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 ...
I contacted Sen.’s Alexander and Corker as soon as I heard about this monstrosity. As a small farmer myself, it makes my hair stand on end.
To know Alexander was a co-sponsor of this garbage makes me sick. And we’re stuck with him for four more years. *sigh*
Why single out Mormons? If they vote like they are supposed to- they go by know the issue, know the candidate and get out there and vote. They are not the only ones that do or do not use their own brain to vote.
Course Reid got re-elected.Can’t argue that. However, it was not automatic.
I mentioned those two because they have a high opinion of Orrin Hatch and they were shocked to hear that he would vote for that bill.
Harry Reid is another matter. They call him Jack Mormon, which is a putdown a bit stronger than, say, a “back row Baptist” or a “pew Catholic.”
1. If the bill outlaws the ownership of seeds but the seeds where legally owned prior to the law passing then is this not a “confiscation of personal property”. Would not the government have to buy all of the seeds from us under emanate domain? Could that be argued in court?
2. Could a state pass a law telling the Federal Government that it did not have jurisdiction in this area when the food is grown and consumed within the state...kind of like what some states are doing with the gun issue?
3. Could this also be argued from a freedom of religion stance as well? I am instructed by God to plant seeds and grow my food...Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground...and Genesis 3:23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. Or Genesis 4:2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. I am sure there is more Scripture that could be used to show that we have a God given right to raise our food.
Just some of my thoughts...any other ideas?
Worldviewdad
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