An Event to Save our Local Farmers and to
Commemorate the first-ever Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773
This time we won’t dump tea; we’ll dump local produce[1]—
at the offices of Senators Baucus and Tester
We’ll tell them to vote no to Monsanto’s Food Takeover Act S. 510,
deceptively called the Food Modernization and Safety Act!
Save our local farmers and backyard gardeners from the big government,
big agri-business takeover!
WHEN: Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 3:00 PM
WHERE: Gallatin County Court House (Main Street corner of 3rd)
WHY: To protect our food supply, our local farmer’s and our rights to grow and sell food
WHO: You! People of all political persuasions concerned about the pending big-government, big Agri-business takeover of our food supply
FACTS: The Food Modernization Act will provide $1.5 billion to the FDA to hire more regulators and will result in the collaboration of the EPA, FDA and Homeland Security to police our food supply. Language requiring the bill’s compliance with the UN’s World Trade Organization Treaty and Codex Alimentarius (and not the U.S. Constitution) has thankfully been removed but you never know until you read the final bill. It will place a huge burden on small farmers who will have to file an exemption from the additional federal regulations. The bill is being promoted by Monsanto, the agri-business giant who created genetically-modified seeds. Produce grown from these seeds are sterile, meaning you must buy additional seeds from Monsanto. Called “Frankenfoods” by the Organic Consumers Association, foods grown from these seeds are dangerous to health. Cross-pollination of Monsanto seeds with heirloom seeds will make your produce sterile. George Soros Hedge Fund, according to a New York Times report, purchased 2.8 million shares of Monsanto this last quarter in anticipation of the Food Modernization Act being passed.
As of the writing of this article, a tax provision in the Senate version has made the bill unconstitutional; however, Citizens for Health reports that House sponsors added the bill as an amendment to an Continuing Resolution and the bill is now back in the Senate.
Action Items:
1. Attend our Freedom Rally on December 16, 2010 and commemorate the first ever Tea Party, whether we defeat this bill or not.
2. Consider holding a Freedom Rally in your area.
3. Call your Senators at 202-224-3121 (Capitol Switchboard) and tell him/her to vote no to any bill with the Food Safety Modernization Act added as an amendment.
[1] The Bozeman Tea Party believes in civil protest and the throwing of food will be prohibited.
