FDA uses massive egg recall to push for egg pasteurization

(NaturalNews)   Amid the massive egg recall currently underway over potential salmonella poisoning, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been working hard to push its pasteurization agenda. The agency recently made an announcement recommending that all grocery stores and restaurants begin stocking pasteurized eggs instead of raw ones.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of salmonella cases being reported has been steadily increasing throughout the summer. Rather than the average 50 illnesses reported each week, June and July saw numbers as high as 200 per week, prompting a response from the FDA.

However, in typical FDA fashion, the agency has decided to ignore the actual cause of illness and contamination — filthy, industrialized food production systems — and instead call for all eggs to be cooked before being sold to consumers.

Other recent outbreak scares include both spinach and tomato recalls, after which the FDA made similar recommendations urging produce irradiation as the solution. But this philosophy fails to address the real problem with the current food system.

The industrial food system is both unsustainable and unhealthy. Whether with animals or produce, the methods typically used to raise food commercially are toxic and unsanitary, and are actually responsible for causing food contamination. Animals and produce that are raised organically and naturally, the way nature intended, do not become contaminated with salmonella.

But none of this phases the nation’s regulatory agencies, which continue to push for killing food rather than trying to clean up the system and fix the problem at the source.

http://www.naturalnews.com/029538_FDA_egg_pasteurization.html

‘Fructose-Slurping’ Cancer Could Sour the Soda Business

(DAILY FINANCE)   Soda and processed-food manufacturers have long insisted that all sugars are essentially the same. Yet, simultaneously they’re delicately backing away from high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) as one study after another links the corn-based sweetener to obesity and diabetes. While the market for HFCS declined by 9% in 2008, says Ken Roseboro of the Organic and Non-GMO Report, it was still used in 55% of all sweetened edibles in 2009.

New findings published this month in the journal Cancer Research by University of California Los Angeles researchers could further sour the public’s sentiment toward the super-sweet, super-cheap syrup and reduce its use even further. HFCS is 55% fructose and 42% glucose. The study found that pancreatic tumor cells metabolized fructose differently than glucose and that the cancer cells “readily metabolized fructose to increase proliferation.” In other words, as the headline reads, “Cancer cells slurp up fructose.”

Lawsuits Are Sure to Follow

This is a direct challenge to the Corn Refiner’s Association, which made a splash in 2008 with commercials belittling consumers who disdained high-fructose corn syrup as self-righteous and incoherent. (The ads inspired a little outrage and a lot of spoofs and rebuttals.) In March 2010, the association put on its website a clip from CBS News calling differences in the chemistry of HFCS and table sugar “an urban myth.” And despite the occasional study linking HFCS consumption to obesity, as well as insulin resistance and diabetes, the prevailing sentiment of the food industry was that the difference between HFCS and cane or beet sugar was negligible.

“Fructose is a natural, simple sugar commonly found in a variety of sweeteners, including table sugar, honey, and high fructose corn syrup, as well as in many fruits, vegetables, and juices,” says Audrae Erickson, President of the Corn Refiners Association in a statement. “This study does not look at the way fructose is actually consumed by humans, as it was conducted in a laboratory, not inside the human body. The study also narrowly compared pure fructose to pure glucose, neither of which is consumed in isolation in the human diet.”

Despite the Corn Refiner’s Association’s best efforts, high fructose corn syrup is still being maligned. But it is this latest study linking the sweetener to pancreatic cancer that may be the weapon of choice for eager attorneys in defense of angry consumers. As Frost & Sullivan industry analyst Christopher Shanahan says, laughing, when asked whether there will be lawsuits, “Yes, I’d put money on it.”

But as damning as the headlines of this latest study seem to be, other scientists caution that further research needs to be done before people leap to the assumption that fructose helps cancer proliferate. The science blogger known as “Orac” writes that the research is “rather interesting,” but far more work should be done before it’s seen as proof that HFCS causes pancreatic cancer. “It’s far too early to make any sort of recommendations about high fructose corn syrup and diet based on this study,” he writes.

In a statement, the American Beverage Association said: “It is important to recognize that this was not a clinical trial performed on humans, but rather a test tube study. In addition, the isolated cancer cells were subjected to extremely high levels of fructose that are unlikely in normal human metabolic processes. In fact, human beings do not typically consume fructose by itself, as it is normally found in combination with glucose in fruits and vegetables, or in the form of sucrose or high fructose corn syrup as found in myriad foods and beverages. The fact remains that no single food or beverage causes cancer, including pancreatic cancer.”

Beverage Makers Under the Gun

The beverage companies are the easiest targets in the crusade against HFCS, says Shanahan. For “the corn manufacturers, the sugar manufacturers, the processed-food manufacturers, there is an underlying fear that, in the next 10 years, this is going to be a critical challenge similar to the top-down mandates that impacted the tobacco industry.”

He points to a central problem of the U.S. agricultural system: Very few crops — soy, wheat and especially corn — account for a huge percentage of the American diet, especially when you consider the soy- and corn-fed livestock and myriad processed foods made from corn derivatives.

