 On Tuesday, the Senate voted in favor of the long-stalled Food Safety Modernization Act. While a final vote date hasn’t yet been set, President Obama hopes a House vote will go through with similar gusto, saying "We are one step closer to having critically important new tools to protect our nation's food supply and keep consumers safe." The bill, which represents the most sweeping overhaul of the food safety system since 1938, allows for greater governmental regulation of the U.S. food system - currently in the national spotlight for numerous egg and produce recalls that have kept Americans in fear of their breakfast since this past August. Here's a breakdown of the key points: Mandatory Recall Authority The FDA would have the authority to issue direct recalls of foods that are suspected to be tainted, rather than relying on individual producers to voluntarily issue recalls. Currently, the FDA can negotiate with companies, but has no power to enact a mandatory recall. CNN Radio's Jim Roope speaks with FDA's Associate Commissioner for Food Protection, Dr. Jeff Farrar about the measures the FDA can currently take. Hazard Plans Food producers would be required to develop written food safety plans, accessible by the government in case of emergency. These would include an analysis of possible risks associated with production of their food and a plan to fix it. More specifically, the food producers would be required to identify and anticipate potential "biological, chemical, physical, and radiological hazards, natural toxins, pesticides, drug residues, decomposition, parasites, allergens, and unapproved food hazards that occur naturally, or may be unintentionally introduced; and identify and evaluate hazards that may be intentionally introduced, including by acts of terrorism" and develop a written analysis of the hazards that would "be made promptly available to a duly authorized representative of the Secretary upon oral or written request." Tracing System The Secretary of Health and Human Services would be required to create a food tracing system that would quickly zero in on the source of contamination, should an outbreak occur, and keep it from spreading further. They’d work hand-in-hand with food producers to "explore and evaluate methods to rapidly and effectively identify recipients of food to prevent or mitigate a foodborne illness outbreak and to address credible threats of serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals as a result of such food being adulterated." Making Imports Safer Importers would be required to verify the safety of all imported foods to make sure it's in accordance with U.S. food safety guidelines. The Experts Weigh In Despite the increased safety measures, CNN Health reports that many advocates say the bill is "historic but not perfect", and lacks "teeth" - noting that the FDA cannot file criminal charges against producers who knowingly put contaminated food into the market. Senator Jon Tester of Montana, however, tells Eatocracy that this bill – with an amendment he co-authored, stating that food producers would not be subject to new federal requirements if they sell the majority of their food directly to consumers within their state, or within a 275-mile radius of where it was produced, and have less than $500,000 per year in sales – is a “win for anyone who eats food. Small processors win, farmers win, and even the big guys win because people will have faith in their product.” He adds, “This bill is designed to work. It’s not one size fits all.” These processors would still be responsible for demonstrating that they have identified potential hazards and are implementing preventive controls to address the hazards, or demonstrating to the FDA that they are in compliance with state or local food safety laws. As a farmer himself – though he does not direct-market any of his food – he is especially proud. “Over the last ten or more years, I’ve watched farmers markets spring up across Montana. They’re becoming more popular as people are eating locally-grown food. A farmer has to be able to look his customer in the eye. If you passed the bill without the amendment, it puts that trust at risk.” And as to allegations - rampant on conspiracy theorist and Tea Party-affiliated blogs as well as in our very own comments section - that this bill will allow the FDA to toss grandma in the slammer for sharing her jars of dilly beans, make home gardens illegal and appoint the head of the Monsanto corporation as Emperor of All Seeds? Tester laughs. “They’ve got to just read the bill. Unequivocally NO. That’s just a case of using fear.” You may now return to your omelette. If you dare. Get more coverage on the food safety bill - Senate approves long-delayed food safety bill - Advocates: Food safety bill doesn't have teeth - Food safety bill 'not perfect' but historic - Op-ed: Jane Velez-Mitchell – Food safety doesn't end with S.510 - Poll: How much control should the federal government be allowed to exercise over food safety? |
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I have diarhea. It burns.
What are our congress men and women thinking????Are they so far up Big companies butts they can no longer see the light of day? Money is all they think about, power, greed...I am glad I live far away from the cities. How will they check every house, farm where will the money come for that? We can't pay our bills as a government as it is. Big business makes me sick along with my congress! We do need to clean the planet..starting with washington!
LAST!!!!!
These rules only cover FDA inspected plants. A lot of small producers are not federally inspected and don't have to folow federal guide lines small producers in most states are regulated and inspected by the state department of agriculture and they don't have as strict guidelines. So for small producers it would not change much at all. I deal with the michigan department of agriculture and the new federal guidlines and rules wil mean nothing to me, because i'mn not usda inspected
i DO NOT buy grocery store poultry actually i buy all my meat from the local market and the poultry pork and beef are raised not too far from where i live.i can see and smell the difference ALOT in the poultry.
the picture may or may not be photo-shopped, but its definitely staged. FDA rules require that no "permeable substance" can be used, except for straw for NESTING. there is straw on thew floor, hence none of the chicken meat or eggs,can pass USDA inspection.... but it does look a bit photo-shopped...
HA! CENSORSHIP AT ITS BEST – PROVIDE A COMMUNITY BLOGGING FORUM AND THEN PULL THE PLUG WHEN THE BLOGGERS OFFER UP TOO MUCH INFORMATION. I GUESS WE'RE MAKING YOU CNN "RESEARCHERS" LOOK BAD?
Hmmm? Not sure what you're talking about. The commenting software automatically holds posts that have more than a couple of links in them, as it assumes those posts are spam. No one is trying to censor any information - just save our readers from having to look at too many fake Rolex & Viagra ads.
My bad! I listed more than a couple Internet links for anyone wanting to learn about the other side of this story that CNN summarizes in three words: "very weird rumors." I received an auto-response telling me, "your comment is waiting to be moderated." Moderated by whom? The spam folder? Where is it said in your CNN terms of use that comments with "more than a couple of links in them" are assumed as spam by your commenting software?
