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Senate Passes Food Safety Bill…Again

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed a sweeping bill to make food safer, sending it to the House in the waning days of Congress.

This is the second time the Senate has passed the bill, which would give the government broad new powers to increase inspections of food processing facilities and force companies to recall tainted food. The chamber passed the bill for the first time three weeks ago, but it was caught in a constitutional snag when senators mistakenly included tax provisions that are by law supposed to originate in the House.

The version of the legislation passed by the Senate on Sunday is amended to avoid another such mishap.

The $1.4 billion bill would place stricter standards on imported foods and require larger producers to follow tougher rules for keeping food safe.

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  • Pete-o
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:34am

    To you folks making jokes….there ain’t nothing funny about this legislation. This bill has nothing to do with food safety. How many times are we going to are we going to look at the friendly, good intention title on a bill and go oh! Food Safety, well who’s not for that.

    This bill has absolutely nothing to do with food safety and has everything to do with putting small farmers and producers out of business in order to make way for Monsanto and others to control the food supply in the US

    Take a minute before read up on this thing.
    http://www.activistpost.com/2010/12/unconstitutional-food-bill-driven-by.html
    http://www.activistpost.com/2010/12/s-510-codex-and-one-world-government.html

    If UN, the Giant Mult-nationals, and government agencies are watching our so called “Food Safety” what could possible go wrong?

    Pete-o
    Individual Liberty, Self Reliance
    http://thelibertyscale.blogspot.com/

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 6:18am

      if you don’t get the money from the rich to pay back the Federal Reserve
      then you take it from the poor and middle class.
      But the Fed will get their money make no mistake about it.

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  • Reasonabiliy
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:29am

    Patriotdaze…It was a figure of speech my friend.

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  • Elkmoon
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:24am

    Why does it cost 1.4 billion! I’m a health inspector in CA. I inspect food processing plants. Our program is funded by the health permits fees that processing plants pay for. NOT tax money. If the gov. wants more inspections our permit fee increases. So again Why 1.4 Billion??

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    • Chett
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:33am

      to pay for the 4 layers of bureaucrats telling you what to do ..oh and to reduce the number of actual inspectors.

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    • PatriotDaze
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:41am

      Elkmoon, the majority of the CDFA budget comes from the CA General Fund (Taxes) and the Federal Government (Taxes)…..NOT Fees. The CA CDFA budget, alone, is over 1/3 of a billion $$.

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  • Geopatriot
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:21am

    We are stupid! We don’t know any better! Just ask the legislators that are passing this garbage. It doesn’t matter how badly the Dems lost in November. OB-1 has his agenda and the Progressive Socialists are going to do whatever it takes to push what he and George Soros wants. It’s hard to believe we have someone the likes of OB-1 in the “Peoples House” and there are no real attempts to get him out. Reporters like Krauthammer are already talking about a “second term” for this excuse of a leader. Let’s hope the Republicans will do what they promised to do. Let’s hope they can turn this country around! Let’s support their initiatives as much as we can!

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  • lshort250
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:17am

    This is not the Food Safety Bill, it is the Food Control Bill. The Republicans have betrayed us, and the way this passed the Senate was both sneaky and underhanded. The only hope to stop it now is to call, email or fax your Representatives. The House will vote on it Tuesday. This is nothing short of a takeover of our food supply by the Federal Government, and I fear it will have terrible consequences for our farmers. It will also raise the price of our food. I am very afraid and sad for our country today.

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    • PatriotDaze
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:36am

      Well….if you work for the California Department of Food and Agriculture, FEES make up only 47% of your budget. 25% of your budget comes from the Federal government….as in ME. The rest comes from the California General Fund…..as in TAX MONEY. By the way….CAs budget ALONE is over 1/3 of a BILLION.

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    • PatriotDaze
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:45am

      Sorry…..this reply was intended for Elkmoon’s comment seen below.

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  • Crainial Access
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:16am

    Every single aspect of our way of life is under attack. We are watching the planned systematic destruction of our country by the ruling elite. They see it. They have chosen the side they will be on and are busy gathering wealth and massing fortunes for themselves and their friends before it all comes crashing down. I hear no loud voices of protest coming from anyone in government. We the people grow more angry and divided every day. They are waiting for us to react angrily so that they can implement their final stage of their plan.

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    • rfycom
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:37am

      We are waiting for the poor and the middle class to see the light. Right now they are brainwashed by the millionaire radio preachers. If you believe that the rich and the powerful have your best interest at heart, you are a fool. You are not preserving the American dream, you are destroying it.

