We will be at the Nashville Farmers’ Market at 1:00 this Saturday afternoon, Sept. 4, protesting S510, and distributing flyers. We plan to do this two weekends in a row.
Continue reading about S 510: Republic Defiance is Taking it to the Streets!
This week we will be discussing S. 510 – especially the sections dealing with Codex Alimentarius and enforcement. More than 60% of the bill deals with fines, fees, penalties and other revenue raisers. Additonal licenses and copious record keeping will be the cause of many small operators leaving the agricultural field. Excessive regulations, licenses, requirements, and other barriers to entry, will prevent next generation farmers and ranchers from entering agricultural fields.
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Subsection (5) CODEX questions whether or not to implement CODEX, when the writers of this bill are fully aware that implementation has been ongoing since the creation of the World Trade Organization in 1992. The CODEX committees have been meeting in Washington regularly and as recently as June of this year finalizing Codex.
Continue reading about CODEX in S510: Congress continues to ignore the people
The take-away message is clear: the US can’t require foreign producers in less developed nations to have a system that is equal to ours; we have to accept their different or lower standards as equivalent to domestic standards. Nevertheless, the legislation will hold domestic producers to higher standards than foreign producers. Once you understand this reality, the argument that the legislation is needed to improve the safety of imported food reveals itself to be a fraud.
Continue reading about Food “Safety” Reform and the Covert Continuation of the Enclosure Movement