Here are some links to view a few documentary films detailing how GMOs damage our food supply, with the URLs spelled out this time:
“The Future of Food" can be found on a web site called: “snag films DOT com” and, “video project DOT com.” Another film titled, "The World According to Monsanto" can be found on the web site: “free documentaries DOT org.” There’s another film on Monsanto out there if you can find it, called "Food Inc.,”
There’s also a popular book called "Against the Grain: Biotechnology – The Corporate Takeover of Your Food," found on Amazon’s web site.
Also online: “Organic Consumers Association,” found at “organic consumers DOT org.”
The film and literature out there promoting Monsanto’s agenda are usually always, if not always created by Monsanto. For anyone who thinks the “other side” to this story is all hype and paranoia, ask yourself, why would anyone vote yes to remove diversity from our food supply? That’s on this agenda they’re calling “food safety” in Congress. Genetic diversity is what keeps some of us alive on this planet whenever a plague strikes. Common sense checklist: 1) less diversity in our seed & crops means a greater likelihood crops can be wiped out in one fell swoop by some unforeseen pestilence, bacteria, etc. Same goes for the people who consume it. Those folks (us) will have weaker immune systems from less food varieties and built-in pesticides, all resulting in lowered nutrition from eating GMO crops (the body needs abundant vitamins and minerals to eliminate toxins). How convenient when a nasty new global bird flu, gobbledy-goo virus comes along and wipes out a segment of the "weaker" population. Survival of the fittest ensues, or in this case, survival of those with enough money and education to have been eating what's left of the organic food supply in the U.S., all the while paying out the #ss for it, and any purified water they can find.
And some want to talk about how this new “food safety” bill is protecting us from bioterrorism?! Ha! How about setting us up for it? Our food is already loaded with antibiotics, hormones, viruses, bacteria and chemicals as it stands (as is our water, and our air). And now Monsanto is well on their way in taking the majority of God-given genetic diversity out of our food supply – PEOPLE WAKE UP. Monsanto even plans to genetically engineer crops to cure diabetes. What next, Monsanto is changing its name to Jesus?
Not sure if my last post went through. If you want to really learn about this, check out http://www.healthfreedomUSA.org website of the largest health freedom organization in the world. This has been called by many the "Food Fascism Bill." There is a "Food Safety Amendment" that could address alot of the problems in this bill. If you look closely at the bill, it opens a back door to CODEX Alimenatrius, a draconian law in Europe, brought to you by the same Nazi that engineered the gas used at Nazi Concentration camps. The CODEX commission meets in secret meetings with no access by the public. The FDA will be allowed to enact secret regulations without public access. Check out the above website and you'll better understand this legislation.
Good health to you,
Robert
Section 403 (4) of the Food Safety Modernization Act specifically exempts poultry, beef, and eggs. So why is CNN trying to scare us with a photo of a chicken farm and mentioning the contaminated egg incident in August. Why state that contaminated eggs "have kept Americans in fear of their breakfast since this past August" if this new law does not even apply to eggs? Fear mongering, perhaps? I was never afraid to eat eggs, being that I was informed and knew that my eggs did not come from that ONE supplier in Iowa. This is horrible reporting.
I agree. S-510 will allow full government control of small farms and that is about as Un-American as it gets.
It will mean the end of my little farm . "S 510 was designed by michael taylor, an attorney for monsanto. the tracing system they talk about in the article... yea, that prevents direct transfer of food from person to person without a costly and intrusive registration, which requires you to consent to inspection of your crops (once they are on your property, they can search anywhere btw, including indoors). this bill will all but eliminate farmers markets, and the sharing of homegrown produce with your friends and neighbors. That tracing system also entails the tracking of all animal ownership, which includes your pets. It also operates under the patriot act, under the supervision of homeland security... and thats pretty sketchy. Michael Taylor and Bob Shapiro: Look them up, and look at the involvement of monsanto, a massive agriculture conglomerate in passing this sham bill. I really wish CNN would be more honest in their reporting, they are no better than fox anymore."
EVERY reference to Homeland Security in the bill was in reference to intentional tainting of food, not placing tracking under them, not patriot act, not under the supervision of, but in consultation WITH Homeland Security.
Farmers markets are only included in the bill as a definition to clarify US code, placing them where they SHOULD be, as a retail food establishment.
But, it seems I have an ability you lack, the ability to read. I also have another ability you lack, the ability to locate the US Senate website and download the text of the bill.
When I combine the two, I find that you are either deliberately lying OR are grossly misinformed.
Your the idiot. You're not addressing his claims, merely the text of the bill.
The reality IS that the FDA is a government board CONTROLLED by special interests, Micheal Taylor is the biggest opponent of TRUE food safety in the world, and he is the FDAs cheif policy maker and was vice-presidengt of Monsanto as well I believe. HE designed the bill. HE controls the FDA. HE gets more power.
YOu do nothing to address these issues, and if you read the text and put these pieces tgether, the text SAYS Michael Taylor and the Monsanto friendly FDA control the food supply.
It's as simple as that. And yes, the conspiracy is true, and you are being manipulated by the partisan discourse into not questioning this legislation.
It's not going to mean the end of your farm. You'll just have more paperwork to fill out. Now, I could design an SQF1000-compliant food safety program for you, but my fee for that is $75/hour. That's actually pretty reasonable.
I read your other comments and believed you to be well informed, so I gave your input much credibality. However, selectively breeding plants and animals is NOT the same as GM.
If the widspread fear in the public regarding GM foods is unjustified, why does Monsanto fight so hard to prevent independent scientific inspection and testing? Wouldn't they welcome such testing if they had nothing to hide?....of course they would, it would be worth much money and more access in foreigh markets if GM food was independently verified as safe. The fact that the company refuses to allow independent testing (complete with legal action against any who attempt this on "private owned, patented seeds) says all anyone needs to know.
You have damaged your credibality with this transparent shilling.
This is my career and has been for over twenty years. I should be well-informed about it.
What shilling? I work as the QA and Food Safety Manager for a small producer of snack foods right now. I have no interest whatsoever in what Monsanto or ADM do, and I have no interest in any sort of GM process. I'm saying that the scare behind GM is overblown because of general scientific ignorance of what goes into it. GM food producers are doing at the genetic level, and with more accuracy, what humans have been doing in a hit-and-miss fashion for ten thousand years, namely selective breeding. It is the same thing. Both processes choose a specific genetic line and refine it. It's only the fact that it's being done in a fashion that most people can't understand that's causing the fear. Science to most people is scary.
