SB 510, the Food Safety Bill Scheduled for a Vote Today: Call Your Senator to Stop Federal Takeover of the Food Supply

Americans should be outraged. In the land of the free, we are looking at a Food Safety Act that will remove more rights of the American people to grow and eat health organic foods, while allowing federal laws to push more GMO products though large corporate agribusiness like Monsanto. Today, the Senate is scheduled to vote on SB 510, and you need to call your Senator and demand this stop this madness. I already expect one of my Senators, Claire McCaskill (D-MO), to vote for it since she voted to bring it to the floor for a vote. Call her anyway. All the Democrats in the Senate and 12 Republicans voted to bring this bill out of committee for a vote.

Here is what you need to know about SB 510, the Food Safety Act:

The passage of this bill will extend control over all food in the US, violating a fundamental human right to food. It will create higher compliance costs for smaller producers, putting them at a competitive disadvantage against corporate farmers and producers who can more easily absorb costs, fees, and possible fines, furthermore products not grown according to designated standards will be considered adulterated and your business records will be subject to warrant less searches by inspectors from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), all this without any evidence that you have violated any law.


Some critics of this bill say it could go a lot further also, to the point where the National Guard or other Federal Agencies are called out to quarantine your town. Under S.B. 510’s House counterpart bill, H.R. 2749 (Section 133b, “Authority to Prohibit or Restrict the Movement of Food”), sponsored by Congressman Dingell, the Secretary of Health and Human Services will have the power to prohibit all movement of all food within a geographic area, whether the food is in your grandmother’s grocery bag in her Toyota Hybrid or on a flatbed. No court order will be needed, just a phone call to the appropriate state official and a public announcement will be sufficient.

They also claim that because of concerns over the production of raw milk products like soft cheese's, brie, feta, etc. This new law will be able to prevent the manufacture and distribution of such items within the US. If you don't believe that the FDA would over step their bounds look at what they did to Phusion Projects last week, with their ban on Caffeine in Alcohol they essentially crippled that company.

Under this new law, US food suppliers would need to meet other countries requirements and standards, also S.B. 510 will cost Americans $825 billion in 2010 alone.