Monsanto’s Food Safety Bill S-510 Set for Vote Today

[cavegal]

http://www.constitutionparty.com/news.php?aid=1304

It appears to have been designed and written by Michael Taylor, who was Monsanto’s lawyer and VP for many years before being appointed to the FDA to oversee the introduction of genetically modifie

~SNIP~

Here are just a few of the things S-510 purports to do:

    * Preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes.
    * It will more than likely make Michael Taylor (mentioned above) the Food Czar.
    * End U.S. sovereignty over its own food supply by forcing compliance with WTO guidelines.
    * Even direct sales of food between individuals could be defined as smuggling under the language of the bill.

[Odin's Hand]

Enforce it, Mr. Taylor. 

[Thor]

This law will also ban the possession of seeds or even having one's own garden, chicken for eggs or food, ad nauseum.

[thundley4]

Pretty much kill off all farmer's markets.

[Attero Dominatus]

Slash and burn. The corruptocrats are doing as much damage as they can before they are shooed out.

[Karin]

WTF is this horseshit?  I think this flew under many peoples' radars.  Here is a link to how they voted for the Cloture.  Has to be voted on within 60 days.  Link

Some disappointments in that list, to be sure. 

[cavegal]

WTF is this horseshit?  I think this flew under many peoples' radars.  Here is a link to how they voted for the Cloture.  Has to be voted on within 60 days.  Link

Some disappointments in that list, to be sure. 

Extremely disappointing to say the least.. THIS IS JUST AWFUL. 

[true_blood]

A "Food Czar"?!? Like "Czar Nikola" as in the USSR?!
Hey Obama the Destroyer. You're so smart, yet you get mocked all around the globe. I wonder why that is?

[cavegal]

Food Safety Bill Will Not Make Food Safer, Will Increase Food Costs and Budget Deficit

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/food-safety-will-not-make-food-safer-will-increase-food-costs-and-budget-deficit_519740.html

Today, the Senate is likely to vote on the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010 (S510). But the bill is little more than an enormous grant of money and power to the Food and Drug Administration and a lot of reporting burdens imposed on the private sector. Those who favor a smaller, leaner government should oppose it.


Advocates for the bill point out that we need “change” as the food safety system is built mostly on laws passed over seventy years ago. They would like to transform the FDA from what they perceive as a mostly reactive agency – dealing with food safety after outbreaks occur – to a proactive agency that will safeguard the food supply.

However, as we have learned in other contexts, yearning for change begs the question of what change will actually be and what it would actually accomplish. In this case the food supply is so vast and the supply chain so complicated that there is no known or practical way the FDA can be an effective sentinel against all pathogens in the food supply.

[cavegal]

Senate Action on Food Safety Bill Delayed Until Tuesday

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php?action=post;topic=51407.0;num_replies=8

Senate action on legislation revamping the nation's food safety laws will be delayed until Tuesday morning.

 

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced Monday afternoon that two amendments (Coburn earmark ban, Coburn substitute that pays for food safety --- neither of which are expected to get the 67 votes needed for passage) and final passage of the food safety legislation will start at 9:00 am Tuesday.

 

The final bill is expected to pass. The House still must vote on the bill as well but is expected to pass without much difficulty

S. 510
Republican traitor list:

Sen. Lamar Alexander [R, TN] Aye
Sen. John Barrasso [R, WY] Aye
Sen. Scott Brown [R, MA] Aye
Sen. Richard Burr [R, NC] Aye
Sen. Susan Collins [R, ME] Aye
Sen. Bob Corker [R, TN] Aye
Sen. Michael Enzi [R, WY] Aye
Sen. Charles Grassley [R, IA] Aye
Sen. Judd Gregg [R, NH] Aye
Sen. Mike Johanns [R, NE] Aye
Sen. George LeMieux [R, FL] Aye
Sen. Richard Lugar [R, IN] Aye
Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R, AK] Abstain
Sen. Olympia Snowe [R, ME] Aye
Sen. John Thune [R, SD] Aye
Sen. David Vitter [R, LA] Aye
Sen. George Voinovich [R, OH] Aye

[Ptarmigan]

More boneheaded bill. While we're at it, a Czar Czar.

[true_blood]

More and more czars.
After all, the imposter's got to play basketball. Someone needs to do his work communism.