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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 ...


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KEYWORDS: codex; dickdurbin; food; foodsafety; geneticallyaltered; gmo; lameduck; notfoodsafety; senatebill510
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To: Scanian

Don’t these people ever stop?

Am I going to have to buy a commuter book of train tickets to Washington DC so I can spend time each week in front of the Capitol Building?


21 posted on 11/17/2010 3:34:28 AM PST by Haiku Guy (Anything not about elephants is irrelephant.)
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To: Scanian; ixtl; waterhill; mylife
They can have my vegetables when they pry them from my cold dead hands!

Like previously mentioned, why do we let people who have been fired back on the job? This makes no sense.

Self reliance ping!

22 posted on 11/17/2010 3:39:10 AM PST by Envisioning (Call me a racist,........one more time.....)
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To: Scanian
Monsanto says it has no interest in the bill and would not benefit from it, but Monsanto’s Michael Taylor who gave us rBGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone) and unregulated genetically modified (GM) organisms, appears to have designed it and is waiting as an appointed Food Czar to the FDA (a position unapproved by Congress) to administer the agency it would create — without judicial review — if it passes.  S 510 would give Monsanto unlimited power over all US seed, food supplements, food and farming.

 

23 posted on 11/17/2010 3:40:53 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Haiku Guy

I think we were all expecting some Sneaky Pete crap from the ‘Rats before Jan 1.

So far, no card check, no amnesty (just Zer0 talking with some Hispanic “leaders” and Dingy Harry making some noise),
and no climate bills.

No Bush tax cut resolution either.

To me, the food bill was the limit. “El colmo” if you know some Spanish lingo.

Good test for McConnell...this ought to let us know if he has the backbone for the job.


24 posted on 11/17/2010 3:42:11 AM PST by Scanian
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To: Red_Devil 232

...and people actually vote FOR these control freaks..?


25 posted on 11/17/2010 3:43:15 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Iron Munro

I don’t think we’re allowed to criticize priggish moralists on FR. Looks like a very good book though.


26 posted on 11/17/2010 3:43:43 AM PST by listenhillary (A very simple fix to our dilemma - We need to reward the makers instead of the takers)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Really?

No influence from ADM?


27 posted on 11/17/2010 3:44:21 AM PST by Scanian
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To: Envisioning

They can have my vegetables when they pry them from my cold dead hands!


28 posted on 11/17/2010 3:46:49 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: rusty millet

That’s what I was just wondering. WTH?


29 posted on 11/17/2010 3:48:54 AM PST by ctdonath2 (+)
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To: who knows what evil?

The alternative is voting for even bigger control freaks.


30 posted on 11/17/2010 3:50:40 AM PST by ctdonath2 (+)
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To: Scanian
At the beginning of October, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) announced that he had sidetracked Senate Bill 510.  The very next day, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) announced that he would bring the bill up during the lame duck session because he had the votes to pass it.
31 posted on 11/17/2010 3:51:13 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Scanian

el colmo - the height


32 posted on 11/17/2010 3:53:04 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Red_Devil 232

We need to jam the lines and raise hell about this, like TODAY!!

Let’s get Limbaugh and Beck on the the case...they ought to be hot to trot about something like this.


33 posted on 11/17/2010 3:54:06 AM PST by Scanian
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To: Scanian

We sent the Memo on 11/2, apparently they did not read it.


34 posted on 11/17/2010 3:54:34 AM PST by hadaclueonce ("Endeavor to persevere.")
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To: Red_Devil 232

And commonly used to mean “the straw that broke the camel’s back” and this thng really is for some of us.


35 posted on 11/17/2010 3:56:51 AM PST by Scanian
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To: Red_Devil 232

LoL!


36 posted on 11/17/2010 4:00:24 AM PST by Envisioning (Call me a racist,........one more time.....)
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To: Red_Devil 232

They’re thinking “Conagra” and “Archer Daniel Midlands” wants me to vote for this bill, I’m afraid.


37 posted on 11/17/2010 4:01:05 AM PST by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Heading, with terror and slaughter return!)
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To: Red_Devil 232

More crap.....thanks for the ping

Must see new TV show——— Apocalypse PA on History Channel
http://articles.mcall.com/2010-11-12/entertainment/mc-apocalypse-20101112_1_history-channel-show-contractor

This guy with his family has built a wood chip powered truck. An alcohol still and made his own ammunition. Bought some goats too.


38 posted on 11/17/2010 4:07:04 AM PST by dennisw (- - - -He who does not economize will have to agonize - - - - - Confucius)
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To: Scanian

Quinn just said that they are going to attach the earmark moratorium to this Food Safety bill.

So if Republicans vote against the bill, they will be accused of hypocrisy on the earmarks thing.


39 posted on 11/17/2010 4:16:24 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim
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To: eCSMaster

I presume this has yet to go to the House?


40 posted on 11/17/2010 4:21:01 AM PST by Scanian
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