Breaking News: Senator Rand Paul MD, United States Senator from Kentucky, has introduced an amendment to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act.
The most exciting provisions of this amendment concern the claims about the effects of foods and dietary supplements on health-related conditions and a prohibition of employees of the Food and Drug Administration from carrying firearms and making arrests without warrants.
I got a heads up from a fellow Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader from Kentucky at the St. Louis Regional Conference last week that this amendment was in the works, and only just learned that it had hit the floor of Congress late last night.
Please contact both your US Senators TODAY and urge them to vote “YES” to Senator Paul’s amendment to S. 3187.
Also, ask your Senators to vote “NO” on Senator Durbin’s amendment to S. 3187 which would greatly restrict access to dietary supplements and was submitted to water down Senator Paul’s amendment.
The vote on this amendment may happen as early as Thursday, May 24, 2012, so please do not delay.
Below is a short video clip of a true American hero, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, introducing this legislation for the benefit of all Americans, particularly those small farmers who have suffered so unjustly at the hands of the FDA which has adopted the habit in recent years of raiding small farms without a warrant and arresting farmers with no due process.
This gross abuse of power can stop if this amendment passes, so please make that phone call or send that email (both would be better) right away!
You can find out how to contact your United States Senators by clicking here.
This is a great idea, and I will be contacting both my Senators. The FDA and other government agencies have carried out numerous farm raids against farmers who have done nothing but produce and sell terrific real food. No American should be arrested without a warrant, by armed agents who ignore their Constitutional rights.
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done and shared, thanks for the heads up!
Here’s my brief and to the point email. Feel free to copy and use substituting your own Senators’ names:
It is my sincere hope that Senator Nelson will vote “YES” to the amendment to S. 3187 introduced by Senator Paul of Kentucky which would stop the FDA from carrying guns and making arrests without a warrant. The FDA is out of control in its abuse of power and needs to be reined in by our elected representatives. Thank you.
Sarah, don’t you think you should also put something in there about the anti-supplement attachment to the bill? Not all of us are blessed with a living situation that we can grow a large organic garden or raise our animal stock. Most of us need at least SOME supplementation with vitamins and herbal supplements. I’m grieved that you did not post info regarding the anti-supplement attachment in your main blog post!
See some suggested wording along these lines in several comments above and below…
Yes of course. Do that if you feel that is appropriate to your situation. I am in support of that provision as well 🙂
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THANK YOU for posting this. I like you EVEN more now! Go Rand!!! 😉
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Emailed all of them! Thanks for the heads up!
Yes, mine was much longer. lol But your’s is probably better. I like to throw in how faithfully my husband and I vote. I also told him how thankful I am that we live in a state that is low-regulation, making it easy for us to access high quality raw milk.