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  • lobster
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:15am

    We have the cleanest food in the history of ANY society, and these fools think they can improve it. What a HORSE Laugh. Or is it the other end?

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  • PatriotDaze
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:13am

    Jeesh…..many of you people are so conditioned to respond in a knee jerk fashion when ANY federal regulation is proposed/passed that you’ve lost the ability to determine what is a good bill !! Unless you have a 10 year supply of MREs in the shed, or you’ve sunk the equity in your house into food insurance, this is one of the good jobs a national government is supposed to do.

    To think this is about YOU…or YOUR tomatoes is the height of both arrogance and delusion.
    Merry Christmas,
    Your friend,
    Sinclair Lewis.

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    • kramh
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 9:02am

      Did you know that in bulk grains one difference between feed for livestock and food meant for human use are fewer mouse turds per ton. The point is this food has already been inspected by government inspectors and you can”t get rid of all the mouse turds in the world.

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  • Shempy
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:08am

    The Federal Government keeps assuming power it does not have, and the States keep letting them take it. Is there no end to this audacity?
    Senators should be elected by State Houses, not directly. The States have lost their voice in D.C.
    There is no one left to stand up for actual Federalism and States’ rights. Big Agribiz and Big Government in cohoots. Just like Big Govt and Big — u name it: Labor, Auto, Banks, Stock Traders, and now “Big Food”.
    Both of the Senators from my supposedly ‘red’ state of GA are for this. Shame on them! Sens. Chambliss and Isaakson are good ‘ol boys in the pocket of Big Agra, I guess. I thought Georgia was Conservative? Doesn’t look like smaller govt to me, Senators.

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    • PatriotDaze
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:15am

      This bill places controls on BigAgra. Think about it Shempy. Yikes !!

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    • booger71
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 10:37am

      No, if you read the bill, it places big controls on little agra,so it will hard to compete against big agra like Monsanto.

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  • Chett
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:59am

    passed by unanimous consent – means ALL current senators voted for it. Next election kick them all out.

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    • PatriotDaze
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:21am

      Hmmmmm….unanimous consent. Unanimous. Wonder what that means? I bet it means that EVERY SINGLE PERSON thought this was a good idea. So it MUST be bad…right? I think some of the contaminated food might already be in your fridge.

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  • question boldly
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:59am

    I can‘t but believe that this could all be part of the big gov’s scheme to control every aspect of our lives, vis a vie Michele O’s “big fat kids” mission to dictate what restaurants can sell.
    When it comes to food regulation the government has a terrible record: they imposed a “low fat” philosophy and granted subsidies to the high fructose corn sweetener industry resulting in an influx of diabetes, heart disease and obesity the like of which the world has, heretofore, never witnessed; they disparaged much healthier natural fats and both pushed and subsidized the hydrogenated vegetable oil (and margarine) industry. Result? Hundreds of thousands unnecessarily die.
    As John Stossel would say, “Give me a break!!!”

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    • PatriotDaze
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:03am

      Inspections Boldly. This bill is about food INSPECTIONS and RECALLABILITY. It isn’t about Michelle. It isn’t about one sugar vs another. How ’bout the Senate instead decides to send all tainted food to your state….so that your ‘local’ inspectors can sort through a half billion contaminated eggs.

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    • lshort250
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:35am

      As I understand it, this bill does NOT cover eggs and meat, the two most commonly contaminated products. If people cook their eggs and meat properly, problem solved! We don’t need this bill. It is just a mandate for the Government to be able to harass our farmers. The wording in the bill allows the FDA to shut down a facility if they even suspect there is a problem. I don’t believe the Tester amendment will protect our small farms and organic farms. Call your Representative today and tell them to stop this monstrosity.

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  • PatriotDaze
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:57am

    let’s see….a half a billion eggs affected with salmonella, romaine lettuce delivered to 23 states, a half million pounds of e. coli flavored hamburger, to name just a small fraction of the incidences of food contamination within the last 12 months.

    And you folks think this is a about a government take over of your vegetable garden? HAR!

    Our food supply is a national security issue…in addition the the single largest component of our non-durable goods economy. But hey, don’t let common sense or reason stand between you and a good conspiracy theory!

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    • kramh
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:37am

      You can not make the world safe with more government, they already inspect most of the food. As we import more food from China etc, do you really think you can hire enough inspectors and pay for them. Food will become more costly and not any safer.

