S 510 would turn control over all food in the US to the WTO. It includes highly deceptive means of stopping anyone in the country from producing food. One example:
It would allow the government, under Maritime Law, to define the introduction of any food into commerce (even direct sales between individuals) as smuggling into “the United States.”
Since under that law, the US is a corporate entity and not a location, “entry of food into the US” covers food produced anywhere within the land mass of this country and “entering into” it by virtue of being produced.
What groups are demanding a stop to the bill?
Rosa Delauro, whose husband works for Monsanto, introduced the first of the big food safety bills, HR 875. Any part of it can be merged with S 510 at any time.
The civil penalties section of HR 875 is jaw dropping. It allows the Administrator - expected to be Michael Taylor, Monsanto VP, already Food Safety Czar at the FDA - to use unlimited "remedies" (nothing is excluded), with no Congressional oversight and without judicial review over the validity and appropriateness of his orders. The food safety bills cover anyone in the country who "holds" food so Monsanto would in essence be running a corporate court in which they could do anything they wished - even invalid and inappropriate - to any person in America. Monsanto would have police power over the entire country.
That one small section entails the end of the rule of law in the US.