“The recent obesity measure, weight issues, diabetes, all can be routed back to the American diet,” Shanahan says, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture is complicit in the problem, with rich subsidies for wheat, soy and corn, the top recipient. The amount varies widely from year to year, but corn subsidies totaled $73.8 billion from 1995 to 2009. With corn so cheap, there’s incentive to put it in more and more foods in place of other, more expensive, ingredients. Now it’s in practically every processed food, and lots of nonfoods, too, including ethanol for fuel.

Getting the HFCS Out

Roseboro, of the Organic & Non-GMO Report, says change is coming. Big brands like Hunt’s (CAG), Gatorade (PEP) and Starbucks (SBUX) are reformulating some of their products to remove HFCS. “I think the fact that big companies [like Hunt's and Pepsico] are going to stop using it is indication that a trend is going to be that companies will be taking it out, using sugar instead, and the smaller companies will follow along.”

Shanahan agrees. “Food manufacturers are starting to diversify their product line to include cane sugar,” he says. “The corn refiners are going to stop making corn sweeteners, and make ethanol instead.”

It might be longer than he thinks before beverage companies and, most important, government agencies decide it’s time for change, however. Switching away from corn sweeteners won’t be easy. Cheap corn is, after all, the basis of many processed foods. It’s not just the HFCS, of course. Corn is the source of oil for salad dressing and frying, of coloring for sodas, juices and yogurts, of livestock feed that makes $1 hamburgers possible.

“Over time, consumers will change their diets as they are taught the real cost of food,” Shanahan says. “This is going to be a diminishing problem.” Food and beverage makers have plenty of skin in this game and may as well get ahead of eventual regulation, he says, adding that a healthful product line is where the industry is headed. “Food processors are only doing what the man wants. They’re going to sell you healthy food if you want it.”

Just as with tobacco, we’re in for a decade or two of growing awareness about the destructive effects of our subsidized cheap-sweetener system, with lawsuits and regulations to follow. But we’ll get over it, Shanahan says. “In this transitional period, people don’t want to eat the stuff, but they’ll be more than happy to put it in their cars.”

Police Raids Organic Food Stores

(LA TIMES)   With no warning one weekday morning, investigators entered an organic grocery with a search warrant and ordered the hemp-clad workers to put down their buckets of mashed coconut cream and to step away from the nuts.

Then, guns drawn, four officers fanned out across Rawesome Foods in Venice. Skirting past the arugula and peering under crates of zucchini, they found the raid’s target inside a walk-in refrigerator: unmarked jugs of raw milk.

“I still can’t believe they took our yogurt,” said Rawesome volunteer Sea J. Jones, a few days after the raid. “There’s a medical marijuana shop a couple miles away, and they’re raiding us because we’re selling raw dairy products?”
Cartons of raw goat and cow milk and blocks of unpasteurized goat cheese were among the groceries seized in the June 30 raid by federal, state and local authorities — the latest salvo in the heated food fight over what people can put in their mouths.

On one side are government regulators, who say they are enforcing rules designed to protect consumers from unsafe foods and to provide a level playing field for producers. On the other side are ” healthy food” consumers — a faction of foodies who challenge government science and seek food in its most pure form.

They want almonds cracked fresh from the shell, not those run through a federally mandated pasteurization process that uses either heat or a chemical to kill off salmonella and other possible contaminants. They hunger for meat slaughtered on the farm. And they’re willing to pay a premium — $6, $8 or more — for a gallon of milk straight from the cow.

So despite research outlining the dangers of consuming raw milk and other unprocessed foods, they’re finding ways to circumnavigate federal, state and local laws that seek to control what they can serve at the dinner table. Such defiance, they said, comes from growing distrust of a food sector that has become more industrialized and consolidated — and whose products have been at the root of some of the country’s deadliest food contamination cases.

“This is about control and profit, not our health,” said Aajonus Vonderplanitz, co-founder of Rawesome Foods. “How can we not have the freedom to choose what we eat?”

Scientists and regulators point to epidemiological evidence linking disease outbreaks to raw milk: The milk can transmit bacteria such as E. coli O157:H7, salmonella, campylobacter and listeria, which can result in diarrhea, kidney failure or death.

“This is not about restricting the public’s rights,” said Nicole Neeser, program manager for dairy, meat and poultry inspection at the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. “This is about making sure people are safe.”

Demand for all manner of raw foods — including honey, nuts and meat — has been growing, spurred by heightened interest in the way food is produced. But raw milk in particular has drawn a lot of regulatory scrutiny, largely because the politically powerful dairy industry has pressed the government to act.

It is legal for licensed dairies to sell raw milk at retail outlets in California and 10 other states, according to research by the National Conference of State Legislatures. Twenty states allow people to buy unpasteurized milk directly from farms, or take part in a “cow sharing” program (in which a person buys part ownership of an animal and gets some of its milk).

