Bill S. 510 re: 'food safety' - thought it was dead? Think again.

Shall we expand the reach of the FDA? Proposed bill S. 510 would provide an extra $1 billion. The FDA is working right now to end reputable food producers like the independent family farm where the free market works every day to provide the public with healthy choices.
The FDA would be expanded by nearly 4,000 new bureaucrats in the year 2010 so they can perform this 'operation'.
If you thought S. 510 was defeated, you should click here to read an informative article. Certain factions have too much at stake to leave it alone. You need to be informed of the tactics they are using. Your voice needs to be heard again; contact your senators today.

Raw Milk Conumers - Win a Battle Today and a War Tomorrow

Falls Church, Virginia (August 20, 2010) - In a complex federal district court ruling, Judge Mark W. Bennett refused to grant a motion by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the agency by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) and eight other named plaintiffs. The lawsuit argues that federal regulations (21 CFR 1240.61 and 21 CFR 131.10) prohibiting raw milk for human consumption in interstate commerce are unconstitutional as applied to FTCLDF’s members and the other plaintiffs named in the suit.

In his August 18 decision, Judge Bennett denied part of FDA’s motion to dismiss while reserving judgment on the remainder. As part of his ruling, the judge ordered proceedings in the case to be stayed sixty days to allow plaintiffs time to decide whether to file a ‘citizen petition’ with FDA. The petition would ask FDA to clarify its interpretation of the authorizing statutes and regulations giving the agency power to ban raw milk for human consumption in interstate commerce. If plaintiffs choose to file the citizen petition, the court would continue to delay the suit until the administrative proceedings were completed or until FDA failed to take action within the time the law requires. If plaintiffs declined to pursue the citizen petition, Judge Bennett indicated the court would reconsider FDA’s motion to dismiss.

In Judge Bennett’s view, the main question FDA needs to answer in the petition process is

whether § 1240.61 applies to and proscribes the conduct of (1) persons who travel from one state, where it is not legal to purchase raw milk, to another state, where it is legal to purchase raw milk, legally purchase raw milk, then return to the original state where they consume the raw milk themselves or give it to their friends or family members; or (2) a principal and agent who agree that the agent will obtain raw milk out-of-state, where it is legal to do so, and to deliver it to the principal in the principal’s home state, where sales of raw milk are not permitted; or (3) a producer of raw milk who sells raw milk in an intrastate transaction to persons that he knows are from out of state.

All of the individually named plaintiffs in the lawsuit fit into one of the three scenarios described above. Section 1240.61 provides in part,

No person shall cause to be delivered into interstate commerce or shall sell, or otherwise distribute, or hold for sale or other distribution after shipment in interstate commerce any milk or milk product in final package form for direct human consumption unless the product has been pasteurized….

Judge Bennett sees the citizen petition as a way to resolve the question of

whether the plaintiff’s conduct involves or affects “interstate commerce” sufficiently to fall within the proscriptions of § 1240.61, and, still more specifically, whether the plaintiffs’ conduct constitutes “delivery [of raw dairy products] into interstate commerce” or “distribution” of raw dairy products after shipment in interstate commerce.

Plaintiffs have survived the first round in the case. They have until October 18 to determine what their next course of action will be.

See the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund site for more data and to participate more directly.

healing on all levels eating raw

"I so hope some day soon all doctors, nurses, physiotherapists etc lose their fear and practice [eating] raw and recommend raw omnivorism, and everyone heals on all levels. I guess the world would be boring then, but I would really appreciate it."
Roslyn S.

P.S. "If you don't know where you are going, when you get there you will be lost." Yogi Berra said that . He was a great American baseball player and down-to-earth philosopher. I quote Yogi as a way to thank Roslyn for a great statement of where we are going.
Another P.S. Roslyn monitors a great online social group. If you are on the Primal Diet and wish to be admitted to this group, email me at rawfoodresults@gmail.com for an invitation. Or apply at http://www.PrimalDietFriends.com.
See this important link: Health or Disease by Aajonus Vonderplanitz (this link will only be active for the next three days).

Primal Diet - a 'thank you' note to Aajonus

"I've been on the wonderful Primal Diet 12 years. When I first found Aajonus, I had some numbing in my arms. He saw in my irises that I had the onset of MS! I strictly followed his diet recommendations. At a checkup 1 1/2 years later, no signs remained!

