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First Health Care, Next the Food Supply
The American Thinker ^ | November 17, 2010 | Michael Geer

Posted on 11/17/2010 2:09:17 AM PST by Scanian

Just because the duck is lame doesn't mean it can't still do terrible damage to American freedom. Our new Congress, especially the new House, isn't yet seated, and this current Congress can still wreak terrible havoc on our rights if not stopped.

Case in point: Senate Bill 510, believed to be coming to the floor Wednesday, November 17 (pending). This is the food safety version of ObamaCare. Reading the thing will make your head hurt for all its cognitive dissonance. Trying to winnow out its complexity and hidden empowerments is stultifying.

Introduced by Dick Durbin of Illinois, the bill has moved through the usual phases of amalgamation and deal-making. The monstrosity advancing to the floor on Wednesday is not so much "food safety" as it is the decadence of the rights of small farmers, hobbyist food producers, garden-variety farmers markets, and your average small producer of foodstuffs. Under the rubric of safety, this Senate proposes a bill that establishes such new and sweeping powers over how you and I produce and consume foodstuffs that even the Pew Charitable Trusts are calling S510 a clear and present danger. National Health Freedom says,

"It is a dangerously broad regulatory bill giving extensive discretionary power to the FDA over the entire food supply chain without proper checks and balances to avoid abuse of power;

"It would impose one-size-fits-all-regulations on thousands of small and mid-sized farmers, small-scale local farms and food producers, and would drastically burden, to extinction, basic natural and organic food suppliers, thus endangering the lives of Americans who depend on local wholesome foods..."

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut; US: Georgia; US: Illinois; US: Iowa; US: New Hampshire; US: New Mexico; US: New York; US: North Carolina; US: Tennessee; US: Utah; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: codex; dickdurbin; food; foodsafety; geneticallyaltered; gmo; lameduck; notfoodsafety; senatebill510
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To: Nickname
think about this, what possible logic is there in a) giving ANYONE the authority to prohibit or restrict the movement of food - FOOD!?!? and b) giving that authority to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The same individual that has just been given control of the medical care we receive? WTF?

There better be some serious butt kicking in Jan 2011 when the new congress takes over.
121 posted on 11/17/2010 9:15:58 AM PST by Newton ('No arsenal is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.' -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Scanian; Admin Moderator; Red_Devil 232

According to my friend who watched it ‘live’ on C-Span 2, the motion for cloture on debate on this bill has passed, and the bill will now come to the floor for a vote...

Admin Moderator - perhaps you could update the headline.....


122 posted on 11/17/2010 9:23:10 AM PST by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: Scanian; Nefertiti; haffast; Ides of March; Kmavp6728; wolfpat; Cassanova Frankenstein; ...
Dear North Carolinans, please help me out here. The vote is going to come up this week. Could be Thursday. Could even be today.

Toll-Free number to the Congressional Switchboard

(866) 338-1015

Senator Richard Burr (R-Dumbass) is a co-sponsor of this stinking pile of Soviet-era centralized-control-of-the-food-supply $#!+ --- !

Stop Senate Bill 510

TELL SENATOR BURR: WITHDRAW AS CO-SPONSOR

DO NOT VOTE ON THIS DURING THE LAME-DUCK SESSION.

At the very least, have the decency to put off a vote until January, 2011 – so that people can read this and evaluate whether it is a desirable piece of legislation for North Carolina. (Hint: it’s not.) Do not try to cram this down our throats just like Congress did with the Health Care Bill.

Toll-Free number to the Congressional Switchboard

(866) 338-1015

I MEAN NOW.

123 posted on 11/17/2010 9:41:47 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Do you mean now?" ---Yogi Berra, when asked "What time is it?" ---)
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To: Scanian

bump


124 posted on 11/17/2010 9:51:22 AM PST by tutstar
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To: Impy; BillyBoy; SJackson; PhilCollins; chicagolady; ExTexasRedhead; AuntB

The author of this monstrosity is none other than Illinois’ own, Dick Durbin. He has to be stopped and opposition has to be mobilized in his home state.