But in the case of Rawesome, regulators allege that the group broke the law by failing to have the proper permits to sell food to the public. While the raid was happening at Rawesome, another went down at one of its suppliers, Healthy Family Farms in Ventura County. California agriculture officials said farm owner Sharon Palmer’s processing plant had not met standards to obtain a license. Palmer could not be reached for comment.

Rawesome’s fans, though, shrugged off such concerns.

“I always had problems with my stomach and digestion with normal milk,” said Darin Nellis, 41, who runs a nonprofit production company in Culver City and has been a member of Rawesome for three months. “I like how raw goat milk tastes, and I feel better.”

Such sentiments exasperate officials at the Food and Drug Administration, which bans interstate sales of raw milk and advises that both milk and honey should be pasteurized.

The debate has boiled at the state level for years. Alta Dena Dairy founder Harold J.J. Stueve fought for decades to help keep raw milk sales legal in California. This year, Wisconsin legislators approved a bill aimed largely at allowing the state’s struggling small farmers to sell more raw milk products. But Gov. Jim Doyle vetoed that bill under pressure from large producers. In neighboring Minnesota, whose official state drink is milk, authorities recently raided a private club similar to Rawesome in south Minneapolis.

Such battles have had a chilling effect on some retailers. Whole Foods Market used to carry raw milk and raw milk products in California and three other states. But in March, the chain pulled all but a few cheeses off its shelves. Part of the reason, it said in a statement, was “the realities of the very high additional costs for liability insurance … because of the potential risks from selling unpasteurized milk and milk products.”

Rawesome was born of consumer frustration. In 1998, James Stewart — a vegetarian who drank raw milk — couldn’t find the stuff in Southern California grocery stores. So he started making road trips to dairies in northern California and to Whole Foods in San Jose, which at the time carried raw milk. Word spread. Family and friends wanted it too.

So Stewart and Vonderplanitz created a private food club where, for a $25 annual fee, members “lease” the land and livestock directly from a farmer. Then, members pay an additional service fee attached to each grocery item, which they say covers the cost of transporting each food item from the farm to Venice.

The pair reasoned that they didn’t need to obtain a license from state or local agencies because they weren’t technically retailers. In 2004, Rawesome opened on Rose Avenue in Venice. “We’re just a place where people come to pick up the products they already own,” Vonderplanitz said.

The L.A. County Public Health Department didn’t see it that way. Vonderplanitz said that in 2005 the agency told Rawesome staff they needed a food-business license. Vonderplanitz said that he objected in a letter, and that the county never replied or followed up. (County officials declined to comment.)

Five years passed. Rawesome now boasts 1,600 members, who battle for street parking every Wednesday and Saturday when the club is open.

Squeezed between a coffee shop and a vintage guitar store, Rawesome looks from the outside like a forgotten storage unit. A tiny club sign hangs on the 10-foot-tall corrugated fence that hides the windowless storefront.

But inside, the shop is bright and airy, a bohemian farmers market surrounded by burnt-orange walls and a white tarp roof to keep out the rain. Boxes of coconuts and ginger from Hawaii sit nestled next to crates of California squash. Labels identify where each bite of produce was grown: onions from the Viva Tierra farm in Harlingen, Texas, and King’s Crown Organic farm in King Hill, Idaho.

The members — a mix of tattooed young people and middle-aged executives in Italian shoes — chat as they head to the walk-in cooler in the back. It is jam-packed with meat and dairy. Ziploc bags are filled with chicken, beef and pork. Many don’t have an expiration date. The other side is stocked with Amish buttermilk ($7.95 a quart), Amish cream cheese ($12.75 a pound) and whole milk ($8.59 per half-gallon).

Agencies that participated in the raid on Rawesome included the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office, the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Investigators confiscated the club’s computer and 17 coolers packed with, among other things, 24 bottles of organic honey, 10 gallons of raw whole milk and two bottles of raw cane syrup. Stewart said the health department slapped a closure notice on the club’s front door that said it was “operating a food facility without a valid public health permit.”

The health department, district attorney’s office and the FDA declined to comment, citing the pending investigation. The state Department of Food and Agriculture, which was the agency of record on the search warrant, said it continues to work with the district attorney’s office.

Co-op members are undeterred. Four days after the raid, Rawesome reopened its doors. The shelves were restocked. They have remained so ever since.

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, the line stretched halfway down the block. A stern young man in baggy cargo pants and sunglasses guarded the entrance, checking drivers’ licenses. Lela Buttery, a Rawesome volunteer and professional biologist, handed out legal waivers to sign.

One woman, digging into her green grocery bag for a pen, asked, “You guys got shut down last week?”

“Yes,” Buttery said.

“That’s nuts,” the woman replied. “You’re not going to stop, right?”

Buttery grinned. “Can I see your membership card?”

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-raw-food-raid-20100725,0,7940288,full.story

BP oil spill Corexit dispersants suspected in widespread crop damage

(SF CHRONICLE)   The earlier posting referenced the adverse effects of Corexit and crude oil on plants with a link to a research document. Not too may people actually looked at the study though… So I put in the table referenced in the paper to make my point.

