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We reproduce below, with permission, A Solemn Walk Through “Food Safety”.
Index
Introduction
A Solemn Walk
Natural Solutions White Paper
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Food is becoming a battle ground like no other: freedom, survival, fascistic take over of a once-free people (more or less, at least), corporate triumph over independent producers – it’s all happening around food. And the mechanism is simple: a set of bills ostensibly devoted to “food safety” and “food security”.
Urgent Action Item:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714
Tell Congress that the Farm Bills MUST be defeated. Time is short and the issue is of immense importance.
In essence, these bills are a sneak attack implementation of Codex Alimentarius. The Natural Solutions Foundation has been warning that organic farming and home growing, clean food and food freedom were under heavy attack. Here is the Mother of All Food Fascism Assaults and we still have some time to defeat it.
Congress often comes up with bad ideas. This is not just a bad idea: it is a catastrophically bad idea for health and freedom. In fact, it is nothing short of food tyranny and will kill not only organic farming, but lots of people as well, along with the entire private farming sector. Your own gardens are at risk as well.
I cannot urge you strongly enough to take action NOW (we have only a few days to create the urgent push-back needed to fend off this disastrous legislation. These are bad, deceptive and extraordinarily dangerous bills which make the eternal link between fascism and food crystal clear. But the bills are written in neutral, even calming tones. Please go to the articles below to read a brilliantly annotated version of the bills and a summary and learn just how dangerous they are. My thanks to Sue Diederich and Linn Cohen-Cole for their tireless work on this vital issue.
Just as –
~ “homeland security” is anything but assured by the Department of Homeland Security’s destruction of our rights,
~ “health” is not served by a healthcare system devoted to propagating illness for profit,
~ “democracy” is not served by corrupt voting machines and “man in the middle programs”
so food security and safety are not served by agencies and laws which –
~ drive independent farmers out of business,
~ forbid seed saving,
~ destroy safe food production and organic farming,
~ propagate dangerous and destructive industrial farming practices,
~ guarantee the total control of the food system by industrial forces known for unsafe food production while destroying the capacity of independent farmers to survive a regulatory onslaught created specifically to destroy them,
~ put home food production in jeopardy,
~ “HARMonize food production with pro-industry, pro-WTO controlled, lowest common denominator practices of Codex Alimentarius.
These are tragically solemn times calling for solemn re-dedication of each of us to the fight to retain and restore freedom. Food is just about the best place possible to start. Killing HR 875, S 425 and all related bills is the best place to start.
Click here (http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714) to tell Congress in no uncertain terms how imperative killing these dastardly bills is to you. Then tell everyone you know how important this push-back is.
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This action, and this issue, cannot wait.
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Solemn Walk Through HR 875
By Sue Diederich and Linn Cohen-Cole
Walk Index
First Walk: Myths and Misinformation
Second Walk: End of Organics
Third Walk: Meaning of the Bills
Fourth Walk: Conclusion
The Pennsylvania Sustainable Agriculture Association, PASA, sent out information about HR 875 which lists ‘facts’ to counter ‘myths’ and ‘rumors’ on the internet. It gives no specifics to back up its ‘facts,’ so the following close up view of the bill and accompanying commentary offers readers a chance to decide for themselves what is myth and what is fact. Neither of us are lawyers, but we both can read. Sue Diederich heads the Illinois Independent Consumers and Farmers Association, an organization formed to protect the rights of farmers and consumers to deal directly with each other without government interference.
PASA’s assertions are in regular lower case font, as are the inserted portions of the bill which have all been provided by Sue Diederich who also provides her own comments in italics usually. My comments are in bold face. [Note: these type faces have been altered from the original to permit publication in the program used to publish this blog which lacks color font options – Dr. Rima]
Occasionally, we feel something is essential for people to see and those comments are in CAPITAL LETTERS. (It should all be in CAPITAL LETTERS [font changed to allow publication in this program – Dr. Rima], really, since so few organizations appear to have read the bill or seem to know how to read the bill or have thought through its massive cumulative impact or been concerned at its endlessly broad reach and over incredibly vague things.)
People seem to expect the bill to be titled “The Criminalization of Organic Farming and the Take over of the US Food Supply,” and when they don’t see any words to that effect anywhere in the bill, they declare “this bill is fine” and those seeing dangers are “alarmists.” Do they think the industrial side is composed of fools? These are the same people who make cheery cereals with cartoon characters on the box when, inside, high fructose corn syrup is all over the cereal which comes from Bt-corn associated with diabetes. HFCS is, too, and there is an epidemic of diabetes here even among children. They know how to package. Why do people understand that industrial food inside a box can be a problem and yet are so innocent about looking at the bills, not realizing there is packaging there, too, or how much is at stake that the public and even legislators not see since this is about taking control. The industrial side isn’t stupid.
