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We will need to publicize  every Senator and Representative who takes part in this. So far it appears that they intend to pass whatever they want, no matter how loud the outcry has been from the people. We can only assume that they are being paid enormous amounts to totally disregard the wishes of the people who put them in office.

 

The Food Safety Bill is back on the Senate Floor tomorrow. While early news of some compromise language was encouraging – latest reports reveal that it is just another smoke screen -  

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7527

If this disturbs you, follow this link to email  and/or call your Senators –

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7446

You might think that your Senators would never sell you and your family out.

Here’s the record -

 

Alabama:	Sessions (R-AL), Nay	Shelby (R-AL), Nay
Alaska:	Begich (D-AK), Yea	Murkowski (R-AK), Not Voting
Arizona:	Kyl (R-AZ), Nay	McCain (R-AZ), Nay
Arkansas:	Lincoln (D-AR), Yea	Pryor (D-AR), Yea
California:	Boxer (D-CA), Yea	Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Colorado:	Bennet (D-CO), Yea	Udall (D-CO), Yea
Connecticut:	Dodd (D-CT), Yea	Lieberman (ID-CT), Yea
Delaware:	Carper (D-DE), Yea	Coons (D-DE), Yea
Florida:	LeMieux (R-FL), Nay	Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Georgia:	Chambliss (R-GA), Nay	Isakson (R-GA), Nay
Hawaii:	Akaka (D-HI), Yea	Inouye (D-HI), Yea
Idaho:	Crapo (R-ID), Nay	Risch (R-ID), Not Voting
Illinois:	Burris (D-IL), Yea	Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Indiana:	Bayh (D-IN), Not Voting	Lugar (R-IN), Nay
Iowa:	Grassley (R-IA), Nay	Harkin (D-IA), Yea
Kansas:	Brownback (R-KS), Nay	Roberts (R-KS), Nay
Kentucky:	Bunning (R-KY), Not Voting	McConnell (R-KY), Nay
Louisiana:	Landrieu (D-LA), Yea	Vitter (R-LA), Not Voting
Maine:	Collins (R-ME), Yea	Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Maryland:	Cardin (D-MD), Yea	Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Massachusetts:	Brown (R-MA), Yea	Kerry (D-MA), Not Voting
Michigan:	Levin (D-MI), Yea	Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Minnesota:	Franken (D-MN), Yea	Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea
Mississippi:	Cochran (R-MS), Nay	Wicker (R-MS), Nay
Missouri:	Bond (R-MO), Nay	McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
Montana:	Baucus (D-MT), Yea	Tester (D-MT), Yea
Nebraska:	Johanns (R-NE), Not Voting	Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Nevada:	Ensign (R-NV), Not Voting	Reid (D-NV), Yea
New Hampshire:	Gregg (R-NH), Not Voting	Shaheen (D-NH), Yea
New Jersey:	Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea	Menendez (D-NJ), Not Voting
New Mexico:	Bingaman (D-NM), Yea	Udall (D-NM), Yea
New York:	Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea	Schumer (D-NY), Yea
North Carolina:	Burr (R-NC), Nay	Hagan (D-NC), Yea
North Dakota:	Conrad (D-ND), Yea	Dorgan (D-ND), Yea
Ohio:	Brown (D-OH), Yea	Voinovich (R-OH), Yea
Oklahoma:	Coburn (R-OK), Nay	Inhofe (R-OK), Nay
Oregon:	Merkley (D-OR), Yea	Wyden (D-OR), Yea
Pennsylvania:	Casey (D-PA), Yea	Specter (D-PA), Not Voting
Rhode Island:	Reed (D-RI), Yea	Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea
South Carolina:	DeMint (R-SC), Not Voting	Graham (R-SC), Nay
South Dakota:	Johnson (D-SD), Yea	Thune (R-SD), Nay
Tennessee:	Alexander (R-TN), Not Voting	Corker (R-TN), Nay
Texas:	Cornyn (R-TX), Nay	Hutchison (R-TX), Not Voting
Utah:	Bennett (R-UT), Nay	Hatch (R-UT), Nay
Vermont:	Leahy (D-VT), Yea	Sanders (I-VT), Yea
Virginia:	Warner (D-VA), Yea	Webb (D-VA), Not Voting
Washington:	Cantwell (D-WA), Yea	Murray (D-WA), Yea
West Virginia:	Manchin (D-WV), Yea	Rockefeller (D-WV), Not Voting
Wisconsin:	Feingold (D-WI), Yea	Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Wyoming:	Barrasso (R-WY), Nay	Enzi (R-WY), Nay

