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The Food Safety Modernization Act looks like it’s headed to become law. It’s being hailed as a “breakthrough” achievement in food safety, and it would hand vast new powers and funding to the FDA so that it can clean up the food supply and protect all Americans from food-borne pathogens.

There’s just one problem with all this:It’s all a big lie.

Here are the ten biggest lies that have been promoted about S.510 by the U.S. Congress, the food industry giants and the mainstream media:

Lie #1 – Most deaths fromfood poisoningare caused by fresh produce

Here’s a whopper themainstream mediawon’t dare report: Out of the 1,809 people who die inAmericaevery year from food-bornepathogens(CDC estimate), only a fraction die from the manufacturer’s contamination offresh produce.By far the majority of foodpoisoningis caused by the consumption of spoiled processedfoods, dead foods and animal-human transmission of pathogens.

For example, one of the largest food-borne killers according to theCDCisToxoplasma gondii, adiseasethat people acquire fromcatfecescoming into contact with theirfood, which can happen right in their own homes (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/Vol5n…). Salmonella poisoning accounts for553deathsa year. As a reference for relative risk, over 42,000 people die each year from road accidents in the USA, meaning driving acarhas a roughly7600% higher chanceof killing you than eating fresh produce. (http://www.driveandstayalive.com/in…)

In terms of food-borne illness, many of the deaths come from things like spoiled tomato sauce, spoiled canned foods and spoiled pasteurizedmilk. S 510, of course, does absolutely nothing to address thesefood contaminationdeaths, since those foods are considered “sterilized” at the time of sale.

Lie #2 – Under S.510,the FDAwould only recall products it knows to be contaminated

Not true. S.510 merely requires theFDAto have “reason to believe” a food is contaminated. So right there, that meansall raw milk will be targeted by the FDAbecause even without conducting any scientific tests at all, the FDA can say it has “reason to believe” the milk is contaminatedmerely because it is raw.

In other words, the FDA no longer needs science to outlaw a food product. It merely needsan opinion.

Is this “reason to believe” section really true? Yep, and here’s how it was amended:

SEC. 208. ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION OF FOOD.
23 (a) IN GENERAL. – Section 304(h)(1)(A) (21 U.S.C.24 334(h)(1)(A)) is amended by
(1) striking ”credible evidence or information indicating” and inserting ”reason to believe”;
(http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi…)

In other words, in negotiating this bill, the U.S.Senateremoved the requirement that the FDA needed “credible evidence” in order torecalla product and, instead, replaced that with the FDA only needing “reason to believe.”

It is utterly amazing that the U.S.Congresswould give the FDA to conduct large-scale product recalls and evenimprison peoplebased entirely on what the agency “has reason to believe.”

Last time I checked, the FDA held some pretty bizarre (if not downright moronic) beliefs, including this jaw-dropping whopper: The FDA literally believes that there is no food, no herb, no vitamin or supplement thathas any ability to prevent disease of any kind. They don’t even believe limes can prevent scurvy, and you’d have to nutritionally illiterate to believe that.

The FDA believes foods are inert and that all the amazing phytonutrients in those foods (carotenoids, antioxidants, therapeutic fats like omega-3 and so on) are utterly useless for human biology.

This belief, held by the FDA that has now been put in charge ofthe food supply, isthe belief system of an insanegovernmentagencythat has completely lost touch with reality while abandoning nutritional science.

Lie #3 – They didn’t tell you that nearly 70% of grocery storechickensare contaminated withsalmonellaevery day

Yep, it’s true: Amid all the fear-mongering over salmonella, everybody forgot to notice that the vast majority of fresh chickens sold at grocery stores every single day are widely contaminated with salmonella (http://www.naturalnews.com/028661_c…). Yet S 510 does absolutely nothing to address this. It’s not even mentioned in the bill.

In fact, it is these contaminated chickens that end up cross-contaminating the fresh produce in many kitchens across America. So the so-called “food poisoning” that’s often blamed on spinach or onions often originates with the contaminatedchickenmeat people bringhomeand slice on their kitchen cutting boards.

Lie #4 – S.510 will exclude and protect smallfarmers

TheTester Amendment, which was finally included in S.510, excludes farmers who sell less than $500,000 worth of food each year from the more onerous paperwork and compliance burdens described in the bill. But this dollar amountis not indexed toinflation, meaning that as the U.S. dollar continues to lose value due to the Federal Reserve counterfeiting machine running at full speed (more “quantitative easing,” anyone?), food prices will continue to skyrocket — and this will shift even smallfamilyfarms into the $500,000 sales range within just a few years.

In fact, a single-family farm with just four people could easily sell $500,000 worth of fresh produce a year right now, even before inflation. Remember, $500,000 is not their profit, but rather the gross sales amount. The profits on that might be only $50,000 or even less.

Furthermore, this $500,000 threshold means that small, successful farms that are doing well and would like to expand willrefuse to hire more peopleor expand theiroperations. To avoid the tyranny of S 510, small farms will try to stay small, and that means avoiding the kind of business expansion that would create new jobs.

