The People's Email Network Last 25 Messages Transmitted Log Go Back Exempt Small Food Producers Or Reject S. 510 ********** [031811:041912] S.P., Pittsfield, MA Please stop assaulting us with legislation written by, and for, corporate America. WE are your employer not the corporate elites who have unfettered access to you. ********** [031500:041912] T.C., Pittsfield, MA Who do you work for-us or corporations? I'm sick of you undermining our country. ********** [185600:021411] J.H., Pottsville, PA Exempt Small Food Producers Or Reject S. 510 EMAIL ACTION PAGE: Exempt Small Food Producers Or Reject S. 510 9,356 Submissions so far S. 510 [text of bill], the so-called Food Safety Modernization Act, is very bad news and must be stopped. In the aftermath of the massive recent Salmonella in eggs recall it is clear that 100 percent of the real problems with our food safety are the giant factory farms, where animals spend their entire wretched lives wallowing in their own filth in claustrophobic conditions. These CAFOs (we call them Concentrated Animal Filth Operations) are just mega breeding grounds for bacteria and deadly new viruses that end up not just in animal products but spread to vegetable fields and even our water supply. We need a scalpel, and a large one, to cut to the heart of these problems, but not a huge blunderbuss of a shotgun loaded with random bird shot. We need to keep onerous new bureaucratic regulation from driving out of business the small operations that are the bed rock of our real food supply safety. And most of all we don't need another food czar who is just a corporate crony to wave through a massive invasion of genetically modified crops and animals and call it food safety modernization. S. 510 is just a huge corporate takeover of our entire food supply to our health detriment, and must be stopped at all costs. ********** [074159:020611] a.b., Syracuse, NY oppose s 510 ********** [114851:012711] D.B., South Bend, IN Something like this happened here in South Bend. Until 1976 until the early 1990's we had a nice "Ethnic FestivaL". Ethnic music, dancing AND FOOD (from all of our ethnic communities. Basically made in church halls, people's homes and the like! About 10 or so years into it our Health Departments (*with the bes intentions*!) decided that only food from licensed kitchens could be served, which cut into how many booths there were. Then, one year, it was all (given "ethnic") "fair food": (you know, the kind that's sold out of trailers at county fairs, air shows and the like!) Finally, due to (hopefully unrelated) gang problems the shut the whole thing down! ********** [094110:012211] E.N., Hailey, ID As a small food grower, I am strongly against this bill and urge you to stop it. ********** [183758:123010] G.R., Mount Wolf, PA We need regulation by a reasponsible outside force. It's apparent that these large companies don't feel the need to protect their customers as well as they need to make a profit. ********** [183822:122610] a.b., Syracuse, NY food needs to remain safe annette bailey ********** [102911:122310] C.H., Maple Valley, WA It is devistating to me, that this bill was pushed through and so many that voted it in, simply have not read the entire thing and simply think, "Well, it is for our food safety, so why not"? They only have to know who wrote it and where the private interests come from. Monsanto for one and Monsanto's mantra is somewhere close to Hitler's, "He who controls the food, controls the world". We should have the right to chose raw milk if we want, having been fully informed of the potencial consequences. People of the United States were never asked or informed about genitically modified food or irradiation. How can it be in a supposed free society, that we are not allowed to make informed decisions about what we put in our children's bodies? ********** [111645:122010] T.S., Lewistown, PA Please, we must stop this legislation. The health of the citizens of our great country are threatened by this. Do not allow big corporations to determine what we eat. Small farms must be supported for what they are, small businesses. The people must be protected from toxic food. Please do not pass this bill. ********** [183653:121810] A.M., Hamden, CT This country has thrived on family farming, small family farming. Biodiversity is the heart of healthy foods. Small farms must remain sustainable to keep biodiversity alive. Monocultures in agribusiness promote land deterioration. To grow healthy foods we MUST have healthy soil. Small farms care for their soil, which above all IS our most important natural resource. Give small food producers the freedom to keep doing what they have been doing for centuries. Monitor the monocultures, the genetically modified organisms, agribusiness...these will be the biggest threat to our national safety and health! Thank you. ********** [163412:121810] w.d., New York, NY biodiversity in food is of utmost importance. Genetically modified foods are terrible, and they should be gotten rid of or limited. Organic foods are the way to go. ********** [124839:121710] T.F., Malden, MA No to