 

Let them know how you feel about this –

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7446

 

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Who would have ever thought that we would actually have to fight for the right to have healthy natural food? Did you ever think that would be possible? I sure didn’t. We always took fresh natural food for granted. We always thought it would just be there. After all, its a part of nature, right? Farmers were always a part of our culture.

All of that is in danger.

Here is the latest update from Health Freedom –
 
One, just one, US Senator has stepped up to defend Food Freedom: Tom Coburn, MD, of Oklahoma, remains opposed to S.510 as, he says, “on principle”. According to his office, he will not provide “unanimous consent” to move the bill forward, even if the “Tester Amendment” is added.
 
More details of the shifting political situation and our Estimate of Situation, below.
 
This Sunday the Dr. Rima Reports Internet Radio Program, www.HealthFreedomPortal.org,  will an have an important latest developments… 

ACT NOW!!!!

CONGRESS IS RESPONDING TO OUR PRESSURE!
PLEASE! TAKE ALL 3 ACTIONS HERE, AGAIN
AND FORWARD TO YOUR CONTACTS – ALL OF THEM

Don’t Rush S. 3767 to the Senate Floor – adopt the Food Freedom Amendment Instead!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4878

Stop S.510!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

Thank You, Senator Coburn for Keeping a “Hold” on S.510!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4856

If The Fake “Food Safety” Bills
Don’t Pass the Senate this Coming Week…
Food Freedom Has a Chance… If We Push Back More!

We spoke earlier today with staffers at Senator Coburn’s Washington office. They shared an interesting Estimate of Situation with us.

We also heard from a variety of farmer and rancher action groups garnering support for the amendment to S.510 offered by Senator Tester and others, that would protect a tiny portion of our local food production.  While it would be nice to think that we could solve the problem with an amendment, Food Fascism will not go away that simply.

Sadly, the Natural Solutions Foundation cannot support the Tester Amendment which exempts local food resources in one state, or within 400 miles of the farm or ranch, if the farm’s gross annual sales are under a half million dollars. Our farmer and rancher contacts tell us there are hardly any local agricultural facilities still in business that meet that requirement. The proposed amendment is nothing more than trivial window-dressing and slippery DC deal-making as usual. We reject it and, as the First Amendment reminds us we have the right to do, we seek redress of grievances… we want the Food Freedom Amendment [ see below] protecting our local food resources from Federal interference.

There is good news from Dr. Coburn’s office. The Senator will refuse “unanimous consent” on S.510. The same may be expected regarding S.3767 (though his office was involved in getting S.3767 amended to limit its impact, as we reported yesterday when we told you about that partial, limited victory for freedom). He does not support any amendment to S.510 (including the Tester Amendment) since he opposes the bill in its entirety.

IF S.510 gets to the floor of the Senate for open debate, Dr. Coburn will consider sponsoring several amendments including our Food Freedom Amendment.

Now, General Bert tells us, is not the moment to let either our guard or our offense down. We intend to continue to push back next week to make sure neither S.510 nor S.3767 gets slipped through. General Bert believes that while the acute situational dangers may peak next week.  Whether or not they do peak and then die down, they continue to be very real until the new Congress is seated in January.

Our Estimate of Situation strongly suggests that the current majority may believe they are poised for an historic loss of power and unless the Administration gets its bills through Congress now, it will get no significant additional government empowerment bills passed through Congress hereafter. Therefore, there will be continuing efforts to push these bills through, against the expressed desires of the public. The public must continue to express its desires yet more strongly, yet more loudly and yet more effectively. 

Our Push Back is already creating a serious problem for the food fascism forces.  They need more problems and we can give it to them!