Lie #5 – The FDA needs more power to enforcefood safety

The FDA already has thepowerto effectively recall foods by publicly announcing a product has been found to be contaminated. The FDA already has the power to confiscate “misbranded” products, too, and it could easily use this power to halt the sale of contaminated food items.

But the FDA simply refuses to enforce the laws already on the books and, instead, has sought to expand its power by hyping up the e.coli food scares. The ploy apparently worked: Now in areactionto the food scare-mongering, the FDA is being handed not just new powers, but more funding, too! And you can bet it will find creative new ways to put this power to work suppressing the healthfreedomsand food freedoms of theAmerican people.

Lie #6 – Fresh produce is contaminated because of a lack of paperwork

There is no evidence that requiring farms to fill out more paperwork will make their food safer. The real cause of producecontaminationis the existence offactoryanimal farmswhose effluent output (huge rivers of cow feces, basically), end up in the water supply, soils and equipment that comes into contact with fresh produce.

The food contamination problem is an UPSTREAM problem where you’ve got to reform the factory animal operations that now dominate the American meatindustry. S.510, however, does absolutely nothing to address this. Factory animal farms aren’t even addressed in the bill!

Lie #7 – The American people are dying in droves from unsafe fresh food

The truth is that Americans are dying fromprocessed foodlaced with toxic chemical additives, not from fresh, raw produce. Partially-hydrogenated oils, white sugar, aspartame,MSGand artificial food colors almost certainly kill far more people than bacterial contaminations.

The American public is also dying from pharmaceuticals — anywhere from 100,000 to 240,000 people a year are killed by FDA-approved drugs (http://www.naturalnews.com/001894.html), most of which have been approved under the guise of blatantly fraudulent science anddrugcompany trickery. The FDA doesn’t seem to mind. In fact, it has been a willful co-conspirator in the scientific fraud carried out byBig Pharmain the name of “medicine.” (http://www.naturalnews.com/027851_h…)

To think that the FDA — the very same agency responsible for the Big Pharmadeathmachine — is now going to “save us” by controlling foodsafetyis highly irrational.

Lie #8 – The FDA just wants to make food “safer”

Actually, the FDA wants to make the food more DEAD. Both the FDA and the USDA are vocal opponents of live food. They think thatthe only safe food is sterilized food, which is why they’ve supported the fumigation, pasteurization and irradiation efforts that have been pushed over the last few years.

California almond growers, for example, must now either chemically fumigate or pasteurize theiralmondsbefore selling them (http://www.naturalnews.com/021776.html). This has destroyed the incomes of U.S. almond farmers and forced U.S. food companies to buy raw almonds from Spain and other countries.

Lie #9 – Food smuggling is a huge problem in America

One of the main sections of S.510 addresses “food smuggling.” Yep — people smuggling food across the country. If you’ve never heard of this problem that’s because it’s not actually a problem.

Not yet anyway.

But there’s a reason why they put this into the bill: Because they’re probably planning oncriminalizing fresh produceand then arresting people for transporting broccoli with the “intent to distribute.”

Yep, farmers bringing fresh produce to sell at the weekend farmer’s market could soon be arrested and imprisoned as if they were drug smugglers. Hence the need for the “food smuggling” provisions of S.510.

Soon, we will all have to meet in secret locations just to trade carrots for cash.

Lie #10 – S.510 will make America’sfood supplythe safest in the world

Actually, even with S.510 in place, America’s food supply is among the most chemically contaminated in the world, second only to China. You can find mercury in the seafood, BPA in the canned soup, yeast extract (MSG) in the “natural” potato chips, and artificial petrochemical coloring agents in children’s foods.

Eating the “Standard American Diet” is probably the single most harmful thing a person can do for their health. It’s the fastest way to get cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Every nation in the world that begins to consume theAmerican dietstarts to showrecord rates of degenerative disease within one generation. This is the “safe food” that the U.S. Senate is now pushing on everyone.

Remember, with S.510, SAFE = DEAD. And the FDA says it wants to keep everybody safe.

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After giving the appearance that it would (thankfully) disappear, the dreaded FDA Food Safety and Modernization Act (S 510)¹ has gone on to the full calendar of the United States Senate and will likely be debated on the Senate floor this year or early next. The bill is being touted as a “safety measure” to keep things like poisoned foods and food allergies from hurting children in schools and keeping the public safe from serious food-related illnesses due to bad processing, manufacture, or distribution methods.

The bill will also mean the end of small, local farms, whole foods from anyone but Big Agra, and may even have the ability to affect your own backyard garden or self-sustaining farming.

In other words, SB510 gives the FDA (under a special new “Czar” and office) the ability to completely take over our food supply, top to bottom, and eliminate all non-approved sources for food.

This is not conspiracy, it’s real. Read on.

The much-respected “food advocate” Eric Schlosser, who wrote the book Fast Food Nation and co-produced the film Food, Inc. defended SB510 in the New York Times.² Those familiar with Schlosser’s work, however, will recognize the one glaring problem with it: he never points to governmental wrongdoing or involvement, instead focusing all of his ire on Big Agra. He overlooks, whether purposefully or not, the fact that Big Agra could not get away with their nefarious activities without government complicity.