What Monsanto is doing regarding independent testing is more of an attempt to secure their patents than anything else. There's nothing conspiratorial about that. Apple does the same thing with their IP, yet you don't see cries that Steve Jobs is attempting mind control.
My credibility is intact.
I agree that Mosanto (there are other companies as well) SHOULD permit independent analysis of GM foods.
We diverge on their reasoning why.
I honestly doubt that they fear that the food would be proven unsafe. I suspect it's more along the line of protecting something that was expensive to produce and could easily be "stolen", their very modification...
In other words, they fear someone will do genetic testing to find WHAT modifications were performed and duplicate it, thereby they lose a rather long term investment.
Now, I DO agree that they have a right and responsibility to to protect their investment and patent, their very deeds in protecting them are shortsighted in the extreme.
I've eaten GM foods over the years, no ill effects. I've even gotten GM corn, intended for animal consumption, as it was accidentally placed into the human food distribution while was overseas. I had to throw it out, as it was too tough and tasteless. It would be good for a cow, but lousy for us to try to eat.
I've tasted some GM tomatoes that tasted bland, but looked REAL nice. I've tasted GM tomatoes that looked "normal" and tasted pretty good.
In short, GM foods are essentially harmless. We don't absorb genes when we eat, or most humans in the US would be cows in a literal sense. It's not like they're going to introduce nerve gas corn or ricin tomatoes.
Get a sense of perspective. We NEED to increase our harvests.
Or we will begin to starve.
From what I have read, the increase in harvest is temporary as the weeds develop more and more resistance to the poison (roundup) that is used on fields of corn with the added herbicide related gene. I believe the raising cost of increased use herbicide on these fields is the reason for the bankruptcies and subsequent suicides of farmers in India. Some varieties of pest resistant grains have been GMed with a natural pesticide gene that may alter the genitics of intestinal bacteria, to our detrimint, but more study is needed. Yet study is opposed by the company.
GM is not about choosing a specific genetic line and refineing; or cross breeding close relatives to produce, for instance a mule from a horse and a donkey, as has been done for thousands of years. It is about inserting a foreign gene into the food chain without providing test results to the public, and fighting every attempt to find information. Including political action to prevent the labeling of non GM foods for the consumer to make informed decisions. This leaves the impression of the company putting their profit ahead of risk to my health. And some of these gene insertions are bizarre, like a spider gene into a goat to produce bio steel. And the horror stroies about every animal tested dieing after eating an early strain (no longer created) of GM tomatoes..
If their patent is so easily copied why hasen't China done so? They disregard patents with impunity (it seems) regularly. If GM grain could do what has been claimed, wouldn't it be a prime target for a communist country with 1 billion people to feed?
This technology has earned it's nick name.....FRANKENFOOD.
Your description of genetic crop modification is at best an oversimplification. Selective breeding between plants of the same species or very similar species has been going on for many years and has been well studied. A farmer selects and replants the strongest, most attractive, and most resilient members of a particular crop in the hopes that those traits will be reproduced in the offspring. This is an example of selective breeding. Modern genetic modification techniques are very different from this because they exchange genetic material between two or more completely unrelated species. A frost resistant tomato, for example, can be created by incorporating genes from a cold water eel into those of a normal tomato. BT corn, a widely grown GM crop capable of producing an insecticide within the plant itself, is created by incorporating genes from a bacterium into that of corn. These results could not be achieved no matter how much selective breeding was done. There is no "refining" as you put it going on.
The goverment already controls our fuel supplies and our health care now we are gonna give them the ok to control our food. I mean really is this the start of whats to come. We need to stand up for our rights people this is America not old Russia
The farms that produced the eggs that were recalled and the plant that produced the recalled peanut butter had been sighted numerous times for FDA violations. The FDA already had the power to prevent contaminated food from entering the food supply BUT DID NOTHING BECAUSE BIG BUSINESS GETS WHAT IT WANTS. This article makes bill 510 seem like a good idea but does not go into the details of the bill. That is where the problem is. This bill is not about food safety at all. Its about pushing our food supply even further into the hands of big corporations. Its about making it easier for GMO food to enter our food supply. Its about eliminating consumers' ability to avoid dead food with little or no nutritional value. Wake up. The FDA has already been conducting warrant-less raids on raw milk providers.
Look out. The water supply will be the next federal take over target. Nearly all of this country's water supply is contaminated with discarded and excreted medications. A federal take over could preempt any legal action to require a clean up.
Every food safety enhancement is said to have been designed to push the food supply into the hands of big corporations. The same thing was said when HACCP was made a mandate in 1995. In fact, the same thing was said when the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906. Guess what? The small producer has adapted and survived.
What's the problem with GMO food? Humans have been selectively breeding animals and plants for over ten thousand years. Now we have the ability to do it in a more efficient fashion. Your paranoia is unjustified.
And the water supply has been under "federal takeover" since 1970, with successive Clean Water Acts. In fact, you can date "government takeovers" of the water supply back to the 1880s. Result? New York hasn't had a cholera epidemic since 1892.
You need to wake up.
I think your right about the small producer adapting and surviving, even if some regulations make it more difficult for them to do so, but your description of genetic crop modification is at best an oversimplification. Selective breeding between plants of the same species or very similar species has been going on for many years and has been well studied. A farmer selects and replants the strongest, most attractive, and most resilient members of a particular crop in the hopes that those traits will be reproduced in the offspring. This is an example of selective breeding. Modern genetic modification techniques are very different from this because they exchange genetic material between two or more completely unrelated species. A frost resistant tomato, for example, can be created by incorporating genes from a cold water eel into those of a normal tomato. BT corn, a widely grown GM crop capable of producing an insecticide within the plant itself, is created by incorporating genes from a bacterium into that of corn.
