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Action Items You Can Take Now October 25, 2009
Push Back NOW!
President Playing Deadly Politics With Your Health
Health Freedom Money Bomb
Is Our Response!
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Two Urgent Action Items
1. Tell President Obama to Rescind Dangerous, Unnecessary Health Emergency
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1610
2. If you are a Health Care Worker, student or in any allied profession, take the Health Care Worker’s Oath now to prevent the Medical System from becoming a tool to imprison and kill as happened in Nazi Germany. Whether you are a Health Care Worker or not, forward this information to every Health Care Worker you can reach:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1614
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Late breaking news:
Unverified reports of deaths mounting in Hungary, Sweden, other countries where Squalene adjuvanted vaccine is already in use. US has purchased huge amounts for use here.
More information next eblast…
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Deadly “National Health Emergency”:
We Either Take This Hill or We Die On It!
Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.)
President, Natural Solutions Foundation
Oathkeeper
In all of my days in Military Intelligence, the new Health Emergency is perhaps the most ominous domestic event I have ever encountered.
In the struggle to save Health and Freedom we are out of time.
We either take this hill, or we die on it.
Germany declared war on the German People during the Nazi regime and, as you know if you have read Dr. Rima’s hugely important and informative”The Killing Camps of Codex”:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/docs/nutricide.pdf long before that.
Russia declared war on the Russian people under Stalin who killed at least 30 million (!) Russians in his mad tyranny, perverting medicine and especially psychiatry in the process.
Has the United States declared war on the American people today? Is that declaration part of the WHO’s war against the population of the earth? Sadly, tragically, it would appear so.
In the Intelligence world, the task is to take seemingly disconnected pieces of information and find the pattern that binds them together into a cohesive whole. After that, you evaluate the forward progression of events and work to either support those that you want to see happen or forestall those that you do not.
The President’s declaration of a National Emergency provides authority to an appointee, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, to literally throw out of the nearest window ALL of the protective rights of a patient who is caught up in the health care system, whether or not they actually have the trivial disease called “Swine Flu”. Anyone, in fact, can be sucked into this system. None of this makes any sense UNLESS the intention is to replicate Hitler’s actions in Germany which used the all too willing medical system as a means to eliminate individuals, segments of the population and anyone who dared to speak out (or whisper) against the regime.
Again, this incredible expansion of power given to HHS strips every American of any rights or recourse.
Why does Sebelius need such powers? How will they be used? What is the intentionality in granting such sweeping and ill-defined powers? Here is what I am looking at when I connect these dots: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3763
Now you connect the dots for yourself What picture emerges for you? Scary, isn’t it? If you see the same picture that I do you know that the this is extremely frightening and dangerous.
That’s why you need to ACT NOW!
Two urgent Action Items need your immediate action:
1. The First Amendment of the Constitution of These United States allows us to petition the government for redress of grievances. The Declaration of Health Emergency creates grievances which we urge you to help to redress.
Click here, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1610, to send your letter demanding redress now. You CAN help make sure that President Obama hears this message from millions of people.
2. A statement by all Health Care Workers, just like the Oath Keepers’ statement many peace and military officers, including me, have taken to uphold the Constitution against illegal, tyrannical orders, but regarding the “medical orders” honorable health care workers would never obey.
Click here, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1614, to read the Health Care Worker’s Oath and take it.
I do not wish to see the American population corralled, controlled and killed. I do not wish to see the phony “Pandemic” which has been thrust upon us, used as the excuse to destroy the American people and the American system of governance. Yet, when I look at the seemingly disconnected pieces of information before me, that is precisely what I see.
War needs resources and building our Money Bomb, along with the Action Steps, is the best response you can make to the current crisis!
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Yours in health and freedom,
General Bert
Albert N. Stubblebine III
Maj General (US Army, Ret.)
President, Natural Solutions Foundation, Oathkeeper
You can read the Petition Letter to the President here: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3772
To send your letter demanding that the President rescind the Declaration of Health Emergency, click here:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1610
To take the Health Care Worker’s Oath, click here, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1614
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Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director, Natural Solutions Foundation Oathkeeper
I am a Health Care Worker. My New York State Medical License Number is 111813. I will not be part of a system that harms and incarcerates people. I will not be part of a system which uses drugs to subdue and kill dissidents and socially inconvenient people, also known as “useless eaters”.
