"Food safety" means, above all, making our seeds, farmers, and gardens safe from corporate

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Fake "food safety" bills in Congress are extremely far reaching, disturbingly vague, filled with huge penalties and prison terms, and controlled by "an Administrator" with power to mete out punishments on those who don't "comply," without no judicial oversight, and all specifics to be filled in next year after "the Administrator" consults with agribusiness "experts" on the most recent "scientific" methods.  

Are they joking?  Who writes such a bill?  What legislator would vote for such a bill and inflict it on the American public?  
And to add an upsetting additional piece to a blank check bill with penalties that could destroy anyone, Monsanto people were involved in writing the bills;  Rosa De Lauro, the wife of Stanley Greenburg, a Monsanto employee, introduced the largest bill; and Michael Taylor, a Monsanto lawyer infamous for running the FDA under Clinton and foisting rBGH off on us and people around the world, wants an office in the White House to run it all.

The bills do not exclude farms, gardens, roadside stands, CSAs, farmers markets, or even our own kitchens, and could criminalize seeds in just they way the FDA has criminalized seed cleaning equipment just this year - by defining seed as food and then setting the "food safety" standards so high no farmer can afford to meet them.  

We wish to let Congress know that control of food is human right, as is control of seed, as is choosing whom we buy our food from, and we will not accept "hygiene" being used in this country in some Nazi fashion to eliminate our choices of raw milk or home grown tomatoes or roadside corn or an open box of CSA produce or un-refrigerated eggs from a farmer we know ... or a single one of our valuable farmers.

We want local farmers and the pleasure of buying from them and the good  relationships with them.  If we want raw milk, it's our right to choose it, not the government to "protect" us from it - the self-same government that does NOT protect us from contaminated imports or even label their country of origin, or protect us from contamination in CAFOs, feedlots, slaughterhouses, or even label GMOs we fear, so we can decide for ourselves.  

We want to be left alone to grow what we wish, buy from whom we wish, sell to whom we wish, share what we wish, and always, always, save heritage seeds in any way we wish. 

We vehemently oppose the "food safety" bills in Congress - HR 875, SR 425, HR 814, HR 759 and any others being introduced now.  They are the industrial destruction of our food system and the take over of our seeds and the elimination of our farmers.  We expect you to vote against them and speak out against them and stand up for the free and natural America we all remember and intend to give to our children.
You can use this link to reach your own Congress people and your local newspapers.

http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum942.php
Fake "food safety" bills in Congress are extremely far reaching, disturbingly vague, filled with huge penalties and prison terms, and controlled by "an Administrator" with power to mete out punishments on those who don't "comply," without no judicial oversight, and all specifics to be filled in next year after "the Administrator" consults with agribusiness "experts" on the most recent "scientific" methods.  

Are they joking?  Who writes such a bill?  What legislator would vote for such a bill and inflict it on the American public?  
And to add an upsetting additional piece to a blank check bill with penalties that could destroy anyone, Monsanto people were involved in writing the bills;  Rosa De Lauro, the wife of Stanley Greenburg, a Monsanto employee, introduced the largest bill; and Michael Taylor, a Monsanto lawyer infamous for running the FDA under Clinton and foisting rBGH off on us and people around the world, wants an office in the White House to run it all.

The bills do not exclude farms, gardens, roadside stands, CSAs, farmers markets, or even our own kitchens, and could criminalize seeds in just they way the FDA has criminalized seed cleaning equipment just this year - by defining seed as food and then setting the "food safety" standards so high no farmer can afford to meet them.  

We wish to let Congress know that control of food is human right, as is control of seed, as is choosing whom we buy our food from, and we will not accept "hygiene" being used in this country in some Nazi fashion to eliminate our choices of raw milk or home grown tomatoes or roadside corn or an open box of CSA produce or un-refrigerated eggs from a farmer we know ... or a single one of our valuable farmers.

We want local farmers and the pleasure of buying from them and the good  relationships with them.  If we want raw milk, it's our right to choose it, not the government to "protect" us from it - the self-same government that does NOT protect us from contaminated imports or even label their country of origin, or protect us from contamination in CAFOs, feedlots, slaughterhouses, or even label GMOs we fear, so we can decide for ourselves.  

We want to be left alone to grow what we wish, buy from whom we wish, sell to whom we wish, share what we wish, and always, always, save heritage seeds in any way we wish. 

