This week Truth Farmer, with your host, Doreen Hannes, will be an educational extravaganza. The plan (Good Lord Willing and the Connection works) is to give what will amount to a seminar on how the World Trade Organization (WTO), Food and Ag Organization (FAO) of the UN, Codex Alimentarius, the OIE (World Animal Health Organization), the IPPC of the UN (International Plant Protection Convention), and the ISO all work through the executive branch of the government on implementing what amounts to a take over of the food supply and how HR 2749 is the current vehicle for that orchestrated take over.

This is a very complicated and detailed subject and you should get a pen and paper handy to take notes. This and the Clean Water Restoration Act (CWRA S.787) will work together to destroy property rights and combined with Cap and Trade, the effects are going to be horrific. Please listen to the show, and there will be segments where callers will be welcome for specific questions about this subject.

It will be constrained to the Food Safety Bill and the methods of the WTO. This is too important to remain ignorant. Please be informed!

Topics include: HR 2749, NAIS (National Animal Identification System), Clean Water Restoration Act, Codex Alimintarius, destroy property rights, Cap and Trade, Food Safety bill, SPS Agreement (Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures) or plant and animal health agreement, TBT (Technical Barrier to Trade), Equivalency, World Trade Organization (WTO), Food and Ag Organization (FAO) of the UN, Codex Alimentarius, the OIE (World Animal Health Organization), the IPPC of the UN (International Plant Protection Convention), ISPM (International Standards for Pest Management), ISO (International Standards Organization), ISO 22000-2005, Global Food Safety Initiative

Show Date: 8/11/2009 12:00 PM - 2 hrs

References | Resources | Related Material

Codex Alimentarius (videos)

The Project for the New American Century
http://endgamenow.com/new-world-order/the-project-for-the-new-american-century/

Ian R Crane, Codex Alimentarius 2007
http://endgamenow.com/codex-alimentarius/ian-r-crane-codex-alimentarius-2007/

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Codex Alimentarius and H.R. 2795
http://www.lookupfellowship.com/2009/08/codex-alimentarius-and-hr-2795.html

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Barack Obama’s Cap and Trade Program Is a Tax on the Working Class
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123655590609066021.html

‘Cap and trade’ your freedom
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=102263

Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures - text of the agreement
http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/sps_e/spsagr_e.htm

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
www.fao.org

OIE - World organisation for animal health
http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm

IPPC - International Plant Protection Convention
www.ippc.int

International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs)
https://www.ippc.int/servlet/CDSServlet?status=ND0xMzM5OSZjdG5faW5mb192aWV3X3NpemU9Y3RuX2luZm9fdmlld19mdWxsJjY9ZW4mMzM9KiYzNz1rb3M~

ISO - International Organization for Standardization
www.iso.org

ISO 22000:2005 Food Safety Management System
http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=35466

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Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI)

TEXT-G8 Summit statement on food security
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLA521526

More information about SGS’ global food risk management services is available at
www.us.sgs.com/retailfoodcertification

GAIN Report
European Union Market Development Reports Global Food Safety Initiative 2001
http://www.fas.usda.gov/gainfiles/200107/120681180.pdf

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Technical Barriers to Trade Links:

Technical Barriers to Trade
http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_E/tbt_e/tbt_e.htm

Defining Technical Trade Barriers (PDF)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/tb1876/tb1876b.pdf

Measuring Economic Effects of Technical Barriers to Trade on U.S. Exporters (PDF)
http://www.nist.gov/director/prog-ofc/report04-3.pdf

Technical Barriers to Trade Database by The World Bank
http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/0,,contentMDK:21087081~pagePK:64214825~piPK:64214943~theSitePK:469382,00.html

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NAIS (National Animal Identification System):

NAIS - National Animal Identification System
www.usda.gov/nais

NoNAIS.org is fighting to protect traditional rights to farm.
www.nonais.org

Ozarks Property Rights Congress
www.ozarksprc.com

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National Leafy Green Marketing Agreement - DRAFT
http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELPRDC5077208

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Track S.787 Clean Water Restoration Act

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s787/show

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s787/text

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.787:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:S787:

Track HR 875 Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009:

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h875/show

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.875:

Track HR 2749 Food Safety Enhancement Act:

www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2749/show

thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.+2749:

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Totalitarian Control of the Food Supply

A new food safety bill is on the fast track in Congress — HR 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. The bill needs to be stopped.

HR 2749 gives FDA tremendous power while significantly diminishing existing judicial restraints on actions taken by the agency. The bill would impose a one-size-fits-all regulatory scheme on small farms and local artisanal producers; and it would disproportionately impact their operations for the worse.

HR 2749 does not address underlying causes of food safety problems such as industrial agriculture practices and the consolidation of our food supply. The industrial food system and food imports are badly in need of effective regulation, but the bill does not specifically direct regulation or resources to these areas.

