From: aajonus [mailto:optimal@earthlink.net] Hi, Sheri, In other words, the FDA no longer needs science to outlaw a food product. It merely needs an opinion. Will S.510 exclude and protect small farmers? The Tester Amendment, which was finally included in S.510, excludes farmers who sell less than $500,000 worth of food each year from the more onerous paperwork and compliance burdens described in the bill. However, this dollar amount is not indexed to inflation, meaning that as the U.S. dollar continues to lose value due to the Federal Reserve counterfeiting machine running at full speed (more "quantitative easing," anyone?), food prices will continue to skyrocket -- and this will shift even small family farms into the $500,000 sales range within just a few years. But the FDA simply refuses to enforce the laws already on the books and, instead, has sought to expand its power by hyping up the e.coli food scares. The ploy apparently worked: Now in a reaction to the food scare-mongering, the FDA is being handed not just new powers, but more funding, too! And you can bet it will find creative new ways to put this power to work suppressing the health freedoms and food freedoms of the American people. The American public is also dying from pharmaceuticals -- anywhere from 100,000 to 240,000 people a year are killed by FDA-approved drugs (http://www.naturalnews.com/001894.html), most of which have been approved under the guise of blatantly fraudulent science and drug company trickery. The FDA doesn't seem to mind. In fact, it has been a willful co-conspirator in the scientific fraud carried out by Big Pharma in the name of "medicine." (http://www.naturalnews.com/027851_h...) Eating the "Standard American Diet" is probably the single most harmful thing a person can do for their health. It's the fastest way to get cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Every nation in the world that begins to consume the American diet starts to show record rates of degenerative disease within one generation. This is the "safe food" that the U.S. Senate is now pushing on everyone. Remember that what is causing most cases of bloody diarrhea and vomit are food additives and the bacteria are simply janitors trying to cleanup the damaged and dead cells that result from food-additive poisons. The bill excluded small farmers (earning under $500,000 yearly) and home gardeners. Regardless, it would not affect us because we are not commercial.
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 7:59 AM
To: Sheri Giachetto
Subject: Re: [GA_WPF] It just passed
But these are the problems with S510:
S.510 would endow vast new police powers and funding to the FDA so that it can clean up the food supply and protect all Americans from food-borne pathogens. There's just one problem with all that, food-borne illness is not the major problem.
Here are the ten biggest problems that are misunderstood:
Most deaths from food poisoning are not caused by fresh produce. Out of the 1,809 people who die in America every year from food-borne pathogens (CDC estimate), only a fraction die from the manufacturer's contamination of fresh produce. By far the majority of food poisoning is caused by the consumption of spoiled processed foods.
For example, one of the largest food-borne killers according to the CDC is Toxoplasma gondii, a disease that people acquire from cat feces coming into contact with their food, which can happen right in their own homes (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/Vol5n...). Salmonella poisoning accounts for 553 deaths a year however, in most cases it is the antibiotics that are administered that causes death. As a reference for relative risk, over 42,000 people die each year from road accidents in the USA, meaning driving a car has a roughly 7600% higher chance of killing you than eating fresh produce. (http://www.driveandstayalive.com/in...)
In terms of food-borne illness, many of the deaths come from things like spoiled canned foods and spoiled pasteurized milk. S 510, of course, does absolutely nothing to address these food contamination deaths, since those foods are considered "sterilized" at the time of sale.It is falsely believed but not written that under S.510, the FDA would only recall products it knows to be contaminated. However, S.510 merely requires the FDA to have "reason to believe" a food is contaminated. Since FDA has made its stance very clear that it believes without conducting andy scientific tests that raw milk is inherently dangerous and always contaminated. That means all raw milk will be targeted by the FDA merely because it is raw because FDA can say it has "reason to believe" raw milk is contaminated.
Is this "reason to believe" section really true? Yep, and here's how it was amended:
SEC. 208. ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION OF FOOD.
23 (a) IN GENERAL. - Section 304(h)(1)(A) (21 U.S.C.24 334(h)(1)(A)) is amended by
(1) striking ''credible evidence or information indicating'' and inserting ''reason to believe'';
(http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi...)