If you are a Health Care Worker reading this, neither will you. If you are not a Health Care Worker and you are reading this, you know Health Care Workers, students, administrators, Janitors, Cooks, Clerks, etc., etc., who won’t either. So you’ll need to get them this information as quickly and effectively as you can. Ask them to take the Health Care Worker’s Oath and pass it along to their colleagues. After all, when we said “NO!” to the Swine Flu vaccines, look what we accomplished.
It’s time to act again. And, of course, it’s time for every Health Care Worker to send the letter demanding redress to President Obama by having him rescind the Declaration of Health Emergency, just as NY State rescinded its Health Care Worker vaccination mandate last week.
I urge all conscientious health care workers to join me in taking an oath never to violate basic medical ethics, to Do No Harm, and to obey the principals of the Nuremberg Code and the Declaration of Helsinki: we will not be “good Germans” in the planned medical fascism.
Please go to this link to take the oath: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1614
Just a few days ago we told you that we had won a decisive victory in the Pandemic Wars when HHS Secretary Sebelius called off the Pandemic. And, indeed we had won that victory. At the time, I told you that the other side would be back, and that is exactly what has happened. But we ARE ready for them.
The day before, DHS Secretary Napolitano opined that there would not be any economic impact to the Swine Flu because, in essence, there was no Pandemic. Two days later, New York State, bowing to public pressure – ours! – rescinded the dreadful mandate that had been placed upon health care workers for not just the Swine Flu vaccine, but all, that’s right, ALL vaccines recommended by the CDC’s bought-and-paid for Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
But how will the depopulation happen if there are no Swine Flu vaccinations? How will the profits for secondary disease roll in if there are no Swine Flu vaccinations? How will the political “readjustment” take place if there are no Swine Flu vaccinations?
These are serious problems for the controllers. So last Friday evening, on October 23, 2008, flying in the face of logic, shame, sense and science, President Obama, who remains unvaccinated, as do the First Daughters, declared an absurd, but very dangerous “National Health Emergency”.
It will, apparently happen through the cooption and involvement of the health care system which is already controlled by Big Pharma. Fascism is the merger of the corporation and the state. This emerging fascism is nothing short of breathtaking: Big Pharma and its Global State, or is it the Global State and its handmaiden Big Pharma? They are not separable any longer. But what is clear is that the use of their corporate structures will be needed to create the next step in the destruction of your way of life and mine – and perhaps your life and mine, as well.
You can read the Petition Letter to the President here:
here: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3772
Then take the Action Item by sending your letter to President Obama here:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1610
I am then urging you to become part of Freedom Mouse Brigade. Set yourself a goal: 10 people, 50 people, 100 people, whatever you can actually do, and then mobilize these people to sign the letter and set their own goals to mobilize more.
We submitted just under 2.4 million emails when we demanded the right to say no to vaccination without facing penalties including fines and incarceration.
That counts, big time. When this all washes out, your millions of emails will have most likely been a major force, protecting us from forced vaccinations. But now, even in the face of that strength, Big Pharma and the Globalist Elite think that we cannot rise up with the strength we need to push them back permanently. We can. We will. In fact, we must.
Now it’s our turn. The other side is pushing back through this Declaration. Freedom Mouse Riders, Ready… MOUNT… CLICK!
The Empire Strikes Back: we need to Push Back harder, and for that we need your help. Please support our Money Bomb and give generously at: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=189
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
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Ralph Fucetola, JD
Counsel and Trustee, Natural Solutions Foundation
There is little I can add to the passionate defense of our Health and Freedom expressed above by my co-trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation. They have said it quite well.
What I can tell you is that two things make an impression in Washington: numbers and money. We’ve proven we have the numbers — your millions of emails show that; even the mass media admits that all polls show most Americans oppose forced vaccination. What we need to prove is that we have the money to support a continued campaign to Stop the Shot. Our injunction motion will be heard on November 5th (yes, for all you fans of the movie “V” — the Court chose that date, we didn’t).
Dr. Rima and Gen. Bert will be at the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses meeting, chaired by the notorious Dr. Rolf Grossklaus, in Dusseldorf Germany at that time; I will be in Washington for our court case hearing and for a separate EPA hearing regarding their effort to ban all nano-silver products.
It takes resources to run a three front war… and you are the only source of those funds we have. We are a 100% supporter supported organization.
You’ve already made us very proud of our supporter base our expectations in the first few days of our 10 day Money Bomb!
See our Funding Thermometer here: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3686.
Now please donate here: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=189.
Why? Because we need to call upon you for more help. The more you can give, the louder, more effective and more present we can be. If you can give a small amount, please do. If you can give a larger amount, please do. We know that recurring donations make it possible for us to plan our activities and we know, too, that small donations add up! As they say in Washington, numbers and money add up! You know we are working for you. Please give generously to keep that happening.