June 27, 2010 – Last May 24, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson promised, “We will conduct our own tests to determine the least toxic, most effective dispersant available in the volumes necessary for a crisis of this magnitude… I am not satisfied that BP has done an extensive enough analysis of other dispersant options.”

As of today, those tests have not been completed, according to the EPA. In the meantime, BP has dumped 1.4 million gallons of Corexit on the gulf. Next week, we could have a hurricane pushing Corexit inland.

Promises… promises…

—ORIGINAL POST: June 10, 2010————

Just when you thought the damages BP could cause was limited to beaches, marshes, oceans, people’s livelihoods, birds and marine life, there’s more.

BP’s favorite dispersant Corexit 9500 is being sprayed at the oil gusher on the ocean floor. Corexit is also being air sprayed across hundreds of miles of oil slicks all across the gulf. There have been widespread reports of oil cleanup crews reporting various injuries including respiratory distress, dizziness and headaches.

Corexit 9500 is a solvent originally developed by Exxon and now manufactured by the Nalco of Naperville, Illinois (who by the way just hired some expensive lobbyists). Corexit is is four times more toxic than oil (oil is toxic at 11 ppm (parts per million), Corexit 9500 at only 2.61ppm).

In a report written by Anita George-Ares and James R. Clark for Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Inc. titled “Acute Aquatic Toxicity of Three Corexit Products: An Overview” Corexit 9500 was found to be one of the most toxic dispersal agents ever developed.

COREXIT, SALT WATER AND OIL DO NOT MIX WELL TOGETHER

According to the Clark and George-Ares report, Corexit mixed with the higher gulf coast water temperatures becomes even more toxic.

The UK’s Marine Management Organization has banned Corexit so if there was a spill in the UK’s North Sea, BP is banned from using Corexit. In fact Corexit products currently being used in the Gulf were removed from a list of approved treatments for oil spills in the U.K. more than a decade ago. The Environmental Advisory Service for Oil and Chemical Spills at IVL, Swedish Environmental Institute, has, upon request of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency evaluated Corexit extensively and recommended it not be used in Swedish waters.

The Swedish study concludes: “The studies suggest that a mixture of oil and dispersant give rise to a more toxic effect on aquatic organisms than oil and dispersants do alone… The research on toxicity of oils mixed with dispersants has, however, shown high toxicity values even when the dispersant per se was not very toxic.” A report for the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation Division of Spill Prevention and Response concluded that Corexit actually inhibits bacterial degradation of crude oil. It may look good on the surface but it will take longer for natural bacteria to eat up the crude oil.

Many of the region’s important organisms, such as blue fin tuna and shrimp, use the wetlands at some point in their lifetime. Adult tuna breed during the late spring and early summer. Their eggs then float to shore and the larvae grow in the wetlands, protected from predators. Any decent chemist will tell you that surfactants, which are the primary ingredient in Corexit destroy cell membranes — including larval membranes of larval tuna eggs, shrimp and any other marine life trying to develop.

BP with the EPA’s approval continues to pour Corexit into the gulf with no science to estimate the harm the gusher’s load of dispersed oil will cause the water column, because they lack sufficient and fundamental data on how dispersants affect the oil, what creatures live in deepwater ecosystems, how laboratory flask toxicity tests translate to actual conditions in the ocean, and how oil and Corexit affects organisms over time.

The real problem is not the dispersants themselves but what the chemicals do to the oil. By itself, oil is more toxic than dispersants alone, but together oil and Corexit is far more toxic. I can only assume the EPA approved Corexit because they thought diluting the dispersed oil and Corexit will mitigate its increased toxicity.

EPA’s crap shoot is that more toxic but significantly diluted dispersed oil/Corexit crap floating is better than concentrated oil slicks washing ashore. From my point of view, it’s a lazy, easy and irresponsible approach. Note Sweden does not even allow dispersants. In case of a spill in Swedish waters, only mechanical extraction and vacuum is allowed.

Lab toxicology tests (flask tests) that are the whole foundation of Corexit’s approval neglect one variable that organisms encounter out on the ocean’s surface – sunlight. Transparent organisms such as planktons and crustaceans called copepods react to ultraviolet light from the sun. The reaction promotes photochemical degradation of aromatic compounds from oil that the creatures have absorbed or swallowed. The degradation results in oxidized molecules that are more toxic than the original oil compounds.

In tests to observe this photo-enhanced toxicity, aquatic toxicologist Carys L. Mitchelmore of the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Science said researchers have found that the toxicity under natural light can be up to 50,000 times greater than the toxicity seen in a lab. Neglecting real-world conditions, laboratory experiments could underestimate dispersed oil’s toxicity.

ARE U.S. WATERS MORE EXPENDABLE THAN SWEDEN OR THE UK’S WATERS?

The simple question I ask is: If the UK bans Corexit and Sweden recommends against it, why the hell are we using it on American waters?

