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Urgent: Stop the National Uniformity for Food Act (H.R. 4167)
before it wipes out hundreds of food safety labeling laws Posted Saturday, March 04, 2006 by
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Keep up the pressure on your lawmakers to
stop passage of H.R. 4167, a bill heavily supported by junk food
manufacturers that would -- believe it or not -- make it ILLEGAL for
States to protect their citizens from food products containing heavy
metals, cancer causing chemicals, aspartame and other dangerous
ingredients.
For example, California currently operates under a law called
Proposition 65, which requires food manufacturers to list
cancer-causing or birth defect-causing ingredients on their food
labels. Washington lawmakers, with the
full support of food giants like Kraft, Heinz, Nestle,
and Sara Lee now wants to eliminate that law and actually make it
illegal for California to require such warnings.
The Grocery Manufacturers of America (GMA) and its
members essentially want to censor the truth about dangerous food
ingredients, keeping customers in the dark about the real
dangers of their manufactured food products.
This effort is a "de-labeling" proposal that would tell consumers
even less about the manufactured foods they're buying and eating.
In other words, this is a bill that stands for ignorance. Keep
people ignorant, and they'll never know what's really in their food.
That's exactly the way the food industry wants to keep Americans:
Under-informed and over-fed.
URGENT: If we don't raise our voices right now, this bill has a
good chance of becoming law! It has a whopping 226 co-sponsors
(lawmakers who have sold their souls to food companies
at the expense of public health), including 59 Democrats. We need
your help in fighting this bill, or it could easily become the law
of the land, thereby wiping out literally hundreds of state laws
that protect consumers from dangerous food ingredients.
ACTION: If you live in the United States,
contact your Congressional representative Monday morning by phone or
fax (email is not as effective) and let them know you strongly
oppose HR 4167, the food labeling uniformity
proposal. You must take action on Monday morning, because a House
vote is imminent. Call 202-224-3121 and ask for your Congressional
representative. |
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This bill is a perfect example of the
genuine tyranny of Washington. That Washington lawmakers would
attempt to undermine States' sovereign rights to protect their own
populations from dangerous
ingredients is beyond absurd, it enters the realm of blatant
oppression. What right does Washington have to tell California that
it cannot require food companies to warn consumers when their
products contain known cancer-causing ingredients? Washington has no
such right.
Violates the Tenth Amendment of the Bill of RightsThis
tyrannical effort by sell-out lawmakers in Washington is also
unconstitutional, by the way. It clearly violates the Tenth
Amendment, which states:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved
to the States respectively, or to the people.
There's no doubt that the U.S. Constitution does not specifically
grant the federal government the power to overrule state laws
concerning food
safety. Therefore, these powers rest solely with the States
which have never delegated such powers to the federal
government.
People forget that the U.S. government was GRANTED powers by the
people and the States. Technically, the federal government has no
more power than that allowed by the grantors. But over the last
several decades, the federal government has centralized power,
violated the Constitution, and forgotten the people. Today, the U.S.
federal government is a tyrannical kingdom that now effectively
delegates powers to the States (and takes away powers from the
States whenever it wants). And the people? They have been all but
forgotten. Since when did the U.S. government answer to the people?
Today's lawmakers operate as traitors to the
ConstitutionThe fact that this food labeling law is even being
contemplated makes it clear that today's Washington lawmakers are
traitors to this country. In a different time, they would have all
been arrested and publicly hanged for crimes against their country.
But today, it's business as usual as lawmakers continue to sell
their souls to powerful corporations (food giants like Kraft) that
increasingly write the laws. To say that Washington is run by a mob
of criminals is not an exaggeration; it is an accurate description
of what's happening right now. Yes, there are a few honest lawmakers
like Rep. Ron Paul (Texas), but they are clearly the minority. |
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You can still make a difference, though.
Thankfully, lawmakers still pay some attention to voters who call
and voice their opinions on legislation. That's why it is absolutely
crucial that you join the tens of thousands of Americans who have
unleashed a barrage of criticism against this bill over the last
week. Join the growing voices of dissent and DEMAND that Washington
keep its hands off food safety labeling laws across the country.
Contact your Congressional representative at 202-224-3121
(switchboard) or reach them online through: http://www.organicconsumers.org/rd/labeling.cfm
This is absolutely your last chance to make a difference with
this law. A vote is expected early next week. If this law passes,
food companies will be able to put any poisons or cancer-causing
ingredients they want into their foods, as long as they can convince
the FDA that such ingredients are safe (and remember, the FDA is
already in bed with food and drug companies, so that's easy). States
will no longer have any rights to warn their people about mercury in
fish, or nitrites in meat, or even aspartame in diet
soft drinks. States will be silenced, the public will be harmed, and
food companies like Kraft will have pulled off the biggest coup in
the history of processed foods.
Remember, lawmakers are lined up right now, ready to sell their
souls and vote for passage of this bill. If we don't stop this bill
now, its aftershocks will harm the health of our children for
generations to come. If we don't stop this bill, the United States
of America will further descend into a nation of tyrannical
centralized power, where States have no rights, the people have no
voice, and corporate-controlled Washington lawmakers dictate to
everyone. |
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