Understanding parts of the bill at times depends on smelling smoke as you read it. Here in the US, we still have only smoke … an Ohio state ag department SWAT team raid on an organic coop, Pennsylvania ag department raids on horse and buggy Mennonites, California setting coliform levels so low fresh milk dairy farmers would need cows that produced pasteurized milk right out the udder, arrest and handcuffing of a single mother in front of her children for selling goat milk, the USDA paying its agents bonuses for foreclosing on farms, … But in the EU where 60% of the Polish farmers are now gone because of identical bills enacted into law there, and 60 UK farmers have committed suicide, there is fire. And in Iraq, where they have been rendered helpless serfs by the theft of their country’s seeds and criminalization of farmers’ collection of their own seed, it is roaring. And in India where 182,000 farmers have committed suicide since the WTO and IMF got hold of agriculture and our Big Ag firms went in there, and 8 million farmers have left the land, it is out of control.
The WTO, run by the multinational meat packers and genetic engineering corporations, want HR 875, here. The bills are “harmonized” rules for globalization of food and lower food safety standards to allow for it. Those corporations are members of NIAA, a corporate consortium that brought NAIS, created by Anne Veneman, to the USDA to be made into law.
Walk Index
First Walk… Myths and Misinformation
We begin with PASA offering FWW’s take on the bills to its members:
Myths and Facts? H.R. 875 – The Food Safety Modernization Act
PASA members: The following information about a bill now before Congress, HR 875, was developed by our friends at Food and Water Watch, and forwarded to us by the National Sustainable Ag Coalition (NSAC), of which PASA is a member.
This Myth/Fact sheet was developed to help answer some of the rumors that are fairly rampant on the Internet right now. We will keep a close eye on the situation, and share further updates from NSAC as they become available. ?
MYTH: H.R. 875 “makes it illegal to grow your own garden” and would result in the “criminalization of the backyard gardner.”
FACT: There is no language in the bill that would regulate, penalize, or shut down backyard gardens. This bill is focused on ensuring the safety of foods sold in supermarkets.
Though private residences are not specifically included, nor are they specifically excluded. While this does not immediately affect home owners growing tomatoes in the backyard, entered testimony leaves the door open for just that in the future. Referring back to the Bio-Terrorism Act, in a discussion on this very topic and entered in the official record of debate on the interim rule, (bold/underline = mine), the same argument exists here and no new definitions or exclusions have been provided in HR 875 – and “reasonable” is a subjective term in theory as well as practice…
(13) FOOD ESTABLISHMENT-
(A) IN GENERAL- The term ‘food establishment’ means a
Slaughterhouse (except those regulated under the Federal Meat
Inspection Act or the Poultry Products Inspection Act), factory,
Warehouse, or facility owned or operated by a person located in
Any State that processes food or a facility that holds, stores,
Or transports food or food ingredients.
Now, every home in the country holds food after buying it from the
Grocery store. Will they be included too?
Hell, no. They’re going to be magnanimous and say that, while they could,
They won’t right now.
Excerpted from the same Interim Rule:
“(Response) FDA has concluded that private individual residences are
Not ”facilities” for purposes of the registration provision of the
Bioterrorism Act. Under the Bioterrorism Act, the term ”facility”
Includes ”any factory, warehouse, or establishment.” Congress did not Specify any definition for these terms.
Under their common meanings,
The terms can include private residences. For example, according to Webster’s II New Riverside University Dictionary (1994), the most
Relevant definition of ”establishment” is ”a business firm, club,
Institution, or residence, including its possessions and employees.”
However, ”[I]n determining whether Congress has specifically addressed
The question at issue, the court should not confine itself to examining
A particular statutory provision in isolation * * *.
It is a fundamental canon of statutory construction that the words of a
Statute must be read in their context and with a view to their place in
The overall statutory scheme.”’ FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco
Corp., 529 U.S. 120, 121 (2000).
Other parts of the registration Provisions in section 415 of the FD&C Act indicate that Congress only Intended businesses to register, and raise a question as to whether Congress intended that private individual residences, even though food Is manufactured/processed, packed, or held at such residences, be Considered facilities.
For instance, a registrant is required to submit”the name and address of each facility at which, and all trade names Under which, the registrant conducts business * * * ” (21 U.S.C.
350d(a)(2)).
