FARMAGEDDON

From the FARMAGEDDON website: Filmmaker Kristin Canty’s quest to find healthy food for her four children turned into an educational journey to discover why access to these foods was being threatened. What she found were policies that favor agribusiness and factory farms over small family operated farms selling fresh foods to their communities. Instead of focusing on the source of food safety problems – most often the industrial food chain – policymakers and regulators implement and enforce solutions that target and often drive out of business small farms that have proven themselves more than capable of producing safe, healthy food, but buckle under the crushing weight of government regulations and excessive enforcement actions.

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Sunday surprise: Senate unanimously passes food safety bill

THE HILL, 12/19/2010 by Alexander Bolton - The Senate unexpectedly approved food safety legislation by unanimous consent Sunday evening, rescuing a bill that floated in limbo for weeks because of a clerical error. Read more at the HILL...

Unanimous? Unanimous! This is terrible! --bc Read More......

Senate Bill S 510 is scary!

Senate Bill S510 Makes it illegal to Grow, Share, Trade or Sell Homegrown Food... and worse, the bill threatens U.S. sovereignty!

S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US. It is to our food what the bailout was to our economy, only we can live without money.

[Passed by Senate on Nov. 30] “If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes. It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one’s choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God.” ~Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower (Read more at infowars.com)

UPDATE: Sen. Merkley and Sen. Wyden both voted "Yea" on S 510. See who voted for and against this bill here. Read More......