The danger to humans can be expected. The warnings on the Corexit packaging is straightforward. In the tech world, you’ll hear the acronym RTFM- Read the Friggin’ Manual!!! Breathing in Corexit is not recommended. It’s not good for your lungs, eyes, skin or even your clothes! If you’re really geeky like me, you can read that Corexit is not good for marine life either.

VIDEO: AIR FORCE DELIVERING WIDE SPREAD AERIAL SPRAYING OF COREXIT

It seems like damage brought by the oil gusher has spread way beyond the ocean, coastal areas and beaches. Collateral damage now appears to include agricultural damage way inland Mississippi.

A mysterious “disease” has caused widespread damage to plants from weeds to farmed organic and conventionally grown crops. There is very strong suspicion that ocean winds have blown Corexit aerosol plumes or droplets and that dispersants have caused the unexplained widespread damage or “disease”.

PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO: WIDESPREAD MYSTERIOUS CROP DAMAGE IN GULF AREA

There is no other explanation for the crop damage. It’s conjecture on my part but everything points to something that has a widespread effect on plants and crops. Studies on Corexit and its effects on plants are consistent with the damage sustained in the lower Mississippi area. Check out the table on page 877 of the study. While no one precisely knows, all the signs point to BP’s use of aerosolized Corexit brought inland by the ocean winds or rain.

HERE IS AN EXTRACT OF THE PLANT STUDY TITLED I REFERENCED: Morphological changes observed in Paspalum vaginatum after treatment with Abura heavy crude oil (AC) or Oredo light crude oil (OC) and Corexit 9527/Gold crew.

Remember acid rain? Now it seems we could have toxic dispersant rain.

HEALTH ALERT: Toxic Rain In Miami From Gulf Oil Leak, Plants & Trees Dying

Food and Depopulation: Rockefeller Family

(Infowars)   The purpose of this article is to give a brief outline of how the elites, and the Rockefellers in particular, are using food as a weapon.Bill Gates has teamed with the Rockefellers, Monsanto and the government of Norway in the Doomsday Seed Vault, in which organic seed is stored for some vague anticipated world catastrophe. Read more

Revealed: The very unappetising truth about McDonald’s chicken meals

(DailyMail)   A chicken squats in a shed the size of a football pitch somewhere in the outback of Brazil. And it’s not alone.One of tens of thousands, each bird is allowed the floor space equivalent to a sheet of A4 paper and will live for just 40 days before it hits its genetically-engineered slaughter weight. That’s if it doesn’t perish along the way.Five per cent or so will be unable to cope with the conditions and die even before then. Read more

S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, the most dangerous bill in the history of the US

(Steve Green)   S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010,  may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US.  It is to our food what the bailout was to our economy, only we can live without money.

“If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes.  It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one’s choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God.”  ~Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower

It is similar to what India faced with imposition of the salt tax during British rule, only S 510 extends control over all food in the US, violating the fundamental human right to food.

Monsanto says it has no interest in the bill and would not benefit from it, but Monsanto’s Michael Taylor who gave us rBGH and unregulated genetically modified (GM) organisms, appears to have designed it and is waiting as an appointed Food Czar to the FDA (a position unapproved by Congress) to administer the agency it would create — without judicial review — if it passes.  S 510 would give Monsanto unlimited power over all US seed, food supplements, food and farming.

History

In the 1990s, Bill Clinton introduced HACCP (Hazardous Analysis Critical Control Points) purportedly to deal with contamination in the meat industry.  Clinton’s HACCP delighted the offending corporate (World Trade Organization “WTO”) meat packers since it allowed them to inspect themselves, eliminated thousands of local food processors (with no history of contamination), and centralized meat into their control.  Monsanto promoted HACCP.

In 2008, Hillary Clinton, urged a powerful centralized food safety agency as part of her campaign for president.  Her advisor was Mark Penn, CEO of Burson Marsteller*, a giant PR firm representing Monsanto.  Clinton lost, but Clinton friends such as Rosa DeLauro, whose husband’s firm lists Monsanto as a progressive client and globalization as an area of expertise, introduced early versions of S 510.

S 510 fails on moral, social, economic, political, constitutional, and human survival grounds.

1.  It puts all US food and all US farms under Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, in the event of contamination or an ill-defined emergency.  It resembles the Kissinger Plan.

2.  It would end US sovereignty over its own food supply by insisting on compliance with the WTO, thus threatening national security.  It would end the Uruguay Round Agreement Act of 1994, which put US sovereignty and US law under perfect protection.  Instead, S 510 says:

COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS.

Nothing in this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) shall be construed in a manner inconsistent with the agreement establishing the World Trade Organization or any other treaty or international agreement to which the United States is a party.

3.  It would allow the government, under Maritime Law, to define the introduction of any food into commerce (even direct sales between individuals) as smuggling into “the United States.” Since under that law, the US is a corporate entity and not a location, “entry of food into the US” covers food produced anywhere within the land mass of this country and “entering into” it by virtue of being produced.

