Senate Bills 3002 & 510

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Dr. Gabriel Cousens, Tree of Life in Patagonia AZ 85624 has informed us of the following messages concerning proposed legislation to control/regulate organic farms, food companies, and supplements.According to Washington insiders, Senator McCain

will no longer support his own bill due to the flood of 400,000 letters received opposing his bill. Apparently, Senator McCain met with

Senator Orrin Hatch, who is a proponent of natural medicine, and told him that

he is withdrawing his support for the bill that he authored - the so-called

Dietary Supplement Safety Act (S 3002). This may mean that the bill, as

written, is now dead. 

However, it is possible that many of the provisions of

the DSSA (S 3002) will now be included in Tom Harkin’s Senate Bill 510, which

is still stalled in Congress. Bill 510 grants the FDA power to regulate

and shut down food facilities, including farms and packaging plants.

Given the FDA’s relationship with agri-business and the pharmaceutical

companies, this power will most certainly work against the interests of organic

farms and organic food companies. Our next task is to defeat this bill to

ensure complete health freedom in the years to come! 

Please write your

State Senators today, and demand explicit renunciation DSSA (S 3002), and

explicit renunciation of Harkin Bill 510. You may use the template below

for your correspondence.

Write a letter/fax/email to your congress

person. A sample letter is below for you to copy and paste or rewrite in your own style. The

following is a link to find out how to contact your congress person: http://www.contactingthecongress.org
Dear Senator/Congress(wo)man,

I am writing to, once again, express my

disapproval of Senator John McCain’s proposed Senate Bill 3002 (DSSA).

While I understand that this Bill 3002 may be withdrawn, I seek explicit

denouncement of this bill and specific provisions, and protections of my rights

to buy and sell supplements as outlined in the DSHEA. Furthermore, I am

concerned that many of the provisions of the DSSA will be included in Tom Harkin’s

Senate Bill 510. 

It is my desire, as a tax-paying US citizen, to see

both Senate Bills 3002 and 510, which grant power to the FDA for supplement and

farm regulation, stopped. It is my desire to see explicit provisions for

the protection of my rights to buy and sell supplements and for the protection

of organic food facilities from further FDA regulation. Moreover, I urge

that Congress consider a thorough investigation of the FDA and the special

interests that threaten to manipulate the free market, instead of granting them

more power over my life. 

Sincerely,
(Your name)

 

 

 

Dixie MahyPresidentSan Francisco Vegetarian Society