To read a detailed account of the bill, go to: http://www.ftcldf.org/news/news-15june2009.htm

(Read the section on tracing. That is NAIS, isn’t it? – highly disguised yet triggered by the word “trace.” )

Alarming Provisions:

Some of the more alarming provisions in the bill are:

• HR 2749 would impose an annual registration fee of $500 on any “facility” that holds, processes, or manufactures food. [isn't this every home in the US, every garden?] Although “farms” are exempt, the agency has defined “farm” narrowly. [What is the definition?] And people making foods such as lacto-fermented vegetables, cheeses, or breads would be required to register and pay the fee, which could drive beginning and small producers out of business during difficult economic times. [Yes. There are laws against this corporate-size-destroys-the-little-guy policy, aren't there? Are home bread or cheese or lacto-fermented vegetable makers who make for their own families included in this?]

• HR 2749 would empower FDA to regulate how crops are raised and harvested. It puts the federal government right on the farm, dictating to our farmers. [This astounding control opens the door to CODEX. WTO "good farming practices" will include the elimination of organic farming by eliminating manure, mandating GMO animal feed, imposing animal drugs, and ordering applications of petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides. Farmers, thus, will be locked not only into the industrialization of once normal and organic farms but into the forced purchase of industry's products. They will be slaves on the land, doing the work they are ordered to do - against their own best wisdom - and paying out to industry against their will. There will be no way to be frugal, to grow one’s own grain to feed the animals, to raise healthy animals without GMO grains or drugs, to work with nature at all. Grassfed cattle and poultry and hogs will be finished. So, it’s obvious where control will take us. And weren’t these the “rumors on the internet” that were dismissed but are clearly the case?]

• HR 2749 would give FDA the power to order a quarantine of a geographic area, including “prohibiting or restricting the movement of food or of any vehicle being used or that has been used to transport or hold such food within the geographic area.” [This - "that has been used to transport or hold such food" - would mean all cars that have ever brought groceries home so this means ALL TRANSPORTATION can be shut down under this. This is using food as a cover for martial law.] Under this provision, farmers markets and local food sources could be shut down, even if they are not the source of the contamination. The agency can halt all movement of all food in a geographic area. [This is also a means of total control over the population under the cover of food, and at any time.]

• HR 2749 would empower FDA to make random warrantless searches of the business records of small farmers and local food producers, without any evidence whatsoever that there has been a violation. [If these bills cover all who "hold food" then this allows for taking of records of anyone at any time on no basis at all.] Even farmers selling direct to consumers would have to provide the federal government with records on where they buy supplies, how they raise their crops, and a list of customers.

[NAIS for animals and all other foods?]

• HR 2749 charges the Secretary of Health and Human Services with establishing a tracing system for food. Each “person who produces, manufactures, processes, packs, transports, or holds such food” [Is this not every home in the US?] would have to “maintain the full pedigree of the origin and previous distribution history of the food,” and “establish and maintain a system for tracing the food that is interoperable with the systems established and maintained by other such persons.” The bill does not explain how far the traceback will extend or how it will be done for multi-ingredient foods. With all these ambiguities, [with all these ambiguities, it is dangerous, period, separate from the money] it’s far from clear how much it will cost either the farmers or the taxpayers. [It is massive and absurd and burdensome beyond the capacity of people to comply - is this not fascism? - so it is a set up for being used to impose penalties endlessly and/or to eliminate anyone at will.]

• HR 2749 creates severe criminal and civil penalties, including prison terms of up to 10 years and/or fines of up to $100,000 for each violation for individuals. [Does it include judicial review, Congressional oversight, a defined and limited set of penalties and punishments for a defined set of “crimes”? Or is it entirely ambiguous and left to the whim and sole power of “the Administrator”? Who is that person set to be? Is it Michael Taylor, Monsanto lawyer and executive, as Food Democracy has said? That is, do these bills set up an agency by which the entire US food supply will be turned over to the control of a multinational corporation under WTO regulations (and not to US farmers and not to US laws under the Constitution), with boundless freedom to do what it wants, and one infamous for harm to farmers and lack of safety of food?

If it was not clear before how frightening these bills were, this small section of provisions, should make their actual fascism clear now. It goes way beyond “food safety” to absolute control over farms, animals, food, and us, including our movements and access to food at all.

Action to Take:

Contact your Representative now! Ask to speak with the staffer who handles food issues. Tell them you are opposed to the bill. Some points to make in telling your Representative why you oppose HR 2749 include:

1. The bill imposes burdensome requirements while not specifically targeting the industrial food system and food imports, where the real food safety problems lie.

2. Small farms and local food processors are part of the solution to food safety; lessening the regulatory burden on them will improve food safety.