Thus it is unclear whether Congress intended all Individual private residences at which food is manufactured/processed, Packed, or held to be included in the term ”facility.” Furthermore, The requirement that a facility submit its ”name” as well as its ”trade names” raises a question as to whether Congress intended ”facility” to include private individual residences since it is Unlikely that a home would have a name or a trade name.
Where the words Of the statute are ambiguous, an agency may make a reasonable Interpretation of the statute. Chevron, USA, Inc. V. NRDC, Inc., 467 U.S. 837, 842-843 (1984); Brown & Williamson, supra, at 132.
Consistent with the language of section 415(a)(2) discussed
Previously, the agency concludes that interpreting the term
”facility” to exclude private individual residences is a reasonable
Construction for purposes of registration.
This interpretation, However, does not necessarily preclude a reasonable construction of Other provisions of the FD&C Act to include such residences.”
[I do get that residences are easily included.]
MYTH: H.R. 875 would mean a “goodbye to farmers markets” because the bill would “require such a burdensome complexity of rules, inspections, licensing, fees, and penalties for each farmer who wishes to sell locally – a fruit stand, at a farmers market.” ?
FACT: There is no language in the bill that would result in farmers markets being regulated, penalized any fines, or shut down. Farmers markets would be able to continue to flourish under the bill. In fact, the bill would insist that imported foods meet strict safety standards to ensure that unsafe imported foods are not competing with locally-grown foods.
SECTION 406 CLEARLY STATES ALL FOOD OFFERED FOR SALE WILL BE VIEWED AS BEING IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE AND SUBJECT TOT HE PROVISIONS OF THIS BILL.
C. 406. PRESUMPTION.
In any action to enforce the requirements of the food safety law, the connection with interstate commerce required for jurisdiction shall be presumed to exist
8) CATEGORY 4 FOOD ESTABLISHMENT- The term ‘category 4 food establishment’ means a food establishment that processes all other categories of food products not described in paragraphs (5) through (7).
(9) CATEGORY 5 FOOD ESTABLISHMENT- The term ‘category 5 food establishment’ means a food establishment that stores, holds, or transports food products prior to delivery for retail sale.
14) FOOD PRODUCTION FACILITY- The term ‘food production facility’ means any farm, ranch, orchard, vineyard, aquaculture facility, or confined animal-feeding operation.
[SUE, say it again and again, “this applies to farms and can apply to homes.” It certainly looks to me that families baking cookies for bake sales could easily be included.]
SEC. 206. FOOD PRODUCTION FACILITIES.
(a) Authorities- In carrying out the duties of the Administrator and the purposes of this Act, the Administrator shall have the authority, with respect to food production facilities, to–
(1) visit and inspect food production facilities in the United States and in foreign countries to determine if they are operating in compliance with the requirements of the food safety law;
(2) review food safety records as required to be kept by the Administrator under section 210 and for other food safety purposes;
(3) set good practice standards to protect the public and animal health and promote food safety;
(4) conduct monitoring and surveillance of animals, plants, products, or the environment, as appropriate; and
(5) collect and maintain information relevant to public health and farm practices.
(b) Inspection of Records- A food production facility shall permit the Administrator upon presentation of appropriate credentials and at reasonable times and in a reasonable manner, to have access to and ability to copy all records maintained by or on behalf of such food production establishment in any format (including paper or electronic) and at any location, that are necessary to assist the Administrator–
(1) to determine whether the food is contaminated, adulterated, or otherwise not in compliance with the food safety law; or
(2) to track the food in commerce.
(c) Regulations- Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture and representatives of State departments of agriculture, shall promulgate regulations to establish science-based minimum standards for the safe production of food by food production facilities. Such regulations shall–
(1) consider all relevant hazards, including those occurring naturally, and those that may be unintentionally or intentionally introduced;
(2) require each food production facility to have a written food safety plan that describes the likely hazards and preventive controls implemented to address those hazards;
(3) include, with respect to growing, harvesting, sorting, and storage operations, minimum standards related to fertilizer use, nutrients, hygiene, packaging, temperature controls, animal encroachment, and water;
THEY NEVER MENTION SEEDS BUT THIS IS PRECISELY HOW THEY WILL CRIMINALIZE SEED BANKING AND ALL HOLDINGS OF SEEDS.
[Notice they mention harvesting, sorting and storage operations, then watch below.
To follow how this will be done, you must understand that:
1. there is a small list inside the FDA called “sources of seed contamination”
2. in which they have now defined “seed” as food,
3. so seeds can be controlled under “food safety.”
