According
to Natural
News, the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act is designed to improve
food labeling but actually bans states from enacting their own GMO labeling
requirements, thus keeping food labels inaccurate.
The
USA Patriot Act is a major post-9/11 bill that redefined "patriotism"
as massive unconstitutional government surveillance and intrusion.
Consider
these other examples of government hypocrisy:
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EPA polluting rivers: The EPA recently caused over 3 millions gallons of toxic
waste to spill into Colorado's Animas River while "cleaning up" the
Gold King Mine near Silverton, CO. A local retired geologist predicted that the
EPA would actually cause a massive toxic spill in order to secure federal
funding for a "Superfund" site. And that is exactly what happened,
and is happening. Since the incident, the EPA has declared that the affected
river water is perfectly clean and safe, although toxic lead and arsenic now
line the river banks on historic Navajo land. After spreading their poison on
Navajo land and putting countless lives at risk, appointed EPA officials are
now defying Congress members elected to represent Americans and refusing to
release documents related to the mine spill.
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Operation Fast and Furious: Begun at the outset of the Obama Administration,
Fast and Furious was a gun-running operation headed by the Justice Department
and, specifically, by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms – the federal
agency charged with investigating, among other crimes, gun-running. In
particular, the ATF sold thousands of guns to "straw" purchasers who
were buying them to transfer to Mexican drug lords south of the border. The
plan, according to some, was to have the ATF track those weapons and, upon
locating them in the hands of the drug lords, make arrests.
To know more:
Currently,
the Deputy Commissioner and a Senior Advisor for Foods at the FDA (Food Czar
according to Obama), Michael R. Taylor is also the lawyer that led the food and
drug law practice for his previous client-company, Monsanto. Taylor is also
responsible for dismantling the Delaney clause, a federal law that protected US
food from having chemicals added. The law was written back in 1958 as the Food
Additives Amendment of 1958 -- to keep food safe, as analytical instrumentation
of the time improved greatly for studying food “agents,” and so it was revealed
that certain carcinogens in food, even at levels lower than one part per
million, were a major risk to human health. By the 1980s, Taylor was presenting
arguments to counter food safety concerns in order to benefit Monsanto
financially.
Then, in 1991, Taylor left his law firm and took the FDA post of
Deputy Commissioner for Policy. Taylor then signed anti-regulation registers to
remove warnings that were to be put on milk that comes from cows treated with
the artificial hormone known as rBGH. It is suspected that he co-authored the
FDA’s 1992 policy statement on GMOs -- genetically modified organisms -- which
would permanently remove any government oversight of Biotech safety, labeling
and what they termed “burdensome regulations.” Chemical agriculture would soon
sweep the nation, and genetically engineered corn and soy containing the genes
of pesticide would now secretly become staple food for more than 250 million
Americans within a decade.
To
see some fascinating and interesting clips regarding the truth about US
regulatory laws regarding food, one can easily log onto:
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