Many countries (Germany,France) do not allow GM crops to be grown within their borders because these foods have NOT been proven to be safe for human consumption instead they have simply been treated as being "substantially equivalent" to conventionally grown foods without sufficiently rigorous studies conducted to support that assumption. However, without much effort one can find studies which suggest that there are in fact negative health implications associated with consuming GM foods. Here is just one http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_15588.cfm
One of the extremely terrifying things about the monsanto connection is the inspection rights that will be given to the government and big corporations. Monsanto has been going after people for years saying that they have 'stolen' their seeds (which, they have patented). They developed these GM seeds and put patents on them, which means that you cannot use them. One of the problems of this is that they are spreading (because seeds do that) to local farms. Monsanto then arrives and shuts down the small farmers, sues the pants off of them and walks away with money and a new farm. Obviously this is horrible for the small farmers, who have no real way of preventing a seed that falls off a passing truck to get into their crops. The other huge issue with this is that GM seeds pose a very real threat to the food supply by being uniform in their composition. If something were to happen that could destroy these seeds, say a naturally occurring bug/bacteria/whatever, our food supply would be demolished. And, since Monsanto is bent on destroying all the small farms/ers by contaminating their crops with GMOs, we would have no place to find food.
GROW YOUR OWN FOOD.
The only authority inspectors have are those which have been granted to them by law, a provision which I've used to successfully appeal inspectors' findings when I felt that they overreached their authority. The bill does not explicitly state that inspectors have authority to do what you claim. Stop spreading paranoia.
FDA inspectors may not have the authority to search a farmer's property for patented GM crops but Monsanto most certainly does. There are numerous documented cases of Monsanto discovering their patented GM traits growing in another farmer's field, with or without that farmers knowledge, then taking aggressive legal action to sue that farmer which often results in the bankruptcy of that defendant. The case of the Canola farmer Percy Schmeiser is perhaps the best well known example of this uncontrollable drift of GM material and the subsequent legal enforcement of intellectual property laws. Your posts before this have been insightful and had the effect of cutting through a lot of B.S but please understand that FDA/federal inspectors are not the only players in monitoring food crops.
Good morning. It is so cold today in VA.
This was a good, informative read. Thanks.
Yes we need vitamines and irridatating destroys 2 to 95 % .
I had a coupon for tyson chicken . I threw it away after i read and saw more how chickens and turkeys are treated at these factory farms. I instead went to the healthfood store and bought quorn meatless tenders. Gal said they were very good and tasted just like chicken.( Soy free too.) Soy, corn, canola are GM. The only soy i buy now is organic soy milk NON GMO.
They taste like fungus, which is what they're made of.
Get free-range chickens.
OK OK one last copy from the bill.
GDP = 14.6 TRILLION
GOVERNMENT SPENDING 6.4 TRILLION
DO YOU PEOPLE NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THAT ALMOST 50% OF OUR NATIONAL INCOME IS BEING SPENT BY OUR GOVERNMENT!?
Sec. 201. Targeting of inspection resources for domestic facilities, foreign facilities,
and ports of entry; annual report.
Sec. 202. Recognition of laboratory accreditation for analyses of foods.
Sec. 203. Integrated consortium of laboratory networks.
Sec. 204. Enhancing traceback and recordkeeping.
Sec. 205. Surveillance.
Sec. 206. Mandatory recall authority.
Sec. 207. Administrative detention of food.
Sec. 208. Decontamination and disposal standards and plans.
Section 201: Already being done now. The "points of entry" provision was a Bush Administration boondoggle called the Bioterrorism Act of 2002.
Sections 202-3: Already being done under 9CFR and 21CFR.
Section 204: Proper recordkeeping and traceback capability are part of every corporate food safety program and are mandated by any third-part audit, including those conducted by private companies (Yum Brands (Pizza Hut, etc.) has a particularly strict set of requirements).
Sections 205-206: These sections enhance FDA's authority when conducting inspections and reinforces standards that are already in place, but have been weakened by repeated Republican budget cuts to food regulatory authorities.
Sections 207-208: This is already part of USDA's authority in meat and poultry plants, and, again, part of every corporate food safety plan.
Nothing sinister here.
Screw it, iam going to be there is no point in trying anymore. No one seems to get whats going on.
I do. You don't. It's not some kind of grand conspiracy, you Tea Party idiot. It's an extension of what's already being done or what's supposed to be done.
Yes its all very sickening when you get to see the whole picture of whats happening to our planet. Our food is genetically modified and irradiated. Even cloning animals is going on We have to wash and wash and peel everything for fear of pesticides.and chemicals . Profit is bottom line for these big corporations. Our creator sees all . He promises there will be a time for him to ACT in behalf of those that look to him for deliverance. Revelation 11:18 Even the poor animals will be delivered from the hell that man has made for them!
And I'm sure that you follow all the dietary rules in Leviticus as well. Guess what they're all about? They're the first food safety guidelines. If God is so great, why didn't he tell Moses and Levi about bacteria and how to control them?
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.
Codex Alimentarius is already the basis under which corporate food safety plans worldwide are designed. It's been accepted as the standard by the Global Food Safety Initiative, a standards-setting non-governmental organization. It's pretty much the Bible/Torah/Qu'ran that I go by when managing my company's food safety program. Have you ever read it? There's nothing sinister in it.
Section 107 of the bill is not an attempt to raise food prices; it standardizes fees that companies are charged for out-of-hours inspection. 9CFR and 21CFR already have those provisions to govern USDA and FDA inspection, respectively. When I was a meat inspector, the fee for overtime inspection (more than eight hours in a shift, or on weekends or holidays) was $50 per hour per inspector. Yeah, that's going to raise food prices.
The WTO is involved because food is exported and imported. Thus, global standards, which the food industry is already moving toward and has been for years, has to be part of trade agreements.
Sections 101-108 and 112-113 are already mandated by US law. Section 113 is a major problem because every country has their own set of allergen requirements. The US and Canadian standards are very different, for instance. It's a pain in the butt if your company exports, trust me.
In summary: you don't know what you're talking about.
Amen, Rick ....but try telling these people "there's nothing sinister about it" when Glenn Beck says it will lead to STARVATION!
Anyone with a brain can till you, this is gonna cost more money.
It will also cause food prices to go up even more.
GDP is 14.6 Trill
Government Spending is @ 6.4 Trill (almost 50% of our nations income)
so thats why we are broke, and we are about to be even more broke.
