I did not write this, I have copied it, with their permission, from www.naturalnews.com. But it definitely addresses the things about the FDA that I feel. It was written to garner interest in the incredibly stupid Senate bill 510 that was passed back in 2010. Everything there is still descriptive of the FDA and their tunnel vision of America. Hands out begging for all the more cash from agribiz they look toward citizens as disposable. The picture at the bottom was inserted by me.
Here are the ten biggest lies that have been promoted about S.510 by the
U.S. Congress, the food industry giants and the mainstream media:
Lie #1 - Most deaths from food poisoning are caused by fresh produce
Here's
a whopper the mainstream media won't dare report: Out of the 1,809
people who die in America every year from food-borne pathogens (CDC
estimate), only a fraction die from the manufacturer's contamination of
fresh produce.
By far the majority of food poisoning is caused by the consumption of spoiled processed foods, dead foods and animal-human transmission of pathogens.
For example, one of the largest food-borne killers according to the CDC is
Toxoplasma gondii, a disease that people acquire from
cat feces coming into contact with their food, which can happen right in their own homes (
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/Vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203). Salmonella poisoning accounts for
553 deaths a year.
As a reference for relative risk, over 42,000 people die each year from
road accidents in the USA, meaning driving a car has a roughly
7600% higher chance of killing you than eating fresh produce. (
http://www.driveandstayalive.com/info%20section/statistics/stats-mult...)
In
terms of food-borne illness, many of the deaths come from things like
spoiled tomato sauce, spoiled canned foods and spoiled pasteurized milk.
S 510, of course, does absolutely nothing to address these
food contamination deaths, since those foods are considered "sterilized" at the time of sale.
Lie #2 - Under S.510, the FDA would only recall products it knows to be contaminated
Not true. S.510 merely requires the FDA to have "
reason to believe" a food is contaminated. So right there, that means
all raw milk will be targeted by the FDA
because even without conducting any scientific tests at all, the FDA
can say it has "reason to believe" the milk is contaminated
merely because it is raw.
In other words, the FDA no longer needs science to outlaw a food product. It merely needs
an opinion.
Is this "reason to believe" section really true? Yep, and here's how it was amended:
SEC. 208. ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION OF FOOD.
23 (a) IN GENERAL. - Section 304(h)(1)(A) (21 U.S.C.24 334(h)(1)(A)) is amended by
(1) striking ''credible evidence or information indicating'' and inserting ''reason to believe'';
(
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bi...)
In
other words, in negotiating this bill, the U.S. Senate removed the
requirement that the FDA needed "credible evidence" in order to recall a
product and, instead, replaced that with the FDA only needing "reason
to believe."
It is utterly amazing that the U.S. Congress would give the FDA to conduct large-scale product recalls and even
imprison people based entirely on what the agency "has reason to believe."
Last
time I checked, the FDA held some pretty bizarre (if not downright
moronic) beliefs, including this jaw-dropping whopper: The FDA literally
believes that there is no food, no herb, no vitamin or supplement that
has any ability to prevent disease of any kind. They don't even believe limes can prevent scurvy, and you'd have to nutritionally illiterate to believe that.
The
FDA believes foods are inert and that all the amazing phytonutrients in
those foods (carotenoids, antioxidants, therapeutic fats like omega-3
and so on) are utterly useless for human biology.
This belief, held by the FDA that has now been put in charge of the food supply, is
the belief system of an insane government agency that has completely lost touch with reality while abandoning nutritional science.
Lie #3 - They didn't tell you that nearly 70% of grocery store chickens are contaminated with salmonella every day
Yep,
it's true: Amid all the fear-mongering over salmonella, everybody
forgot to notice that the vast majority of fresh chickens sold at
grocery stores every single day are widely contaminated with salmonella (
http://www.naturalnews.com/028661_chickens_salmonella.html). Yet S 510 does absolutely nothing to address this. It's not even mentioned in the bill.
In fact, it is these contaminated chickens that end up cross-contaminating the fresh
produce
in many kitchens across America. So the so-called "food poisoning"
that's often blamed on spinach or onions often originates with the
contaminated chicken meat people bring home and slice on their kitchen
cutting boards.
Lie #4 - S.510 will exclude and protect small farmers
The
Tester Amendment,
which was finally included in S.510, excludes farmers who sell less
than $500,000 worth of food each year from the more onerous paperwork
and compliance burdens described in the bill. But this dollar amount
is not indexed to inflation,
meaning that as the U.S. dollar continues to lose value due to the
Federal Reserve counterfeiting machine running at full speed (more
"quantitative easing," anyone?), food prices will continue to skyrocket
-- and this will shift even small family farms into the $500,000 sales
range within just a few years.
