Act (H.R. 4167) wipes out hundreds of food safety labeling laws

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NewsTarget Network CONSUMER SAFETY Alert (www.NewsTarget.com)

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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

 

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.

 

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 Rights

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This 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 Constitution

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The 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.

 

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.

 

- the Health Ranger

 

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