URGENT S.510 Alert - Vote NO on Cloture

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

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Dear Suze,

November 16, 2010

STOP S.510 and PROTECT LOCAL FOOD -

VOTE " NO " on CLOTURE

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

them to OPPOSE S.510--the

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X8RaEp6-0QwnJadY3UyWNt_7a5T5SAMxraSOjWnVuioFAZWQ8fT9wFS0cpG1iEhDRuvQ==> FDA

Food Safety Modernization Act.

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

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

votes] to pass.

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.

TAKE ACTION

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

S.510--see contact details below.

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.

McConnell's Washington Office

Phone: (202)224-2541

Fax: (202)224-2499

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

510 [watch the video

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cloture.

Coburn's Washington Office

Phone: (202)224-5754

Fax: (202)224-6008

4. Send a live email message to your Senators through the online petition to

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

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

stated on

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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.

CONTACTING YOUR SENATORS

Go to

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in the upper right hand column.

Click on your Senators' names, and then on the contact tab for their

phone and fax numbers.

OR call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask to be

connected to your Senator's office.

Once connected, ask to speak to the legislative staff person

responsible for agriculture. If they are unavailable, leave a voicemail

message. Be sure to include your name and phone number.

TALKING POINTS

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.

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

commerce.

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.

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.

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.

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.).

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.

Web Addresses (urls) in this Edition

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FDA Food Safety Modernization Act

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[watch the video

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http://www.ftcldf.org/litigation-FDA-status.htm

Congress.org

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