Those seeds (so far) include:
seeds eaten raw such as flax, poppy sesame, etc.;
sprouting seeds such as wheat, beans, alfalfa, most greens, etc.;
seeds pressed into oils such as corn, sunflower, canola, etc.;
seeds used as animal feed such as soy ….
That is most seeds. Seeds are essential to life and thus to freedom.
The “sources of seed contamination” include six little items:
agricultural water
manure (but NOT chemical pesticides or fertilizers)
harvesting, transporting and seed cleaning equipment
seed storage facilities
What you must realize is that seed cleaning equipment is THE single most critical piece of equipment for sustainable agriculture. It is how we save organic seed. It is the machinery used after plants “go to seed” to separate out (sort) the seeds from the plant material so the farmer can collect (harvest) and then save (put in storage) seed for the next year at little cost. With his own seed, the farmer stays free of patented, genetically engineered, corporately privatized seeds.
You must also understand that Monsanto is getting rid of the people who do the seed cleaning and many other means of our having access to seed .
This year, 2009, seed cleaning equipment is now illegal in some parts of the country which tips us off to both the intent to control seeds in this way and to how they could do things under this bill.
How can they make such vital equipment illegal? Quietly, and by saying it contaminates food.
“Contaminate” is their favorite word since the public fears the deadly contamination that industry itself – not farmers – has caused. Scare the public and thus push for “food safety standards” to be set.
And to eliminate seed cleaning equipment, they haven now set the standards so seed cleaning (the simple separation of seed from plant) will now require a million to a million and a half dollar building and/or equipment … per line of seed.
So, a farmer who has been seed cleaning flax for 40 years with a hand made seed cleaner can’t sell flax on the market anymore, though there are NO instances of anyone ever having gotten sick from seed cleaning equipment. A farmer who has been cleaning wheat, corn and soy each year with the same perfectly fine equipment would now need three to four and half million dollars for three pieces of equipment to continue.
(The FDA isn’t so bar-setting when it comes to other things like melamine in baby formula, though it is proven to sicken and kill infants), initially denying the melamine was in our baby formula and then quickly inventing a “foods safety” standard to okay it.)
Organic farmers are not aware of this happening, perhaps because the left is being treated with kid gloves until HR 875 and related bills are/were passed. Meanwhile, the FDA and USDA have been tromping on traditional (many of them farming organically, by the way) farmers for years. The organic community is disconnected from them so hasn’t been aware of what is happening to them. Indie farmers have a history of no one listening to them, which is too bad because it is they who are the ones bringing the warning that these bills are deadly. The organic community, measuring against its own seeming safety, hasn’t heard or understood.
NOTICE, THOUGH, THAT BECAUSE A SINGLE “FOODS SAFETY” BAR HAS BEEN RAISED, IN TIME ON ONE WILL BE ABLE TO GET ORGANIC SEEDS IN ANY NUMBER BECAUSE IT WILL BE ILLEGAL FOR ALL FARMERS TO SELL THEM TO ANYONE.
Now, look at the last item on the list – seed storage facilities.
They would be careful not to ban them all outright given the extreme reaction they would get. But now the method is more clear. “Food safety” is the weapon and public fear is the driver and they only need to set the bar at the level that is impossible to meet.
Farmers, gardeners, seed saving exchanges, seed companies, scientific seed projects, and seed banks, all require “seed storage facilities.” All are working overtime to protect biodiversity that is rapidly disappearing because of … genetic engineering.
Set the standard for “food safety” and certification high enough that no one can afford it and punish anyone who tries to save seed in a multitude of ways that have worked fine for thousands of years, and PRESTO, YOU HAVE JUST CRIMINALIZED SEED BANKING.
The penalties, I will assume, will be tremendous, the better to protect us from nothing dangerous whatever, but to make monopoly over seed more absolute. One is left with control over farmers, and end to seed exchanges, to organic seed companies, to university programs developing nice normal hybrids.
When you know that Monsanto with the help of the US government plundered ancient and rare seed banks in Iraq that held seeds with a genetic heritage (a biohistory belonging to all of us) going back 1000s of years and then made it a crime for farmers there to collect or use their own normal and non-patented seeds off their own land, you see how extreme the intent to control is.
Now, perhaps it is possible to see how the identical thing is being done here, only it comes in a heavily, heavily disguised way – through “food safety” that isn’t at all – and in only one tiny little paragraph within a very large bill.
The Iraqis are now abjectly dependent on Monsanto and the US for survival itself and will have to pay whatever prices are set for food. They cannot just grow their own and be free. So, no matter what form of government they may have, they are now slaves because the control over them is that extreme. Kissinger was right – control food and you control people.
