"The Dark Act' HR1599 - The Final Nail in the Organic Labeling Coffin

[Alex]

Gee, not one peep on the corporate controlled media about the next gigantic nail about to be hammered into the coffin containing former American ethics, rights, information freedom and laws that protect healthy concerns to create another profit windfall for conscienceless corporations.

D - Deny
A - Americans the
R - Right to
K - Know

??????...H.R. 1599 Safe Food and Accurate Food Labeling Act...??????

We have become a nation whose politicians twist words into new meanings so they can lie in ways that sound truthful. Doublespeak has become a malignant art form, creating words that obscure or distort their actual meaning inventing alluring descriptors that mean the opposite of what you think.

Orwellian doublespeak makes the bad seem good, and the good seem bad and makes lies sound honest.

Congress is voting this week on the most deceptively named bill ever that would make it illegal for states to require GMO labeling. It would negate the ability of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to create a national GMO labeling standard and specifically allow for the labeling of products as “natural,” even when containing GMOs. HR1599 would 'pre-empt' every GMO labeling bill any state has currently passed.

But perhaps the most disturbing part of the bill is the fact that it would make it illegal for counties and states to place any restrictions on the planting of GMO crops. This could potentially wipe out the ability of organic farmers to keep their fields uncontaminated from nearby farms.

The ominous bill H.R. 1599 that greatly lessens safety and accuracy is called the Safe Food and Accurate Food Labeling Act (commonly referred to as the DARK Act – the Deny Americans the Right to Know act), was recently passed by subcommittee and now moves on to a full vote on the House floor.

The ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee, Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN), touts the 'safety' of GMO products, claiming that 'no' scientific experts have proven any legitimate safety concerns; a widely disputed position considering the total lack of FDA interest in establishing any assurance of real human GMO consumption safety by refusing to require industry standard long term testing of the effects on humans considering the extreme concerns already proven in animal testing.

“Consumers increasingly want to know more about where their food comes from and how it is produced. I think H.R. 1599 satisfies that demand while also recognizing what we know about the safety of the foods that our farmers produce. The bill is a workable solution that will alleviate the potential mess of 50 states with 50 different labeling schemes,” Peterson said.

(Orwellian Doublespeak - this is a bill to OUTLAW accurate and comprehensive labeling and obscure safety concerns)

A huge portion of America’s food contain GMOs, with estimates that as much as 80 percent of packaged foods in grocery stores contains GMO ingredients, according to the Grocery Manufacturers Association, which opposes GMO labeling.

H.R. 1599 is a dangerous piece of legislation, which serves as a blatant example of how the collusion of power and money, in the form of a major lobby and their political cronies, can serve to take away liberty from the American people.

How can anyone claim that denying people the ability to know what is in their food is a good thing - not to mention LEGALLY STOPPABLE? This next nail in America's coffin of rights is another terrifying example of the oppressive tyranny creeping in issue by issue.

[sharingwisdom]

The house passed it and now onto the Senate. Boxer will vote against it but Feinstein could switch gears as she often does. It's good to call her office and let her know how you feel in stopping this crazy act.

Gee, not one peep on the corporate controlled media about the next gigantic nail about to be hammered into the coffin containing former American ethics, rights, information freedom and laws that protect healthy concerns to create another profit windfall for conscienceless corporations.

D - Deny
A - Americans the
R - Right to
K - Know

??????...H.R. 1599 Safe Food and Accurate Food Labeling Act...??????
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[CSummer]

The house passed it and now onto the Senate. Boxer will vote against it but Feinstein could switch gears as she often does. It's good to call her office and let her know how you feel in stopping this crazy act.