In fact, a single-family farm with
just four people could easily sell $500,000 worth of fresh produce a
year right now, even before inflation. Remember, $500,000 is not their
profit, but rather the gross sales amount. The profits on that might be
only $50,000 or even less.
Furthermore, this $500,000 threshold means that small, successful farms that are doing well and would like to expand will
refuse to hire more people
or expand their operations. To avoid the tyranny of S 510, small farms
will try to stay small, and that means avoiding the kind of business
expansion that would create new jobs.
Lie #5 - The FDA needs more power to enforce food safety
The
FDA already has the power to effectively recall foods by publicly
announcing a product has been found to be contaminated. The FDA already
has the power to confiscate "misbranded" products, too, and it could
easily use this power to halt the sale of contaminated food items.
But
the FDA simply refuses to enforce the laws already on the books and,
instead, has sought to expand its power by hyping up the e.coli food
scares. The ploy apparently worked: Now in a
reaction to the food
scare-mongering, the FDA is being handed not just new powers, but more
funding, too! And you can bet it will find creative new ways to put this
power to work suppressing the health freedoms and food freedoms of the
American people.
Lie #6 - Fresh produce is contaminated because of a lack of paperwork
There
is no evidence that requiring farms to fill out more paperwork will
make their food safer. The real cause of produce contamination is the
existence of
factory animal farms whose effluent output (huge
rivers of cow feces, basically), end up in the water supply, soils and
equipment that comes into contact with fresh produce.
The food
contamination problem is an UPSTREAM problem where you've got to reform
the factory animal operations that now dominate the American meat
industry. S.510, however, does absolutely nothing to address this.
Factory animal farms aren't even addressed in the bill!
Lie #7 - The American people are dying in droves from unsafe fresh food
The truth is that Americans are dying from
processed food
laced with toxic chemical additives, not from fresh, raw produce.
Partially-hydrogenated oils, white sugar, aspartame, MSG and artificial
food colors almost certainly kill far more people than bacterial
contaminations.
The American public is also dying from
pharmaceuticals -- anywhere from 100,000 to 240,000 people a year are
killed by FDA-approved drugs (
http://www.naturalnews.com/001894.html),
most of which have been approved under the guise of blatantly
fraudulent science and drug company trickery. The FDA doesn't seem to
mind. In fact, it has been a willful co-conspirator in the scientific
fraud carried out by Big Pharma in the name of "medicine." (
http://www.naturalnews.com/027851_health_news_Big_Pharma.html)
To
think that the FDA -- the very same agency responsible for the Big
Pharma death machine -- is now going to "save us" by controlling food
safety is highly irrational.
Lie #8 - The FDA just wants to make food "safer"
Actually, the FDA wants to make the food more DEAD. Both the FDA and the USDA are vocal opponents of live food. They think that
the only safe food is sterilized food,
which is why they've supported the fumigation, pasteurization and
irradiation efforts that have been pushed over the last few years.
California almond growers, for example, must now either chemically fumigate or pasteurize their almonds before selling them (
http://www.naturalnews.com/021776.html).
This has destroyed the incomes of U.S. almond farmers and forced U.S.
food companies to buy raw almonds from Spain and other countries.
Lie #9 - Food smuggling is a huge problem in America
One
of the main sections of S.510 addresses "food smuggling." Yep -- people
smuggling food across the country. If you've never heard of this
problem that's because it's not actually a problem.
Not yet anyway.
But there's a reason why they put this into the bill: Because they're probably planning on
criminalizing fresh produce and then arresting people for transporting broccoli with the "intent to distribute."
Yep,
farmers bringing fresh produce to sell at the weekend farmer's market
could soon be arrested and imprisoned as if they were drug smugglers.
Hence the need for the "food smuggling" provisions of S.510.
Soon, we will all have to meet in secret locations just to trade carrots for cash.
Lie #10 - S.510 will make America's food supply the safest in the world
Actually,
even with S.510 in place, America's food supply is among the most
chemically contaminated in the world, second only to China. You can find
mercury in the seafood, BPA in the canned soup, yeast extract (MSG) in
the "natural" potato chips, and artificial petrochemical coloring agents
in children's foods.
Eating the "Standard American Diet" is
probably the single most harmful thing a person can do for their health.
It's the fastest way to get cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Every
nation in the world that begins to consume the American diet starts to
show
record rates of degenerative disease within one generation. This is the "safe food" that the U.S. Senate is now pushing on everyone.
Remember, with S.510, SAFE = DEAD. And the FDA says it wants to keep everybody safe.