We vehemently oppose the "food safety" bills in Congress - HR 875, SR 425, HR 814, HR 759 and any others being introduced now.  They are the industrial destruction of our food system and the take over of our seeds and the elimination of our farmers.  We expect you to vote against them and speak out against them and stand up for the free and natural America we all remember and intend to give to our children.
You can use this link to reach your own Congress people and your local newspapers.

http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum942.php
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# 91:
7:53 am PDT, Sep 6, Concerned Citizen, Georgia
This genetic engineered food and company is evil. As far as I'm concerned this is mass genocide to invade a country with mutated seeds and pesticides that are indeed harmful to humans. To patent seeds or any form of mother nature is an abomination. Next, these evildoers will try to patent clouds and sue everyone that those clouds rain upon. to me and my fellow americans this is unacceptable and should be treated as a national (and global)threat. That's right, Monsanto and all it's cronies, lawyers, and pocket-politicians should be treated as terrorists not only to america but the world as a whole. Furthermore, every single individual that is a part of this company(s) should be exiled from this planet immediately. Better yet, line them up against the wall. This company's greed and arrogance is an attack on humanity itself. And therefore should be treated with the contempt it breeds. I could go on-and-on about this, because it is a colossal injustice to the nation and the world.
# 90:
11:45 am PDT, Aug 18, Samantha Gerbine, Texas
# 89:
12:16 am PDT, Aug 13, Esther Wolk, Massachusetts
# 88:
8:50 am PDT, Aug 9, Pamela Leigh Richards, Arizona
Science is sciencing everything to death. It is time to drop the lab coats and come home. You won't find 'truth' in the laboratory only spin your wheels even further down the rabbit hole. Clean, pure truth is staring humanity in the face right now. Our responsibility, our right and our love for all of life begins now with saying NO MORE, changing direction and doing what is RIGHT. Peace is Easy and Love is Simple.
# 87:
8:38 pm PDT, Aug 8, Love love Marilyn Idle Wellness Advocate, Canada
There are a very few dying out out-of-control corporate people like the wizard of OZ curtain is now pulled back --they would violately in their misguded "love" try to own with bad laws "nature and you". You and billions of friends are saying NO MORE. Saying All to co-live with co-respect, in a healthy manner for All. Period. Mentor them back to wellness, if they desire this, with kindness and care. We all help each other. www.MarilynIdleHolidayEarth.com
# 86:
5:56 am PDT, Aug 5, Ursula Myers, Maryland
# 85:
3:07 pm PDT, Jul 15, Funky eCo Chrystalina, Ohio
SEEDS ARE SYMBOLS AND ACTIVATIONS OF FERTILITY~ OF EARTH AND ALL BEINGS. WE WILL COME *TOGETHER* TO HEAL AND REPAIR MOTHER EARTH AND THE MEN~TALITY OF HUMAN*KIND. ITS EVOLUTION AND THE ROLE YOU PLAY IS INFINITELY IMPORTANT. THANK YOU FOR MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION, THE ONE YOU FEEL IN YOUR HEART. ONE.
# 84:
8:06 pm PDT, Jun 27, Name not displayed, California
This is outrageous for anyone to even imagine changing the seeds of nature and making some sort of control freak law as to break away from our sovereign individuality to purchase or to grow what mother nature has already given to us. To be lord over all the earth is not to destroy but to be responsible to keep what God or nature has given into our hands so that we can give a proper accounting for how we preserved the good will of our planet earth and for the health of the living creatures that dwell on it. Stop playing or pretending to play god. The only one seeking to pass such a bill is a false self-elite promotionalist aggenda which sounds like the authorship of the likes of David Rockerfeller.
# 83:
12:21 pm PDT, Jun 17, Claudia Frantz, California
# 82:
5:49 am PDT, Jun 5, Bindu Mayal, United Kingdom
# 81:
5:48 am PDT, Jun 5, Saugata Mukherjee, United Kingdom
# 80:
11:40 am PDT, Jun 1, Jennifer Peters, Wisconsin
The introduction of this bill stands against everything America claims to be. Please do not support this bill. It will destroy small farms, and our local, organic food sources. Doing so not only ruins our standard of living, it will greatly affect the health of both the human population as well as of the earth. Removing the ability for small farms to operate ensures the growth of large industrial farms, which then promises only commercial agricultural products will be available. The farming practices on these farms are destroying our ecosystem through the rampant use of fertilizers and pesticides, and the monoculture practiced on these farms is destroying our soil. The animal waste generated through such places and handled through improper practices, such as "manure lagoons" on commercial beef feedlots, is also affecting our environment negatively. These things are destroying our health through not only pollution, but also contamination (note that all recent outbreaks of contamination occurred in large, commercial facilities, not small farms), and via the hormones and antibiotics used in the animals and passed to our systems upon consumption. This bill is not progress, it will move us back 35 years. Please read between the lines of this bill. Please vote NO on HR 875! Support our right to a healthy environment, and our own physical health.
