{"id":36,"date":"2009-07-15T12:27:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T16:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amishinternet.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2023-02-08T14:59:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T18:59:02","slug":"hr-2749-totalitarian-control-of-the-food-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amishinternet.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"HR 2749: Totalitarian Control of the Food Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"monsanto-no-food\"A new food safety bill is on the fast track in Congress-HR 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009.\u00a0 The bill needs to be stopped.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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HR 2749 gives FDA tremendous power while significantly diminishing existing judicial restraints on actions taken by the agency.\u00a0 The bill would impose a one-size-fits-all regulatory scheme on small farms and local artisanal producers; and it would disproportionately impact their operations for the worse. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Take Action HERE<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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HR 2749 does not address underlying causes of food safety problems such as industrial agriculture practices and the consolidation of our food supply.\u00a0 The industrial food system and food imports are badly in need of effective regulation, but the bill does not specifically direct regulation or resources to these areas.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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To read a detailed account of the bill, go to: <\/span><\/span>http:\/\/www.ftcldf.org\/news\/news-15june2009.htm<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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(Read the section on tracing. \u00a0That is NAIS, isn\u2019t it? \u2013 \u00a0highly disguised yet triggered by the word \u201ctrace.\u201d \u00a0)<\/p>\n

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Alarming\u00a0Provisions:<\/strong><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