Schlosser goes so far as to admit that the bill has more than a safety bill and that, as written, it gives vast, unchecked powers to a new agency of the Food and Drug Administration. Powers that trump what little is left of local and state level laws protecting local agriculture. This bill, for instance, would basically nullify Wyoming’s excellent Food Freedom Act³ because that is written entirely on a state level and has no provision for controlling federal agents in that regard (unlike another controversial Wyoming law, the Wyoming Firearms Freedom Act which specifically allows federal agents to be arrested and tried for violating Wyoming law).

Even a cursory reading by anyone with an open mind will show that SB510 is all about federalizing authority over food, taking what little ability the small producers and local farmers have to be self-sustaining and organic and hand it over to the Agra-Governmental Complex. All using the false flag of “food safety” as their means towards their evil ends.

Like the so-called Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act⁴ in the House of Representatives, they are misleading the public on what the intent of this act is. Unlike the GMO Food Right to Know act, however, the Senate has final say in whether a false food safety act will happen because the House has already passed their version of this bill, which is equally onerous.

Once again, this writer is forced to ask you, the reader, “Will you join us?” Will you join in and demand, without surrender or compromise, your natural right to health? Will you tell them “no, it is my body, my life, my choice to decide what I will eat, what I will drink, and what I will do to make myself healthy?”

Or will you pretend that this somehow isn’t your problem and won’t affect you? I suspect that as a NaturalNews reader, you will not shirk this responsibility and will stand up for you and your family’s right to decide what you will and will not eat.

Resources:
1 – S 510: FDA Food Safety Modernization Act on Govtrack

2 – Unsafe at Any Meal by Eric Schlosser, New York Times opinion

3 – Wyoming Food Freedom Act Wyoming legislature, became law in 2010.

4 – Glaring Loophole Exists in the GMO Food Right to Know Act by Aaron Turpen, NaturalNews

See also: Senate Bill S510 Makes it illegal to Grow, Share, Trade or Sell Homegrown Food by The World’s Prophecy

Many whole foods and organics proponents have been excited to see the introduction of H.R.5577, The Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act in the House of Representatives.¹ Going by the title and the public words given by sponsors such as Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the Act will set the record straight and require labeling for all genetically modified foods and organisms (GMO) in the U.S. Or will it?

Glaring loopholes exist, especially for the so-called “Organics” industry (as defined by the United States Department of Agriculture, USDA). These allow GMO foods to be used in ingredients or processing without requiring a “contains GMO” label. The bill includes an exemption allowing anything on the “Allowed List” from the Organic Foods Production Act to be considered non-GMO for labeling purposes.

Back in 2007 and 2008, NaturalNews covered this long list of allowed (and definitely non-organic) substances.² It includes such things as corn starch (most corn in the U.S. is GMO) and flavorings. This, sad bow to Big Agra that it is, doesn’t compare to the next hole in the hull of this Titanic monster of a lie.

The Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act also allows other foods to be exempted from the GMO label requirement purely by bureaucratic caveat. In an obvious nod to Big Ag and its de facto ownership of the USDA and FDA, the Act allows GMO foods to ignore labeling requirements if they do not have testing regulations from the Secretary of Agriculture for that particular food.

In other words, the Secretary and his non-elected bureaucrats (whose history is replete with nothing but honest behavior..³) will be the ones who come up with these “regulations.”

Of course, the primary concern any American should have with H.R.5577 is not the aforementioned loopholes and obvious allowances for Industrial Agriculture and Agribusiness. No, it’s the utter dependence the People seem to have on corrupt organizations within government to decide who does and doesn’t get to use a specific label, who does or doesn’t get to market a certain product, and deciding what is and isn’t considered “healthy” or even “natural.”

Most Americans seem content to blindly stuff anything that tastes good into their mouths and happily believe the propaganda given to them promoting poisons, untested derivatives, and worse. As Americans rush to find more affordable health care to take care of their continually declining health, they turn a blind eye to the real causes behind their chronic woes.

Those few of us who see what is happening and the cattle chute through which most are being driven to the slaughterhouse – fed by the slop of marketing given to them as “news”- are fighting for the right to choose our own destinies, our own food sources and types, and for our very lives and the lives of our families.

Are you fighting with us? Will you join in and demand, without surrender or compromise, your natural right to health? Will you tell them “no, it is my body, my life, my choice to decide what I will eat, what I will drink, and what I will do to make myself healthy?”

Or will you stand by the wayside and hope it all works out in the end? The choice you make now will either haunt your nightmares or give you something to be proud of. Which will it be?

Resources:
1 – H.R.5577, Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act introduced to the House of Representatives by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (OH), Library of Congress

See also H.R.5577 at OpenCongress.org

2 – Cornucopia Institute reveals agribusiness conspiracy to mislead consumers over almonds by Mike Adams, Natural News and USDA Renews Approval of 46 Non-Organic Ingredients in “Organic” Foods by David Gutierrez, NaturalNews

3 – Corruption: USDA Looks Out Only for Self Interests by Aaron Turpen, NaturalNews

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