{"id":336,"date":"2010-11-30T17:52:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T21:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amishinternet.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2023-02-08T14:58:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T18:58:58","slug":"democrats-secret-attack-on-agriculture-with-food-safety-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amishinternet.com\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"Democrat&#8217;s Secret Attack on Agriculture with Food Safety Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/habledash.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=953:democrats-secret-attack-on-agriculture-with-food-safety-bill&amp;catid=45:the-nook&amp;Itemid=59\"> Democrat&#8217;s Secret Attack on Agriculture with Food Safety Bill <\/a><\/h2>\n<div><em>Monday, 22 November 2010 12:42\t\t \t \t\t\t \t\t\tChuck Justice<\/em><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/habledash.com\/images\/stories\/000000produce.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>The Left is notorious for their friendly-sounding nomenclature of bills. \u00a0The <em>American Recovery and Reinvestment Act<\/em> was the phony stimulus bill; the<em> Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act<\/em> is Obamacare; <em>Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act<\/em> is Wall Street regulation. \u00a0Each of these monstrosities have the same  thing in common: they do the exact opposite as they&#8217;re advertised. \u00a0And  that&#8217;s why S-510, the Food Safety Modernization Act needs to be stopped  from turning into law. \u00a0It goes to the Senate floor for a vote the day  after Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the Democratic party that everyone grew up with &#8211; it&#8217;s  been hijacked by some of the most radical, anti-American individuals.  \u00a0Make no mistake, S-510 is no difference than Obamacare. \u00a0If this passes  the Senate, the House has already said they&#8217;ll pass it in its current  form so it can be sent to the president. \u00a0Liberals still control the  House in this lame duck session, so it&#8217;s highly likely that they&#8217;ll  bundle it up with H.R. 4729, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009,  which the House passed and is outline below. \u00a0If passed, the government  will now not only control your health care, but everything you eat.<\/p>\n<p>To sum up S-510, or the food bill for short, it gives the FDA  authority and power for additional enforcement, including fines,  penalties, license revocations and new requirements, and control over  processes and harvest. \u00a0All of this will add additional cost, which will  just get passed on to the consumer, but that&#8217;s not even the <a href=\"http:\/\/foodfreedom.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worst<\/a> aspect of the bill. \u00a0Here are some of the troubling elements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Puts all US food and all US farms under Homeland Security and the  Department of Defense in the event of contamination or an ill-defined  emergency.<\/li>\n<li>Would end US sovereignty over its own food supply by insisting on compliance with the WTO, thus threatening national security.<\/li>\n<li>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 US.<\/li>\n<li>Imposes <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Codex_Alimentarius\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Codex Alimentarius<\/a> on the US, a global system of control over food.<\/li>\n<li>Would remove the right to clean, store and thus own seed in the US,  putting control of seeds in the hands of Monsanto and other  multinationals, threatening US security.<\/li>\n<li>Includes NAIS, an animal traceability program that threatens all small farmers and ranchers raising animals.<\/li>\n<li>Would allow the government to mandate antibiotics, hormones, slaughterhouse waste, pesticides and GMOs.<\/li>\n<li>Uses good crimes as the entry into state power and control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, how do you think that&#8217;s going to impact the agriculture industry?  \u00a0Well, it only gets better if the House bundles it together with HR  2749. \u00a0Here are the hidden details of it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$500 annual registration fee on any &#8220;facility&#8221; that holds, process or manufactures food &#8211; &#8220;farms&#8221; are exempt.<\/li>\n<li>Empower the FDA to regulate how crops are raised and harvested &#8211;  this would eliminate organic farming and lead to the forced purchase of  products as mandated by the government.<\/li>\n<li>FDA would be granted the power to order a quarantine of a geographic  area, which includes &#8220;prohibiting or restricting the movement of food  or any vehicle being used or that has been used to transport or hold  such food within the geographic area.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>FDA has the power to make random and warrantless searches of the  business records of small farmers and local food producers without  evidence that there&#8217;s even been a violation.<\/li>\n<li>Creates severe criminal and civil penalties for each violation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ambiguity is intentional. \u00a0For example, the power to quarantine a  geographic area, including the transportation of food, extends well  beyond food safety. \u00a0Think about people that go grocery shopping &#8211;  easily 90% of Americans &#8211; they transport food; it has to get home  somehow. \u00a0Notice how individuals and consumers aren&#8217;t exempt. \u00a0That&#8217;s  because liberals want to control an individuals every move because they  feel the individual is incapable of making their own decisions.<\/p>\n<p>There is a common trend with the radical liberals in Congress: \u00a0all  bills need to be passed so the country can see what&#8217;s in it. \u00a0Nobody  knows who wrote the bill; Congressmen don&#8217;t even know what&#8217;s in it  because special interest groups write the bills on their behalf; can we  say shadow government? \u00a0Or even better, can we say spooky George Soros  and his plethora of organizations hell-bent on destroying America.<\/p>\n<p>This food bill needs to be stopped. \u00a0A government that has this much  control also has the power to take everything away. \u00a0Between Obamacare  controlling your health care and the food safety bill putting control in  the hands of the fourth branch of government &#8211; the unelected  administrative branch &#8211; America is going down a very dangerous path.  \u00a0Unfortunately, this is what the liberals want.<\/p>\n<p><em>Chuck Justice is the editor-in-chief for Habledash.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat&#8217;s Secret Attack on Agriculture with Food Safety Bill Monday, 22 November 2010 12:42 Chuck Justice The Left is notorious for their friendly-sounding nomenclature of bills. \u00a0The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was the phony stimulus bill; the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is Obamacare; Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is Wall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,36,3],"tags":[363,342,359,346,347,365,351,321,352,364,59,356,20,358,344,354,355,361,362,345,348,360,350,353,349,357,343],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-codex-alimentarius","category-food","category-nais","tag-510-food","tag-act","tag-allow-government","tag-america","tag-american","tag-bill","tag-care","tag-congress","tag-consumer","tag-control","tag-fda","tag-food-bill","tag-food-safety","tag-government-control","tag-house","tag-includes","tag-law","tag-liberals-want","tag-needs-stopped","tag-obamacare","tag-protection","tag-putting-control","tag-quarantine-geographic-area","tag-security","tag-senate","tag-small-farmers","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amishinternet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amishinternet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amishinternet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amishinternet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amishinternet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/amishinternet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"http:\/\/amishinternet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amishinternet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amishinternet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amishinternet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}