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.
Here’s the outcome of the vote:
http://reason.com/blog/2012/05/24/here-are-the-15-senators-who-voted-to-st
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Thank you Sarah for this information. I just sent an email to one of my Senators. I am from the Chicago area and one of Illinois’ senators is Dick Durbin and the other is Mark Kirk. Well, Mr. Kirk had a major stroke earlier this year and has been recovering since January. I don’t know if he is able to vote, but just in case I registered my concern about this issue.
I have contacted Senator Durbin before twice or so about other issues, but he has not been receptive at all and sent a reply chock full of platitudes and cliches. Hopeless!
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https://secure3.convio.net/aahf/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1145 Also going on today!!!
Done! . . . This is what I emailed to my Senators in California…
I urge you to vote “YES” to Senator Paul’s amendment to S. 3187.
Also, 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.
No one should decide for our family what’s best for our family to consume except us. A decision based on examination of truthful and transparant labeling. A personal freedom to choose and a decide based on ones own research on a subject based on persinal findings from facts discovered or experienced, or science from unbiased sources (without personal or financial gain), not someone else’s opinion of what is best for my family.
Protect small farming and our right to choose to buy from them.
Thank you.
Joe and Vicki Keller
I really hate how the staffers can’t or won’t tell us HOW our Senator plans to vote. When I call I always first ask where the Senator stands on the bill/amendment. Rubio’s staffer tells me I can call back tomorrow AFTER the vote to find out. What good does that do? Well, I left my two cents worth. So I guess we’ll wait and see.
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I actually sent a letter to senators yesterday asking them to take out the Durbin amendment. Its great to see that someones trying to get the Federal Death Administration in control.