UNLESS YOU PEOPLE WAKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEEEEEEE UPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
Sec. 101. Inspections of records.
Sec. 102. Registration of food facilities.
Sec. 103. Hazard analysis and risk-based preventive controls.
Sec. 104. Performance standards.
Sec. 105. Standards for produce safety.
Sec. 106. Protection against intentional adulteration.
Sec. 107. Authority to collect fees. (HIGH FOOD PRICES)
Sec. 108. National agriculture and food defense strategy.
Sec. 109. Food and Agriculture Coordinating Councils.
Sec. 110. Building domestic capacity.
Sec. 111. Final rule for prevention of Salmonella Enteritidis in shell eggs during
production.
Sec. 112. Sanitary transportation of food.
Sec. 113. Food allergy and anaphylaxis management.
This is the kind of system that's already in place in many, many other countries – really if someone from other countries read these hysterical comments...they must be laughing.
Not China or Mexico where most of our contaminated food comes from unfortunately. From a dairy farmer, don't believe everything you see or hear about the US food industry. On MOST dairy farms (I can't speak for all of course) the cow is queen. More money is spent on our farm to insure the comfort of our animals Sprinkler systems, fans to keep them cool, and soft, dry bedding is mandatory. We do not want to outsource our food supply. Oil is actually a luxury-food is not!
Ya Global Government Does not Exist but yet i can go though all these bills in pdf format and find world trade organization all over it. So we are following laws by people in the united nations that we didnt elect and i cant even get people to believe this crap.... omg we are so screwed
6 ‘‘(4) COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL
7 AGREEMENTS.—Nothing in this section shall be con8
strued to authorize the assessment of any fee incon9
sistent with the agreement establishing the World
10 Trade Organization or any other treaty or inter11
national agreement to which the United States is a
12 party.
Its no wonder 70% of supermarket chickens are already contaminated with salmonella the way they are abused in these factory farms living in their own waste no room to move legs unable to hold them up because they made them so fat. Profit must come before the health of humans and humane treatment of animals.
This is beyond idiotic to me. This bill doesn't address the real problems of contamination and illnesses. The real source of the problems is the disgusting conditions that animal food comes from. All factory farmed animals are diseased and sick and filled with chemicals and antibiotics because sick animals are cheaper than healthy animals. If you want to fix the problem, fix the cause, which is the whole factory farming industry. I wish people could open their eyes to real horrors of our country.
If you want to get rid of the problem, cook your food properly. 70% of all foodborne illnesses are caused in the home. Only 3% are caused at the wholesale level. Stop blaming others and take responsibility.
With the amount of anabolics and antibiotics that are injected into these poor creatures not to mention the deplorable conditions in which they are kept in, being locked up with no room to move even to poo, having to live in their own feaces, being kicked around, punched, burnt, stepped on and so on by the butchers (you can't call these people farmers) and given the least amount of food to keep them alive while they "grow", are you really expecting QUALITY food in your plate? Even if you cook these animals properly like Rick suggests, do you really think they have any vitamin value?
The above picture is not the way most chickens are treated at factory farms. 8 billion chickens a year in the US 1 million an hour.are slaughtered. The poor chickens suffer horribly . http://www.thechickenindustry.com I'd rather be a street sweeper than work in those places.
'Small farmers exempt', well if 'small farmer' is like SBA 'small business', meaning any business under $45,000,000 a year,
which is how Defense scams Americans into thinking they favor 'small business', when it's just One Off LLCs from the
big Defense contractors, like Big Fat 123 LLC and Big Fat 124 LLC, then this is just giving FDA more power to keep out
herbalists and organic food, is really what's going on here. WAKE UP AMERICA! THE FEDS ARE THE MAFIOCRACY!! B-P!!!
Actually 'small business' is defined in the Bill as one with $500K or less in annual sales. But don't take your tinfoil hat off on that account.
Yes this about control, the big Agra growers and importers are trying to put small business out of business and the government is helping them do it. Did you know you can buy veggies in Mexico cheaper than they can produce them and the come from California. They are putting the small grower there out of business.
...NAFTA and illegal American Corporate Farm dumping of agricultural goods have decimated Mexico and Central America,
sending every male on a desperate run to El Norte to keep from losing their indigent land holdings to Chiquita Banana and
the other Corporate Farm multinationals, but of course, the Feds will never tell you WHY ordinary farmers would leave
their haciendas and beautiful wives and families to live in farm ghettos in California, sending $'s home. We are doomed.
The same tactics of NAFTA will be used to gut small businesses across America behind this FDA policy, the same way
it's being used in the EU to gut small farm holdings where premium wines, cheeses and other cultures products are made, like prosciutto ham. The Great Golem of American Corporatocracy and MIl.Gov Mafiocracy will eat babies soon.
This is nothing more than yet ANOTHER play on the ignorant masses. 70% of chicken in supermarkets are already contaminated with salmonella. The $500,000 'threshold' for criminal liability in the tester amendment applies to GROSS SALES, not actual profit. Lastly per this bill, the FDA only needs "REASON TO BELIEVE" (caps for emphasis) that a product is harmful, they DO NOT NEED credible evidence. The above poster Rick (and others on the same track) couldn't be MORE CORRECT. Public education is what's needed, not expansion of powers which already exist...
You want something to go after America? Try going after the thousands of toxic chemical preservatives, colorings, and excitotoxins like Aspartame and MSG (Natural Flavoring anyone?) tainting our food supply, or the rampant "prescribing" of the MOST abused substance on the planet, pharma drugs, not mindlessly buying into whatever hype suit clad profiteers tell you trying to push this bill through before the next session... you know, something meaningful and productive. Of course that would take [gasp!] effort...
Actually, the figure for salmonella is closer to 50%, not 70%. Having worked QA in poultry, I know the figure and testing requirements. The testing requirements won't be changed under this law.
The "reason to believe" clause isn't anything new either. FDA, USDA, and for that matter, plant QA departments work under this principle all the time. We'd rather retain first and ascertain later than allow anything that might be compromised out of the plant. It's often a struggle to do so, since production departments don't want to take the hit, but it's understood that a slight loss now is more preferable than a huge loss later (recall, lawsuits, etc.). Any food safety plan explicitly lays out the procedure by which this is done and states the conditions under which product can be released if put on hold. The most this law is doing is giving FDA inspectors a little more teeth in the performance of their jobs (USDA inspectors already have this level of authority, and meat and poultry plants accept this as part of the cost of doing business).
