain and trace the contaminated products. The agency rarely inspects many food facilities and farms, visiting some every decade or so and others not at all.
The bill would emphasize prevention so the agency could try to stop outbreaks before they begin. Farmers and food processors would have to tell the Food and Drug Administration how they are working to keep their food safe at different stages of production.
Despite wide bipartisan support and backing from many major food companies, the legislation stalled as it came under fire from advocates of buying locally produced food and operators of small farms, who said it would could bankrupt some small businesses. Senators eventually agreed to exempt some of those operations from costly food safety plans required of bigger companies, rankling food safety advocates and larger growers but gaining support from farm-state senators.
Senate sponsors further softened the bill’s impact on the food industry — including eliminating some fees processors would have to pay and reducing the number of required inspections — to gain votes in the Senate and to make the bill more palatable in the House. Members of both parties voiced concern about the legislation’s impact on small farms and businesses when a different version of the bill passed that chamber in 2009.
The bill’s prospects are unclear since there is little time during the brief lame-duck congressional session for the House and Senate to reconcile different versions. Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, the sponsor of the Senate legislation, said he has agreement from some members in the House to pass the Senate bill, which would send the legislation straight to President Barack Obama’s desk.
Senators rejected several unrelated amendments to the bill, including an amendment to place a moratorium on earmarks, or pet projects in lawmakers’ states and districts, and one to repeal an arcane tax provision that helps pay for President Barack Obama’s new health care law. Supporters said the amendments would have killed the bill’s chances in the House.
The Senate legislation would:
—Allow the FDA to order a recall of tainted foods. Currently the agency can only negotiate with businesses to order voluntary recalls;
—Require larger food processors and manufacturers to register with the Food and Drug Administration and create detailed food safety plans;
—Require the FDA to create new produce safety regulations for producers of the highest-risk fruits and vegetables;
—Establish stricter standards for the safety of imported food;
—Increase inspections of domestic and foreign food facilities, directing the most resources to those operations with the highest risk profiles.
The bill would not apply to meat, poultry or processed eggs, which are regulated by the Agriculture Department. Those foods have long been subject to much more rigorous inspections and oversight than FDA-regulated foods.
The federal Centers for Disease Control has estimated that tens of millions of Americans are sickened and thousands die from foodborne illnesses each year.
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Blaze editor’s note: It is important to note that not all are convinced this bill is a good thing, something the AP story above fails to mention. Below is a post from National Review citing Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-OK) objections:
Opponents of the bill included Sen. Tom Coburn (R., Oklahoma), who argued against the bill’s $1.4 billion price tag, which is not offset by spending cuts elsewhere in the budget. “Far from offering common-sense reforms, this bill doubles-down on the status quo — which failed to prevent the salmonella outbreak — with 250 pages of new bureaucracy and regulations,” wrote Coburn in a USA Today op-ed last week. “Expanding the Food and Drug Administration will harm small businesses and raise prices at the grocery store — all without having a meaningful impact on food safety.”
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Comments (223)
Nepalm
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:47pmummmm, E. coli and salmonella can be avoided by practicing proper handling and preparation of food.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:59pmNot if it is being PLACED in the food so the Government can take over control of the food.
Report Post »Awakenow
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:46pmI must say I am proud to be from IDAHO!
Report Post »EP46
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:09pmHave you not heard ….they are trying their best to ban french fries and people with food stamps cannot buy potatoes.
Report Post »showourstrength
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:45pmThis will mean bread lines like many of us remember from the USSR. Bye Bye specialty and ethnic food stores. Bio-engineered fruit and veggie only, monsanto is pleased they love GMO’s. Prepare to grow/hunt for your own food… and be prepared to be prosecuted for it.
Report Post »benrush
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:45pmThank you thank you o great and mighty powerful overlords, for remembering to cast your legislative glance upon us forgotten sufferers of food mediocrity. I am sure we will have excellent food from this day forth. I will remember you at the ballot box, pulling the lever for more soybean headed senators.
