Tag: Codex Alimentarius

From Wisconsin Capitol Watch… Senator Harry Reid has forced a vote on Senate Bill 510, the Food Safety Act. The vote invoked cloture, which limited debate to 30 hours total. Twenty four Republicans voted with Reid. All Reid needed was three-fifths (60 votes), but 24 Republicans already forgot how Americans voted November 2 and sided with liberal Reid. S 510 is a step toward increasing the size and cost of government at the expense of American farmers-big and small. The so-called Food Safety Act empowers the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate every part of every farming operation in the nation. The cost of compliance and record keeping to farmers cannot even be estimated. Even the farm wife who sells jam, preserves and apple butter at a Christmas bizarre will have to be permitted by the FDA. The cost to the government-all tax payers-will be $1.6 billion over the next five years, according to Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK). It also requires that a minimum of 4,000 staff members be added in 2011 and 5,000 by 2015 to implement the Act. So much for the call to reduce the federal government workforce. S 510 greatly expands federal government’s jurisdiction over…

While the Rock River Patriots do not endorse candidates… It is time for everyone to rise up and support J.D. Hayworth for U.S. Senate in Arizona against John McCain!  We have a chance to get rid of that fraud!  He is once again showing his true colors. This month John McCain introduced legislation to allow the FDA to regulate nutritional supplements. This legislation also repeals key sections of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. This is another way to take away the power of the people to treat themselves using vitamins and minerals.  It is not about safety.  It is about CONTROL!!! This will eventually lead to the implementation of the Codex Alimentarius. Why is this bad?  Watch this and decide for yourselves. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhON1WN48tQ]