Some of the more alarming provisions in the bill are:<\/span><\/p>\n


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* <\/span><\/span>HR 2749<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong> would impose an <\/span><\/span>annual registration fee\u00a0of $500<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong> on any \u201cfacility\u201d that\u00a0holds<\/span>, processes, or manufactures food. <\/span>[isn’t this every home in the US, every garden?]<\/span><\/span> Although \u201cfarms\u201d are exempt, the agency has defined \u201cfarm\u201d narrowly. <\/span>[What is the definition?] <\/span><\/span> And people making foods such as lacto-fermented vegetables, cheeses, or breads would be required to register and pay the fee, which could drive beginning and small producers out of business during difficult economic times. <\/span>[Yes. \u00a0There are laws against this corporate-size-destroys-the-little-guy policy, aren’t there? \u00a0Are home bread or cheese or lacto-fermented vegetable makers who make for their own families included in this?]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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* <\/span><\/span>HR 2749<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong> would empower <\/span><\/span>FDA to regulate how crops are raised and harvested<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong>.\u00a0 It puts the federal government right on <\/span><\/span>the farm<\/span><\/span>, dictating to our farmers. <\/span>[This astounding control opens the door to CODEX. \u00a0WTO “good farming practices” will include the elimination of organic farming by eliminating manure, mandating GMO animal feed, imposing animal drugs, and ordering applications of petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides. \u00a0Farmers, thus, will be locked not only into the industrialization of once normal and organic farms but into the forced purchase of industry’s products. \u00a0They will be slaves on the land, doing the work they are ordered to do – against their own best wisdom – and paying out to industry against their will. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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There will be no way to be frugal, to grow one’s own grain to feed the animals, to raise healthy animals without GMO grains or drugs, to work with nature at all. \u00a0Grassfed cattle and poultry and hogs will be finished. \u00a0So, it’s obvious where\u00a0control<\/span> will take us. \u00a0And weren’t these the “rumors on the internet” that were dismissed but are clearly the case?] <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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* <\/span><\/span>HR 2749<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong> would give FDA the power to <\/span><\/span>order<\/span><\/span> a <\/span><\/span>quarantine of a geographic area<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong>, including \u201cprohibiting or restricting the movement of food or of any vehicle being used or that has been used to transport or hold such food within the geographic area.\u201d \u00a0[This – “that <\/span>has<\/span><\/span> <\/span>been<\/span><\/span> used to transport or hold such food” – <\/span>would mean <\/span>all<\/span><\/span> cars that have ever brought groceries home so this means ALL TRANSPORTATION can be shut down under this. \u00a0This is using food as a cover for martial law.]<\/span><\/span> Under this provision, farmers markets and local food sources could be shut down, even if they are not the source of the contamination.\u00a0 The <\/span><\/span>agency<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong> can <\/span><\/span>halt all movement of all food<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong> in a geographic area. <\/span>[This is also a means of total control over the population under the cover of food, and at any time.]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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* <\/span><\/span>HR 2749<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong> would empower FDA to make <\/span><\/span>random warrantless searches\u00a0of the business records<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong> of small farmers and local food producers, without any evidence whatsoever that there has been a violation. <\/span> [If these bills cover all who “hold food” then this allows for taking of records of anyone at any time on no basis at all.]<\/span><\/span> Even farmers selling direct to consumers would have to provide the federal government with records on where they buy supplies, how they raise their crops, and a list of customers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span>[NAIS for animals and all other foods?]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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* <\/span><\/span>HR 2749<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong> charges the Secretary of Health and Human Services with establishing a <\/span><\/span>tracing system for food<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong>.\u00a0 Each \u201cperson who produces, manufactures, processes, packs, transports, or holds such food\u201d [Is this not every home in the US?] \u00a0would have to \u201cmaintain the full pedigree of the origin and previous distribution history of the food,\u201d and \u201cestablish and maintain a system for tracing the food that is interoperable with the systems established and maintained by other such persons.\u201d\u00a0 The bill does not explain how far the traceback will extend or how it will be done for multi-ingredient foods.\u00a0 With all these ambiguities, <\/span>[with all these ambiguities, it is dangerous, period, separate from the money]<\/span><\/span> it\u2019s far from clear how much it will cost either <\/span><\/span>the farm<\/span><\/span>ers or the taxpayers. <\/span>[It is massive and absurd and burdensome beyond the capacity of people to comply – is this not fascism? – so it is a set up for being used to impose penalties endlessly and\/or to eliminate anyone at will.]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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* <\/span><\/span>HR 2749<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong> creates <\/span><\/span>severe criminal\u00a0and civil penalties<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong>, including prison terms of up to 10 years and\/or fines of up to $100,000 for each violation for individuals. <\/span>[Does it include judicial review, Congressional oversight, a defined and limited set of penalties and punishments for a defined set of “crimes”? \u00a0Or is it entirely ambiguous and left to the whim and sole power of “the Administrator”? \u00a0Who is that person set to be? \u00a0Is it Michael Taylor, Monsanto lawyer and executive, as Food Democracy has said? \u00a0That is, do these bills set up an agency by which the entire US food supply will be turned over to the control of a multinational corporation under WTO regulations (and not to US farmers and not to US laws under the Constitution), with boundless freedom to do what it wants, and one infamous for harm to farmers and lack of safety of food?]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

If it was not clear before how frightening these bills were, this small section of provisions, should make their actual fascism clear now. It goes way beyond \u201cfood safety\u201d to absolute control over farms, animals, food, and us, including our movements and access to food at all. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Action to Take:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Contact your Representative now!\u00a0 Ask to speak with the staffer who handles food issues.\u00a0 Tell them you are opposed to the bill.\u00a0 Some points to make in telling your Representative why you oppose HR 2749 include:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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1.\u00a0 The bill imposes burdensome requirements while not specifically targeting the industrial food system and food imports, where the real food safety problems lie.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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2.\u00a0 Small farms and local food processors are part of the solution to food safety; lessening the regulatory burden on them will improve food safety.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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3.\u00a0 The bill gives FDA much more power than it has had in the past while making the agency less accountable for its actions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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HR 2749 needs to be defeated!! <\/span><\/span>P<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong>lease take action <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong>NOW<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Take Action\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Or, contact your Representative by using the finder tool at <\/span><\/span>www.Congress.org<\/span><\/span><\/a> or send a message through the petition system (the petition will be on our website this evening) at\u00a0http:\/\/www.ftcldf.org\/petitions_new.htm<\/span><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Or call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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To check the status of HR 2749, go to\u00a0www.Thomas.gov<\/span><\/span><\/a> and type \u201cHR 2749\u2033 in the bill search field.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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