Report Post »Bronco II
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:44pmTime for food insurance for sure.
Report Post »tanth23
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:21pmI agree with food insurance. Bought from foodinsurance.com and eFoods Global
http://www.myfoodprep.myefoods.com
Both have good products.
Report Post »danenut6
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:43pmDoes any one have links to the best places to buy seeds?
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:40pmhttp://www.heirloomseeds.com/
Report Post »FedUP
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:58pmThe Off the Grid website offers a lot of information about planting, growing, and storing food for emergency situations. I am getting my heirloom seeds from the Emergency Seed Bank. Website following.
http://www.emergencyseedbank.com/?gclid=CPPameKZyaUCFQsGbAodxFmBYw
I have been researching various seed banks for a while and this one appears to be one of the best.
Report Post »FedUP
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 2:13pmGhost of Jefferson offers a good one as well. Heirloom seeds allows you to buy only the seeds that you know you will eat (my family does not like beets for instance). However, I am not sure if Heirloom packages its seeds in a way that you can store them for a long period of time and still remain viable. One of the things I like about Emergency Seed bank is that they come in a virtually indestructible container that you can bury on your property and use when really need to. Safe from the government in cases of martial law- etc.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 2:30pm@FEDUP
Good point about the packaging. If one is so inclined, buy mylar bags and 5.5 gallon buckets. Store the seeds in the mylar with some dessicants thrown in, iron it up, throw it in the bucket, seal the bucket, and now you‘re ready for storage in any ol’ place you want. :)
Report Post »HippoNips
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:43pmWell, I don’t think exempting small farms from meeting standards actually protects us from bad food.
Report Post »If you aren’t meeting the standards set to be safe then your farm should go under.
I do like the killing of imported foods business . The new regs will shoot the cost thru the roof, or stop importing certain items all together
I know of a person who imports tropical drinks in those individual containers. His foreign farm and processing plant doesn’t get tested at all.
untameable-kate
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:27pmSmall farms are not the problem, food storage and preparation are. If food is handled properly as it is on small farms and cooked correctly there is very little occurance of illness. Big brother is just trying to find more stuff to use to control the unwashed masses.
Report Post »magicboop
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:39pmStock up and hide food now. Americans will be starving in the near future.
Report Post »a_bailey11BangBang
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:38pmi can’t belive this passed by such a large margin… this is disgusting
Report Post »Awakenow
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:37pmIs your Senator anong the missguided if so What are you going to do about it? The resulting vote results follow.
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white swan
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:59pmThanks for putting the votes up.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:01pmThank you for this information. I had looked for it, but had not found it where I looked. I will bookmark the site. Thanks.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:14pmIt was a unanimous vote. The listing of those that voted for it is kind of superfluous. THEY ALL DID.
Report Post »mark t
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:35pmTHEY still dont get it the f#@%ers remember this tea partier’s::::::::
Report Post »Shamokin_CoalCracker
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 3:36pmYes, my Senators are definitely misguided and will kiss Obamas ass until they get booted out. Specter will soon be history and talking to “Bobby” Casey is like ******’ up a rope!
Report Post »jlee80644
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 4:13pmPeople in Colorado, this is horrible for you! Other food producing states as well. How many people did you grow up with who are no longer farmers? How many wells are we going to watch be shut down right under people’s land? If our state representatives will not lead the charge to recall these dangerous senators than we must. We cannot wait until 2012, 2014, or 2016. The states must stand up for themselves. How many more industries can we allow to be run from Washington, D.C.?
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:26pmBoy it didn’t take that SCUMBAG Joe Manchin long to fit in did it ?
Report Post »they are too dumb in WV to get what old Joe and Jay have just done to
them more than many other states, there are endless small farms
and gardens across WV. SCUM SCUM SCUM….