And, please, forward this eblast as widely as you can with a brief note asking people to get involved.
Please donate here:
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Yours in Health and Freedom,
Counsel Ralph
Ralph Fucetola JD
PS – You can read the Redress of Grievances Letter to the President here: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3772
To send your letter demanding that the President rescind the Declaration of Health Emergency, click here:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1610
Take the Health Care Worker’s Oath here, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1614
And you can build our Money Bomb here: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=189
One more thing: you can still get nano Silver since the EPA has not completed its attack yet. The FDA does not want you to know that you can use it as a safe, effective and side-effect free universal anti biotic while leaving your beneficial flora (pro biotics) intact. You can purchase nano silver at www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions and you can attend a remarkable free webinar this coming Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 8-9 PM Eastern with Dr. Gordon Pederson IF you register soon enough.
Seats are limited.
Go to https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/605396162 to register before all the seats are gone.
PUSH BACK WORKED!
Celebrate with a Money Bomb!
Natural Solutions Foundation
HEALTH FREEDOM MONEY BOMB!
You’ve heard that term before… “Money Bomb.” Health freedom supporter, Congressman Dr. Ron Paul became well-known last year in part because of the extraordinary Money Bomb efforts of his campaign, raising funds through the Internet.
Many of you participated in an emergency appeal from us a few months ago, when an Internet attack-bot was used to generate about 100,000 fake $1.00 donations to us, for which our big-corpoate online gateway charged us a dime each… draining our account and nearly causing us to default on our monthly payments for the Democracy in Action system we use to communicate with you.
In just 48 hours you donated enough funds to make up the shortfall and cover our expenses for last summer’s Codex meeting in Rome. You can see Dr. Rima’s brilliant video deconstruction of Codex from that meeting here:
http://www.youtube.com/naturalsolutions#p/u/4/Hyo_VjJSVFo
You helped out when we needed funding to start the Stop the Shot law suit in Washington DC earlier this month. And that Push Back worked! The “sky is falling down” pandemic seems to be over, according to HHS Secretary Sebelius’ public statement yesterday, even before it began… and no forced vaccines available, thank you.
Now even New York is rescinding, as of tonite, the healthcare workers’ swine flu vax mandate (not all flu vaccine mandates, so our suit will go on!).
That leads us to what we need to do next: (1) we need to get Dr. Rima and Gen Bert and a couple of our volunteer assistants to the next Codex meeting, early November, in Germany, while (2) Counsel Ralph needs to get to Washington DC at the same time to
attend the EPA nano silver hearing, which threatens our access to the nano silver Dr. Rima recommends. Further, we need a significant increase in support to make use of the volunteers who are seeking to work for us at Global Health Freedom Headquarters.
So we decided to celebrate recent victories and to prepare for the next round of victories by asking you all to participate in a Money Bomb!
We need everyone to forward this short email to all your contacts and ask them to donate right now to protect Health Freedom!
See our Money Bomb Donation Thermometer here:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3686
See our accomplishments for Health Freedom here:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=195
And make your tax-deductible donation here:
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You can read our most recent Health Freedom eblast here:
Action eAlert: Pandemic Triumph and Eugenicide Threat
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3737
Let’s make this message go viral! Please send this Permalink to all your contacts:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3744
Thank you,
Maj Gen Bert Stubblebine (US Army ret.) – President
Rima E. Laibow MD – Medical Director
Ralph Fucetola JD – Counsel
Natural Solutions Trustees
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org

IT’S MONEY BOMB TIME!
To Fund Health Freedom’s Next Victory!
Health Freedom Money Bomb – Round Three!
December Annual Giving Season
TOGETHER We’ve held off the uninsurable, un-safety tested, martial law-friendly “Swine Flu” H1N1 vaccine panic… and the Senate delayed voting on the (sic) “Food Safety” bill, S.510 after nearly a hundred fifty thousand emails to the committee and Senate…
Congratulations to US! We won a couple rounds! Our Push Back and Stop the Shot law suit forced the US to effectively “cancel” the H1N1 Pandemic. Oh, there are the usual “talking head” announcements about how dangerous H1N1 still is and a bizarre National Emergency Declaration from the President that seems to contradict his own Secretary of Health, but the juice is gone: there is no serious threat either from the disease (there never was) nor, with insufficient supplies, from the vaccine (which is where all the danger really lay). Both New York and New Jersey, the only two states with flu vax mandates, suspended theirs after we went to court on one and threatened to do so on the other. But we have a long way to go before we are finished with these threats.