This trick of setting bars above any ability to be in the game, is similar to how blacks had been treated. Click here. This trick of setting bars above any ability to be in the game while imposing fines that destroy people who fail to meet that standard, is sadistic. Then, taking the land as confiscatory payment, is theft by government become totalitarian and colonizing its own people.
There are other items of the list which surely will be controlled as well. In toto, that little list is the deconstruction of farming itself and given the inclusion of manure, especially of organic farming.]
(4) include, with respect to animals raised for food, minimum standards related to the animal’s health, feed, and environment which bear on the safety of food for human consumption;
(5) provide a reasonable period of time for compliance, taking into account the needs of small businesses for additional time to comply;
(6) provide for coordination of education and enforcement activities by State and local officials, as designated by the Governors of the respective States; and
(7) include a description of the variance process under subsection (d) and the types of permissible variances which the Administrator may grant under such process.
(d) Variances- States and foreign countries that export produce intended for consumption in the United States may request from the Administrator variances from the requirements of the regulations under subsection (c). A request shall–
(1) be in writing;
(2) describe the reasons the variance is necessary;
(3) describe the procedures, processes, and practices that will be followed under the variance to ensure produce is not adulterated; and
(4) contain any other information required by the Administrator.
(e) Approval or Disapproval of Variances- If the Administrator determines after review of a request under subsection (d) that the requested variance provides equivalent protections to those promulgated under subsection (c), the Administrator may approve the request. The Administrator shall deny a request if it is–
(1) not sufficiently detailed to permit a determination;
(2) fails to cite sufficient grounds for allowing a variance; or
(3) does not provide reasonable assurances that the produce will not be adulterated.
(f) Enforcement- The Administrator may coordinate with the agency or department designated by the Governor of each State to perform activities to ensure compliance with this section.
(g) Imported Produce- Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall promulgate regulations to ensure that raw agricultural commodities and minimally processed produce imported into the United States can meet standards for food safety, inspection, labeling, and consumer protection that are at least equal to standards applicable to such commodities and produce produced in the United States.
Administrator shall have authority to grant exclusions to foreign producers.
[While it may be obvious to us that this is onerous beyond any capability of coping with it, it needs to be said and described in some detail what it would actually mean for farmers or for us. Here in story form is a taste of it, so anyone could feel the insanity of it:
SEC. 201. ADMINISTRATION OF NATIONAL PROGRAM.
(a) In General- The Administrator shall–
(1) develop, administer, and annually update a national food safety program (referred to in this section as the ‘program’) to protect public health; and
(2) ensure that persons who produce, process, or distribute food meet their responsibility to prevent or minimize food safety hazards related to their products.
[This is where I think it would be very helpful if you explained how astoundingly onerous that long list is and what its impact would be on any farmer who previously only needed to load up his goods and bringing them to a farmers market – though that in itself is a time consuming, physically effortful job that often begins pre-dawn on those mornings and ends late in the day, all of it separate from growing the food and boxing it up to bring.
A small farm is not an industry with staff to fill out paperwork, handle licensing, manage all the industrial bureaucracy that is being loaded on here, but is most often a couple who is also taking care of a family in addition to growing crops and raising animals. These are precisely the people who we need most as part of our food system and how will clearly be crushed by the grossly inappropriate application of such rules to small farms.]
· MYTH: H.R. 875 would result in the “death of organic farming.”
FACT: There is no language in the bill that would stop organic farming. The National Organic Program (NOP) is under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Food Safety Modernization Act only addresses food safety issues under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
[Of course, they are not going to come straight out and say it. But breaking this down to what is actually involved, you find that:]
The administrator is charged with developing minimum standards, not maximum limits on feed, fertilizers, nutrients etc- right here goes organics.
Secondly, this act creates a new agency, and the FDA becomes the Federal Drug and Device Agency. It combines offices currently under FDA and Commerce Department (National Marine Fisheries).
Third, FSA is to cooperate with the USDA in “promulgating rules and orders” which will have the bearing and impact of law.
To refer back to the previous “Myth”
[The one about foreign food having to meet our standard, right?]
– Alaska, Hawaii, US territories and foreign countries may apply for variances, so… NO… Imported foods do NOT necessarily have to meet the same standards. In fact, many countries have had to lower their standards due to WTO rules and trade agreements, and Australia had to further lower their regulatory standards when they instituted the NLIS program (their version of NAIS). There is no reason to think we would not have to do the same.
