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

MONSANTO DESIGNED THE FOOD SAFETY BILLS - S 510 is waiting in the Senate

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.