Senator: Put a "Hold" on Fake "Food Safety" Bill S.510!

Keep Fake "Food Safety" Bill S.510
On "Hold" in the Senate!

Tell Your Senators to Continue Stopping S510!
Ask them to Put a "Hold" on the Bill!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4252

Our friends in DC tell us the fake "Food Safety" bill about which we have warned has been "pushed back" again. We stopped it in November 2009 with a couple hundred thousand messages to the Senate HELP committe; we held it off through the July 4th weekend, a major goal achieved! If we can hold it off til the Augst recess, it is very unlikely to pass. See http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4608 for backgroud. Continue below for the latest Action Item we need you to take.

July 14, 2010 Update: The congressional majority leadership has issued its "short list" of bills it wants to push to passage before the August recess. The good news is: S.510 is NOT on the list! The bad news is that the bill's handers could "sneak it through" the Senate as a "unanimous consent" non-controversial matter! That is, unless opposing Senators put a "hold" on the bill, which means it cannot be treated as non-controversial. Please send the Action Item below to your Senators, demanding that the "hold" the bill! How does a Senator do that? The Senator has one of his or her staff members call the staff of the Senate Cloak Room (yes, there still is a Senate Cloak Room, but now it has a staff! Ah, bureaucracy! The staff is responsible for non-controversial, unanimous consent bills. That's where this bad bill stops!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4252

URGENT! Codex Commission Action Item: educate decision makers - demand that our voices be heard!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4279

To all supporters of food and health freedoms:

The Natural Solutions Foundation has attended 18 Codex Alimentarius Committee and Commission meeetings and US Codex meetings and submitted position papers and contributions to the Codex deliberations and debates.  We attend because you, as a food-affected stakeholders have asked us to do so on your behalf.  We have visited numerous Codex Contact Points and others around the world, and they have, and continue to, come to the Natural Solutions Center in pursuit of understanding and equitable food policy, preserving and protecting the interests of consumers, in keeping with the main purposes of Codex, as enumerated on the Codex website.

Despite this active contribution to the Codex process, or perhaps because the interests of consumer stakeholders are so different from the commercial interests which are heavily represented at Codex, the delegation fielded by our organization, made up of the Trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation, have been repeatedly, and increasingly met with unique discrimination and increasing difficulties as we attempt to represent your interests.

These abusive practices include assigning armed guards to them to keep us away from meetings, sequestering us in inappropriate areas during meetings to prevent us from reasonably observing the meeting or talking to delegates, and other humiliating and degrading treatment must stop.  The Natural Solutions Foundation is the largest health freedom organization in the world, representing the interests of food-effected stakeholders like you from the greed, dangerous non-food, corporate agendas and politics of the agenda as promulgated without their input. The current "Health Freedom Group" has a tiny membership and may purport to speak for you, but is not willing to cooperate with us, as the Codex rules would seem to require.

We trust the Natural Solutions Foundation has earned your respect and should be treated with the same respect by the Codex Alimentarius Commission. Please take the Action Item below and help educate decision makers about the need to grant formal Observer status to the Foundation at Codex meetings.