this legislation. Please do not vote for this. It would be more of a Pandoras' Box than you might think, It is a Dangerous and possibly irreversable Act of Corporate Control over The Country's Food Supply. Thomas Fazio ********** [063858:121710] T.S., Holts Summit, MO Please try to move away from giving more power to those who already have a lot of it. I believe that is the American way. ********** [200540:121610] W.M., Santa Rosa, CA We are the people! We are not cattle to be herded. We have elected officials and they are powerless against corporate lobbyists! We need a Press/Media that will speak the truth and spread the word about who is controlling our government! ********** [083226:121610] C.M., Longmont, CO Well, here we are in the dead of winter and the icy hand of Orwellian totalitarianism is encroaching again on our once humble nation. As the rest of the nation blindly stands ready to give away the last of our freedoms, I look at my garden. The last sanctuary in Amerika. Where a man is free to produce his own produce. Wait, what's this? The FDA wants to take this last freedom. Our forefathers are rolling in their graves. ********** [030817:121210] R.M., Columbus, OH We have the right to as healthy food source for ourselves and our chuldren. ********** [191152:120910] s.l., Renton, WA I certainly hope "food safety" legislation does not pass if it drives local, organic farmers out of business. So often legislation is not what it seems, and "poison pills" abound. Senate #510 is such a bill. In the guise of helping us, it ties local small fasrmers in knots of red tape, leaving us all with only massive, heartless agri-business as our only source of food. I am an RN, I visit disabled people, mostly children, in their homes. My only interest in this is our health. That's important, we shouldn't trust advice from people in the pay of big-business. Don't believe that "Organic" is meaningless. To start with, Google: "Round-up-Ready" crops, Genetic modification, and Red #40. We should take back some controll over our lives by reading a little. The facts are right in plain sight. The sellers of harmful, polluted "foods" absolutely count on us never reading. Start with an occasional magazine. The library has them. Try to find one with less advertising from processed foods and from drug companies. Can you see how the two work neatly together? Cause the allergy or injury, then sell the drugs to controll the chronic symptoms without finding the cause, and eliminating it. Once you know a bit more, Become involved with what's served at school lunches, and what's in the vending machines. And do whatever you can to help struggling local family farmers, and for your own sake and your children's, eat their produce. Or grow your own. And try to help stop Senate 510. ********** [145835:120910] B.H., Snohomish, WA This bill will certainly put a stop to the family farms community market I have been involved in markets for more than 10 years. It is hard enough to succeed in a family farm. I think there are more pressing food processors to pay attention to in my opinion. Monopolies are the end of free democracy. Please help us have a voice! Bruce Hendrickson ********** [225822:120810] C.H., Maple Valley, WA Would it be to much to ask to get Monsanto influences out and away from the FDA. Most everyone I speak to no longer feels safer from, or respects the FDA's decisions. We see them actively working for of a handful of corps, clearly not reflecting or respecting the wishes or welfare of the general population. It's truely heart-wrenching and discusting to see them raid organic, raw milk farms out of the publics eye, or raid the organic farmer by sneaking on and planting Monsanto's gmo seeds, so they can sue and put them out of business. They are hurting people, plants, seeds and the planet in general all in the name of money, under the false pretense of watching out for our safety. ********** [075338:120710] N.B., West Mifflin, PA Please kill S-510 -- big brother cannot tell us what to eat and what not to eat/consume via legislation. We need our family farms! A pox on agribusiness! They've done nothing but pollute our food supply. ********** [014810:120710] P.P., Winchendon, MA Do what is good for the american people and american livestock. Do what you know is right, not what you think you can get a way with. ********** [101054:120610] M.S., Delta, OH get real. Family farms are not the [roblem, anu more than cold medicine in the hands of people with colds leads to meth. Feel good laws do nothing except make congressmen feel good ********** [062250:120610] G.B., Hinsdale, IL Please stop GMOs from entering our food supply. The likes of Monsanto are trying to play God and the results so far have been disastrous. Please stop this bill ! ********** [053820:120610] P.C., Corvallis, OR Huge companies have been shown to degrade the quality of food products (and the land they farm!). Please make sure that legislation to protect consumers actually does protect us and that rules designed for big agri-businesses do not harm the viability of small farms and ranches. ********** Go Back