This Money Bomb’s continued success can be our most powerful Push Back to the President’s “National Emergency Declaration” of October 23, 2009 regarding the alleged “swine flu pandemic”. See: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3763
The depopulationists / globalists / pharma-terrorists and their government/WHO/UN henchmen and henchwomen (such as Napolitano, Sebelius and Hamburg) will be back again. By the time they mount their next terror tactic, we will be stronger, even better organized and ready to beat them back on that one, and the next, and the next, all because of your help.
Null, Laibow, et al v FDA Lawsuit UPDATE:
Round One: NY Health Care Workers’ Flu Vaccine Mandate:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3933
Round Two: NJ Toddlers’ Flu Vaccine mandate:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3970
Round Three… [But that’s a secret; we have cooperating plaintiffs and are preparing to file.]
Oh, by they way, did you forget about Codex? We didn’t. In fact, now that Gen. Bert and Dr. Rima can safely travel without fear of deadly injections, they went to the most recent Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU), whose Chairman is the notorious Dr. Rolf Grossklaus.
They attended this meeting in Dusseldorf from Nov 2-6, and all workshops and associated meetings – for you. As usual, they did daily video updates, radio specials and so on. You know you can count on them to tell you what is happening and make contacts with delegates from around the world that can change history – just as we did with the H1N1 scam-for-death-and-money.
Codex Meeting UPDATE: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3942
You’ve probably heard about the powerful protective effect of Vitamin D on the immune system. There are 3 ‘D vitamins’ in Health Freedom:
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We need you to help us generate the funds needed to move our seminal legal challenge to the entire vaccine approval travesty forward, fighting any appeal that the FDA and other defendants may initiate and we need the funds to make sure that we can continue our Codex work. We need funds to update our Codex book and make sure that every Head of State, every Minister of Health and Agriculture and every Codex delegate gets that publication along with a clear explanation of how to use this information. Despite the (ill-informed) Nay-Sayers, when Austria, Hungary and the Netherlands used our Codex Two Step Process, they won their cases in the WTO, escaping both trade sanctions AND Codex in those instances!
We need money to help reclaim the production of food here at the Valley of the Moon(TM) Eco Demonstration Project. Right now the government of Panama is asking us to help them turn ALL cattle farming in the breadbasket province of Chiriqui into BeyondOrganic/Biodynamic farming. They are asking us to help them do the same with their agricultural production, as well. We need money to support volunteers who provide hands, heads and hearts to make this project work so that we can teach farmers and non farmers alike how to grow clean, abundant food for life and health here and elsewhere.
What does that have to do with you and your health? A lot. First, we can create products which, because of their excellence, will violate Codex guidelines and standards and can then be shipped internationally, helping to further crack Codex apart. Second, we are creating a teaching center to help farmers from the developing world, where more and more of your food comes from, to grow their food in a way that is healthy for them AND for you. That means, of course, that their countries, too, will need to follow our Two Step Process to ship and sell their products.
AND we need serious funding to complete the Health Freedom Documentary which we began, but did not have enough funding to complete.
So much to do. So much to do for you. How can we do it all? Simple: we need the resources and then we can do it all – you know that you can trust the Natural Solutions Foundation to be on top of issues before they arise and find the solutions. You know you can trust us to use every single penny for the Foundation’s work since none of the Trustees takes a penny for our much-more-than-full-time work. You know that we are 100% supporter supported so that our only focus is what is good for health, and for freedom. We are there for you.
Now it is time for you to be there for Health Freedom with a powerful, decisive Money Bomb!
Lay it on us so we can keep health freedom free. Just think! Today you are free of the threat that was looming over our heads: the voluntary-but-really-mandatory adjuvanted vaccine for a made-up, make-believe disease. And we, you and the Natural Solutions Foundation, did that together. What else can we do? Let’s find out. It’s Money Bomb Time!
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Thank you for your continuing vital support. Health Freedom IS Our First Freedom.
Yours in health and freedom,
The Trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation
Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.)