4.  It imposes Codex Alimentarius on the US, a global system of control over food. It allows the United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the WTO to take control of every food on earth and remove access to natural food supplements.  Its bizarre history and its expected impact in limiting access to adequate nutrition (while mandating GM food, GM animals, pesticides, hormones, irradiation of food, etc.) threatens all safe and organic food and health itself, since the world knows now it needs vitamins to survive, not just to treat illnesses.

5.  It would remove the right to clean, store and thus own seed in the US, putting control of seeds in the hands of Monsanto and other multinationals, threatening US security. See Seeds – How to criminalize them, for more details.

6.  It includes NAIS, an animal traceability program that threatens all small farmers and ranchers raising animals. The UN is participating through the WHO, FAO, WTO, and World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in allowing mass slaughter of even heritage breeds of animals and without proof of disease.  Biodiversity in farm animals is being wiped out to substitute genetically engineered animals on which corporations hold patents.  Animal diseases can be falsely declared.  S 510 includes the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), despite its corrupt involvement in the H1N1 scandal, which is now said to have been concocted by the corporations.

7.  It extends a failed and destructive HACCP to all food, thus threatening to do to all local food production and farming what HACCP did to meat production – put it in corporate hands and worsen food safety.

8.  It deconstructs what is left of the American economy. It takes agriculture and food, which are the cornerstone of all economies, out of the hands of the citizenry, and puts them under the total control of multinational corporations influencing the UN, WHO, FAO and WTO, with HHS, and CDC, acting as agents, with Homeland Security as the enforcer.  The chance to rebuild the economy based on farming, ranching, gardens, food production, natural health, and all the jobs, tools and connected occupations would be eliminated.

9.  It would allow the government to mandate antibiotics, hormones, slaughterhouse waste, pesticides and GMOs. This would industrialize every farm in the US, eliminate local organic farming, greatly increase global warming from increased use of oil-based products and long-distance delivery of foods, and make food even more unsafe.  The five items listed — the Five Pillars of Food Safety — are precisely the items in the food supply which are the primary source of its danger.

10. It uses food crimes as the entry into police state power and control. The bill postpones defining all the regulations to be imposed; postpones defining crimes to be punished, postpones defining penalties to be applied.  It removes fundamental constitutional protections from all citizens in the country, making them subject to a corporate tribunal with unlimited power and penalties, and without judicial review. It is (similar to C-6 in Canada) the end of Rule of Law in the US.

For further information, watch these videos:

Food Laws – Forcing people to globalize
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia-P4rL2IWc

State Imposed Violence … to snatch resources of ordinary people
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onw_PkVvpts&feature=related

Corporate Rule
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PwqUQ_HIlg&feature=related

Reclaiming Economies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXoJHG-er7A&feature=related

Oak snake image at Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park, Florida
http://snipurl.com/vrg6p

http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/s-510-is-hissing-in-the-grass/#more-1828

Goodbye farmers markets, CSAs, and roadside stands

(OP-ED NEWS)   The “food safety” bills in Congress were written by Monsanto, Cargill, Tysons, ADM, etc.  All are associated with the opposite of food safety.  What is this all about then?

Take action — click here to contact your local newspaper or congress people:
Stop HR 875, HR 814, SR 425, and soon, HR 759

Click here to see the most recent messages sent to congressional reps and local newspapers

Met libertarian and conservative farmers and learned an incredible amount about farming and nature and science, as well as about government violations against them and against us all. The other side of the fence is nothing like what we’ve been taught to assume but great people with immense decency.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Goodbye-farmers-markets-C-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-090303-287.html

Higher food/drink taxes won’t decrease obesity but increase food riots, and hurt the country even more

(USWGO Alt. News Brian D. Hill)

Notice: I know some things I said may sound a bit farfetched but we really can’t afford higher food taxes, and really many of (or even all) our fruits and vegetables have been genetically altered. Also HFCS is in almost everything so junk food isn’t the problem, it’s the fact we are being fed the same content over and over again no matter what you buy due to corn being in almost everything. It’s even in beef because the same HFCS is being given to farm animals so even eating meat now could have the same effects as unhealthy junk foods. We need to get rid of HFCS, put variety of ingredients back into all junk and regular foods instead of everything having HFCS, and we need to illegalize genetic modified crops. That would be a way to tackle the rising criminal problem, and obesity problem. Yes I believe crime is increasing due to gmo foods because it’s unknown what effects it has on behavior, health, DNA internal structures, and much much more. GMO Foods are dangerous to peoples health and not junk food.

Whether or not you believe this to be truth I believe it that GMO foods can cause an unknown amount of problems, and that GMO in healthy foods is unthinkable. These people that want to stop obesity don’t realize all vegetables and fruits are genetically corrupted and pure food is really expensive and do to stupid taxes already people can’t healthy foods so driving up the cost of food will only cause more crime, food riots, and cause America to further go down the toilet by being drowned in more taxes.

