and I think it has the potential to have a negative effect on the health of US citizens. Much of the organic produce that is made in this country is from small farms and producers. I remember watching a film on food production and while it did have somewhat of a Leftist bend, it did point out that the farmers who are doing things the old school way were being picked on for quote “being unsanitary” (which they were not) and large mass production plants were getting away with all sorts of unsanitary activities.
It would be a travesty if some of the small farms that are at my local farmer’s market are shut down because of this ridiculous overreach of the government.

No more new laws.

It seems like every new law that is passed anymore was written by idiots and full of unintended consequences (at least I hope unintended is the right word).

We don’t need more laws, there are more than enough to hang anyone in the country for about any reason.

1. Ceding Sovereignty and control of Food Supply to NWO

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 WTO or any other treaty or INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTto which the United States is a party. http://is.gd/hmPRs

So we are ceding Senate Oversight, Judicial Review, Federal, State and Local Law to the WTO and to any future “International Agreement” that could be negotiated by a Food Czar and executed by Obama without the Advice and consent of the Senate.

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.

2. This Bill allows an unelected Government Bureaucrat to Quarantine, Search or Seize PRIVATE PROPERTY without a warrant and without any access to Judicial Review.

I think the other problems with this alleged “safety” bill are well document issue…personally I cannot palate any ceding of US Sovereignty for ANY REASON; nor can I palate any Watering down of the 4th Amendment.

There is no crisis…this is death by bureaucracy. I am curious when the people of this nation gave authority that allows any erosion of sovereignty such that power is shifted from our elected representatives to Foreign unelected entities, other than through the treaty process…and even then I doubt The Federal Government has the authority to transfer powers reserved for the states or the people via the treaty process. As a fundamental rule of law, one cannot assign or transfer powers or property one does not posses.

14 Republicans who voted for cloture.

Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN)
Enzi (R-WY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Johanns (R-NE)
LeMieux (R-FL)
Lugar (R-IN)
Snowe (R-ME)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)

LeMieux is surprising…

This bill will add 5000 ‘Food Safety’ federal employees to the payroll. Didn’t we just all vote for ANYTHING BUT BIGGER GOV’T on November 2nd????

to treat small family farms the way tha tthe Chrysler bondholder’s were treated — robbed!

Why so many R”s voting for this?

What happened to the R’s threat that using reconciliation to pass Obamacare would be seen as a declaration of war in the Senate, and they would shut down the Senate?

IF cloture has alrready passed, than it sounds like this bill would be passed.

The Worst of Both Bills Hs & Sn http://is.gd/hr0ZH (.pdf)

“He who controls the food, controls the people.”

“Food is a weapon.” Maxim Litvinov, Soviet Commissar of Frn Affrs

Below is a list of GOP senators and their Contributions, complete list of all senators is here –>http://is.gd/hmJzg with no record for Brown or LeMieux.

SENATOR D/R ST ProSB510 AntiSB510
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Lamar Alexander R TN $189,527 $ 5,744
John Barrasso R WY $ 25,350 $ 33,500
Robert Bennett R UT $105,530 $ 10,000
Christopher Bond R MO $ 49,550 $ 5,200
Scott Brown R MA $ ? $ ?
Samuel Brownback R KS $ 20,950 $ 13,500
Jim Bunning R KY $ 20,700 $ 2,000
Richard Burr R NC $326,086 $ 34,292
Saxby Chambliss R GA $504,800 $160,935
Thomas Coburn R OK $ 62,900 $ 15,700
Thad Cochran R MS $ 49,750 $ 22,394
Susan Collins R ME $147,500 $ 17,738
Bob Corker R TN $291,539 $ 15,950
John Cornyn R TX $282,254 $259,124
Michael Crapo R ID $ 50,199 $ 28,350
Jim DeMint R SC $148,935 $ 6,000
John Ensign R NV $ 72,750 $ 14,047
Michael Enzi R WY $ 85,000 $ 23,844
Lindsey Graham R SC $ 99,484 $ 7,488
Charles Grassley R IA $109,850 $ 27,800
Judd Gregg R NH $ 26,000 $ 0
Orrin Hatch R UT $ 96,779 $ 17,036
Kay Hutchison R TX $119,900 $111,297
James Inhofe R OK $ 64,350 $ 38,824
John Isakson R GA $270,395 $ 20,700
Mike Johanns R NE $145,009 $ 74,035
Jon Kyl R AZ $338,877 $ 83,689
LeMieux R FL $ ? $ ?
Richard Lugar R IN $149,579 $ 25,000
John McCain R AZ $ 98,470 $ 41,125
Mitch McConnell R KY $415,899 $ 65,938
Lisa Murkowski R AK $163,713 $ 6,800 Not Voting
James Risch R ID $ 41,000 $ 51,800
Pat Roberts R KS $156,900 $ 75,580
Jefferson Sessions R AL $ 64,909 $ 17,194
Richard Shelby R AL $ 73,616 $ 10,000
Olympia Snowe R ME $ 76,500 $ 3,636
John Thun R SD $207,900 $ 66,625
David Vitter R LA $183,225 $ 13,500
George Voinovich R OH $103,850 $ 185
Roger Wicker R MS $144,550 $ 19,350