3. The bill gives FDA much more power than it has had in the past while making the agency less accountable for its actions.

HR 2749 needs to be defeated!! Please take action NOW.

To contact your Representative, use the finder tool at www.Congress.org or send a message through the petition system (the petition will be on our website this evening) at http://www.ftcldf.org/petitions_new.htm. Or call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.

Source: http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/hr-2749-totalitarian-control-of-the-food-supply/

Track the progress of H.R. 2749 Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009

The Library of Congress
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d105:h.r.02749:

Full bill text of H.R.2749 Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.2749:

HR 2749 Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 on OpenCongress.org
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2749/show

Real-time Tracking on GovTrack.us
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-2749

Gotta love the verbiage when they announced the event:

“When numerous issues in the animal identification arena indicated the need for another ID INFO EXPO, NIAA stepped up to the plate to host the event now slated for Aug. 25-27 in Kansas City, Mo. Hosting the event was a natural move as NIAA is an umbrella organization for all livestock species groups and provides a forum for those involved in or passionate about animal agriculture, including but not limited to producers, state and national association leadership, veterinarians-private practice and government, extension specialists, academia, researchers, state and national government regulatory personnel and allied industry.”

[Inclusion and emphasis by EGN admin]

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Here is the big National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA) convention in Kansas City coming up. They will circle the wagons to mandate NAIS here.

They have been the huge pusher of NAIS for years. They started as LCI and as I understand it, Farm Bureau created them or helped greatly. Then it turned into NIAA. They have been pushing NAIS since before 1994. It was not called NAIS then, but the outline of the program was being put in place then.

And you thought NAIS was because of 911 and terrorists right? Wrong!

You can research on their website, www.AnimalAgriculture.org. Google NIAA National Institute for Animal Agriculture.

Look at their membership list. Big AG, VETS, FARM BUREAU, USDA, STATE AG DEPTS and on and on… no little family farmers here!!!

I held my first protest sign in Kansas City three years ago at their event then. It costs $375 dollars to go inside to the meeting… so much for small farmers going…

This is outrageous, but it always has been…
Who will speak up for the little guys?

by Bob Parker

See my comments about Farm Bureau and NIAA and LCI here…

www.endgamenow.com/big-brother-legislation/bob-parker-missouri-rancher-speaks-out-against-nais/

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uclq3YOhRbA

www.AnimalAgriculture.org

NAIS National Animal ID System Comments at USDA listening session Jeff City MO June 9 2009.

Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=41cuqo5xOXI
YT User: www.youtube.com/user/farmboi64469

Russell Wood, President of Ozarks Property Rights Congress, speaks out against NAIS.

NAIS National Animal ID System Comments at USDA listening session Jeff City MO June 9 2009.

Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=41cuqo5xOXI
YT User: www.youtube.com/user/farmboi64469

Visit: www.OzarksPRC.com

Senator Wes Shoemyer and David Patton, President, MO Livestock Marketing Assn (LMA) speak out against NAIS.

NAIS National Animal ID System Comments at USDA listening session Jeff City MO June 9 2009.

Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=41cuqo5xOXI
YT User: www.youtube.com/user/farmboi64469

Visit: www.senate.mo.gov/09info/members/mem18.htm
www.lmaweb.com

Doreen Hannes is a homesteader from South Central Missouri.

NAIS National Animal ID System Comments at USDA listening session Jeff City MO June 9 2009.

Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=41cuqo5xOXI
YT User: www.youtube.com/user/farmboi64469

Visit: www.truth-farmer.blogspot.com

NAIS National Animal ID System Comments at USDA listening session Jeff City MO June 9 2009.

Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=41cuqo5xOXI
YT User: www.youtube.com/user/farmboi64469

This cattle rancher is all about “where the rubber meets the road.”

NAIS National Animal ID System Comments at USDA listening session Jeff City MO June 9 2009.

Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=41cuqo5xOXI
YT User: www.youtube.com/user/farmboi64469

Ray Cunio and his wife, Carol, reside on their 680-acre cattle ranch in Franklin County Missouri. Ray is the president and chairman of Citizens for Private Property Rights (CPPR). He got his start in the property rights movement as an original co-founder of CPPR, in 1989, when the group organized to oppose the “Natural Streams Act,” a statewide land grab referendum on the Missouri ballot in 1990.

Ray serves on the Franklin County Missouri Planning and Zoning Commission, Franklin County Soil and Water Board and the Franklin County Farm Bureau Board.

NAIS National Animal ID System Comments at USDA listening session Jeff City MO June 9 2009.

Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=41cuqo5xOXI
YT User: www.youtube.com/user/farmboi64469

Visit: www.mo-cpr.org
www.freedom21.org/conf/speakers01.html

Contact Missouri Citizens for Property Rights
33867 Highway E
Dixon, MO 65459
(573) 759-3585