We already have a program for anything, what we need are inspectors that don't walk around like Stevie Wonder until someone puts a fat envelope in their hands. Get rid of corruption in the government and all is well.
You can't eliminate something that doesn't exist. How about going up to my face or up to the face of any inspector and telling us that we're corrupt? We'd have to come up with a new Raw Ground HACCP plan to deal with the result.
This is about control, there an tons of new small farms and produce great quality products this will kill them, it shouldbe defined against the big corps not the little guy or your back yard farmer.
We all hope that it will kill them but as long as the great majority keeps buying their meat from unknown sources at local grocery stores such as super store which offers "great low prices" then factory farms will keep growing. IN the last 50 years these factories have put out of business 95% of all american farmers!! 95%!!! We need to rethink what is best for us and pressure the government for "health" instead of "wealth". Please read "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran, it is not a book about switching to a vegan diet but about what the government is really doing to us.
Factory farming is the root of this evil. And of course the excess volume of meat that American's consume. since last century there is no such thing as a real farmer in America. There are only plants that generate frankinstain-like turkeys and chickens and pigs, all which are not able to reproduce sexually on their own. And let's not forget the way that all these animals are slaughter on our behalf. "meet your meat" is a nice video on youtube that shows us how the lives of these poor animals are tortured on an everyday basis until they meet their final destiny, being torn alive. All for us to consume. Of-course I'm forgetting to mention the amount of anabolics that they are injected just that they can growth 5 times faster their normal way. And I'm also leaving out the amount of antibiotics that they are also injected, so much that when this "meat"finally makes it into our body, regular antibiotics just no longer work on us. Hence H1N1's way of spreading last year throughout the world.
FDA is just another government own institution that only wants mega profits in a very short period of time and do not take into consideration the well being of humans.
They ran out the last butcher and farm meat supplier in our town, now it's all Hormel and Tyson, which stinks on ice and
leaves you feeling like you've been gut punched, when meat is supposed to make you feel strong. We had a frozen Tyson
chicken when we put it in the oven it smelled like a graveyard, and was green on the inside, oh, nice getting the smell out!!
FDA has nothing to do with factory farming of food animals. That's all on USDA. If you thought this was bad, you should have seen the level of intrusiveness USDA planned for farm-to-table tracing. By the way, that program was begun by the Bush Administration and eliminated by the Obama Administration.
Grow it, wash it, cook it, eat it. Is it risk free? No, it is life. Can the FDA make it risk free? ROFLMAO
Forget conspiracies. It is ridiculous and unethical for this Senate to vote on another $1.4 billion increase in bureaucracy before the new session. The Senate and House should not vote on anything that is not critical to the immediate survival of our economy or military defense of our country during a "lame duck" session. I do not care what party is in control, this is playing games with the system and cheating the Constitution.
How do they plan to pay for this?
As of 02 Dec 2010, the current U.S. National Debt is $13.8 TRILLION dollars ($13,866,164,661,068). The estimated population of the United States is 309,583,916, so each citizen's share of this debt is $44,789.68.
The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $4.19 billion per day since September 28, 2007. http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
Someone needs to remind Congress that wars aren’t cheap, government programs/agencies/employess don’t pay for themselves, and U.S. citizens (in the real world) can’t pay taxes if they don't have jobs. Guess we need to have a REALLY big bake sale to pay for all of the expensive “gifts” they keep legislating for us.
Not quite correct. There are only 150,000,000 or so taxpayers, I don't think it's even that many, and Mil.Gov receives
benefits and pensions which DOUBLE their lifetime earnings compared to working taxpayers, and the rich only pay
16.6% according to OMB for the top 400 families, the share of the Fed debt I penciled for our family was $245,500,
and remember the $1,400,000,000,000 interest penalty on that debt is ALSO being borrowed, so our share to IRS
is $245,500, plus $25,000 a year, it's a COMPOUNDING debt, and by 2014, our entire personal equity will be gone,
at some point, taxes owed will be dumped onto our children, then our grandchildren, as Usury Serfs of America.
S 510 was designed by michael taylor, an attorney for monsanto. the tracing system they talk about in the article... yea, that prevents direct transfer of food from person to person without a costly and intrusive registration, which requires you to consent to inspection of your crops (once they are on your property, they can search anywhere btw, including indoors). this bill will all but eliminate farmers markets, and the sharing of homegrown produce with your friends and neighbors. That tracing system also entails the tracking of all animal ownership, which includes your pets. It also operates under the patriot act, under the supervision of homeland security... and thats pretty sketchy. Michael Taylor and Bob Shapiro: Look them up, and look at the involvement of monsanto, a massive agriculture conglomerate in passing this sham bill. I really wish CNN would be more honest in their reporting, they are no better than fox anymore.
There goes more of our freedom. Just another thing that purple threaded busted lipped "president" is doing to enslave us. Everyone bow down to monsanto.
Except for one little thing: food safety programs were enhanced under Clinton, then gutted under Bush, and are now being restored. I was a final-service food inspector under Bush I, a meat inspector under Clinton, a food safety consultant/contractor and a meat inspector again under Bush II, and went back to private industry under Obama in USDA and FDA-regulated environments. I've seen all these changes first-hand and have had to deal with them. Attempting to "blame" Obama for this is highly ingenuous.
i go even better. I HAVE 2 CHICKENS THAT LAY EGGS!!!!!!!!!!
I've spent over twenty years in food safety and quality, half of it in regulatory capacities (most of that as a meat inspector). The fact is that government regulatory authorities only do something when they're taking a PR hit. HACCP was mandated for the meat industry in the late 90s because of two particular fatal meat-related incidents. One of them was the fault of a minimum-wage kid undercooking burgers at one branch of a fast-food chain. The other involved two children dying and their mother weeping in front of Congress; what no one mentions is that it was her fault that her kids were dead because she bought fresh ground beef, put it in a car trunk on a hot day for seven hours, then proceeded to marinate the beef in teriyaki sauce so that she couldn't tell it had been cooked. This is just another PR-induced panic playing on the ignorant, which, when it comes to food safety, is most people.