# 79:
12:30 pm PDT, May 29, Karen Warner, Michigan
Please support us.
# 78:
9:50 am PDT, May 18, Hannah Arbizzani, Illinois
We do not want Monsanto or any other corporation coming up with food that we can't produce without all the brutality to animals or messing with the natural plant structure.
# 77:
10:47 am PDT, May 6, Danielle Feddersen, Maryland
# 76:
10:27 am PDT, May 6, Karen Beleck, Maryland
I vehemently oppose the "food safety" bills in Congress - HR 875, SR 425, HR 814, HR 759 and any others being introduced now. They are the industrial destruction of our food system and the take over of our seeds and the elimination of our farmers. We expect you to vote against them and speak out against them and stand up for the free and natural America we all remember and intend to give to our children.
# 75:
7:40 am PDT, May 6, Name not displayed, Florida
# 74:
6:47 pm PDT, May 3, Name not displayed, Mississippi
# 73:
8:14 am PDT, May 3, Stephanie Smoluk, Pennsylvania
# 72:
6:57 am PDT, May 2, Name not displayed, Virginia
Please let us grow what we want, buy from whom we wish, sell to whom we wish, share what we wish and preserve heritage seeds! We vehemently oppose the bills in Congress - HR 875, SR 425, HR 814, HR 759 and any others being introduced now. They are the industrial destruction of our food system and allow chemical companies to take over our seeds. Rosa De Lauro, the WIFE of Stanley Greenburg, a Monsanto employee, introduced the largest bill.
# 71:
6:22 am PDT, Apr 30, Peggy Rush, Missouri
Our future and the future of our country depends on small farmers and the individual's ability to grow and buy our food locally. We must retain this right.
# 70:
1:51 pm PDT, Apr 26, Name not displayed, Virginia
# 69:
1:48 am PDT, Apr 26, Ari R. Kolman, Canada
IDIOTS WRITE SUCH A BILL!! Monsanto people were involved in writing the bills; Rosa De Lauro, the wife of Stanley Greenburg, a Monsanto employee, introduced the largest bill; and Michael Taylor, a Monsanto lawyer infamous for running the FDA under Clinton and foisting rBGH off on us and people around the world, wants an office in the White House to run it all. WHO THE HELL DO THEY THINK THEY ARE!! THEY'RE ALL PISSING ON US AND WE WILL NOT STAND FOR IT!!! Leave us alone and let us grow what we want, buy from whom we wish, sell to whom we wish, share what we wish and save heritage seeds in any way we wish!! We vehemently oppose the "food safety" bills in Congress - HR 875, SR 425, HR 814, HR 759 and any others being introduced now. They are the industrial destruction of our food system and the take over of our seeds and the elimination of our farmers. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted. I’m sickened and disgusted.
# 68:
7:41 pm PDT, Apr 22, Kimberly Petropoulos, Illinois
We should all have the freedom to grow our own crops for consumption...this is America right?
# 67:
2:27 pm PDT, Apr 22, Barbara Foley, Virginia
# 66:
9:17 am PDT, Apr 22, Molly Smisek, Virginia
# 65:
9:25 am PDT, Apr 21, Name not displayed, Ohio
I feel that the goverment is getting out of controll, they are trying to controll to much of what the FREE people are doing. At the rate they are going we are not going to be able to call our self FREE any more.
# 64:
8:16 am PDT, Apr 20, Cindy Cuevas, Virginia
Give the consumers the right to choose who they buy food from. I personally would rather get my food from a small local farm. We need to make laws easier for small farmers, not harder. The freedom to choose is our American Right and heritage.
# 63:
6:09 pm PDT, Apr 17, Heather Davidson, Washington
# 62:
12:25 pm PDT, Apr 15, Name not displayed, Tennessee
# 61:
12:25 pm PDT, Apr 15, Name not displayed, Tennessee
# 60:
10:53 am PDT, Apr 13, Name not displayed, Massachusetts
Please keep America the greatest country in the world by assuring we have good pure, truly natural grown food and animals. Profit does not out way the safety of human lives. We expect our government to be protect and service us in our best interest.
# 59:
9:37 am PDT, Apr 13, Emily Oliver, Ohio
# 58:
8:24 am PDT, Apr 13, Misha Siirala-Reed, Canada
# 57:
3:33 pm PDT, Apr 12, Sarah Piper, Nevada
Save our farms!!!!!
# 56:
2:55 pm PDT, Apr 12, Bob Galle, Arizona
come on...this is ridiculous. Give us rights to do business with local farmers and all they produce at our own risk.Bob Galle
# 55:
11:15 am PDT, Apr 12, Sylvia Onusic, Pennsylvania
why are you patronizing Monsanto by allowing them to participate in such a conflict of interest bill? Please send that bill back and allow small farmers and those working to support local economies to participate.
# 54:
8:09 am PDT, Apr 12, Mary P. Brown, Texas
I strongly oppose this bill. I find the kind of control that this bill insinuates gives corporate entities too much control over our food supply. This is unacceptable to me.
# 53:
6:48 pm PDT, Apr 11, Janet Waldschmidt, Virginia
Real Food is the REAL answer to the health care crisis in this country!
# 52:
12:52 pm PDT, Apr 11, Elizabeth Grimm, Texas
Please perserve freedom of choice in the food supply.
# 51:
12:45 pm PDT, Apr 11, Lisa Lovegrove, Colorado
Please help the farmers!
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