By Rachael Woodhouse
GCN Live.com
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Despite the warnings that have emanated from vigilant citizens, including many GCN hosts over the last several weeks, s.510, the $1.4 billion Food “Safety” bill, passed the Senate without a hurdle, 73-25.
Whilst being touted as a necessary measure designed to protect American consumers from E. coli and salmonella, in reality this is fascism at its most extreme, granting even more power to the Food & Drug Administration. The right to decide what Americans put in their bodies and their childrens’ bodies is now decided by a random aggregate of “congress critters”, most of whom are either completely out-of-touch or just plain out to hurt the American people. Total control is the endgame, and it doesn’t get much more basic for the elite than taking away our rights to sell raw goat’s milk or apples from our own backyard. The very principles of free trade and individual liberty are at risk.
As Dr. Michael Coffman told Dr. Bill Deagle on GCN’s Nutrimedical Report on Monday, S.510 has repercussions that are far-reaching and detrimental to the very cause it falsely claims to champion. Instead of getting healthier food, this ill-conceived piece of legislation will ultimately drive up the price of produce, forcing more and more middle and lower-class American families to have to consume the artificial poisons that have flooded the grocery store shelves in processed foods over the last four decades, such as high fructose corn syrup, aspartame, partially hydrogenated oils, mono-sodium glutamate, and genetically-modified soy.
Dr. Michael Coffman has appeared several times on The Alex Jones Show and others on GCN. He recently published his newest book, Rescuing a Broken America.
“It’s a very, very – if you read between the lines – a very damning bill that will literally put out small farms, small ranches, that type of thing,” Coffman told Deagle. “They can’t afford to conform to all the new reporting regulations, all the new standards that require expensive equipment and so forth. All of these things are designed basically by big corporations, big farm corporations, ranchers, and so forth, to make it impossible for smaller firms to compete against them. It has nothing to do with food safety. In fact, the increase in food safety is rather nominal, considering the fact that they’re going to create a whole [new] branch of government.”
“I recognize that we’ve had some problems over the last 5 or 6 years, both with E. coli and a couple of other things, but they have been immediately defined and isolated and taken out of our food supply system. That’s the way it’s supposed to work. Any increase in regulation is not going to stop those incidental things from happening.”
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