NO_POTTERSVILLE
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:36pmLets all praise the republicans that voted for this. NOT!
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:32pmWhen a government tries to interrupt the natural cycle of life its time to check with your answering service.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:31pmHere come the insane food prices Beck and economists have been warning about.
Report Post »GENEBLISTER
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:31pmAll food and agriculture is now under the control of the Department of Defense and Homeland Security.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1jnD52oaKw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epXNJNjYBvw
It always starts with the food….”for your safety.”
“If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls of those who live under tyranny.” –Thomas Jefferson.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 8:20pmsoylent green
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE
STQ
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:30pmINDIANA!!……LET’S….. LOOSE…..LUGAR!!!!! Help me spread the word! The Start Treaty…..,lets find a true conservative!!!!!Can anybody HEAR me????
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 9:21pmwe hear you
Report Post »kennyg933
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:30pmWhat ELSE does the bill say? I’ll bet there is language that puts the smallest of food producers, i.e. the home gardener under the auspices of the FDA, should they want to go that low, which they will when the treason plays out, the dollar is worthless, and the NWO rolls out the new world currency. I‘ll bet this lays the groundwork for squashing the eventual ’black market’ of home grown food. I’ll look it up myself, but maybe there is a patriot out there who already knows the answer to this question.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:37pmTake a look at it…
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2010/11/who-benefits-food-safety-bill-will.html
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:38pmsupposedly the small farmers and home growers are exempted, but that is only as good as the bill that is next to vote on.
Report Post »smokie
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:49pmSome people think that they can have a garden, and no one will find out, but think of that one snotty neighbor who will blackmail you for your best tomatoes or they will tell; or the liberal neighbor that hates you because you don’t think like they do. I have one, and she causes a lot of trouble for me.
Report Post »There’s always one in the mix. I’m not being paranoid, I‘m just trying to figure a way to grow vegetables so a person can’t see them over the fence.
GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:37pm@SMOKIE
Grow them openly. We cannot allow ourselves to take our liberties underground, else we’ll have no liberties left. If you have any snotty neighbors, let them know in polite conversation that you’re a gun owner and frequent and accurate marksman.
No, no going underground. I’ll grow my garden, law or no law, and they can kiss my big pasty be-hind.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 4:21pmOK, this crap has got to stop. I will only buy veggies from farmers markets from now on and can them myself. What is happening to our country? Who do these polititions think they are? Snow I read the report you gave a link to and now I’m super ticked off. Ghost I have a gun (or two) and an NRA sticker on both jeeps. I double dog dare anyone to try to take my garden away and tell me I don’t have a right to feed my child anything I feel is best for him.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 8:06pmyup, it will be under the “eye” and control of the gov’t, including seed sales (probably have to register to purchase them.)
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 8:48pmThey have just convinced me that it might be profitable now to open a few of my acres to growing produce for the local farmers market. Tell me I can’t, I will open up a few MORE acres, as well. Fress green beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc. for sale here next summer. come get some!!
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:28pmWhat I can‘t figure out is why they don’t try the existing laws first, which already do a good portion of this anyway. This is what happens when you don’t learn how to read under the no child left behind, maybe we need to start a no Senator Left Behind program that teaches them how to read a bill before they vote on it!
Report Post »momsense
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:33pmIt’s not about food safety, it’s about the ability of the government to control your access to food supplies.
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:38pmIt was meant as satire, which is why I made the No Senator Left Behind joke
Report Post »jlee80644
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 4:24pmNo Senator Left Behind. That’s awesome! Won’t work, doesn’t have a catchy acronym. May I suggest The Senator Education and Reading Comprehension Handout.
Report Post »B. Dawgn-Auff
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:27pmPassed an Eggbert if you ask me!!!
Report Post »EP46
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:04pmVERY Dangerous……take control of all food. The take over last week of the land in Alaska was not for the Polar bears…it was government take over of the land that has our oil and gas. They almost have total control of our natural energy resources now. This is a take over of not only our food supply, but our ability to produce our own food.