How they voted on Cloture: Yays (Original Reporting)

* Alexander (R-TN)
* Barrasso (R-WY)
* Brown (R-MA)
* Collins (R-ME)
* Corker (R-TN)
* Enzi (R-WY)
* Grassley (R-IA)
* Gregg (R-NH)
* Johanns (R-NE)
* LeMieux (R-FL)
* Lugar (R-IN)
* Snowe (R-ME)
* Thune (R-SD)
* Vitter (R-LA)
* Voinovich (R-OH)

Final Reporting http://is.gd/hrtMt

Voted Yes
_________
Brown (R-MA)
Collins (R-ME)
Snowe (R-ME)
Voinovich (R-OH)

Did Not Vote
__________
Alexander (R-TN)
Bunning (R-KY)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Johanns (R-NE)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Risch (R-ID)
Vitter (R-LA)

There’s your 41 to stop this monstrosity.

1. In my opinion this whole cloture vote was orchestrated jointly by reid & McConnell. The wheels were well greased by a 10-1 margin on both sides of the isle. McConnell’s Nay vote as well as that of many other GOP’ers are clearly illusory as they allowed Rino’s in blue states to vote Yea on cloture (or in Voinovich’s case, someone with both feet out the door)….and then let most of the Red State votes go Nay or No Vote.

2. Meanwhile McConnell has taken in a Half Million Dollars in bribes and our two friends from Georgia haven’t done too shabby either…while hiding behind their sham no votes……they fully intend for this bill to pass. as we know 99% of all bills that slip past cloture, go on to become law. Besides, some Dem Senator claimed he had 90 votes, absent a miracle…this becomes law.

3. So now that the bill will come to a vote after Thanksgiving, Our Boy Mitch “Small Govt.” McConnell has orchestrated it so all his Senate buddies on both sides collect healthy campaign contributions, the Bill goes through cloture in stealth mode, with a virtual media blackout…because we can’t have the little people pay too much attention to this outrage…And when the final Bill becomes Law:

- Dems Will vote unanimous to pass, and tout their “Food Safety” creds. Handed to them on a silver platter, as if any uninformed voter could be against “Food Safety”

- Two GOP’ers will flip…probably Brown and Voinovich…While the rest of the GOP ‘Monolith’ will vote “No” and tout their “Small Govt.” creds to the base….and happily all the Senators get to keep their $10,000,000.00+ campaign war chest…a win win

- Lastly, we taxpayers pick up the tab for a New Big Government Freedom Hating Bureaucracy with unelected Bureaucrats wielding martial law powers.

Sweet!

So glad I spent all that money on GOP & TP candidates…it looks like they really got the message…. I was worried there for a second.

Tried several years ago to implement the NAIS (natioal Animal ID System). They receieved heavy resistance from us producers. S.510 is going to cause the same as NAIS would have, massive cost will be expected of the producers to maintain compliance and only the Big Ag will be able to survive because of ….WAIVERS

CALL and Let them know. I know I am not the only TN resident here.