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    • firstHat
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 10:09am

      With all that, we still have the safest food in the world. Those incidences ended in how many deaths? How much destruction? Or did we find out that the rules and structure already in place worked?

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    • AngryMobOfOne
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 4:20pm

      This bill creates a MINIMUM of 20 THOUSAND overpaid, unneeded federal bureaucrats to create a brand new, indecipherable mountain of red tape. There is no upper limit in the Bill, of course. All card carrying union members.

      This bill allows unelected bureaucrats to pick winners and losers in a huge area of business. It’s called a protection racket. Unionize, or else. Support these campaigns, or else. etc, etc…

      Monsanto and its #2 shareholder Soros will make an obscene amount of money, a percentage of which will flow back to The Party, of course. Yaaaay, croney capitalism, what a rush, duuude!

      Of course you love this bill.

      Remember how much you loved it when you’re standing in the bread line, dolt.

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    • TeaPartyChef
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 4:29pm

      So…the food issues you used as examples all involve some big food company. Ironic when you consider they are the food producers that are currently inspected most. Now with this grab of power that is supported by the likes of Kraft etc the inspections are going to increase. Ask yourself why any company would willingly lobby to endure more Federal Inspectors. The answer lies in the largest threat to those large comapnies in my opinion is the much smaller regional farms that are infact going back to the “old 40 acres and a mule” model and end users are supporting that. Now with an exememtion of a miniscule $500,000 of sales and three years of records and all the other crap the samll farm will have to deal with, which producer do you think will survive this bill?

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 4:57pm

      KRMH you are so right. farm raise seafood coming from China. 25 is tested. Of the 2 5 98% is contaminated wityh lead, mercury and other heavy metals industrial pollutants. It is not the domestic food supply we need to worry about it is the growing number of imports. Why are we importing Chinese fish and exporting our own to China???? Some one pointed out all the contaminated food that has been found recently. First it was found and second it was immediately recalled. In almost every case the producer had been cited for violations that were never corrected.

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  • Reasonabiliy
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:48am

    Why don’t they do something useful like letting the Tea Party inspect the tainted PORK coming out of the halls of congress? We need to inspect the sausage they have been shoving up our rears for the last 50 years.

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    • PatriotDaze
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:59am

      speak for yourself reasonabiliy……but if you’ve been taking sausage up your rear for the last 50 years, i think that SOME kind of inspection is probably needed.

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    • pscully17
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:08am

      great post! I duly agree! IF congress isnt reading the bills, that means they surely arent writing them!! SO WHO”S WRITING THEM? Not the elected officials representing US!!! STOP PASSING LEGISLATION YOU DONT WRITE OR READ!!! HOLY CRAP we are screwed!

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  • ColoradoMaverick
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:43am

    All we need now, more poorly written laws jammed through so quickly, no one has time to proof read them. These morons don’t even know what the rules are in making laws. It’s like they are playing a complicated board game without reading the instructions! The only problem is, we are going to be the losers in this game. The first thing the new congress needs to do when they are seated is pass a law that repeals eveything that was passed since January 20, 2009.

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    • annieoakley
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:30pm

      LOOK at the Sec:SEC. 402. WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTIONS.
      Chapter X of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 391 et seq.), as amended by section 210, is further amended by adding at the end the following:
      `SEC. 1012. WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTIONS.
      `(a) In General- No entity engaged in the manufacture, processing, packing, transporting, distribution, reception, holding, or importation of food may discharge an employee or otherwise discriminate against an employee with respect to compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because the employee, whether at the employee‘s initiative or in the ordinary course of the employee’s duties (or any person acting pursuant to a request of the employee)–
      `(1) provided, caused to be provided, or is about to provide or cause to be provided to the employer, the Federal Government, or the attorney general of a State information relating to any violation of, or any act or omission the employee reasonably believes to be a violation of any provision of this Act or any order, rule, regulation, standard, or ban under this Act, or any order, rule, regulation, standard, or ban under this Act;
      This is the start of a FARM LABOR UNION. Sound familiar?

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  • kramh
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:41am

    We already have a safe food supply in this country. The government cannot check on every food source produced in this country without hiring thousands of inspectors to do this. We do not have the funds to hire more government workers and pay for more red tape. The repubs that support this need to be gone in the next election cycle. This whole new law is about control period!

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    • PatriotDaze
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:09am

      It is safe because We The People can force producers and manufacturers to recall tainted food products. Without legislation to that effect, there is virtually no way to clear the shelves of contaminated food.