Report Post »dkhartman
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:27pmThe federal Centers for Disease Control has estimated that tens of millions of Americans are sickened and thousands die from foodborne illnesses each year.
OH I feel better now. Thank you FDA. You’ve saved us!
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:49pmI believe that most food borne illnesses are caused by unsafe preparation of foods and improper storage not the food itself. This is all a bunch of crap. I wonder how many people get sick outside of cities in rural areas where people actually get to eat real fresh, organic foods.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:21pmFresh and organic has little to do with anything other than taste. It’s bad storage and or preparation that gives people food poisoning and E-coli and other foodborne illnesses.
Report Post »FedUP
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:35pmActually, you should thank the Department of Homeland Security. Hard to believe that they will be the ones in charge of this new legislation.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:40pm@Fedup
No. Picture this, one administration body being in charge of, for ‘national security’, the food, power, water, banking (most likely the next part), transportation, and information (internet and phones), along with TV, Cable and Radio…what do you have…a Socialist state run by a new KGB incorporated group that everyone will fear for they hold the power absolutely.
Report Post »Leslie Emerson
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:59pmYou have no idea how right you are Kate!!!!! I grew up in rural America and have raised my children in rural America……Never needed to go to the doctor…….never was sick……..Never needed to take my children to the doctor……..They were never sick……Fresh Food Good For The Body………Americans need to get back to BASICS…..Grow your own……even if you have to go to jail for it.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:25pmGuess we had better all head to the grocery store again, while we can still afford the food!!!
Report Post »EP46
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:07pmYes, go now. Not only are prices going up…but if unions decide to strike there will be no food delivered to stores. And with this Bill you will not grow your own….wait till all the “unknown” regulations come out in the daylight.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:34pm@EP64
No, sir, regulation or not, you have a duty to grow your own food, especially if you have a family to feed.
Adherence to unconstitutional “regulations” will destroy real rule of law.
Report Post »mgibs363
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:24pmThis is scary stuff.
Report Post »JamesR
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:24pmHey, more regulations to deal with America. Why, I guess our food supply isn‘t as safe as say China’s food supply. Nope, just more regulations and bullcrap presented to us by an out of control fed. government. This is what makes us sick, not the food.
Report Post »lgccac
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:21pmThis is all about more control over your life.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:50pmDrugged from cradle to grave, how special is this. What a country. I assume this is part of Codex Alimentarius. Scary stuff.
Report Post »Highland
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:00pmWe’re turning into North Korea. Hope you enjoy snacking on leaves and tree bark.
Report Post »My Two Cents
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 2:03pm….and the creation of thousands of government jobs.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 3:02pmOOOOH! You are right! More control of our lives from cradle to grave. MY2CENTS said thousands more government jobs. OOOOOH! Again right! these along with 16,000 IRS agents to enforce the government healthcare debacle. Well, we can include the IRS, the FDA along with the Post Office, Amtrack, the Dept. of Energy, Education Dept. Fanny and Freddy and most anything the government touches to become bankrupt or just another black hole down which our tax dollars disappear.
One of the net effects of this bill will be that the companies which produce and handle the food will have to charge higher prices for their produce. YOU will be the one paying the price at the supermarket. YOU pay while the bigwig Senators who voted for this eat subsidized meals at the Capital dining facility. These clowns don’t care one whit about the common people, only their re-election and padding their own nests. I wonder how many campaign contributions were provided by Con – Agra, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) and other food giants in order to gain passage of this bill. They, the food giants, will gain while the small companies will slowly go out of business one by one.
Obviously the message that Americans sent to Washington this last election didn’t sink in! So the answer follows!
IN 2012:
REPLACE
INCUMBENT
POLITICIANS
Get going now! Start taking our country back!
tower7femacamp
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 7:26pmHKS is right
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 8:27pmyes and don’t think the newly elected NEOCONS will fix it.