According to Reuters, and NaturalNews the U.S. Government is planning to fight obesity by making it harder on those that aren’t fat but eat a lot of food to maintain their bodies. The logic behind this is the same as rising gas prices, that by raising the cost of all unhealthy foods and drinks it will force people to eat less to make obesity go away but this logic is heavily flawed and will more likely lead to more crime (food thieves), food riots, more people robbing gardens and farms, and lead our country into further taxation without representation. The people are already struggling and forced onto junk food because organic and healthy foods are really expensive, require a lot of time which the U.S. Government is making harder on everybody with the taxes it’s putting Americans on now, many college students can only eat fast and processed foods because of their budgets, the poor cannot afford to buy much meat and everything is going up in price, and because of the rise in gas and electric prices, regular food prices have to skyrocket to maintain employee and union standards while at the same time maintaining a profit during rising gas and electric prices.

The true problem of obesity is NOT being not as strict but by making healthy eating an expensive alternative. Also many healthy foods could kill people because over 70% of our own healthy farm foods have been genetically altered so in other words eating healthy might kill you, cause pregnancy issues, might cause people to become any kind of addicts (lottery addicts, sex addicts, drug addicts, increased trends of home grown terrorism, etc etc), and even if genetically modified foods can be proven to cause weird unknown problems (Like rises in crimes being committed) the full effects of damage by genetically modified foods is still unknown. Who even knows if many criminals may have really been innocent and may have committed the crimes due to unhealthy genetic modification due to tampering in the genetic structures of farm plants.

The FDA is to fault at the rising obesity problems because they approved genetically modified foods for consumption even though the effects could cause devastation to Americans, also the FDA did not force food producers to label which of their foods are genetically altered so any healthy food we could be eating could cause any amount of problems to us because they are genetically altered.

Also another reason obesity and suffering is on the rise (I even suffer to what I eat these days because of corn syrup in everything) is because since the price of sugar has gone up, plus many organizations want to get rid of sugar due to unhealthiness, many companies were forced to use High Fructose Corn Syrup which added insult to injury, in other words it made our health far worse, and corn syrup is in everything, from Pasta, to ketchup, to many meals, and almost any foods you can buy now may contain High Fructose Corn Syrup.

The reason I am bringing all of this out in the debate is that healthy foods are just as worse as junk food because it has been genetically altered. I even heard of even healthy eating people suffering with health problems because our foods been corrupted, plus unless somebody managed to save the original plant seeds, we are doomed to be eating only genetically modified foods.

Also before I explain why higher taxes will never work I need to explain to you why I am struggling to eat healthy, yes it’s the prices of already rising food costs. We can’t really afford organic foods, plus tomatoes suck with the taste because it’s been altered, so healthy food tastes more like crap these days because it’s been altered (even my grandma notices difference in healthy food tastes these days). So people may want to increase taxes but right now I am already struggling with rising food prices, and that’s eating unhealthy food. If some want food and drink taxes to rise it will do nothing to curb obesity but will increase people dependence on pesticide infested, genetically modified (and dangerous), and acid rain covered healthy foods.

Right now the problems aren’t our food rights and food choices, but the real problem is that our foods, water, and medicines have been tampered with to cause even more health problems. Also there are people that do maintain their health and try not to get fat, by putting up food and drink taxes the government assumes everybody is obese plus hurts non-obese heavy eaters to slow obesity of others.

Also many poor families can’t afford healthy food, plus many foods have either been genetically altered or has HFCS, many families can only usually afford the unhealthy foods, and many people are forced to work two or more jobs, or are losing jobs and may not have time to sit back and cook.

So with rising taxes on unhealthy foods and sodas it will further burden the already struggling middle and poor class families, it will cause more money to be funneled into wars, even in my own town police warned about rises in drug dealing and that’s before prices went even higher today so it will increase crime and illegal activities, and will create more food riots in the U.S. People including my own family are already complaining that prices on all food are too expensive, that higher food taxes will not gut obesity but make it harder on the average family.

So instead of all this crap, here’s my solutions to the obesity problem:

1. The government needs to award people that stay completely healthy (maybe with tax breaks or a lose pounds for cash program)
2. People just need to start walking more outside, swim in pools, and exercise till they drop.
3. Lower the costs of organic foods, put and end to taxes or at least make them very low taxation on organic foods to encourage people to buy real food with no HFCS, no Genetic modifications, and food that has no yucky pesticides.
4. Start turning bike riding into a electric generator machine where peoples exercising generates free energy for the home. This means free energy and being more healthy.
5. Start making original food mainstream again instead of the genetically modified nightmare.
6. Lower taxes on those that eat healthy

So I hope you listen to my solutions to our obesity crises and try not to jack up the price of food by accepting higher taxes.

New York tries to ban Salt yet what about the mercury in childhood vaccines, corn syrup, and other pollutants?

(USWGO Alt. News Brian D. Hill)Author: Brian D. Hill

Date: March 11, 2010

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The New York state government wants and is now trying to ban the rights for restaurants to put any kind of salt in their food, not even natural salt because technically all forms of Salt are banned, so any restaurants that use any kind of salt for their foods, will be fined $1,000, which is another sweeping overhaul of taking rights and power away from the business and restaurant rights and allowing the government to further dictate what we eat, how we can eat, when we can eat, and what can be put in what we eat.