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 4:49pm

      Patriot there is already a mecanism for this. It is called not buying their product. Did you keep on buying green onions after grocery X was found to have contaminated onions? No you quit buying them all together. That is incentiive for them to insure they are as safe as it is cost effective to make it. What you have to look out for is they will use this as an excuse to irradiate foods in the name of safety. I am not too sure that language in this bill does not already authorize this.

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  • Chett
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:35am

    Do you realize we are paying these people to abuse us? Can it get any lower than that?

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  • emertz8413
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:33am

    What a bunch of “maroons”, quoting Bugs Bunny. Seems appropriate, since this Congress is a JOKE!

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  • Chett
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:31am

    Just one more way to harass the population. TSA hands in your pants, now FDA in your fridge. Next up will be FCC on your computer.

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  • GeauxAlready
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:24am

    You mean to tell me, me and my fellow Americans have been eating food Obama did not aprove of all this time. It is amazing that we lived this long.

    Seems to me we need to have a TEA PARTY with this bill.

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  • grumpyt
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:23am

    Call your Rep in the House…this has to stop! While you might joke about it, this is a Power Grab by the Feds. Since when did we get a National Government instead of a Federal Government? The States must take back the power given them in the Founding Documents!!!

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  • Chett
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:20am

    actually folks is means you can’t grow tomatoes and give them to your neighbors ..it has draconian food controls.

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    • KristiJo
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:21am

      No way! I’ll not abide by that law!

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    • grumpyt
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:24am

      IT IS CALLED NULLIFICATION! States have a Constitutional method for not enforcing Federal laws.

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  • kryptonite
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:06am

    Now Obama has an excuse to appoint Michelle as Food Czar.

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  • itsmyfirstday
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:05am

    so how much pork does this bill have??

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:01am

      It is unnecessary spending even if there is no pork.

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    • pscully17
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:25am

      Lets recap what happened in Germany circa 1925: Financial disaster looms, Government and labor parties join forces to put Hitler into power, Hitler then controls all food, energy, and labor mechanisms. country goes into a revelotution and 100k+ people were arrested and or killed without a trial, the maniacal dictator amassed a personal army, and only because he bit off more than he could handle, were we sucked into world war 2, but not before he ravaged 8 countires and exterminated 70 percent of an entire ethnic group! didnt somebody say” History often repeats itself?” don’t look now but Obama has emboldened control over energy, healthcare, now food, banking and is installing a greater portion of this country on his dependency!! also lets all research Vision Quest 2011– a Defense Department directive regarding the Army being used on domestic street corners under the premise we would have an Economic Disaster!! look it up

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    • annieoakley
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:25pm

      SEC. 402. WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTIONS.
      Chapter X of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 391 et seq.), as amended by section 210, is further amended by adding at the end the following:
      `SEC. 1012. WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTIONS.
      `(a) In General- No entity engaged in the manufacture, processing, packing, transporting, distribution, reception, holding, or importation of food may discharge an employee or otherwise discriminate against an employee with respect to compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because the employee, whether at the employee‘s initiative or in the ordinary course of the employee’s duties (or any person acting pursuant to a request of the employee)–
      `(1) provided, caused to be provided, or is about to provide or cause to be provided to the employer, the Federal Government, or the attorney general of a State information relating to any violation of, or any act or omission the employee reasonably believes to be a violation of any provision of this Act or any order, rule, regulation, standard, or ban under this Act, or any order, rule, regulation, standard, or ban under this Act;

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    • Rowgue
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 3:25pm

      It has 1.4 billion dollars of pork, because it’s unnecessary legislation that is only being passed to make the liberal extremists happy. The bill itself is pork.

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  • Moment of Clarity
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:05am

    as if food wasn’t already expensive …

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  • rbqueen
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:02am

    What these jokers need to do is guarantee recall of the tainted progressive liberals that are ruining this country

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    • Bauervision
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:15am

      totally.
      What I don’t get is why if the bill simply wants to increase inspections, does that cost us 1.4 billion of money we don’t have? Can’t they just say, “increase inspections”.

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    • KristiJo
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:21am

      totally! Why does it cost a million to do more inspections???

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    • guyperram
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:27am

      Where is this in the constitution? We already have the safest food supply in the history of the world. In all truth this is beacuse of the free market system, not in spite of it. Put out a bad product, between lawsuits and the word getting out, you are quickly out of business.
      Remember NAZI’s team up with major industries to preserve the positions of those industries. Guess what is going on here!