The bill supposedly has provisions to hire 17000 new FDA inspectors. We've heard this before with other bills that have enhanced food safety. The money went to ensuring that plants have food security programs instead, because the Bush Administration played on public fears of terrorism. I'll believe it when the notice comes up on usajobs.gov.
70% of all foodborne illnesses are caused in the home. 27% are caused at the final service level (restaurants, etc.). Only 3% are caused at the wholesale level. Public education is what's needed.
HACCP has also gutted small farm holdings in EU that produce the best wines, cheeses, hams, prosciutto, they close shop.
Canada actually has very stringent food safety measures. Nothing is infallible,but it can always be improved. If you want something scary check out the FDA Food contamination guideline booklet...of what is legally deemed safe to contaminate your food in certain amounts. For example hair,maggots,larve,etc,etc....it'll make you want to grow everything you consume..trust me.
lots of jokes but people get sick from chemicals and bacteria in food that we think is safe. stricter guidelines are needed to bring us in line with Europe and South America who have better standards that we do. people who keep saying smaller gov't, what's your solution? the power is in the hands of major corporations with no oversight and a bunch of apathetic people.
lots of food makes people sick from the chemicals, antibiotics, and hormones the government encourages being put in our food too. the stuff the designers of this bill manufacture.
aren't there rules already in place to deal with these problems. why are we giving more power to an agency that couldn't find the egg outbreak. this will do nothing to help in the future and the part of the bill that allows the FDA to recall any food from any company without negotiate with them is a joke. let the market work itself out and thinking the govt can fix everything
Leaving it to the market will kill you. Trust me on that one (see below; I know this for a fact).
It was Rawesome organic food in venice ca colbert did a video on it.
The bill hs been blue-slipped by the House for the Senate adding a new revenue-generation section in Sec. 107, which is unconstitutional (only the House can do that), so it's going to kill the whole thing.
Section 107 does not generate revenue. It is a fee-setting compensation for overtime inspection. There are already provisions in 9CFR and 21CFR for overtime inspection by inspectors. It's not unconstitutional. Companies have already tried to fight this in court and failed.
Why not get rid of or imprison the corrupt government inspectors who are taking kickbacks from food producers like Tyson Chicken Bill and Hilary's partner in crime and pollution. Ho No We could not blame our faithful publics servants.LOL
In my twenty-plus years of being a food inspector or working with them, I have never known an inspector to take a bribe. I've personally been offered them and never accepted. They are some of the most dedicated people I've ever met. Your charge is an insult to them, and to me personally.
oh really? Do a search online for video of the l.a. swat team that broke into a food co op in santa monica recently with flack jackets and automatic weapons drawn........ this isnt paranoia it really happened.
Yup – we reported on that as well: http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2010/07/26/cheese-seized-public-health-department-raids-raw-dairy-vendor/
This bill seems to be all "window dressing", and designed to give the consumer a false sense of security, nothing more.
It does not mention inspectors being hired to visit food establishments, which is what is needed! Allowing the plant to police itself works for about 30 % of the manufacturers, but the other 70% does whatever they want, regardless, putting your FAMILY in jeopardy. If someone gets sick, we'll have better recall power!!! That may save some poeple, which is great, but what about the ones, MAYBE YOUR CHILD, that have already ate the food?
That movie scared whatever remaining leftism right out of me. Whenever stuff like this comes around the bend that's what I think of...that horrific movie...the Soylent Green of this generation w/ a retarded twist. I'm terrified for our country, people just don't get it. Ross please teach them!!!! This is Monsanto taking over the food industry. The director has been quoted not caring about testing, that's the FDA's job, his job is to sell as much of their product as possible. Who cares about rodents growing hair out of their mouths. We're humans right, not going to happen to us. Who gives a crap about the picture! Pay attention to the content people.
If people would stop overpopulating places like Monsanto wouldn't be so powerful and might not even exist. it's time to address the root cause of all this, OVERPOPULATION. if we don't stop cranking out more and more mouths to feed Soylent Green will become real. Haiti is a sneak preview....
This starts to look more and more like that movie Idiocracy. too bad America didn't go see it. it's your future!
Pvt. Joe Bowers: I just need you to tell me how to get to the time machine.
Frito: Oh, that's easy. You go down by the museum and stuff... It's like- it's, like, by the museum... Sorta by... Actually, not really. More like on the street, you go, um... Wait, let me start over. Okay, you know where the time machine is?
It's time for the FDA, Doctors and Media to exploit what really causes cancer and diseases in the US. I'm referring to animal protein and dairy products, the American people need to be educated on this and learn that plant based diets will prevent/reverse cancer and diseases. If doctors were investing in bananas they would tell you the truth, it's all about $$$$.
Scott, my fellow The China Study man.
Prominent member of the FDA are also ex-execs from drug companies. They are all in business with each other. They are pushing to genetically modify all healthy foods so that we get sick and require more and more medication. They already pushing to genetically RAPE apples. See another article on CNN! Do not let this happen folks!
Food & Drugs should not be overseen by the same agency! What would be wrong with having one food agency instead of food, drugs, medical devices and tobacco? (yes, tobacco).
Historical accident. The US had no regulatory authority over these matters until the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, which dealt with the two main matters of concern at that time: patent medicines and the food panic caused by Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. So, drugs and final-service food got bundled into one regulatory mechanism, the Food and Drug Administration. It would have stayed that way, except that the Department of Agriculture realized that some of their power was being taken away, and demanded that meat animals stay under their control. That's how it is today. Every attempt to merge food regulatory responsibility into one agency has met with failure due to USDA's recalcitrance to give up this authority. The last attempt was by the Bush Administration, who wanted to put all food regulatory authorities under the umbrella of Homeland Security.
Just wondering when CNN will take down the picture of the chickens and remove the references to "You may now return to your omelette. If you dare." since this bill has absolutely nothing to do with that.
My bad, FDA actually does regulate the egg industry. You would think I would have made sure before talking about it..perhaps I should run for office.