Report Post »Ellie
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:20pmDang it!
By the time I watched Beck on DVR the vote had already happened.
Not like there is much use in trying to convince either of the two corrupt career CA Senators to not pass more onerous regulations. Too bad the redistricting reform won’t affect them either.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:52pmI blasted both of our senators before the vote, but I‘m sure they both voted for it since they are both democrats and I’m sure they did as they were told.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:43pmYup, I am from NJ and it was a waste of my time to call Menendez and Lautenburg… but I did it anyway….again! I feel like I am in a “real cheesey” 1980′s movie about how the USA was defeated. Is there any way I can change the channel or walk out of the theater? Please God, make it go away… I just want to enjoy my family and life again! Good thing I work with a guy from the Ukraine… he saw this coming some time ago and told me how to prepare. However, even though I am doing all the right things it does not seem like enough… especially is the big, bad government simply walks in and takes away all I have saved and worked hard to put aside!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 2:05pmDidn’t matter … I tried to call my Senators .. they closed their offices .. at least turned off the phones … could only leave a message … I had sent emails earlier in the week … the canned response I got was that he was going to do what he wanted and that was that. We need to throw more of the bums out .. is it 2012 yet!
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 2:18pmCATB WROTE:We need to throw more of the bums out .. is it 2012 yet!
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I pray that we make to that point and date. I fear for the Republic and am losing hope in this system of corrupt politicians, corrupt judges and officials. I pray daily that all the destruction that has been done is reversible and soon. I do not know how much more this nation can support before it completely crumbles.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 8:00pmIt can all be lost by 2012. You know, like, you will belong to the government by then!!!
Report Post »John W. Creasy
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 1:17amI am a real American, Fight for the rights of every man,
I am a real American, fight for what’s right, fight for your life!
When it comes crashing down, and it hurts inside,
ya’ gotta take a stand, it don’t help to hide,
If you hurt my friends, then you hurt my pride,
I gotta be a man; I can’t let it slide,
I am a real American, Fight for the rights of every man,
I am a real American, fight for what’s right, fight for your life!
I feel strong about right and wrong,
And I don’t take trouble for very long,
I got something deep inside of me, and courage is the thing that keeps us free,
I am a real American, Fight for the rights of every man,
I am a real American, fight for what’s right, fight for your life!
If you hurt my friends, then you hurt my pride,
I gotta be a man; I can’t let it slide,
I am a real American, Fight for the rights of every man,
I am a real American, fight for what’s right, fight for your life!
I am a real American, Fight for the rights of every man,
I am a real American, fight for what’s right, fight for your life!
These simple lyrics may only be viewed as a corny theme song for a pro-wrestling personality, but they speak volumes to what we as a nation face today. We need to instill this type of national pride in our youth once again. True, we Americans share in this world; but we are NOT by any means “Global Citizens”. America IS “qualitatively different from other world nations”; but America is slowly losing her exceptionalism. We need all the little (now old) “Hulkamaniacs” to rise up and give a “Hogan leg-drop” to all this globalization nonsense. I guess it’s sort of ironic that Hulk Hogan eventually ended up representing the NWO. (I know this; and I am not a wrestling nut by any stretch of the imagination.)
In all seriousness, we need to go mainstream with these ideas. I understand that rallies can be expensive; but they don’t necessarily have to be. Restoring Honor on 8/28 was great; but patriots (like Glenn) need to organize similar events (in spirit, not grandeur) at least once a month. We can’t allow “them” to ignore us; we simply do not have the time.
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” – Patrick Henry, 1775
Report Post »Nightstalker
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:17pmStock up on food kids!
Report Post »Robinva
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:25pmStock up on non-hybrid seeds!!! That will be the only way to not be 100% controlled by the gov
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:29pmNo kidding, the end game for the Progressive shadow structure is now at hand. And the S 510 bill has a interesting catch in it; the power granted in the bill over food production is also empowered to the HSA fiasco and her tyranny Napolitano.