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    • pscully17
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:56am

      DAilycaller reports NOW is suing Hooters.. in a like minded case against Mcdonalds Happy meals, NOW also thinks Hooters is Inappropriate for children under 18. I dont recall getting a lap dance at Hooters, or even seeing Kiddie porn on the restroom walls. This attack on ad campaigns by lucritive businesses is another NAZI element from the leftwing scumbags. Jealousy is they driving root! jealous of the rich, jealous of success, jealous of people who have something they dont! its totally disgusting how some people want to DICTATE the legal activities of the productive citizens in this country, while HYPICTRICALLY defending Illegal Immigrants, marijauna usuage, standing behind a litany of tax cheats and corrupt a-holes running this country, and all they can do is try to attack the Business that employ people, and provide CHOICES to America? N O W SCREW YOU!!

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    • tobywil2
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:11am

      This bill contains Barriers to entry for new businesses, increases the cost of smaller businesses and contains the framework for making food a controlled substance. Your f will cost you much more if it is available.

      How did we survive the victory gardens during WW-2? Giving bureaucrats control of the food supply will insure famine!

      Monsanto and Soros stand to make billions while millions go hungry, This news article describing the bill is simply more of the preponderance of propaganda. http://commonsense21c.com/

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    • Marylou7
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:28am

      My so-called conservative Senator voted for this crap. I gave him an earful but do you think he cares, hell no. What we need is a way to get rid of these turncoats quicker than waiting for the next election. They all need to goooooooooooooooo, hopefully to another country.

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    • rfycom
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:38am

      Have you ever had food poisoning?

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:56am

      AGENDA 21 must be implemented !!!
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCUe61hmqsA
      Bill Gates Eugenics
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HdFkOlNAkM
      http://dgswilson.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/un-agenda-21-wild-lands-project/

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:56am

      Monsanto is behind this bill
      http://blog.friendseat.com/monsanto-supports-food-bill/

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:59am

      call your congressman now !
      http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/09/04/monsanto-and-the-trojan-horse-of-bull-semen/
      http://thebovine.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/food-safety-bill-s-510-backgrounder/

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 9:07am

      ROUND UP = AGENT ORANGE
      http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2915
      reduce population by %80
      Bill Gates doomsday seed vault
      http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080226092753.htm

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 9:08am

      Ask yourselves WHY is this Bill so Important that it must pass NOW !!!

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    • efialtis
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 9:24am

      Turn it into a revenue generating bill, not a spending bill…
      Don’t do anything but say, “if some ‘outbreak’ happens and is traced back to whatever source, that source will pay fines, pay all related medical expenses, if any death, $5 mill to the surviving family per incident, $5 mill to the government for each person affected, and an over-all fine of $500 mill per incident.”
      Just think, over the past year, that would have generated over a billion for our ailing government…
      And would be a stronger incentive to make sure our food is “clean”…

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    • firstHat
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 9:27am

      Wanna really get pissed… it passed with 100% support from the Repubs… I am so disgusted I could spit.

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    • Lt_Taz
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 9:58am

      RBQUEEN
      I agree with your sentiment 100%, the progressives are over the edge. God save us…

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    • Wiz001
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 10:03am

      More taxes brought to you by the liberals and the Rinos who need to gooooo….. He will not be happy til we are living like his brother and g-ma in huts!!!!!!!!

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 10:31am

      Well the simplest way to stop it is don’t FUND it.. I understand the need for safe food HOWEVER.. maybe if they passed bills that were state friendly instead of having our food travel interstate we would get better QUALITY and SAFER foods.. As it is the FDA can‘t find a bunch of bad jalapeno’s from Mexico before destroying acres of TOMATOES grown in the U.S.A.. We already have good laws in place in this country it‘s OTHER countries who are the BIGGEST offenders and this bill will NOT allow our inspectors to inspect growers located in OTHER countries it’s a SMOKE SCREEN.. I am not even sure it doesn’t allow for inspections of backyard gardens.. whatever isn’t exempted in a bill is automatically included.. which would also give the FDA power as to what is grown..

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    • lobster
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:41am

      My two senators from GA voted against it. So not quite 100%.

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    • BlueStrat
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:49pm

      @ Zombie

      We in the US already *have* the safest food system on the planet.

      Here’s your sign.

      Please try to keep up in future.