Walk Index
Second Walk… The End of Organic Farming
[NOW, COMES THE RESPONSE TO WHETHER THE BILLS WILL MEAN THE END OF ORGANIC FARMING.]
I’m going to format this differently to accentuate your points, Sue. This section should be a major education for people in how things have been working. This is in response to the myth that the bills will not affect organic farming, right?]
Animal health has traditionally meant medication and hormones, petroleum-based fly sprays and all sorts of other goodies.
Feed can be anything (GMO SOY OR CORN, ANYONE?),
environment can mean PESTICIDES, HERBICIDES USED ON PASTURES (IF pasturing is deemed “healthy” – internationally this is NOT so for poultry, in fact in many countries there is NO outdoor poultry anymore – by law).
Nutrients are not necessarily whole food based, many are produced SYNTHETICally, and again, PETROLEUM BASED …
Animal encroachment prevention can be anything from a scarecrow or plastic owl to POISON BATES AND BULLETS. Not one of these things is specified, yet there is no place for real public opinion in the decision making process provided. I will grant that there is usually a public comment period for federal register entries, for whatever that has been worth in the past.
[Meaning, it has been worth little to nothing. And obviously, the public is left having to respond ad infinitum to one issue after another. Someone compared the numbers of things being thrown at us to try to stop, to carpet bombing so you can’t comment on everything, even if it helped which is clearly often doesn’t.]
SEC. 206. FOOD PRODUCTION FACILITIES.
(a) AUTHORITIES.—In carrying out the duties of the Administrator and the purposes of this Act, the Administrator shall have the authority, with respect to food production facilities, to
(1) visit and inspect food production facilities in the United States and in foreign countries to determine if they are operating in compliance with the requirements of the food safety law;
(2) review food safety records as required to be kept by the Administrator under section 210 and for other food safety purposes;
(3) SET GOOD PRACTICE STANDARDS to protect the public and animal health and promote food safety;
[This is where words that sound so friendly and innocuous and even good are code words for international rules set by the WTO that actually define industrial requirements which do not fit real farming in the least, much less organic farming, would be applied.
[This is where insane, anti-nature, anti-farming rules like “animals and crops can’t exist on the same farm” come into play. Where wild animals aren’t ever supposed to be near crops so the government has been poisoning deer and frogs. The list of such manufacturing rules for farming is long, and each very much “efficiency manager comes and wrecks the farm.”]
(4) conduct monitoring and surveillance of animals, plants, products, or the environment, as appropriate; and
[Please, those of you who find the idea of NSA-spying intolerable, look carefully at those words. Now, imagine it were your farm, your home on that farm, and realize that the USDA and FDA have been run by and the new agency will be run by Monsanto, Cargill, Tysons, ADM. Their interest in helping consumers have safer food is nil The bills are meant to eliminate farmers as is now rapidly occurring in the EU with identical (“harmonized”) bills, now law there.
(5) collect and maintain information relevant to public health and farm practices.
[There needs to be a pause here to consider the implications of each of those on someone’s home – their family’s farm. This is quite different from applying them to industrial sites where no one lives, and beyond that, these powers are so broad and vague, they are dangerous if only in that.
Those things listed open the door to total control, warrantless entry and perpetual surveillance. Notice how innocuous they have made it appear, even beneficial – always about public health. Yet, the insincerity of this is boggling – the USDA and Big Ag have worked to prevent inspections to the point where farmers have had to actully sue to get them done , even after offering to pay for them.]
(b) INSPECTION OF RECORDS.—A food production facility shall permit the Administrator upon presentation of appropriate credentials and at reasonable times and in a reasonable manner
[Who defines “reasonable”? Does a farmer have to go to court each time there is an “unreasonable” manner and time? How wide open do we push the door to Big Ag-corrupted government control over farmers – the people creating the only safe food?
Look carefully and realize the USDA right now is countenancing state ag departments conducting terrorizing raids on non-corporate farms across the country. Imagine it were your home and USDA agents banging on your door to demand paper work and if you don’t have it, facing fines that would bankrupt you in a moment and lose you your land and home.]
, to have access to and ability to copy all records maintained by or on behalf of such food production establishment in any format (including paper or electronic) and at any location, that are necessary to assist the Administrator—
[Imagine again.]
(1) to determine whether the food is contaminated, adulterated, or otherwise not in compliance with the food safety law; or
[Be aware that in Pennsylvania where there has been an aggressive effort to destroy fresh milk dairy farmers, the tests by the states repeatedly do not match those of independent testers but the harm to farmers from such false tests and reporting of them is done and can’t be undone. Be aware that the USDA has a record of creating test results damaging to small farmers while it refuses to inspect even when farmers ask to pay.]
