the power of food:House quietly passes HR 2749 food safety enhancement act 2009

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February 5, 2010, 8:07 am

By Suzanne Eovaldi

While millions of Americans are struggling to feed their families, President and Mrs. Obama have thrown 170 parties costing taxpayers an estimated $10 million dollars and have served such delicacies as Wagyu beef, at an obscene cost of $100 to $150 a pound, according to a special investigation done by GLOBE MAGAZINE. Was Henry Kissinger prescient when he said, “If you control the food supply, you control the people?â€

Just consider several troubling governmental actions concerning our food and water resources. The US House of Representatives quietly passed HR 2749, that if confirmed by the Senate and signed into law by the President, would empower the FDA to control and regulate how our crops are grown and harvested.

Euphemistically called Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, this proposed new law would regulate and tax our small farmers and local food producers but apparently would not address needed regulation for the large agribusiness industry. Why are authorities not investigating what would happen if lab terminator seeds pollinate with the replicating seeds our grandparents used to gather for spring planting?

A second initiative by UN organizations seeks to regulate what Americans eat and drink with the attempted passage of very draconian food code laws called Codex Alimentarius. According to Singer’s research, this Codex program began in l962 in the UN Food and Agricultural and World Health Organizations. He said while Codex’s stated mission is to protect consumer health, it may well present the greatest disaster ever for America’s food supply.He warns if not stopped, Codex is “likely to be implemented in 2011.†Fortunately courageous action by Dr. Rima E. Laibow M.D. and others at HealthFreedomUSA.org blocked implementation of Codex in the U.S. at the end of 2009. Our use of vitamins, herbals, minerals and supplements would be sharply limited because Codex would lower the percentage of risk factor substances allowable, thus making these everyday health promoting commodities useless.

Control the food control the people

California gubernatorial candidate and columnist Steve Poizner tells of how California’s famed Central Valley, once America’s breadbasket, is being reduced to an arid moonscape. According to Bonnie Alba another source, Speaker Pelosi and other legislators refuse to relax Endangered Species rules protecting the tiny Delta Smelt at the expense of the lives and livelihoods of local farmers. Vital irrigation pipes can’t deliver the water needed to grow fruits and vegetables, hundreds of farmers are being driven to bankruptcy and 40,000 people are thrown out of work because of their callousness. Are we being driven into a collective farm model by the very people we elected to protect us?

Sources: GLOBE MAGAZINE, “Party Animal in Chief, Feb. 8, 2010, p. 30-31; http://thetruthorthefight.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/codex-alimentarius-how-the-global elite; http://www.healthfreedomusa.org; http://townhall.com/columnists/StevePoizner/2009/08/petition_pelosi%E2%80%99s_dr. .;http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill; http:www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/120791; http://www.knowthecause.com.

What did you do to defend American freedoms yesterday? What will you do today and what do you plan to do tomorrow?

Suzanne Eovaldi is a retired reporter and Journalism School Professor from the Chicago area now living in Port St. Lucie, Florida.