      We understand it must be difficult with those Obama-colored shades you wear and your lack of critical thinking skills due to the poor education you‘ve received from the teacher’s welfare…I mean teacher’s union…controlled school system. Christie is coming to your aid, never fear.

      The Blaze should be charging the Progressives posting here for the valuable education they receive.

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    • VoteBushIn12
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:56pm

      @guyperram
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:27am

      Where is this in the constitution? We already have the safest food supply in the history of the world. In all truth this is beacuse of the free market system, not in spite of it. Put out a bad product, between lawsuits and the word getting out, you are quickly out of business.
      ========

      Well, sir, you can only have lawsuits if it is suspected you broke a law. If there are no laws regarding the standard for food products there can be no lawsuits and the consumer will have no legal recourse…

      @EVERYONELSE
      Why does it cost money to increase food inspection? Maybe because you need to hire more food inspectors. And who is going to create these new standards? Do you think they will do it for free?

      You all cry about the free market system and how great the invisible hand is, but it seems very few of you have any idea what actually goes into a consumer based economy.

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    • annieoakley
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:22pm

      and LOOK at the cost//new gov jobs: (a) In General- There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the activities of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, the Center for Veterinary Medicine, and related field activities in the Office of Regulatory Affairs of the Food and Drug Administration–
      (1) $825,000,000 for fiscal year 2010; and
      (2) such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2011 through 2014.
      (b) Increased Number of Field Staff-
      (1) IN GENERAL- To carry out the activities of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, the Center for Veterinary Medicine, and related field activities of the Office of Regulatory Affairs of the Food and Drug Administration, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall increase the field staff of such Centers and Office with a goal of not fewer than–
      (A) 3,800 staff members in fiscal year 2010;
      (B) 4,000 staff members in fiscal year 2011;
      (C) 4,200 staff members in fiscal year 2012;
      (D) 4,600 staff members in fiscal year 2013; and
      (E) 5,000 staff members in fiscal year 2014.
      (2) FIELD STAFF FOR FOOD DEFENSE- The goal under paragraph (1) shall include an increase of 150 employees by fiscal year 2011 to–
      (A) provide additional detection of and response to food defense threats; and
      (B) detect, track, and remove smuggled food (as defined in section 310) from commerce.

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    • BlueStrat
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:59pm

      @ BushIn12

      “You all cry about the free market system and how great the invisible hand is, but it seems very few of you have any idea what actually goes into a consumer based economy.”

      —-

      This.

      Right there.

      You are apparently confused…whether intentionally or not only you can say. A “free market system” and a “consumer-based economy” are two different things. Typically, a “consumer-based economy”, as defined by the current example in the US, requires that much that defines a free market system and which creates competition & growth be abandoned in favor of government regulation and control in order to function.

      Thanks for playing, though.

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 4:39pm

      Mary Lou and Independent this would never have passed if the states had any say in Gov’t. That is why I say repeatedly we need to repeal the 17th Amendment and give the states back their power through the Senate. What we are seeing today is tyranny by the majority. The very reason the Founding Fathers felt it necessary for the states to have a direct say in Gov’t. Today the Senate is just like the House. It represents voters and not the states. This is what makes corruption possible on a large scale in the Senate. Just think of the bills that would not have passed if the states had any say. SSA, Medicare., Medicade, Food Stamps, Welfare, Obamacare, Stimulus, Tarp. This was the reason for the 17th amendment. To remove the states power and soverignty.

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    • Curator_JDR
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:18pm

      Progressives want to starve us by making food more expensive and expropriating family farms and food processors! In “developing” countries, food is a major expense like your rent. In America, not. Am I alone, or is the food in America already safe? I’ve never got sick buying from a food vendor in America.

      Power and Control Thats all the Progressives care about. Learn their hidden playbook: Progressive-Dada Video Expose “Dada – The Enemy of Liberty” http://www.marcrubin.com/dada2.ivnu

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    • ozz
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:21pm

      This bill legislates what you can grow on your own land. You can now be arrested and jailed for giving your neighbor vegetables you grow in your own back yard. one more freedom lost in 2010.
      So how long till we revolt? We have become a nation of cowards unworthy of the freedom paid for in blood by our forefathers.

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    • TruthLover
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 12:54am

      If you’re serious about developing a food storage plan, shoot me an email. You can get started without even making a dent in your monthly budget. Dry food storage – this stuff tastes great and lasts up to 30 years, plus just about any emergency/survival item you’ll ever need.

      miksko at ymail dot com

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