President & Oath Keeper
Rima E. Laibow, MD – Medical Director
Ralph Fucetola, JD – Counsel
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Donate to Keep Health Freedom Free. All donations are tax deductible for US taxpayers: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=189
Take this Action Step NOW for every member of your family/household and mobilize everyone you can reach to do the same: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714
Visit your Senator to tell him/her how strongly you insist that he/she protect both your food and your freedom. Here is a printable fact sheet you can use to either send to people in your emails or hand out to your Senator and people in health food stores, community members, etc.: http://www.lifespirit.org/FoodSafetyBills-leafletFINAL.pdf
The Natural Solutions Foundation has been warning about the coming of Codex to our food supply, with its degradation of every aspect of our food freedom and quality for quite some time. We are so concerned about this food and freedom issue that we are creating the innovative Valley of the Moon(TM) Eco Demonstration Project, www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org, in Volcan, Panama, to teach farmers and non farmers alike how to reclaim the production of food. But meanwhile, the US is loosing its food freedom and its freedom all at the same time.
HR 2749, and its sister bill which the Senate will consider when it reconvenes in September brings it all back home. The article below is long, detailed and vitally important to you and your family. This is not simply a technical bill for technocrats. This is real life food slavery for you and for your family unless we act now.
HR 2749 takes giant steps forward in bringing what none of us want to see into being. HR 2749’s sister bill must NOT pass in the Senate if you value the health that comes from food, value your freedom to grow and source the type of clean, unadulterated food you value and if you do not want to see, eat and be, a global food slave. To date, as I write this, some 876,996 emails have been generated to tell Congress to safeguard, not destroy, our health and our food supply, as well as our freedom. It is imperative that we make sure that the Senate understands that this is not a request, it is a demand. If you have not generated emails to stop this invasion of the Constitution, your health freedom and your food and pets, do so now.
The article below focuses on just one aspect of that program, the National Animal Identification System or NAIS.
There has been a long and powerful battle in the US against NAIS, a regulatory and chipping system which would place extraordinary burdens on small farmers, raising costs of “traceability” and farming practices so high as to drive them out of business, leaving the field to the industrial giants, the Codex Criminals who want food produced cheaply enough to make them even richer – and care nothing about health, safety or the future of either food or your family.
HR 2749, passed under great pressure by the House of Representatives on July 31, 2009, just as it went on August recess, is a disastrous bill for food, for freedom and for farmers. It is a disastrous bill for you. If you keep pets, it is a disastrous bill for them, too.
When we gained successful push back when Congresswoman Rosa Delaurio (CT-D) agreed not to fund NAIS in Committee, we knew that the issue would be back around. And here it is.
Please take the Action Step in our Three for Liberty Campaign, http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3262, right now, once for each member of your family. Then let every single person you know or can reach that it is urgent that they do the same IF they believe in their right to clean, unadulterated food, do not want Codex’ international globalization standards implemented, want to support small and organic farmers, do not want their pets chipped (yes, their pets!) with devices which have been shown to cause cancer, do not want the FDA to be able to declare martial law (!) and seize property in cases of food contamination and want to be able to grow their own gardens without having to adhere to Codex standards, complete with PIN number!
This is not the United States we believe we live in. This is global food fascism, nothing more and nothing less. Don’t let it happen. It really is up to us.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedomUSA.org
Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Project
www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org
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www.Organics4U.org
www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org
Welcome to the Global Plantation: HR 2749 Authorizes International Take-Over of Domestic Food Production
© Doreen Hannes 2009
Published by permission of the author
HR 2749 AUTHORIZES NAIS and OTHER INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
Congressional staffers have been telling people that HR 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, does not authorize the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). Many organic groups have agreed with them. However, this is misleading. Though HR 2749 does not name “the” National Animal Identification System, it still authorizes the program. It also does not state that it legally authorizes Good Agricultural Practices, or GAP, partially comprising Codex guidelines on traceability and food safety, and the OIE’s Guide to Good Farming Practices including auditing, certification and inspections, disincentives for not participating in the form of fines, penalties, and loss of access to market, but it does. Is it possible that Congress was not aware of what it voted on? The bill was changed three times in a 24-hour period before passing the House 283-142 on July 30, 2009.
Are these assertions about HR 2749 wild and unsubstantiated? Proving them is fairly easy—just understand “Good Agricultural Practices” (GAP), how the agencies of the World Trade Organization operate within member countries to achieve them and what comprises the actual jurisdiction of the FDA and USDA. A brief explanation follows, along with substantiating quotes from HR 2749.
First we look to jurisdiction in HR2749….