Ross -
I'm sorry Ross. You admitted your error. That disqualifies you from elective office.
This is such BS. Look closely at the picture. This picture is so doctored up its pathetic. NO, I repeat, NO farms look like this, especially in America. Most all of our food now is run by huge, overcrowded, nasty corporate farms filled with saltwater stuffed, disease-ridden, sickly animals. Please stop treating us like we are idiots. This is total crap!
The pic is not faked in the least. It's at Soul Food Farm in Vacaville, CA.
It's how chicken farms SHOULD be.
http://soulfoodfarm.com/
oooh. thank you – I've been looking for free-range chicken feet for a while.
I agree, it's a little pocket farm. My Aunt and Uncle used to have a little 10 acre chicken ranch on the Feather River (pun not intended but it's still funny) in California where the chickens were free ranging like that. They had about 500 chickens in a pen about one acre in size with plenty of room to roam around and still had several acres left over as natural grassland to be enjoyed just because it existed. If people would get a clue and stop mindlessly overpopulating we wouldn't need agribusiness.
lol! You ARE an idiot! There are plenty of little operations like this all over the place.
You even have the option of purchasing eggs and meat from farms like this.
Idiot.
maybe this is the beverly hills of chicken farms?
This bill gives the FDA more power. A heads up...the FDA does not regulate meat or poultry, sooooo not really sure what exactly this bill does except for create more jobs at an already inefficient FDA. This bill does nothing to coordinate the FDA, the USDA or any other federal agency. This bill is something the Democrats will wave at the next election saying "See, the Republicans and the Tea Party don't care about you or your health!!!". Lastly, check out Wickard v Filburn and then tell me that what starts out with one intention, is then twisted into something that takes away our freedoms. Indeed, do read the bill and tell me exactly how we are now safer?
Quote from the FDA, ""There is no absolute right to consume or feed children any particular food." We are all frogs in water, we just don't realize it is about to boil.
Golly gee whiz! I BELIEVE YOU CNN! Government getting better is the best thing that could ever happen! Yayyyy!
BretLA sez: tea baggers, hahaha, what a great guy. Pulling the wool over your own eyes, there, huh, Bret? Actually, the bill was fought over. You just didn't notice it because you aren't tuned in. You just keep regurgitating what the gov/media complex tells you. Baaahh! Baaaaaahhhhhhhh! Ignorant sheep.
Wow == more federal regulation of the egg industry! what's next...socialism??? i can't believe the Tea Baggers aren't all over this!
Those chickens look digital...
No, I think they're Rhode Island Reds.
whatever.. i am still gonna make my own food.. but I didn't know how to make my own food at all till my girlfrend got me this hilarious, politically incorrect cookbook.. called... "Get in the Kitchen, BIT@HES!".. you should google it.. was hilarious.
IT'S SHOPPED!! LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THEIR CHICKEN BREASTS!!!!
Oh, they are...
We all know the free market can self-police and correct itself. No pesky intrusive government regulations are needed. If a few consumers perish due to food poisoning, then that's just the price we pay while the market corrects itself.
But the safety in the market won't stay corrected unless guidelines are in place to enforce it. It will inevitably relapse once people forget about the incident and the market again risks safety for profit.
I bet you're one of those libertarians who think people shouldn't be allowed to form governments.
If you want to go back to a time of food safety deregulation, don't forget when you read Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" about the early 1900s food industry. If you remember anything about American history, I don't think you want to see maggots crawling in every other meat package.
Trolling libitarian scum.
hahahaha! i love this comment!
They really don't get that sarcasm thing, do they?
no, not at all.... and that just makes it that much better ahha
It never ceases to amaze me how many people will claim that a free market can police itself, regardless of what lessons history tries to teach us.
This looks shopped. I can tell from the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.
@Dave: "shopped"? Really? Is that the new cool way of saying Photoshopped? Or are you implying that the chickens were purchased elsewhere and arranged for this photo shoot? How much "shopped" have you seen that makes you an expert? There is nothing about this image that looks Photoshopped and there would be no reason to Photoshop it. Good grief.
You're right, Indyman.
It's definitely 'shopped.
Don't worry, I got the joke
@Indyman It's an internet meme. Google "This looks shopped".
Those aren't pixels you fool, they're chickens!
I like fries with my pixels.
I cant believe there is really a global conspiracy happening right before our eyes...... and no one believes it
Yes people, go read S.510
Your corn also has poison in it, to prevent insects from eating it. But its really eugenics, yes iam crazy i know ive been though this 100 times with people. Go look up GMO on wiki 87% of us corn isnt organic
Even your own congressmen will tell you iam crazy, but he didnt read it. He just voted with his party. But it will be illegal to grow and store / sell your own food if this passes. (and some very weird rumors) Ya weird huh? not a rumor go read the @$%@%^ bill. S.510 FOOD MODERNIZATION ACT S.510 FOOD MODERNIZATION ACT S.510 FOOD MODERNIZATION ACT S.510 FOOD MODERNIZATION ACT S.510 FOOD MODERNIZATION ACT S.510 FOOD MODERNIZATION ACT S.510 FOOD MODERNIZATION ACT S.510 FOOD MODERNIZATION ACT S.510 FOOD MODERNIZATION ACT S.510 FOOD MODERNIZATION ACT S.510 FOOD MODERNIZATION ACT S.510 FOOD MODERNIZATION ACT S.510 FOOD MODERNIZATION ACT READ1!!!!!!
LOL! So, corn is now inorganic? What is it, plastic corn? Metallic corn?
If they stick in a gene from a fish into corn, it's an abomination to you, right? It'll grow an ear in the middle of your forehead or something, huh?
Wow, we've gone from the tin foil hat crowd to the propeller hat crowd!
"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 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.
Fail. You see, I have an ability you apparently lack. I know how to read. I know how to go to the US Senate website and download the bill.
Hence, it says NOTHING of what you claim.
In short, you are a liar.
Oh yes because god forbid a company cuts corners to make more money and have unsafe conditions so a bunch of people end up with getting food poisoning or die because of this.
Hi Brenda – here's hoping you and the tea baggers eat a few salmonella coated eggs this Christmas.