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2010/11/who-benefits-food-safety-bill-will.html
There is a lot more scary stuff in this nightmare that just passed. Please read it yourself.
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:30pmYou said a mouthful there Nightstalker
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:31pmThe wannabe tyrants are making food a controlled substance. This bill gives the bureaucrats unprecedented control over the individual and inhibits the creation of wealth (Food).
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untameable-kate
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:31pmCan’t stock up on perishables and this will affect alot of those. I wonder what this little piece of work will do to food prices.
Report Post »I cut my finger on a staple yesterday, why oh why won’t the government pass a law to protect us from staplers? Oh and my feet were cold this morning, we definitely need a law to protect us from cold feet in November.
No point in expecting any common sense when it comes to food preparation when the government can make a law to protect us from EVERYTHING.
drbage
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:32pmGet your fill of fast food and non-Moochelle approved foods, because their next target will be those outlets.
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:32pmHow did we ever survive the victory gardens in World War II? http://commonsense21c.com/
Report Post »LVMerrily
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:34pmAlso stock up on heritage seeds and a greenhouse so you can harvest seeds. Monsanto’s hybrid seeds can destroy heritage seeds if they are anywhere near them. They have already “regulated” that run-off water belongs to the government and we shouldn’t hamper it running into the water tables.
Control the money – you control nations / control the food – you control the people
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:35pmHave a year of canned veggies, getting the meat today, and just bought the seeds today. I was on the fence about the seeds until this passed.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:35pmCheck out the real horrors in the bill
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2010/11/who-benefits-food-safety-bill-will.html
The true villany is the Homeland Security and not the Food and Drug Admin will bear the final say on what goes and is not going. Total power being built into a single administration of the government.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:35pmCan every politician that voted for this. I would recommend something more brisk but would probably get arrested for something or another.
Report Post »what4
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 12:57pmHey, lets kill somemore jobs! Great job Harry!
Report Post »Timmtamm
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:14pmHow about instead of the Nanny State of “we will protect you from dangerous food” we instead have people INFORM THEMSELVES about proper food preparation. There is very little danger from food that is prepared properly. Heck run a government funded ad campaign about it. I would much rather fund that than fund the price hikes on food that this will bring.
Report Post »Timmtamm
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:52pmAdmittedly, there are foods that are hard to prepare in a way that ensures safety (peanut butter, for example), however, there is no need for a blanket law for all foods other than “meat and eggs.” Under current law, unprepared foods (such as peanut butter), are required to be subjected to microbial testing before it can be released for public sale. Only minor adjustments to this law can ensure public safety.
The peanut butter outbreak a few years ago was due to the manufacturer of the peanut butter using a microbiology lab that was using unproven methods to test for bacteria contamination. A simple adjustment to current law could make it so that those manufacturers would need to use labs that meet an accreditation requirement. In other words, the methods a lab uses would need to prove accuracy. Simple fix. No widespread new regulations.
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 1:53pmThis is going to put many small producers out of business, and the larger ones will be exempt from many of the same rules and regulations. Ever wonder why nutritional supplements, pharmaceuticals, and even medical equipment prices have gone through the roof over the last couple decades? Because of stringent and mostly useless FDA regulations. Your food prices are going to skyrocket in the same way very soon. Glen has talked about inflation, but that will pale in comparison to what the FDA is about to do to your grocery bill.
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Posted on November 30, 2010 at 2:22pmSenate Vote 73-25 ? They don’t even know what they are Voting on. The poor people they know will pay too.
Maybe these people don‘t care about ’The People’.
The Tea party people need to get in gear
Get some good people run in two years.
Alaska, Delaware and Nevada it part your fault.
