Eric Schlosser on Food Safety

"We've seen what happens when we let Wall Street regulate itself. When we let the oil industry regulate itself. It makes absolutely no sense to let the food industry continue to regulate itself." If you agree with Eric Schlosser, please send a quick message and then follow up with a phone call to your Senators! Let's make our food system better and safer today!

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• food safety
• Consumers Union
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[ConsumersUnion]

S.510 does include language to protect small farms and organic farming operations. The current language states that any new food safety standards developed by the FDA cannot be in conflict with organic standards. New standards are also required to consider maintaining biological diversity, conservation, the environment, and impact on small farms.

[AuntieEm30805]

What a disappointment. His movie itself shows how we cannot trust the government to protect our food. USDA inspectors do not do their job. Does this guy not realize the damage this bill will do to seed harvesters? It will protect Monsanto and companies like them. The very companies his movie is against. I think greenlance may be correct, he has been bought out.

[greenlance123]

this guy's been bought out...

[Shinertheantizionist]

This is a liar jew who wants to force us to eat food from the corporations. Jews in communist Russia sounded just like this guy before they starved 20 million to death,

A jew banker media mafia has usurped the USA until everyone is brave enough to name it stuff like this will continue. After we name it they lose power overnight.

Shrug of your jew inspired brainwashing before it gets any more ugly.

If you can't see it by now you are to stupid to help fix it.

[nottinmatterz2day]

Eric Schlosser S510 is not good for organic farmers!

[morningmayan]

@ConsumersUnion And none of the small farmers will even be able to afford to stay in business. They want to charge 50,000$ per seed saver, per plant????????? Please wake up and get on the right side of this fight - this bill is an abomination to americans and gives all the food power to huge food corps. CORRUPTION across the board - Micheal Taylor ex Monsanto lawyer - worked than for FDA passed no GMO labeling, Now currently FOOD CZAR - who's working and looking out for the people,

US.

[morningmayan]

Screw this guy is lying!!!! Monsanto is trying to take over food. This is a LIE to take away growing food from small farmers who will no longer be able to afford the new fines - only big corp!!! Those Eggs that had salmonella came from one of those huge mega billion chicken farms - NOT From a small farmer- ONLY huge corps have the ability to sicken thousands with their produce because ONLY the huge corps are that big. CALL YOUR SENATORS AND TELL THEM TO PUT A HOLD ON THIS BILL!!!!

[TheNeocatZone]

P.S. "....the bill does not mention that it doesn't apply to farms and restaurants suggesting that it does."

[TheNeocatZone]

Con't. On the other hand, I will say that a different bill I won't support is H.R. 2749. While I disagree that the part of H.R. 2749 that deals with stopping the movement of potentially misbranded food necessarily entails martial law measures, the bill does not mention that it applies to farms and restaurants suggesting that it does. So imagine IFcorporations found a way to take over the authority position of 2749 - they could set their own crooked standards and impose them on small farms.

[TheNeocatZone]

I looked at the actual S.510 bill to sort the truth out of the frustration for myself and even though I'm not too keen about the Bush administration's Homeland Security department being involved, the bill in fact says that it does not apply to 'farms and restaurants', only corporate factory facilities. Eric Schlosser has always been an outspoken whistleblower against Big Food and he has a bit more credibility than Alex Jones. But....

[vze2372e]

Eric I followed a link to your video, hoping for a clarification, but the feeling I got from it is that you're just a lobbyist. And you are less than convincing. Sorry my friend.