POLITICAL - FW: Lawson on Food: Help Stop the Food Safety Modernization Act

[Guest guest]

In order to protect our food supply, we

need people in government who have the people’s best interest in mind. Those

in government that do not should be replaced.

 

John

 

 

“Kissinger was reported to have said, " Control oil

and you control nations, control food and you control the people. " Please

make the call, or write the letter, today.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He is a young Ron Paul and

as you can see a realy strong supporter of health freedom.

 

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B.J. Lawson

 

 

 

 

 

The campaign is going well, and we still need your help -- please join

the online fundraiser

our netroots supporters are planning for April 13th to commemorate Thomas

Jefferson's birthday.

 

 

 

 

 

While we've been campaigning, though, Washington has still been working -- but not

for us.

 

 

 

 

 

Last year, a dangerous piece of legislation was passed by our House of

Representatives -- the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. Despite the reassuring

title, this Orwellian legislation will weaken local food producers and

suppliers and make us even more dependent on an increasingly brittle and

centralized food system.

 

 

 

 

 

Our 24 year incumbent David Price voted for his

lobbyist masters, and against the interests of his constituents, by helping to

pass this legislation.

 

 

 

 

 

Our last chance to fight this assault on our freedom to feed ourselves

and increase our local food security is to head off the Senate's dangerous

companion legislation, The Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510).

 

 

 

 

 

Please visit the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association's Web site today for

more information on this bill, and contact information for Senators Burr and

Hagan.

 

 

 

 

 

Regardless of where you live, please call or write your Senators today.

Let them know in no uncertain terms

that this legislation must not be passed.

 

 

 

 

 

The CFSA does an excellent job at relating the problems with this

legislation -- it was written to serve the interests of industrial agriculture,

and creates onerous regulatory burdens that will put smaller local/regional

producers out of business and prevent new producers from contributing to our

local foodsheds.

 

While the CFSA asks for this legislation to be amended, I believe it must

simply be stopped. We must defeat S. 510, and prevent this misguided effort to

further consolidate control in the hands of the largest producers.

 

 

 

 

 

As your Congressman, I will work to enact agricultural reforms to empower local producers and local foodsheds by restoring a free

market economy for our food.

 

 

 

 

 

That means ending all agricultural subsidies, ending all taxation on

the production of food, and permanently eliminating the estate tax/death tax --

all of which work against the interests of our local farmers and food

producers.

 

 

 

 

 

A free market for the production of good nutrition will empower us to

do a much better job of feeding ourselves, and make a meaningful impact on our

health care crisis. As Moses would have said, " Let my people grow! "

 

 

 

In liberty,

 

 

 

 

 

William (B.J.) Lawson, MD

 

 

Congressional Candidate, North

Carolina's 4th District

 

 

 

 

 

p.s. -- Kissinger was reported to have said, " Control oil and you

control nations, control food and you control the people. " Please make the

call, or write the letter, today.

 

 

 

 

 

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