OT: Food Fascism Bill, HR 2749

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Farmers, Food and Freedom Under Attack...

House Passed the Food Fascism Bill, HR 2749

We Have Three Weeks to Pursuade the Senate During Its Recess to Vote to Protect

Food, Farmers and Freedom

NOTE: If you have already taken this Action Item, we encourage you, and every

member of your family and circle of contacts to do so again since it has been

amended to reflect the passage of HR 2749 on July 30, 2009 after two failed

attempts on the previous days. Passed by the Senate will guaranteeing the loss

of clean, healthy food and independent farming in the US and the complete

industrialization of the US food supply. Now the question is what will the

Senate do?

We did manage to get some protective exemptions into the bill for small farmers

who sell food directly to consumers or to restaurants, but they are, frankly,

weak and will not be enough to protect your food or our farmers.

We need to rally people immediately to submit this letter to the Senate and to

visit with their Senators at home during their August vacation break to demand

accountable voting on this bill.

The Obama administration is pushing new farm controls which will drive small and

independent farmers off the land, literally leaving the field to Agribiz,

(implementing all of Codex through complete HARMonization and allowing the FDA

to declare Marshal law) through Congress as fast as possible and have

coordinated the bills so there will be no debate and committee meetings are

closed.

Transparency, change, undoing Bush's regulations, giving the public time to

comment, grassroots anything? None are visible in the current legislative

process. Our entire food system, and thus our health, is being given to the

last people with any interest in quality or safety: Big Abgribiz. This is going

on in the absence of public scrutiny. Those who do know what is happening, of

course, have zero access to the process and to the major media. Meanwhile, the

media is absent while Congress is moving at warp speed to sew this up.

There will be no direct, frontal assault on organic farming but an insidious

process of " infecting " organic farming with regulations, " traceability "

requirements, required practices and prohibitions enforced by truly draconian

fines and prision terms for even minor offenses running to hundreds of thousands

to millions of dollars and 8 years in prison for minor offenses.

Example: imagine Salatin's wonderful organic farm under the direction of

the USDA, with detailed instructions on what he must feed and when, how he must

medically " treat " his animals and with what, what he must " spray " and when, ...

you get the picture. These bills will industrialize all farms and insure the

farmers are forced to buy chemicals and drugs. Organic is dead. As well as

human control over the food supply. As well as health.

H.R. 2749 includes a weak exemption for farmer to consumer or restaurant sales

because of the Push Back we generated. But the bill has now passed the House

and it is imperative that it NOT pass the Senate. More Push Back is needed for

more protection for farmers, gardeners, community farming, all local food

production (including yours!) and food processing.

We've set up an Action Item for you to send an unmistakable message to your

Senators. We must educate the Senate that you value organic farmers and small

farming and do not do not want independent farmers regulated out of existence.

You do not want " Big Agra " regulations applied to organic and small family farms

and ranches or to natural/organic food products, including Dietary Supplements.

Go to this website and sign your petition.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714