The Absolutely Devastating Food Safety Modernization Act

I'm deeply concerned and have been tracking the purposefully misnamed Food Safety and Modernization Act which is making its way through Congress and must be stopped. This is it all in one bill: Codex, NAIS, an end to organic food production, a mandate of GMOs and more police state measures of enforcement. This bill is the definition of treason.

Codex Alimentarius is a decades-in-progress global doctrine that places food, drugs and supplements under global regulatory control. These international bodies are bankrolled and controlled by the largest stakeholders of the corporations they claim to regulate, legitimizing monopolistic food and drug cartels that destroy competition and suppress alternatives.

Codex establishes a legal doctrine that replaces Common Law, which allows you to consume what is not explicitly prohibited, with Napoleonic Law, which prohibits consumption of what is not explicitly allowed. Codex severely restricts personal health-related choices, including less profitable supplements that prevent (not treat) ailments.

 The origins of GMOs and the cartel behind the majority of our food production is very, deep, dark well. You’ve probably seen Jeffrey Smith's work (Seeds of Deception and his latest Genetic Roulette). I also highly recommend reading William Engdalh's Seeds of Destruction, which goes beyond the science and into the geopolitics of GMO's and large agribusiness in general. Henry Kissinger's infamous quote sums it up best:

"To control the oil is to control nations; to control the food is to control the people."

The roads of GMOs lead you back to the Rockefeller Foundation, along a foreign policy based on NSSM200 (reduce population in countries with resources) and up to theft of native crops by patent by large multinationals in Asia, Iraq and Africa.

It is much uglier than "unintended consequences" like so many seem to think.

510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010,  may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US.  It is to our food what the bailout was to our economy, only we can live without money.

“If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes.  It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one’s choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God.”  ~Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower

It is similar to what India faced with imposition of the salt tax during British rule, only S 510 extends control over all food in the US, violating the fundamental human right to food.

Monsanto says it has no interest in the bill and would not benefit from it, but Monsanto’s Michael Taylor who gave us rBGH and unregulated genetically modified (GM) organisms, appears to have designedit and is waiting as an appointed Food Czar to the FDA (a position unapproved by Congress) to administer the agency it would create — without judicial review — if it passes.  S 510 would give Monsanto unlimited power over all US seed, food supplements, food and farming.

History

In the 1990s, Bill Clinton introduced HACCP (Hazardous Analysis Critical Control Points) purportedly to deal with contamination in the meat industry.  Clinton’s HACCP delighted the offending corporate (World Trade Organization “WTO”) meat packers since it allowed them to inspect themselves, eliminated thousands of local food processors (with no history of contamination), and centralized meat into their control.  Monsanto promoted HACCP.

In 2008, Hillary Clinton, urged a powerful centralized food safety agency as part of her campaign for president.  Her advisor was Mark Penn, CEO of Burson Marsteller*, a giant PR firm representing Monsanto.  Clinton lost, but Clinton friends such as Rosa DeLauro, whose husband’s firm lists Monsantoas a progressive client and globalization as an area of expertise, introduced early versions of S 510.

S 510 fails on moral, social, economic, political, constitutional, and human survival grounds.

1.  It 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.  It resembles the Kissinger Plan.

2.  It would end US sovereignty over its own food supply by insisting on compliance with the WTO, thus threatening national security.  It would end the Uruguay Round Agreement Act of 1994, which put US sovereignty and US law under perfect protection.  Instead, S 510 says:

COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS.

Nothing in this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) shall be construed in a manner inconsistent with the agreement establishing the World Trade Organization or any other treaty or international agreement to which the United States is a party.

3.  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.

4.  It imposes Codex Alimentariuson the US, a global systemof control over food.It allows the United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the WTO to take control of every food on earth and remove access to natural food supplements.  Its bizarre historyand its expected impactin limiting accessto adequate nutrition (while mandating GM food, GM animals, pesticides, hormones, irradiation of food, etc.) threatens all safe and organic foodand health itself, since the world knows now it needs vitamins to survive, not just to treat illnesses.

5.  It 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. See Seeds – How to criminalize them, for more details.

6.  It includes NAIS, an animal traceability program that threatens all small farmers and ranchers raising animals. The UN is participating through the WHO, FAO, WTO, and World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in allowing mass slaughter of even heritage breeds of animals and without proof of disease.  Biodiversityin farm animals is being wiped out to substitutegenetically engineered animals on which corporations hold patents.  Animal diseases can be falsely declared.  S 510 includes the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), despite its corrupt involvement in the H1N1 scandal, which is now said to have been concocted by the corporations.

7.  It extends a failed and destructive HACCP to all food, thus threatening to do to all local food production and farming what HACCP did to meat production – put it in corporate hands and worsen food safety.

8.  It deconstructs what is left of the American economy. It takes agriculture and food, which are the cornerstone of all economies, out of the hands of the citizenry, and puts them under the total control of multinational corporations influencing the UN, WHO, FAO and WTO, with HHS, and CDC, acting as agents, with Homeland Security as the enforcer.  The chance to rebuild the economy based on farming, ranching, gardens, food production, natural health, and all the jobs, tools and connected occupations would be eliminated.

9.  It would allow the government to mandate antibiotics, hormones, slaughterhouse waste, pesticides and GMOs. This would industrialize every farm in the US, eliminate local organic farming, greatly increase global warming from increased use of oil-based products and long-distance delivery of foods, and make food even more unsafe.  The five items listed — the Five Pillars of Food Safety— are precisely the items in the food supply which are the primary source of its danger.

10. It uses food crimes as the entry into police state power and control. The bill postpones defining all the regulations to be imposed; postpones defining crimes to be punished, postpones defining penalties to be applied.  It removes fundamental constitutional protections from all citizens in the country, making them subject to a corporate tribunal with unlimited power and penalties, and without judicial review. It is (similar to C-6 in Canada) the end of Rule of Lawin the US. (Read Full Article)

Comments

[Dave]

"You may know that in Europe for instance, you’re limited to purchasing 400mg of vitamin C."

Someone had better tell my local branch of Holland and Barrett. They only seem to sell it in 500, 1000. 1500 and 2500mg doses.
There is nothing preventing European consumers from buying supplements in whatever dose they want. Admittedly this is still a work in progress, however as the most recent discussion document asks,(available here) "For some vitamins and minerals the risk of adverse effects, even at high levels
of intakes, appears to be extremely low or non-existent according to available
data. Is there any reason to set maximum levels for these vitamins and
minerals?"
This indicates to me that, rather than jumping in at the deep end with a series of inappropriate bans- which hasn't happened- the Commission will be taking an analytical data-led approach to its decision. It is unlikely that we will see armed raids on health-food stores and clinics similar to those carried out by the FDA between 1980 and 1994.

[david davidson]

this is the only thing i have ever seen on the internet that has truly scared me. I am Afraid

[Dave]

Unfortunately the html was stripped from my post, meaning that my link to the EU discussion paper on setting maximum and minimum amounts for vitamins and minerals in foodstuffs has been rendered useless. I have included it as the URL to which clicking my name should direct you. pdf warning- clicking it will cause your pdf reader application to start.

[Health Supplements Canada]

Thanks for sharing. It's good that there are certain laws for the safety of our food.