Report Post »I think Democrats in Alaska Voted Lisa ‘Cry-Baby’ in.
docvet
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 2:52pmFor all intents and purposes, the govt just took control of all food in the country. By adjusting the supply of various foods “due to concerns for the safety of ……….. the following foods will be in short supply until the safety of ………. can be assured”, prices and consumption levels can be regulated. Look for shortages of red meat, sweet foods, salty foods, fatty processed foods and anything Mrs. Obama thinks is bad for us. Look for de facto “Prohibition” since the president has gone around Congress for just about everything else. I doubt there will be any shortage of fruits and vegetables unless the current administration is mad at the people for something and perhaps a bit of hungar will bring them (us) back in line. The tea party people are going to lose a lot of weight.
They control medicine, housing, education and now the food supply. Welcome to 1984 twenty-six years late.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 3:05pmI’ve been screaming at my RINO Senator Burr all day. This creep was oh so conservative until after the election. He will never get another vote of mine. My Congressman told me that he is voting against it, we’ll see.
Report Post »felina g
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 3:41pmRead an article where people will be plundering for food within 3 days of a crisis and KILLING for food within a week. DO NOT depend on anyone else to provide………especially the government.
You can always begin with beans and rice and work out from there. Make sure it is stored properly.
Report Post »NOW ! Git thee to the market !!!!!! RUN !!!!!!
independentvoteril
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 3:54pmOh I have.. I don’t trust the FDA .. they are WORSE than our government.. remember a few years back when our southern farmers lost all their tomatoes because the FDA said it was a tainted tomato making everyone sick?? turned out it was a Jalapeno from MEXICO?? Ya their to be trusted..
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 4:07pmRobinva.. ya know about 3 years ago I got laid off.. and we had bought a small house with a large yard a few years before that but working left little time for a very big garden.. well I started buying non-hybrid seeds growing and saving the seeds from my own plants.. I got really good at it and with my mothers help (she was raised on a farm) and the internet I learned not just to grow my own food, but to can or freeze it. I had at the time NO idea why I suddenly became so interested in growing everything myself.. but it’s been paying off so far in better tasting food and it seems it will pay off even more in the future.. Wish I would have asked her about raising goats they are good for milk and butter from what she said..
Report Post »jzs
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 4:12pmAccording the the CDC, “Each year, about 76 million people contract a food-borne illness in the United States; about 325,000 require hospitalization; and about 5,000 die.”
Maybe you don’t care if your Grandmother or child or you or your neighbor dies of mad cow disease or E. coli but most do.
Of course, this could be a government plot to control our lives, like the FDA. In that case, never mind.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 4:21pmI support anyone’s right to grow any food they want for themselves. If I catch someone growing food in a way that violates regulation, I will absolutely not say a damn thing to the authorities.
You’re supposed to use the courts to punish the guilty, and we are innocent until proven otherwise. Regulations violate our right to a fair trial, punishing us as if guilty before being taken to court.
The same violation happened to BP.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 7:06pmthe FDA to regulate even more ???? Like they regulated
BPA is linked to many health risks including reproductive abnormalities, neurological effects, heightened risk of breast and prostate cancers, diabetes, heart disease and other serious health problems.
Aspartame
The FDA has generated a list of 92 symptoms associated with aspartame consumption that include nausea, dizziness, irritability, insanity, blindness, deafness, weight gain and death.
http://www.rense.com/general67/rum.htm yet it’s still not banned ?
FLUORIDE
Doctors and public health officials did not think sodium fluoride, used commercially as a rat and bug poison, fungicide, and wood preservative, should be put in public water. The Journal of the American Dental Association said (in 1936), “Fluoride at the 1 ppm [part per million] concentration is as toxic as arsenic and lead… There is an increasing volume of evidence of the injurious effects of fluorine, especially the chronic intoxication resulting from the ingestion of minute amounts of fluorine over long periods of time.”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/miller/miller17.html
then of course vaccines 1st the FDA denied there was mercury in vaccines then.they said it’s ok.