Also soon after beginning the Primal Diet, my peri-menopause reversed, and only came back 2 years ago, at age 54. A number of other nice youthing [anti-aging] things happened! And I have better color and more energy than many 20 year-olds I know. Whenever I've had a health issue, Aajonus's advice has always been right on and worked. Our doggie is also Primal Diet and the picture of health.

Recently I visited a 54 year old lady with MS in a nursing home. I was filled with compassion and gratitude that this could have been me. Thank you, Aajonus, for your work."

Love,
Bess

Aajonus on the air - a streaming radio interview

You can phone 408-648-4679 and hear the interview that Aajonus did with Tonio Epstein.

It's an hour long. What it will cost you is simply the cost of a phone call.

It's a great interview. Enjoy!

submitted by Martin L., San Jose, California - a Primal Diet enthusiast.

"Choose The Foods That Are Best For Your Health"

We at the Nutritional Foundation (and who run the www.WeWant2Live.com website) have received many phone calls and e-mails expressing concern and offers to help, in the wake of the raid on the Rawesome Co-op in Venice, on June 30th, 2010.

Recently a Canadian friend of Dr. Aajonus Vonderplanitz, PhD. Nutrition (this friend shall remain nameless for now) expressed concern that we were entering the legal arena, and that this could drain our efforts of time, energy and money.

This upside of suing the attackers would be to set legal precedents, and make it easier for those who follow us to choose the foods that are going to be best for their health.

Dr. Vonderplanitz replied to our Canadian friend: "some battles are worth fighting. This may be one, with help of course."

And so we encourage you (as Dr. Vonderplanitz has done) to donate money to "The Right To Choose Healthy Foods (P.O. Box 176, Santa Monica, Ca. 90406-0176)." Your help will be much appreciated in the continuing saga of getting good quality raw foods to everyone who chooses to consume them. And thanks

"Freedom to Grow, Sell or Buy Food..."

Dear health-giving-food lovers,
Please send the following senators listed below my sample letter below, or write one and send yours.
healthfully,
aajonus

Dear Congress(wo)man,

I am deeply concerned with your sponsorship of Senate Bill 510. That bill represents another hideous attempt to place more power into the hands of centralized government and robs individual citizens and states. The greatest danger to mankind is that this bill allows complete manipulation of America's food supply and threatens to strip us of our freedoms to grow, sell, and buy food and make doing any of those natural things crimes punishable by imprisonment. It would be a crime to grow food and share it with my friends and neighbors. The act of generating and supporting this bill is in itself criminal to our Constitution to which you are not immune. Not only remove your sponsorship from Bill S510 but defeat it. Thank you.

Sincerely,

(your name)

Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) is the sponsor of this bill.

Click here to write these senators today and tell them to revoke their support of Senate Bill 5101!

Co-sponsors are:
Lamar Alexander [R-TN]

Jeff Bingaman [D-NM]

Richard Burr [R-NC]

Roland Burris [D-IL]

Saxby Chambliss [R-GA]

Christopher Dodd [D-CT]

Michael Enzi [R-WY]

Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]

Judd Gregg [R-NH]

Thomas Harkin [D-IA]

Orrin Hatch [R-UT]

John Isakson [R-GA]

Edward Kennedy [D-MA]

Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]

Ben Nelson [D-NE]

Tom Udall [D-NM]

David Vitter [R-LA]

Who's hand puts food in my mouth - or is it W.H.O.'s hand...

Senate Bill S510 Will Make It Illegal to Grow, Share, Trade or Sell Homegrown Food
by Steve Green

S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US.
“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.” It is similar to what India faced with imposition of the salt tax during British rule, only S 510 extends control over all food in the US, violating the fundamental human right to food." ~ Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower.

Monsanto says it has no interest in the bill and would not benefit from it, but Monsanto’s Michael Taylor who gave us rBGH (click here to view an early version of Aajonus' milk report to see what rBGH is and what it does) and unregulated genetically modified (GM) organisms, appears to have designed it and is waiting as an appointed Food Czar to the FDA (a position unapproved by Congress) to administer the agency it would create — without judicial review — if it passes.
S 510 would give Monsanto unlimited power over all US seed, food supplements, food AND FARMING...

