Archive for September, 2010

I was at a bar watching the Bears-Packers game last night. There was a girl there who has been talking about how she wants to lose weight for as long as I’ve known her.

After she got there, she said, “Carole, you would be proud of me. I had broccoli today!”

OK, yes, I’m proud of you.

I had walked away from the table and was gone for a while. When I came back, she was eating a sampler platter – by herself. Didn’t even offer me an onion ring!

The platter had 4 wings, 4 cheese sticks, nachos, and onion rings. She ate every last bt of it. I can’t even imagine how many calories she consumed.

What you would think if you witnessed this?

Just some food for thought…..

There are a lot of people involved in the fight to preserve our right to have natural fresh food, to not eat GMO foods, to have the right to take supplements, and to protect small farmers.

But we the people are up against BIG corporate lobbyists. We need help from more of YOU the people!

Please follow these links and add your voices!

The first one is sort of a pain. I couldn’t go back using the back button and has to keep going back to the email and reclicking the link. I hope that you’ll go through the five minutes of inconvenience to help preserve our right to be healthy, and to have access to supplements and natural fresh foods.

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False Hope is No Hope… Unless We Push Back Harder!

Will our freedom survive this week? It’s Up to US!

   Is This Your Battle?  If You Eat, This Is Your Battle! Help Support Health Freedom

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Stop Fake “Food Safety” Bills, S.510/S.3767!

Senator: Don’t Rush S.3767 to the Senate Floor!

Ban GMOs Now While There Is Still Time

 

I was reading my update from the National Institute of Health. Yes, I really do read this stuff….

Anyway – I found this quote interesting on a number of levels -

“We are only a few years away from a historic watershed — when for the first time in human history, those aged 65 and over in the world will outnumber those under age five,” said Richard Suzman, Ph.D., director of NIA’s Division of Behavioral and Social Research. “Even though some of these countries are beginning to transition from infectious disease to noncommunicable disease as the major cause of morbidity and mortality, awareness of population aging is only now being recognized in developing countries. This collaboration provides important initial data which can be used to chart the future.”

The first shocker is that will have more people aged 65 and older, than under 5. Since the majority of people over the age of 65 are sick in some way or another, that has enormous implications.

But what really caught my attention was – “Even though some of these countries are beginning to transition from infectious disease to noncommunicable disease as the major cause of morbidity and mortality,…”

Yeah, like the rest of the world. The more the chemical crap we call food spreads, the more disease spreads along with it.

Its another one of those studies that seems to me to be a waste of taxpayer dollars. You want to save money and save lives? Feed people nutritious real food. Its so simple. Why don’t they get it?

Oh no, we need to spend millions to study why people are getting sick.

I know I’m not a Harvard grad, but geez – does this make any sense to you?

You and I know better. I wish they would pay us! We’ll tell them exactly why everyone is so sick.  

Oh well – I guess the best we can do is take care of our own, and tell anyone who will listen.

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This video is a riot. This kid is realy good at delivering the message. It is probably the clearest message on the state of our food supply that I have seen.

OK, now Login and find some good food to make today!

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Like he says – pay the farmer now, or pay the hospital later.

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Have you sent any of the Food Freedom emails?

What kind of response did you get?

Senator Dick Durbin from Illinois is sending a blank auto-response. Since it’s his bill, I feel like its a snub. It might be an innocent error and they may not realize that the auto responder is blank.

What do you think?

Since he recently had a cancer scare, I would think he would be more inclined to eat and protect fresh locally grown foods. You know, the foods that don’t cause cancer… Money speaks louder than health?

How many Congressmen and women will have to get cancer before they realize they’ve been led down a dark alley? And taken their constituents with them…

 

Who would have ever thought that we would actually have to fight for the right to have healthy natural food? Did you ever think that would be possible? I sure didn’t. We always took fresh natural food for granted. We always thought it would just be there. After all, its a part of nature, right? Farmers were always a part of our culture.

All of that is in danger.

Here is the latest update from Health Freedom –
 
One, just one, US Senator has stepped up to defend Food Freedom: Tom Coburn, MD, of Oklahoma, remains opposed to S.510 as, he says, “on principle”. According to his office, he will not provide “unanimous consent” to move the bill forward, even if the “Tester Amendment” is added.
 
More details of the shifting political situation and our Estimate of Situation, below.
 
This Sunday the Dr. Rima Reports Internet Radio Program, www.HealthFreedomPortal.org,  will an have an important latest developments… 

ACT NOW!!!!

CONGRESS IS RESPONDING TO OUR PRESSURE!
PLEASE! TAKE ALL 3 ACTIONS HERE, AGAIN
AND FORWARD TO YOUR CONTACTS – ALL OF THEM

Don’t Rush S. 3767 to the Senate Floor – adopt the Food Freedom Amendment Instead!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4878

Stop S.510!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

Thank You, Senator Coburn for Keeping a “Hold” on S.510!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4856

If The Fake “Food Safety” Bills
Don’t Pass the Senate this Coming Week…
Food Freedom Has a Chance… If We Push Back More!

We spoke earlier today with staffers at Senator Coburn’s Washington office. They shared an interesting Estimate of Situation with us.

We also heard from a variety of farmer and rancher action groups garnering support for the amendment to S.510 offered by Senator Tester and others, that would protect a tiny portion of our local food production.  While it would be nice to think that we could solve the problem with an amendment, Food Fascism will not go away that simply.