Brian D. Hill adds to this his comments such as, “I am getting sick of so many government regulations. The government is getting totally into our lives and business, but people keep supporting this even though this country was founded as a free nation. One day even little kids will be legally spied on by predators in security positions and nobody will care just like how perverts can now watch adults and kids in their own homes in the UK and this is no joke.”, and the regulations and surveillance keeps getting worse as people keep trading their freedoms, privacy, and liberty for security because of Al-Qaeda, thus the people are now being demoralized. Brian also states that “I have a right to want salt in my food, it’s my constitutional right and no stupid policemen can god for saken tell me what I can and cannot eat, I will eat what I want and eating what I want is not a crime”.

Now before I continue further with how much the government is taking our rights to eat what we wish away, treating us like little kids, and may soon become predators after us with spy cameras in homes under the guise of stopping crime and making sure children do what Uncle Sam says (George Orwell?), I will bring out what the NY Salt ban bill says.

first of all this was found in the Orwellian, government tells us what we can and cannot eat, bill

TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the general business law, in relation to
prohibiting the use of salt in the preparation of food by restaurants

and also

This legislation will give customers the option to add salt after the meal has been prepared for them. In this way, consumers have more control over the amount of sodium they intake, and are given the option to exercise healthier diets and healthier lifestyles.

What the government doesn’t understand is that this is further eroding restaurants rights on how we prepare our food although some will argue that restaurants need to be regulated but one day we may end up in a country where any little things we do could be illegal if we don’t obey Uncle Sam 24/7 and ask Uncle Sam permission for any little thing we decide to do which is what George Orwell warned about, a time when personal freedoms and dreams are all being taken away, restricted, controlled, permitted by elite government agencies, and organizations. Personal freedoms and how you want to run your business will be a thing of the past and no longer simply just running a sanitary business but in the future there will be excessive permits businesses will have to get before running a business in the future to compete against corporate powers.

So it’s finally happening the day the government starts controlling what we order, what requests we make at restaurants, and starting to control what we can and cannot eat. Already the state of New York bans Most Trans Fats in Restaurants, plus the food police confiscates Seniors rights to eat doughnuts, while being pumped up with drugs that have dozens of side effects that continue to degrade their health causing more drugs to be pumped into them.

Also New York did not address the rise of high fructose corn syrup in almost all foods which all contain mercury according to mainstream media reports, plus the New York government did not address the toxins in our milk, did not address the toxic preservatives in childhood vaccines, although now a site says mercury may be removed but a far worse ingredient was added into childhood vaccines, and Natural News just released that the EWG Study Finds Hundreds of Pollutants in the Nation’s Drinking Water.

So how dare New York pretend they are banning salt for the good of the people, putting us one step further towards government control over everything (Big Brother) yet they are forcing vaccinations in schools with dangerous preservatives, New York did nothing about High Fructose Corn Syrup containing mercury, New York did nothing about the hundreds of pollutants in Nation’s secure and clean Drinking Water, and people at New York may one day feel as if Big Brother will be the parents instead of regular parents, that one day we will have to always listen to Big Brother, that Big Brother is always right all the time, that anybody who challenges Big Brother will have themselves met up with the authorities and thrown into some torturous cell to be burned at the stake.

Anytime a government starts regulating things too much then our government has took away the will and trust of the people and given it to the elitists in our government and anybody who does not trust, or does not want to trust our government will be thrown into some mental institution, imprisoned, or killed.

Despite the governments views on anything including salt anytime we give the governments the power to regulate too much then our government has become Big Government and anytime it gets too big it means big trouble. Free thinkers, and spiritual leaders are a threat to Big Governments so they have to be assassinated, taken out, which means one day the Dalai Lama may get assassinated by CIA Agents.

Anytime we have Big Government it means trouble because of the prophecies of George Orwell’s 1984 states that a government will rule all personal and business decisions yet corporations will be untouched since they work with the government, that the people have to totally accept government control and decisions, that free thinkers are terrorists that must be executed in public, that we are sheeple and nothing more then sheep that need total discipline and torture by the government, that they always know best, even better then your mother and father, and that grandparents get in the way and must be killed. We are heading for that type of society right now as people accept more federal control over their lives to fight terrorism, including the naked body scanners, and as we head for socialism eventually it may become okay to kill your grandparents and all seniors. That will be the day we have exactly become 1984.

Also everybody’s bodies are different. There may be people out there that need trans-fatty foods, weight gain bars, or they simply need to eat carby foods for extreme exercise.  By banning salt or taking a stance on eating healthy all rights of everybody else with healthy bodies or they eat fatty foods but they exercise a lot and need those kinds of foods are being taken away by the government.

In fact without salt I would be deficient of a certain vitamin or mineral. A better approach to eating healthier food is that the government needs to change policies and do whatever it can to lower the costs of organic food so that more people will feel like it’s worth it to eat healthy instead of buying cheap junk food. It would be better to award those that want to eat healthy instead of penalizing those that don’t, because all it will do is lead to rebellion.

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