“Nothing in this Act or any amendment made by this Act shall be construed to alter the jurisdiction between the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, under applicable statutes and regulations…” (p.3&4)
Then, tossing our preconceived notions to the wind and looking to law instead, we find that congressional testimony of the FDA on establishing a single food safety agency and a myriad of other sources including the FAO (Food and Ag Organization of the UN), the FDA statements on the Bioterrorism Act of 2002, and many books on food law affirm that FDA has jurisdiction over live food animals:
“FDA is the Federal agency that regulates 80 percent of the nation’s food supply-everything we eat except for meat, poultry, and certain egg products, which are regulated by our partners at USDA. FDA’s responsibility extends to live food animals…”(Cfans Director, March 2004 Congressional hearing)
So then what is the authority of the USDA? It is over agricultural disease, animals in the slaughter channel or transport, marketing (like grading of eggs and certification of processes) and the end product of many (but not all) food animals; meat. This is why NAIS always had to be “about disease” because the USDA couldn’t run it otherwise! The exemption section on USDA regulated products is a dust up. Most people think the USDA has authority over live food animals, but it is the FDA after all. They surrender “cow, sheep or goat for milk production”, but the FDA retains authority of the fluid milk and when the animal is no longer productive for milking, it’s into the slaughter channel (under USDA) or out to pasture (back to FDA) anyway!
“Livestock and poultry that are intended to be presented for slaughter pursuant to the regulations by the Secretary of Agriculture under the Federal Meat Inspection Act or the Poultry Products Inspection Act are exempt from the requirements of this Act. A cow, sheep, or goat that is used for the production of milk is exempt from the requirements of this Act.” (p.5 of HR2749)
HR 2749 is 160 pages (July 29 version) and contains the following references to international standards and guidelines (emphasis added for clarity) (all page numbers refer to the PDF file):
“(B) INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS.—In issuing guidance or regulations… the Secretary shall review international hazard analysis and preventive control standards that are in existence on the date of the enactment of this Act and relevant to such guidelines or regulations to ensure that the programs…..are consistent……with such standards.” (p. 35)
“CONSISTENCY WITH INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS.—The Secretary shall apply this paragraph consistently with United States obligations under international agreements.” (p. 81)
“The Secretary shall issue regulations to ensure that any qualified certifying entity and its auditors are free from conflicts of interest. In issuing these regulations, the Secretary may rely on or incorporate international certification standards.” (p. 82)
This means that there will be a layer of auditors, certifiers and inspectors over every aspect of food production in this country and that these inspectors and certifiers will be trained in ISO (International Standards Organization) management program certification. The ISO has been working with Codex Alimentarius on Food Safety Standards and, in particular, a technical standard for Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) which is a consortium of the seven largest food retailers in the world, and that is ISO22000:2005. All traceability (read NAIS) falls under the purview of Codex, the OIE (World Animal Health Organization) and the IPPC (International Plant Protection Convention) for global trade agreements.
The following excerpt from HR 2749 shows the fully interoperable global network already in existence regarding food and its production:
“Development of such guidelines shall take into account the utilization of existing unique identification schemes and compatibility with customs automated systems, such as integration with the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) and the International Trade Data System (ITDS), and any successor systems.” (p. 142)
So it is clear that international standards and guidelines are implicit in this legislation. Note the usage of the command form SHALL. This isn’t a ‘might’, ‘may’ or in anyway a voluntary issue on the part of the Secretary. Then there is the section on Traceability. This is a code word in the National Animal Identification System and when one reads Sec.107 of this bill, it describes specific components of NAIS down to 48-hour trace-back, which cannot even be fantasized about with out individual animal identification.
“…..the Secretary shall issue regulations establishing a tracing system that enables the Secretary to identify each person who grows, produces, manufactures, processes, packs, transports, holds, or sells such food in as short a timeframe as practicable but no longer than 2 business days.” [note that it says “grows”] (p. 70)
and…
“……use a unique identifier for each facility owned or operated by such person for such purpose…” (p. 69)
So we have PIN (Premises Identification Number) and 48-hour traceback harmonizing with international standards and guidelines along with this:
“….‘‘(C) COORDINATION REGARDING FARM IMPACT.—In issuing regulations under this paragraph that will impact farms, the Secretary ‘‘(i) shall coordinate with the Secretary of Agriculture; and ‘‘(ii) take into account the nature of the impact of the regulations on farms.” (p. 71)
Now that I’ve killed you with legalese, it’s time to let you find out just what these international standards and guidelines mean to those engaged in agriculture in this country.
“GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES”
Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) are not a standard in and of themselves. They are a combination of standards and guidelines set forth by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. (FAO), through both the OIE (World Animal Health Organization) and Codex Alimentarius (Food Code) and IPPC to meet the certification and auditing side of the international trade aspects of the standards set forth. The OIE and Codex are charged with setting global standards and guidelines for the member countries of the WTO to meet and satisfy the SPS (Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary), TBT (Technical Barriers to Trade) and Equivalency agreements of the WTO for participation in international trade. Both the OIE and CODEX have guidelines for traceability that, with the passage of HR2749 into law, would be written into regulations governing all interstate commerce within the boundaries of the United States. The components of traceability are the pillars of NAIS that many of us have become so familiar with in the course of the battle over the past several years. Those being 1) Premises Identification 2) Animal Identification and 3) Animal Tracking. You can’t have traceability under international standards without having those three components.
One of the main issues in the implementation of these standards and guidelines within a member nation of the WTO is that they must have a legal framework through which to regulate and enforce these guidelines and standards. HR 2749 would meet the criteria for that legal framework by way of the excerpts from the bill above.
In the OIE’s “Guide to Good Farming Practices” the management of a livestock facility are clearly spelled out. Some of these recommendations that would become defacto law in the US under agency rule-making on passage of HR2749 (GGFP delineates international guidelines for food safety at the farm level) are:
– For each animal…Require and keep all commercial and health documents enabling their exact itinerary to be traced from their farm or establishment to their final destination…
-Keep a record of all persons entering the farm…..
-Keep medical certificates of persons working with the animals……
-Keep documents proving the water you give to the animals meets specific criteria
-Keep samples of all feed given to the animals
-Keep all documents from official inspections
-Keep records of treatment and procedures on all animals (castration, disbudding, calving, medications, etc.)
-Prevent domestic animals (cats and dogs) from roaming in and around livestock buildings
-Place all these documents at the disposal of the competent authority (Veterinary Services) when it conducts farm visits.
Some of the other guidelines and standards that would come into play after the implementation of traceability for all agricultural products would be : (from FAO COAG/17 “Development of a Framework for Good Agricultural Practices”) “the adoption and implementation of international standards and codes for which Codex food safety standards and guidelines have been designed, and the associated capacity building, training, development and field implementation in the context of the different production systems and agro-ecozones. These include: Enhancing Food Quality and Safety by Strengthening Handling, Processing and Marketing in the Food Chain (214A9); Capacity Building and Risk Analysis Methodologies for Compliance with Food Safety Standards and Pesticide Control (215P1); Food Quality Control and Consumer Protection (221P5); Food Safety Assessment and Rapid Alert System (221P6); and Food Quality and Safety Throughout the Food Chain (221P8).”*
To be certified as meeting the requirements of “GAP”, which is synonymous with being in compliance with international standards and guidelines, we can check out GlobalGAP.org. This is “the” certifying methodology for international trade in ag products. Here are a few excerpts from their 122-page general regulations booklet that has links to checklists for those who would be certifiers and auditors under the principles of GAP. This is an organization, not a governing body under WTO agreements, but working with nations and businesses to meet the criteria regarding these GAP practices for international trade. Here is a bare minimum of excerpts from their regulation document:
-(ii) Developing a Good Agricultural Practice (G.A.P.) framework for benchmarking existing assurance schemes and standards including traceability. (iii) Providing guidance for continuous improvement and the development and understanding of best practice. (iv) Establish a single, recognised framework for independent verification.
-Production Location: A production unit or group of production units, covered by the same ownership, operational procedures, farm management, and GLOBALGAP (EUREPGAP) decision-making activities.
-Within the context of GLOBALGAP (EUREPGAP) Integrated Farm Assurance this means tracing product from the producer’s immediate customer back to the producer and certified farm.
-Within the context of GLOBALGAP (EUREPGAP) Integrated Farm Assurance this means tracking product from the producer to his immediate customer.
In simple English, which appears to be highly lacking in all these guidelines, it means NAIS for everything, and for anyone who wishes to be engaged in agriculture….Remember the “grows” phrase from the earlier excerpt from HR2749. Now let’s look at some of the ‘exception’ clauses in HR2749. This bill is a terrifically crafty piece of legislation that is designed to cloud the reader’s understanding of the impact of the law being proposed in it. All of the exception clauses give the exception under this Act so long as you are ready to be regulated under a different Act. We’ll just look at a couple of these clauses to allow you to get the gist of the lack of exception available through the exceptions….
“EXCEPTIONS”
Farms- A farm is exempt from the requirements of this Act to the extent such farm raises animals from which food is derived that is regulated under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, or the Egg Products Inspection Act.