Alexander may be a lost cause as he is a co-sponsor.

Tyranny in the name of safety.

It’s time to close down the legislative body completely, No more new laws, only repeals.

If they won’t convene to begin repealing laws intended to enslave us, then they must not convene at all.

We are past the boiling point

One but has to look who is the FDA and who they either represent or work for or worked for – one name comes up time and again – MONSANTO! The ones who stand to benifit most – as they say, follow the money.

For centuries small family farmers and farms have fed this country – they still do, yet the FDA says it is against the law to sell raw milk, it is against the law to sell your wares to the populace. They want to tell you what to buy, what to grow, how to grow it and then regulate you into oblivion!

Their time and effort would be better spent regulating the imprted garbage we get in country filled with Genetically Modified food, or melamine, or hazardous levels of toxic mercury (to name a few).

MONSANTO and their cronies (see the list of those who voted for this) want to stop all farming that is not of Monasanto;’s making (and a few others as well) so that the end result is we (the American public and all small farmers) will be regulated out of business! So now Obama can institute the fruit and nut police to spy on you and your friends then incarcerate you if you grow a vegetable in the confines of your own home. When is enough enough?

Isn’t it about time we the people stand up and push back – for all those who voted this in – initiate a recall or assure them they will be voted out next election. These same individuals have no honor and have breached their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution and our rights. They are all sellouts and bought and paid for – they sold their souls cheap. Now stand up and be heard!

“Big agriculture is one of the largest proponents of the bill since it will likely destroy their competitors who cannot afford the high cost of these regulations.”

It’s called crony capitalism.

And it’s why, despite leftist media stereotyping, Big Business loves the Democrat Parthy.

It has NOTHING at all to do with safety, it has to do with being in cahoots with a bunch of big agriculture corporations who would like nothing better than to have extra regulatory expenses that they can absorb, but their smaller competitors cannot absorb.

Liberals are the best thing that ever happened to big multi-national corporations.

After all why not since the O and his followers believe he can likely magically do it all better than Stalin etc…

…..DISEASE Control was concerning itself with GUN control. The EPA is now going to ry to regulate DUST. Arne Duncan wants to be the sole provider of (FDA-regulated) FOOD to your children. And on and on and on and on.This will not stop until the bureaucracy in Washington is DISMANTLED. Cabinet Departments, Agencies, Commissions, etc, etc,. Vote Republican! Slow the growth of the Federal government! Fred Upton would make a great Committee chairman! Are you kidding me?

The first thing Marxists do when they get control of any Gov.–kill personal farming and create a Gov. controlled collective of food sources to be distributed, or not, to the newly created masses of slaves under their thumbs. 100′s of millions perish do to starvation under Marxist regimes (see any true/real history of Marxism) intent on ridding the planet of the unnecessary opposition to their evil goals.

“With the economy still suffering, we cannot afford even more burdensome job killing regulation. We must stop this dangerous bill that could destroy independent family farms that provide healthy food choices.” I believe that the FDA has control over enough of our food supply and doesn’t need another bill passed to control it even more. Farming in itself is hard work and to live up to the standards of a bill, that sounds like it’s going to control every little detail of farming, is just plain wrong. Every individual has their own farming techniques and to take them away would cost many food producers much more than they can afford. This bill sounds outrageous and should not be moved forward!

But I’m still frustrated about the article that implies that those with mental health issues are also demos.

The GOP ain’t it! There needs to be an immediate “Come to Jesus” meeting of the GOP to determine who is going to lead it into 2011 and beyond. If that meeting fails to oust the RINOPS from leadership positions, then it should be off to a 3rd Party which will become the new majority party! Time would be awasting if we hang with the RINO old guard – who are embarrassed to associate with us non-elitists anyway!

Let’s have a mass move to an existing third party, and make it the dominant majority conservative party that the conservative majority in this nation deserves. I suggest the Constitution Party – it has the structure, the principles, and the kindred conservative souls to get us prepared for 2012! Is it the first choice? No, but it is the best choice if the GOP doesn’t have an internal revolution to match what happened November 2nd!