Upon conclusion of their review, the FDA, in conjunction with the other members of the US Public Health Service (USPHS), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), CDC and Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), in a joint statement with the AAP in July 1999 concluded that there was “no evidence of harm caused by doses of thimerosal found in vaccines, except for local hypersensitivity reactions.”[16]
Let’s ask Bill Gates about Vaccines
http://www.prisonplanet.com/bill-gates-and-neo-eugenics-vaccines-to-reduce-population.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VG4WibFBPs
GMO crops and animals
agenda 21
http://gulagbound.com/9202/to-know-sb-510-food-safety-modernization-we-must-know-u-n-agenda-21-rio-earth-summit-sustainable-development
CODEX
http://farmwars.info/?p=3817
Glen is right if you don‘t wake up to this then maybe it’s time to move
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tower7femacamp
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 7:25pmThe American public is fully aware that the system referred to as CODEX Alimentarius, is one designed to remove the right of the people to grow, harvest and consume the foods of their choice, for no other reason than to benefit the financiers of the global organization known as CODEX, and to implement a global takeover of the food production and supply for the benefit of those same financiers; multi-national corporations.
It is unfortunate that so many of us have come to distrust our own government, our own elected representatives and senators. What is far more unfortunate is that this distrust has been so well earned by these same elected officials.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 7:38pmFor the last ten years, I have raised MY OWN vegetables, fruit, and meat products – for me and mine. I’m not in the business to sell the stuff. I just enjoy keeping household costs down and know my products are without additives. I know that it will NOT go well if some government scab comes to my door and tells me I can’t produce my own food. Not that I will stop doing so, but it will get into the headlines regarding my own ‘defenses.’
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 7:40pmI also have my own water well. The day IS coming when the government, who thinks they own the water, will tell us all how much we can consume and try to put a regulator on my well pump.
Report Post »ArmedAndNotDangerous
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 8:46pmThe bill now goes back to the Senate with some changes – one important one is that
local farms that sell under $1/2 million per year are exempt.
Read the article: http://www.anh-usa.org/senate-food-safety-update/
Report Post »celtskrt
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 12:24amjeffrey smith, author of Seeds of Deception is must read for anyone that is concerned about the future of our foods.
Report Post »celtskrt
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 1:31amS.501 is about Monsanto taking over our seed supply. They already own over 75% of the seed supply and they are GMO giants. There are 2 seed choices from Monsanto: biotech or GMO, what the f is the difference? Have you heard of the Canadian seed saving farmer Percy Schmeiser?
Report Post »celtskrt
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Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 2:49amAnd how many pages was this bill?
So lets see…. they have: health care, insurance industry, car manufacturing, energy, finance industry, control/monitoring of personal finance, education, nutrition (watch out for that child nutrition bill coming up), “adult formation of children” in health care act, transportation, pharmeceuticals, and now they have taken over agricuture. Oh, I forgot, they’ve given the military over to the UN (Nato). And they’ve destoryed the dollar. They own most of the mortgages in the country. And they will be restricting travel by using body scanners everywhere. opps…almost forgot they also control the media. Did I forget anything? Yes, the International Building Codes Council will control everything about zoning…building and owning homes so no one will be able to own a home and if they do, they won’t be able to renovate it. I’m sure there is something else…oh, yea… the internet, radio and television.
Report Post »TSman2469
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 1:01pmNo question, I am in now.
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 12:10amI heard online that this bill would bar us from growing our own vegetables. Anybody hear about that?
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:33amThe first moves by a socialist take over are always heath care and food. Remember the San Joaquin Valley, CA (breadbasket of the nation) has had our water supply cut off. We supplied 25% of the nations produce. Now nothing. We supplied huge amounts of cotton. Now very little and cotton is up over 400%. When injustice becomes law, Rebellion becomes duty. Molan Labe.
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