You Know What We Want!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4878

The “serious” harm amendment (HEN10891) added by the Judiciary Committee on September 23, 2010 to S.3767 is not sufficient to protect food distributors from bureaucratic and criminal harassment. The “Tester Amendment”, if added to S.510, does very little to protect local food resources. We the People, need protection against over-zealous regulators who will destroy small producers while big companies can afford the legal talent needed to escape penalties. These bills will create “barriers against entry” to secure monopoly power for Big AgriBiz.

Our communities need to be protected by law from Federal Government interference in local and natural food production and distribution. We need a Food Freedom Amendment, such as we proposed last year when the House was considering its version of S.510 and which we have continued to urge; it should be offered and added to any “food safety” bill Congress considers!

Stop S.510!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

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Food Freedom Amendment

“No provision of Federal Law giving regulatory oversight to any Federal department or agency shall be deemed to apply (a) to any home, home-business, homestead, home or community gardens, small farm, organic or natural agricultural activity, (b) to any family farm or ranch, or (c) to any natural or organic food product, including dietary supplements, as protected under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994.”

Food Freedom is part of Health Freedom, and an essential part of the Liberty that all free people have a right to expect. Legislators have a responsibility to protect that freedom from the bureaucracy they foist on us. Local oversight of local food production would be far superior to big govt poking into all our local activities. Reducing central govt power would enhance the overall health of our society.

S.3767 Coupled with S.510 Could Reach the Senate Floor
For a Vote Early Next Week!
CONTINUE PUSH BACK NEEDED!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

Continue to take action NOW and mobilize your contacts…  NOW!

What else can you do? Join Our 510/3767 Club NOW!

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189

Help protect your health freedom by donating $5.10 every week (or every month) until this threat is laid to rest.  Can you donate $37.67 cents every month (or every week)? If you can, please set up your recurring, tax deductible donation right now and keep it alive until we are free of these deep and dangerous threats!

Congress Seeks to put Dietary Supplement Makers in Jail for Ten Years!

by William Faloon, LEF.org

Pharmaceutical companies are once again interfering with your ability to access information about dietary supplements.

The Senate is debating a bill that will enable the FDA to put vitamin supplement makers in jail for ten years if they cite findings from peer-reviewed published scientific studies on the label of their dietary supplements or their web site.

The pretext for these draconian proposals is a bill titled the Food Safety Accountability Act (S. 3767). The ostensible purpose of the bill is to punish anyone who knowingly contaminates food for sale. Since there are already strong laws to punish anyone who commits this crime, this bill serves little purpose other than enriching pharmaceutical interests.

The sinister scheme behind this bill is to exploit the public’s concern about food safety. Drug companies want to convince your Senators that an overreaching law needs to be enacted to grant the FDA powers to define “food contamination” any way it chooses.

Even today, the FDA can proclaim a dietary supplement as “misbranded” even if the best science in the world is used to describe its biological effects in the body. The concern is that the FDA will use the term “misbranded” in the same way it defines “adulterated” in order to jail dietary supplement makers as if they were selling contaminated food.

The new bill being debated in the Senate increases the penalties the FDA can use to threaten supplement makers to ten years in prison. The big issue here is that the FDA will use this as a hammer to threaten and coerce small companies into signing crippling consent decrees that will deny consumers access to truthful non-misleading information about natural approaches to protect against age-related disease.

Please tell your two Senators to OPPOSE the Food Safety Accountability Act (S. 3767). You can do this in a few minutes on our convenient Legislative Action Center on our Web site. Click here to take action now.

If you’d like to read the legal details about this bill, log on to the Alliance for Natural Health Web site: http://www.anh-usa.org/breaking-new…

Health-conscious consumers have succeeded in preventing Congress from capitulating to the pharmaceutical industry this year. Please continue this string of victories by telling your Senators to OPPOSE this underhanded attempt (S. 3767) to grant the FDA dictatorial new powers.

Due to the short session before Congress adjourns for the election, please alert your two Senators today!

For longer life,
William Faloon

 

I know, I keep hammering on the food safety legislation that is perilously close to being passed. This is important!

If you value having organic food available for you and your family -

If you value farmers markets where you can gather and buy locally grown produce, jams, and such -

Visit this site – http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=5205

Click on the Take Action link in the Green Box.

Scroll to the bottom and sign and send the message.

It will just take a few minutes.

Thank you for helping to save healthy food!

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