Government controls are out of control again. Just as CPSIA hurts small American businesses and families rather than addresses the issue of unsafe, mass imported, products, HR2749 and S.510 will hurt small local farmers – and us. This time rather than through the CPSC it’s through the FDA and affects our food. It would be nice to think they just have all our best interests in mind and are keeping us safe, but Big Brother tyranny never quite works that way.
It’s already too late to act on HR2749 as it was already passed by the House of Representatives on July 29th. (To read a summary of that bill, see this link. For the full version, click here.)
However, it’s not too late to stop this latest FDA power grab as it moves into the Senate to be voted on as bill S.510.
Introduced by Illinois’ state Senator Dick Durbin, S.510 will grant more power to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate the US food supply, and no matter how well-intentioned it may appear on the surface, I have doubts about the FDA’s capability to improve our food quality.
And I’m not the only one.
Small farmers across the nation are voicing their opinions in online groups such as Facebook, stating the bill will cause serious damage to their businesses.
The law would require them to focus on FDA paperwork like animal registrations and multiple other filings, rather than raising healthy crops and animals, like they’ve always done. And if they fail to follow the red tape, they will be seriously penalized….
Local foods businesses are not the same as animal factories or mega-farms that sell products into industrial scale national and international markets, and should not be regulated the same way!
Act NOW!
Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with bill S.510. For the full text click this link.
Then contact your state Senators TODAY, and let them know what you think.
Time is of the essence if we want to stop this bill, so please do not delay!
Time and again the FDA has shown that it is not acting in the best interest of your health and safety. They’ve been caught, and in some cases openly admitted, to rampant conflicts of interest within their organization. Needless to say, industry has won, again and again, at the expense of your safety – the exact opposite of what the FDA has been charged to do.
Do you really want the FDA in charge of regulating your food?
Do we really need another bureaucracy regulating small farmers into oblivion so that you have even less access to healthy, locally-grown foods?
If you don’t know who your Senator is, please see this convenient list on Senate.gov showing the Senators for each state, and their contact information.
Dr. Mercola
Read more information about this and more of Dr. Mercola’s response here.