125 posted on 11/17/2010 10:27:00 AM PST by Clintonfatigued (Illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit)
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To: clee1
If this passes, for the first time in my life I’ll grow a garden.

Pass or fail, do that anyway. Lessen your outside dependency as much as you can, before you HAVE to. Start in the spring, with some leaf greens in a windowbox. Set out a couple of tomato plants in gallon milk jugs. Plant some winter squash in an unused corner of your yard.

126 posted on 11/17/2010 10:37:03 AM PST by nina0113
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To: Uncle Ike

If it passes the Senate, then it has to go back to the House, right? Shouldn’t we be contacting our Reps?


127 posted on 11/17/2010 11:09:24 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Do you mean now?" ---Yogi Berra, when asked "What time is it?" ---)
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To: Scanian

I just bought a small farm. I will have a vegetable garden next spring. I will continue to fish. I will hunt. Obama can kis my puckered....


128 posted on 11/17/2010 11:32:32 AM PST by Grunthor (affirmative action doesn't work at the polls)
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To: Scanian; StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; ...
We need to stop this pig of a bill NOW!

Time to hit the phones again and let our senators think about such freedom-hating legislation.

Dick Durbin sponsored it---need I say more?

Yup! Thanks for this thread, Scanian.

129 posted on 11/17/2010 11:33:06 AM PST by nutmeg (...embarrassed to live in The People's Republik of Connecticut)
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To: Scanian

Bookmark.


130 posted on 11/17/2010 11:34:21 AM PST by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: Scanian

But, they HAVE to pass the bill............so, we can see what’s in it!


131 posted on 11/17/2010 11:35:02 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

“I also heard that ObamaCare has in it that if you sell anything over $600 on EBay Craigslist Yard Sale?????”

Yea, it’s any single item or purchase total of $600 over the course of a year. Let’s say a small family farm buys gasoline at the local gas station. If those purchases add up to $600 over a year, say for gas for the tractor, you have to submit a 1099 for the station and supply them with a copy. Same for ANY retailer you do business with. Office Depot for the copier. Best Buy for the computer, etc. etc. etc.

It will be a nightmare of paperwork.


132 posted on 11/17/2010 11:36:18 AM PST by PastorBooks
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To: bronxville

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:s510is.txt.pdf


133 posted on 11/17/2010 11:37:20 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Scanian

Similar bills keep coming up. So far we have swatted them all down. We can’t rest now.


134 posted on 11/17/2010 11:37:36 AM PST by DBrow
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Done and bump


135 posted on 11/17/2010 11:39:59 AM PST by don-o (Wait. What?)
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To: Scanian; small farm girl

what’s up with that? This is Glen Beck’s department.


136 posted on 11/17/2010 11:41:41 AM PST by Cinnamon Girl (G-d Bless President Bush. He kept us safe.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

The pressure seems to be working (for now anyway) - Isakson and Chambliss both voted Nay on cloture:

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00250

I had some very VERY strong words when I called/emailed today. I think a lot of us did.


137 posted on 11/17/2010 11:41:44 AM PST by justsaynomore ("We the people are still in charge of this country!" - Herman Cain)
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To: Scanian
Good, let's put the f'ing FDA on the budgetary chopping block along with the Dept of Education and every other government agency that attempts to assert an inordinate degree of control over our lives and our pocketbooks.

This really needs to be a crusade taken up by the Tea Party (and by us all individually).

138 posted on 11/17/2010 11:42:37 AM PST by The Duke
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To: DBrow

I heard this passed cloture (#122) and will soon be voted on in the Senate. Like today. Is it still worthwhile to contact Senators, or should we go on to contact Representativces (since the House will have to re-pass it)?


139 posted on 11/17/2010 11:42:59 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Do you mean now?" ---Yogi Berra, when asked "What time is it?" ---)
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To: Red_Devil 232

“There are plenty of FReepers gardening and saving seeds who will share seeds or cuttings.”

Don’t mail the seeds! Most if not every package mailed is X-rayed and possession of seeds will be criminalized. You’ll have to trade in person.

We need to start networks of FReepers in every state.


140 posted on 11/17/2010 11:43:48 AM PST by PastorBooks
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