‘‘(I) such an operation that packs or holds food, provided that all food used in such activities is grown, raised, or consumed on such farm or another farm under the same ownership;
‘‘(II) such an operation that manufactures or processes food, provided that all food used in such activities is consumed on such farm or another farm under the same ownership; (pages9 and10)
Thus, if you grow everything you feed and consume everything you grow, and use no minerals or salts that you don’t mine yourself, you may be exempt. Or, in plain English, don’t even try to make a living in agriculture if you won’t comply with these rules.
One more exception to contend with here is:
‘(A) DIRECT SALES BY FARMS- Food is exempt from the requirements of this subsection if such food is–
‘(i) produced on a farm; and
‘(ii) sold by the owner, operator, or agent in charge of such farm directly to a consumer or to a restaurant or grocery store. (page 71)
This sounds good. However, there are several problems with this that are not evident without some knowledge of how things are done in the traditional avenues open for market to growers. First of all, cattle, whom you may recall as the primary target of the NAIS Business Plan, are often sold either at auction barns or via potload to feedlots. It is illegal to sell beef directly from the farm to consumers in every state that I know of. People often will sell a calf ready to butcher in halves or quarters to people and deliver the calf to the slaughter facility for the consumer, but this is far from the normal route of commerce in cattle or other species of meat animal. Even if you can securely wedge your operation into this particular exemption, they get you later via the record keeping section of this bill:
‘(E) RECORDKEEPING REGARDING PREVIOUS SOURCES AND SUBSEQUENT RECIPIENTS- For a food or person covered by a limitation or exemption under subparagraph (B), (C), or (D), the Secretary shall require each person who produces, receives, manufactures, processes, packs, transports, distributes, or holds such food to maintain records to identify the immediate previous sources of such food and its ingredients and the immediate subsequent recipients of such food.
‘(F) RECORDKEEPING BY RESTAURANTS AND GROCERY STORES- For a food covered by an exemption under subparagraph (A), restaurants and grocery stores shall keep records documenting the farm that was the source of the food.
‘(G) RECORDKEEPING BY FARMS- For a food covered by an exemption under subparagraph (A), farms shall keep records, in electronic or non-electronic format, for at least 6 months documenting the restaurant or grocery store to which the food was sold.’ (pp. 74-75)
So being exempt means you are required to keep records. Keeping required records means you could be required to release those records. So how exempt can a person get under this legislation? Especially when the slaughter facilities will all be regulated unless the USDA already regulates them?
PENALTIES AND FINES
Then of course, as with any law, there are the fines and penalties. These are from $20,000 to $1,000,000 per violation. (p. 122)
NO JUDICIAL REVIEW
There is also the change under the seizure section that takes away judicial overview…(double quotations indicate amending language)
…….procedure in cases under this section shall conform, as nearly as may be, to the procedure in admiralty; except that on demand of either party any issue of fact joined in any such case shall be tried by jury, “”and except that, with respect to proceedings relating to food, Rule G of the Supplemental Rules of Admiralty or Maritime Claims and Asset Forfeiture Actions shall not apply in any such case, exigent circumstances shall be deemed to exist for all seizures brought under this section, and the summons and arrest warrant shall be issued by the clerk of the court without court review in any such case””…… (p. 116)
So we can just throw out that pesky Fourth Amendment to the Constitution and while we’re at it, let’s get rid of probable cause as well via this wording from page 117:
by striking ‘‘credible evidence or information indicating’’ and inserting ‘‘reason to believe’’;
There are many other dangerous aspects to HR 2749, like seizures, quarantines, and licensing and whistle blower provisions, but this should leave no doubt that this bill will indeed affect farms and has the potential to affect even home food production if an agency decides to apply the international risk analysis schemes to that venue. This bill opens a huge regulatory nightmare that is only evident when one knows what the international guidelines and standards consist of in regard to agriculture. Understanding those, it is highly unlikely that they will issue regulations that keep things as they are now.
Now, the questions that everyone involved in agriculture, meaning everyone who eats, must ask themselves are these:
Can regulating, fining and destroying the freedom of people to grow food create food safety?
Have the impacts of so-called “Free Trade” on this nation been beneficial for the citizens of this country?
Have food safety concerns increased or decreased since we have begun to import more food under these trade agreements?
And ultimately, does the US Constitution provide for the voidance of the Bill of Rights to participate in global trade?
My copy of the Constitution clearly does not allow for any law to void the Bill of Rights which is unalienable and Constitutionally guaranteed. It’s time to let our Federal representatives know in no uncertain terms, that everything to do with governance ultimately comes down to the consent of the governed, and we will not consent to being run by international agencies.
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My deep thanks to Paul Griepentrog, who helped in going through the legislation and many of the ramifications and amendments to current law under this Act.