Re: URGENT S.510 Alert - Vote NO on Cloture

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Does this pertain only to Kentucky? Which one of those many links should I use?

I would like a form letter. (If it's any difference, Oklahoma)

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> November 16, 2010

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> STOP S.510 and PROTECT LOCAL FOOD -

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> VOTE " NO " on CLOTURE

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> An action alert earlier requested that readers call their Senators to ask

> them to OPPOSE S.510--the

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> Food Safety Modernization Act.

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> It is also imperative to ask your Senators to VOTE " NO " on CLOTURE.

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> Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is trying to stop debate on S.510

> by invoking cloture. The best chance to defeat S.510 is to defeat the

> cloture motion which requires a three-fifths majority of the full Senate [60

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> S.510 is a major threat to the local food movement. It greatly expands FDA's

> jurisdiction over intrastate commerce and imposes one-size-fits-all

> regulations that will make it more difficult for small farms and food

> processors to remain in business. See Talking Points below.

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> TAKE ACTION

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> 1. Call or Fax your Senators and ask them to VOTE " NO " on CLOTURE and OPPOSE

> S.510--see contact details below.

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> 2. Call or Fax Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY, Senate Minority Leader) whose

> support is crucial if cloture is to be stopped. Tell him you want the

> Republicans to stop S.510 by voting " NO " on cloture.

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> 3. Call or Fax Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK). Thank him for his opposition to S.

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> Be sure to follow up with phone calls--see contact details below.

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> S.510 will significantly increase the power of FDA, an agency which has

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> public record that the American people have no ''fundamental right to their

> own bodily and physical health " and " do not have a fundamental right to

> obtain any food they wish " . S.510 needs to be stopped.

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> CONTACTING YOUR SENATORS

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> TALKING POINTS

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> 1. FDA has more than adequate powers under existing law to ensure food

> safety and effectively deal with foodborne illness outbreaks. FDA has power

> to inspect, power to detain product and can readily obtain court orders to

> seize adulterated or misbranded food products or enjoin them from being

> sold. The problem isn't that FDA needs more power; it's that FDA does not

> effectively use the power it currently has.

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> 2. S.510 will give FDA extensive power to regulate food in intrastate

> commerce; state and local governments are more than capable of handling any

> problems related to food in intrastate commerce. All the major outbreaks of

> foodborne illness involve either imported food or food in interstate

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> 3. S.510 will hurt our ability as a nation to be self-sufficient in food

> production; it has more lenient inspection requirements for foreign than

> domestic producers creating an unfair advantage for food imports. Giving an

> advantage to foreign producers will only increase the amount of food

> imported into this country that does not meet our domestic standards. S.510

> does not address food security--the ability of a country to produce enough

> food to meet its own needs.

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> 4. S.510 will provide a competitive advantage to industrial food

> producers--the sector of the food system causing most of the food safety

> problems; they will benefit from this legislation because it will cripple

> many small farmers and local producers--the solution to the food safety

> problems in this country. The bill will impose burdensome regulations that

> will punish local food producers, many of whom won't have the economies of

> scale to comply with S.510's requirements.

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> 5. S.510 gives FDA the power to dictate growers' practices by establishing

> national standards for produce; the same standards applying to big

> firms--where the food safety problems have occurred--will apply as well to

> small growers who have had no food safety issues. Small growers will be

> forced to change practices that have produced safe, quality food.

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> 6. S.510 does nothing to address many significant food safety problems in

> this country, such as those resulting from confined animal feeding

> operations (CAFOs), genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and various

> contaminants (e.g., BPA, pesticides, herbicides, etc.).

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> 7. Food Safety Plan requirements in S.510 can be used to drive small farms

> and local producers out of business. Small producers will be overwhelmed

> with extensive paperwork requirements, most of which have no connection to

> safe food.

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> Web Addresses (urls) in this Edition

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> FDA Food Safety Modernization Act

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