Contact info for Senator Feinstein:

Email: https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/pub....cfm/e-mail-me

San Fran office phone: (415) 393-0707

D.C. office phone: (202) 224-3841

[comodin]

Dr Oz urges Americans to stop the DARK act

Dr. Oz Urges Americans to Stop the DARK Act: “We Have a Perfect Storm to Do The Right Thing”.
Speaking to a huge national audience this past Thursday, TV personality and health advocate Dr. Mehmet Oz shed light on a topic that the mainstream media has once again ignored, but one that will have a dramatic effect on the health of Americans: the forthcoming vote on the DARK Act vote to ban GMO labeling.
Also known as HR1599, the bill was dubbed the “Deny Americans the Right to Know” Act because it aims to kill mandatory GMO labeling in America, despite the fact that polls show over 90% of Americans consistently say they want it.
The bill has passed the House and is headed to the Senate this fall, which is why Monsanto, Big Food companies, and the Grocery Manufacturers’ Association so badly want to keep it hidden.
But the decidedly anti-democracy bill got a big dose of the spotlight on September 24 as Dr. Oz brought on GMO labeling advocates and experts (the pro-GMO interests were complete no-shows) while sharing his own final warning for America about GMO labeling.
GMO Labeling Advocate Speaks
Dr. Oz explaining how GMOs are created to resist large doses of toxic herbicides like Monsanto’s Roundup.
“If we lose, we’ll simply lose the right to know what we’re eating.”
Those were the words of Scott Faber, the Executive Director of Just Label It and the Vice President for Governmental Affairs for EWG, who appeared on the Oz show.
He was referring to the looming, fall Senate vote on the DARK Act that would not only make GMO labeling “voluntary” only, but destroy the rights of states like Vermont, Connecticut, and Maine along with any others that pass GMO labeling bills.
Faber believes the bill has a better chance of being defeated in the Senate than it did earlier this year in the House, but it’s going to take a huge effort from consumers to trump the pro-GMO side’s millions.
“Big food and biotech companies have already spent $51 million in the first six months of 2015 to lobby Congress, but millions of calls, letters, e-mails, and visits from ordinary consumers like you are making a difference,” he said on Dr. Oz’s website.
Faber is urging people to call, email, or write their Senators to tell them to vote no on HR1599 when it comes time to vote this fall (editor’s note: Senators give extra attention to hand-written letters).
Dr. Oz Speaks: “We Have the Perfect Storm…”
After a simple demonstration of how GMO crops work (they basically were made to resist toxic herbicides and usually end up needing bigger doses of even more toxic herbicides), Dr. Oz shared his own concerns with Americans, along with a final warning.
He had reached out to the GMA, the Biotech Industry Organization, and even Rep. Mike Pompeo, who introduced the bill, but all declined to be on the show.
The GMA released a statement, however, stating that HR1599 is a “reasonable bill” that “sets a national science-based labeling standard that prevents confusion and provides certainty for consumers in food labeling.”
Critics, however, say that this type of voluntary labeling could be a disaster.
Examples abound of companies flat-out lying to their companies by including lab-created genetically engineered ingredients in products ranging from Pepsi’s fake “natural” Naked Juice to supposedly “Non-GMO” tortilla chips from a smaller company named Xochitl.
These GMO crops are incredibly hard to track without proper labeling, and now GMO apples, potatoes, and many others are on the way.
With most members of the crowd seemingly on his side, Dr. Oz sensed the urgency of the moment and called for all hands on deck to save GMO labeling in America.
As Faber said, consumers in 64 countries have the Right to Know if their food is GMO but America could lose that right very soon.
“Argentina just recently passed their GMO labeling law and it didn’t hurt the companies, in fact it gave consumers confidence that they were getting what they were getting,” Dr. Oz said.
“We have the perfect storm to do the right thing in America. This is the right time to do it because we already are revising those food labels on products…” he continued, adding that this could be our last shot.
“So if you care, and many of you won’t, be able to see this as GMO in there or non-GMO, then no one’s going to care after that…it will be a done deal.”
To acess the full article, use source link below.

By Nick Meyer
Nick is a longtime journalist who's been published in the Detroit Free Press, Dallas Morning News and several other outlets. He founded AltHealthWORKS in 2012 to showcase extraordinary stories of healing and the power of organic living, stories the mainstream media always seemed to miss.
(Source: althealthworks.com; September 26, 2015; https://tinyurl.com/plamzre)