(2) to track the food in commerce.
[This could mean farmers bringing food to markets with USDA agents surveilling.]
(c) REGULATIONS.—Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture and representatives of State departments of agriculture, shall promulgate regulations to establish science-based minimum standards for the safe production of food by food production facilities. Such regulations shall—
[Everything in this bill is being left to be filled in however the “Food Safety Tsar” – “the Administrator” decides? Right now, to give people pause and to wake them up a bit to how this is not a wise idea but in fact absurd, it appears that person could be Michael Taylor, a Monsanto lawyer infamous for approving rBGH – the first genetically engineered product ever approved – over the objections of doctors, scientists who said the numbers were being rigged, and the public.
How can anyone leave a bill so utterly vague in the hands of anyone to decide later what it all means? Do we not make laws here with specific meaning anymore? Or do we simply let totalitarian rules be applied by industry against non-industrial entities like farms and homes in any way they wish and with immense police power behind what they, for their own interests, decide?]
(1) consider all relevant hazards, including those occurring naturally, and those that may be unintentionally or intentionally introduced;
[GOODBY RAW MILK.]
(2) require each food production facility to have a written food safety plan that describes the likely hazards and preventive controls implemented to address those hazards;
(3) include, with respect to growing, harvesting, sorting, and storage operations, minimum standards related to fertilizer use, NUTRIENTS, HYGIENE, PACKAGING, TEMPERATURE CONTROLS, ANIMAL ENCROACHMENT, AND WATER;
[GOODBYE ORGANIC FARMING.]
(4) include, with respect to animals raised for food, MINIMUM STANDARDS related to the animal’s HEALTH, FEED AND ENVIRONMENT which bear on the safety of food for human consumption;
[GOODBYE ORGANIC FARMING AND GRASS FED ANIMALS.]
(5) provide a reasonable period of time for compliance, taking into account the needs of small businesses for additional time to comply;
[Oh, heavens, this looks like padding to throw in the word “reasonable” again but it has no explicit meaning whatever and so no safety for a soul.]
(6) provide for coordination of education and enforcement activities by State and local officials, as designated by the Governors of the respective States; and
[This appears to be where Homeland Security works with the USDA for such things as “depopulation of animals” – for which 6 meetings are already scheduled in June and into which livestock owners are not allowed though foreigners are.
These “depopulation” plans look like what is happening in Asia where animal disease caused by industry (and worth a fortune to the pharmaceutical industry ) are then used by industry to wipe out its competition in heritage breeds of animals on small farms and to substitute genetically engineered animals that are patented by industry and thus owned by industry.
(7) include a description of the variance process under subsection (d) and the types of permissible variances which the Administrator may grant under such process.
(d) VARIANCES.—
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[This is where the “fact” that foreign countries must meet our food safety requirements collapses by simply reading the bill.]
MYTH: The bill would implement a national animal ID system.?
FACT: There is no language in the bill that would implement a national animal ID system. Animal identification issues are under the jurisdiction of the USDA. The Food Safety Modernization Act addresses issues under the jurisdiction of the FDA.
This bill mandates NAIS BY claiming that it is already law,
then contradicts itself by citing COOL, which specifically prohibits mandatory tracking.
It justifies NAIS by claiming that the AHPA gives authority – but this is a bill (and supposedly a program) concerning interstate commerce (though any item of food for sale is “presumed” to be in interstate commerce, whether it is in reality or not.) and AHPA does not regulate interstate commerce.
How many contradictions in a single section do we need before red flags go up?
[YES, AND PUT UP RED FLAGS FOR WHOLE BILLS IF THIS CENTRAL PART IS SO CORRUPTLY BEING PUSHED.]
Below in CAPITALS [fonts altered – Dr. Rima] , Sue answers the absurd claim that NAIS is not mandatory. FWW has gotten this and many other items wrong. That would be fine if the whole organic movement and all our farms and freedom were not riding on our seeing these very real threats and stopping those bills completely – not compromising on them but demanding their complete withdrawal.]
(a) IN GENERAL – THE ADMINISTRATOR, IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC HEALTH, SHALL ESTABLISH A NATIONAL TRACEABILITY SYSTEM THAT ENABLES THE ADMINISTRATOR TO RETRIEVE THE HISTORY, USE AND LOCATION OF AN ARTICLE OF FOOD THROUGH ALL STAGES OF ITSPRODUCTION, PROCESSIN, AND DISTRIBUTION.
