Oppose the Food Safety Modernization Act (S 510)

Please Help Oppose the Food Safety Modernization Act
We warned you about this and now it is coming up again. Could this bill be to bring us into compliance with the World Health Organizations draconian “Codex Alimentarius” law? Akin to the healthcare takeover, S. 510 would facilitate a food takeover.

Remember Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) Dietary Supplement Bill, S. 3002 that caused such an uproar from the natural healthcare world?

Reports are now showing that a compromise has been reached between the dietary supplement industry and McCain. Some of the provisions of McCain’s Dietary Supplement Bill will be included in S. 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, as Sen. Arlen Specter (D.-Pa.) will be introducing a manager’s amendment to S. 510 that will include them. For the most part, then, McCain’s bill will be no longer needed.

Initially, even without the new manager’s amendment, S. 510 had absolutely nothing to recommend it to freedom-loving, natural food choice advocates, small farmers and producers, or average sellers and consumers. Similar to H.R. 2749 and H.R. 875, it would expand the FDA’s control over the right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, serve or eat every food under the sun or morsel that one chooses to put into one’s mouth. The government would be in charge of managing and controlling every aspect of agriculture and food, from seeds to chemicals to animals and their waste; from producers to sellers to consumers, nothing would be safe from their intrusive grasp. It would be a jungle of regulatory schemes and rules that would choke the existing free market food system. It is in essence, a government takeover of food.

Passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act would represent a massive expansion of government regulation of the food industry, even though there is no authorization in the Constitution for this. Our right to produce, distribute, and consume the foods of our choice is part of our rights to life and liberty. But in this era of expansive government regulation and takeovers, our representatives in Congress are poised to take even this very basic right from us by creating an extensive and all-controlling, regulatory, food bureaucracy.

Those of us who are concerned about the expansion of the federal government’s regulatory and surveillance schemes into our lives need to make it perfectly clear to our representatives that we categorically reject a centralized food bureaucracy that would harmonize “safety” standards according to global dictates, and that would eliminate through excessive regulations and record-keeping requirements, locally grown food products and choices.

Learn more about this issue by reading, “UPDATE: McCain’s Dietary Supplement Bill Has New Life.”

– JBS

Related: Worst Violation of Freedom – Food ‘Security’ Act
Related: Codex Alimentarius