(Just think - I almost took a tomato from my brother's garden this morning - Jim)

History
In the 1990s, Bill Clinton introduced HACCP (Hazardous Analysis Critical Control Points) purportedly to deal with contamination in the meat industry. Clinton’s HACCP delighted the offending corporate (World Trade Organization “WTO”) meat packers since it allowed them to inspect themselves, eliminated thousands of local food processors (with no history of contamination), and centralized meat into their control. Monsanto promoted HACCP.

In 2008, Hillary Clinton, urged a powerful centralized food safety agency as part of her campaign for president. Her advisor was Mark Penn, CEO of Burson Marsteller*, a giant PR firm representing Monsanto. Clinton lost, but Clinton friends such as Rosa DeLauro, whose husband’s firm lists Monsanto as a progressive client and globalization as an area of expertise, introduced early versions of S 510.

S 510 fails on moral, social, economic, political, constitutional, and human survival grounds.

1. It puts all US food and all US farms under Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, in the event of contamination or an ill-defined emergency. It resembles the Kissinger Plan.

2. It would end US sovereignty over its own food supply by insisting on compliance with the WTO, thus threatening national security. It would end the Uruguay Round Agreement Act of 1994, which put US sovereignty and US law under perfect protection. Instead, S 510 says:

COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS.

Nothing in this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) shall be construed in a manner inconsistent with the agreement establishing the World Trade Organization or any other treaty or international agreement to which the United States is a party.

3. It would allow the government, under Maritime Law, to define the introduction of any food into commerce (even direct sales between individuals) as smuggling into “the United States.” Since under that law, the US is a corporate entity and not a location, “entry of food into the US” covers food produced anywhere within the land mass of this country and “entering into” it by virtue of being produced.

4. It imposes Codex Alimentarius on the US, a global system of control over food. It allows the United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the WTO to take control of every food on earth and remove access to natural food supplements. Its bizarre history and its expected impact in limiting access to adequate nutrition (while mandating GM food, GM animals, pesticides, hormones, irradiation of food, etc.) threatens all safe and organic food and health itself, since the world knows now it needs vitamins to survive, not just to treat illnesses.

5. It would remove the right to clean, store and thus own seed in the US, putting control of seeds in the hands of Monsanto and other multinationals, threatening US security. See Seeds – How to criminalize them, for more details.

6. It includes NAIS, an animal traceability program that threatens all small farmers and ranchers raising animals. The UN is participating through the WHO, FAO, WTO, and World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) in allowing mass slaughter of even heritage breeds of animals and without proof of disease. Biodiversity in farm animals is being wiped out to substitute genetically engineered animals on which corporations hold patents. Animal diseases can be falsely declared. S 510 includes the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), despite its corrupt involvement in the H1N1 scandal, which is now said to have been concocted by the corporations.

7. It extends a failed and destructive HACCP to all food, thus threatening to do to all local food production and farming what HACCP did to meat production – put it in corporate hands and worsen food safety.

8. It deconstructs what is left of the American economy. It takes agriculture and food, which are the cornerstone of all economies, out of the hands of the citizenry, and puts them under the total control of multinational corporations influencing the UN, WHO, FAO and WTO, with HHS, and CDC, acting as agents, with Homeland Security as the enforcer. The chance to rebuild the economy based on farming, ranching, gardens, food production, natural health, and all the jobs, tools and connected occupations would be eliminated.

9. It would allow the government to mandate antibiotics, hormones, slaughterhouse waste, pesticides and GMOs. This would industrialize every farm in the US, eliminate local organic farming, greatly increase global warming from increased use of oil-based products and long-distance delivery of foods, and make food even more unsafe. The five items listed — the Five Pillars of Food Safety — are precisely the items in the food supply which are the primary source of its danger.

10. It uses food crimes as the entry into police state power and control. The bill postpones defining all the regulations to be imposed; postpones defining crimes to be punished, postpones defining penalties to be applied. It removes fundamental constitutional protections from all citizens in the country, making them subject to a corporate tribunal with unlimited power and penalties, and without judicial review.