Sadly, the Natural Solutions Foundation cannot support the Tester Amendment which exempts local food resources in one state, or within 400 miles of the farm or ranch, if the farm’s gross annual sales are under a half million dollars. Our farmer and rancher contacts tell us there are hardly any local agricultural facilities still in business that meet that requirement. The proposed amendment is nothing more than trivial window-dressing and slippery DC deal-making as usual. We reject it and, as the First Amendment reminds us we have the right to do, we seek redress of grievances… we want the Food Freedom Amendment [ see below] protecting our local food resources from Federal interference.

There is good news from Dr. Coburn’s office. The Senator will refuse “unanimous consent” on S.510. The same may be expected regarding S.3767 (though his office was involved in getting S.3767 amended to limit its impact, as we reported yesterday when we told you about that partial, limited victory for freedom). He does not support any amendment to S.510 (including the Tester Amendment) since he opposes the bill in its entirety.

IF S.510 gets to the floor of the Senate for open debate, Dr. Coburn will consider sponsoring several amendments including our Food Freedom Amendment.

Now, General Bert tells us, is not the moment to let either our guard or our offense down. We intend to continue to push back next week to make sure neither S.510 nor S.3767 gets slipped through. General Bert believes that while the acute situational dangers may peak next week.  Whether or not they do peak and then die down, they continue to be very real until the new Congress is seated in January.

Our Estimate of Situation strongly suggests that the current majority may believe they are poised for an historic loss of power and unless the Administration gets its bills through Congress now, it will get no significant additional government empowerment bills passed through Congress hereafter. Therefore, there will be continuing efforts to push these bills through, against the expressed desires of the public. The public must continue to express its desires yet more strongly, yet more loudly and yet more effectively. 

Our Push Back is already creating a serious problem for the food fascism forces.  They need more problems and we can give it to them!

You Know What We Want!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4878

The “serious” harm amendment (HEN10891) added by the Judiciary Committee on September 23, 2010 to S.3767 is not sufficient to protect food distributors from bureaucratic and criminal harassment. The “Tester Amendment”, if added to S.510, does very little to protect local food resources. We the People, need protection against over-zealous regulators who will destroy small producers while big companies can afford the legal talent needed to escape penalties. These bills will create “barriers against entry” to secure monopoly power for Big AgriBiz.

Our communities need to be protected by law from Federal Government interference in local and natural food production and distribution. We need a Food Freedom Amendment, such as we proposed last year when the House was considering its version of S.510 and which we have continued to urge; it should be offered and added to any “food safety” bill Congress considers!

Stop S.510!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

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Food Freedom Amendment

“No provision of Federal Law giving regulatory oversight to any Federal department or agency shall be deemed to apply (a) to any home, home-business, homestead, home or community gardens, small farm, organic or natural agricultural activity, (b) to any family farm or ranch, or (c) to any natural or organic food product, including dietary supplements, as protected under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994.”

Food Freedom is part of Health Freedom, and an essential part of the Liberty that all free people have a right to expect. Legislators have a responsibility to protect that freedom from the bureaucracy they foist on us. Local oversight of local food production would be far superior to big govt poking into all our local activities. Reducing central govt power would enhance the overall health of our society.

S.3767 Coupled with S.510 Could Reach the Senate Floor
For a Vote Early Next Week!
CONTINUE PUSH BACK NEEDED!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

Continue to take action NOW and mobilize your contacts…  NOW!

What else can you do? Join Our 510/3767 Club NOW!

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189

Help protect your health freedom by donating $5.10 every week (or every month) until this threat is laid to rest.  Can you donate $37.67 cents every month (or every week)? If you can, please set up your recurring, tax deductible donation right now and keep it alive until we are free of these deep and dangerous threats!

Congress Seeks to put Dietary Supplement Makers in Jail for Ten Years!

by William Faloon, LEF.org

Pharmaceutical companies are once again interfering with your ability to access information about dietary supplements.

The Senate is debating a bill that will enable the FDA to put vitamin supplement makers in jail for ten years if they cite findings from peer-reviewed published scientific studies on the label of their dietary supplements or their web site.

The pretext for these draconian proposals is a bill titled the Food Safety Accountability Act (S. 3767). The ostensible purpose of the bill is to punish anyone who knowingly contaminates food for sale. Since there are already strong laws to punish anyone who commits this crime, this bill serves little purpose other than enriching pharmaceutical interests.

The sinister scheme behind this bill is to exploit the public’s concern about food safety. Drug companies want to convince your Senators that an overreaching law needs to be enacted to grant the FDA powers to define “food contamination” any way it chooses.

Even today, the FDA can proclaim a dietary supplement as “misbranded” even if the best science in the world is used to describe its biological effects in the body. The concern is that the FDA will use the term “misbranded” in the same way it defines “adulterated” in order to jail dietary supplement makers as if they were selling contaminated food.

The new bill being debated in the Senate increases the penalties the FDA can use to threaten supplement makers to ten years in prison. The big issue here is that the FDA will use this as a hammer to threaten and coerce small companies into signing crippling consent decrees that will deny consumers access to truthful non-misleading information about natural approaches to protect against age-related disease.

Please tell your two Senators to OPPOSE the Food Safety Accountability Act (S. 3767). You can do this in a few minutes on our convenient Legislative Action Center on our Web site. Click here to take action now.

If you’d like to read the legal details about this bill, log on to the Alliance for Natural Health Web site: http://www.anh-usa.org/breaking-new…

Health-conscious consumers have succeeded in preventing Congress from capitulating to the pharmaceutical industry this year. Please continue this string of victories by telling your Senators to OPPOSE this underhanded attempt (S. 3767) to grant the FDA dictatorial new powers.

Due to the short session before Congress adjourns for the election, please alert your two Senators today!

For longer life,
William Faloon