In other words, in negotiating this bill, the
It is utterly amazing that the
Last time I checked, the FDA held some pretty bizarre (if not downright moronic) beliefs, including this jaw-dropping whopper: The FDA literally believes that there is no food, no herb, no vitamin or supplement that has any ability to prevent disease of any kind. They don't even believe limes can prevent scurvy, and you'd have to nutritionally illiterate to believe that.
The FDA believes foods are inert and that all the amazing phytonutrients in those foods (carotenoids, antioxidants, therapeutic fats like omega-3 and so on) are utterly useless for human biology.
This belief, held by the FDA that has now been put in charge of the food supply, is the belief system of an insane government agency that has completely lost touch with reality while abandoning nutritional science.70% of grocery store chickens contain salmonella every day. Salmonella is a natural consumer/janitor of dead animal cells. Amid all the fear-mongering over salmonella, everybody forgot to notice that the vast majority of any dead flesh food bares very active salmonella. S 510 does absolutely nothing to address this. It's not even mentioned in the bill.
In fact, a single-family farm with just four people could easily sell $500,000 worth of fresh produce a year right now, even before inflation. Remember, $500,000 is not their profit, but rather the gross sales amount. The profits on that might be only $50,000 or even less.
Furthermore, this $500,000 threshold means that small, successful farms that are doing well and would like to expand will refuse to hire more people or expand their operations. To avoid the tyranny of S 510, small farms will try to stay small, and that means avoiding the kind of business expansion that would create new jobs.The FDA already misuses its authority by protecting big pharmaceuticals and agriculture companies, their poisonous drugs and processed foods that main and kill so many people yearly. The FDA already has the power to effectively recall foods by publicly announcing a product has been found to be contaminated. The FDA already has the power to confiscate "misbranded" products, too, and it could easily use this power to halt the sale of contaminated food items.
There is no evidence that requiring farms to fill out more paperwork will make their food safer. The real cause of produce contamination is the existence of factory animal farms whose effluent output (huge rivers of cow feces, basically), end up in the water supply, soils and dinner plates.
The food contamination problem is an UPSTREAM problem where you've got to reform the factory animal operations that now dominate the American meat industry. S.510, however, does absolutely nothing to address this. Factory animal farms aren't even addressed in the bill!Americans are not dying in droves from unsafe fresh food. The truth is that Americans are dying from processed food MSG. Artificial food colors almost certainly kill far more people than bacterial contamination. Processed foods laced with toxic chemical additives, not from fresh, raw produce. Partially-hydrogenated oils, white sugar, aspartame caused diseases and deaths.
To think that the FDA -- the very same agency responsible for the Big Pharma death machine -- is now going to "save us" by controlling food safety is highly irrational.The FDA has shown no examples that it wants to make food "safer". Actually, the FDA wants to make the food more processed and chemically contaminated. Both the FDA and the USDA are vocal opponents of fresh live food. They think that the only safe food is sterilized food, which is why they've supported the fumigation, pasteurization and irradiation efforts that have been pushed over the last few years.
One of the main sections of S.510 addresses "food smuggling." FOOD-SMUGGLIING! If you've never heard of this problem that's because it's not actually a problem.
Not yet anyway but if this bill becomes law, the only way people will be able to obtain healthy raw food is to smuggle it. So, is the reason they put that into the bill was because they are planning on criminalizing fresh produce and then arresting people for transporting spinach with the "intent to distribute" Popeye's favorite muscle-building food.
Farmers bringing fresh produce to sell at the weekend farmer's market could soon be arrested and imprisoned as if they were drug smugglers. Hence the need for the "food smuggling" provisions of S.510. Soon, we will all have to meet in secret locations just to trade carrots for cash.Is the notion that S.510 will make
healthfully,
aajonus
aajonus wrote:
Sheri Giachetto wrote:Aajonus, Is there any safety for us with the lease in this matter? In Maria, Sheri -----Original Message----- From: GA_WPF@yahoogroups.com [mailto:GA_WPF@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Liam Pelot Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 9:45 AM To: GA_WPF@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [GA_WPF] It just passed how did the GA senators vote? On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Chris Franklin <chris@feonow.com> wrote:
I watched the final vote on C-Span and it passed with 73 supporting votes and only required 60. Very sad day for small farmers. Chris Franklin
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[MedicalConspiracies] S510--The Real Story
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