(b) APPLICABILITY – TRACEABILITY REQUIREMENTS UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY TO FOOD FROM FOOD PRODUCTION FACILITIES, FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS, AND FOREIGN FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS.
(c) REQUIREMENTS-
(1) STANDARDS- THE ADMINISTRATOR SHALL ESTABLISH STANDARDS FOR THE TYPE OF INFORMATION, FORMAT, AND TIMEFRAME FOR FOOD PRODUCTION FACILTITIES AND FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS TO SUBMIT RECORDS TO AID THE ADMINISTRATOR IN EFFECTIVELY RETRIEVING THE HISTORY, USE AND LOCATION OF AN ITEM OF FOOD.
(2) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION- Nothing in this section shall be construed as requiring the Administrator to prescribe a specific technology for the maintenance of records or labeling of food to carry out the requirements of this section.
(3) AVAILABILITY OF RECORDS FOR INSPECTION- Any records that are required by the Administrator under this section shall be available for inspection by the Administrator upon oral or written request.
(4) DEMONSTRATION OF ABILITY- The Administrator, during any inspection, may require a food establishment to demonstrate its ability to trace an item of food and submit the information in the format and time frame required under paragraph (1).
(d) Relationship to Other Requirements-
(1) CONSISTENCY WITH EXISTING STATUTES AND REGULATIONS- To the extent possible, the Administrator should establish the national traceability system under this section to be consistent with existing statutes and regulations that require recordkeeping or labeling for identifying the origin or history of food or food animals.
[Does this mean consistent with international laws under the WTO? Is this a means of locking everything together into Smart Grid or NAFTA or CAFTA or GATT and even, the worst of all,
?]
(2) EXISTING LAWS- For purposes of this subsection, the Administrator should review the following:
(A) Country of origin labeling requirements of subtitle D of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1638 et seq.).
(B) The Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act of 1930 (7 U.S.C. 499a-t).
(C) Country of origin labeling requirements of section 304 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1340).
(D) The National Animal Identification System as authorized by the Animal Health Protection Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8301 et seq.).
EC. 210. TRACEBACK REQUIREMENTS.
MYTH: The bill is supported by the large agribusiness industry.?
FACT: No large agribusiness companies have expressed support for this bill.
This bill is being supported by several Members of Congress who have strong progressive records on issues involving farmers markets, organic farming, and locally-grown foods.
[Who almost certainly have not read the bills or can’t interpret how it will work to destroy farmers, organic food, seed banking, and all of us.]
Also, H.R. 875 is the only food safety legislation that has been supported by all the major consumer and food safety groups, including:
[Perhaps others know details on each organization and why they might be supporting a bill that is so threatening to real food safety and to the survival of our farms and organic farming.]
?– Center for Foodborne Illness Research & Prevention
?– Center for Science in the Public Interest
?– Consumer Federation of America
The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) is a long-standing consumer organization based in Washington, DC. However, it has accepted funding from the ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION to “develop an optimum regulatory regime” for genetically engineered food.
?– Consumers Union?– Food & Water Watch
[Food and Water Watch just put out a description of the bill in which it is apparent they do not understand what is in it and what it will do. With that as their starting point, they support it.]
?– The Pew Charitable Trusts
[They are also connected to the ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION, and involved with them in mandatory vaccinations programs around the world and issues of reducing population.]
?– Safe Tables Our Priority ?– Trust for America’s Health
[There is no list here of groups opposing this bill, which include the people whose lives are most at risk from it and who know its dangers the best and who should have been the first people consulted. Instead, they have been shut out and when they have tried to report extreme dangers, they have ignored, dismissed, marginalized. Perhaps the other organizations listed here are as unfamiliar with the bill’s contents and ramifications as FWW.]
If you consider that not only is Rosa DeLauro married to Stanley Greenberg, who boasts Monsanto as one of his clients, but also that she receives the largest donations from agribusiness PAC’s of just about anyone in Congress, does industry NEED to come out and say they support this particular bill? If cash to the sponsor doesn’t count, and if formal positions supporting various specific aspects of the bill do not count, then what does? Would there not be massive public backlash against it if industry DID take a formal stand on every bill they want to see passed?
By the same token, I’ve not seen a single industrial ag company come out and oppose this bill, either. They have all been conspicuously silent. I seem to remember that they threw up quite a fuss over COOL, and caused enforcement to fall behind by more than 7 years… Not to mention the garbage with loopholes we’ve had to deal with since enforcement began. (What good does a “Canada, US, Mexico” label do for anybody? Especially with BSE in Canada and TB coming in daily from Mexico?) Where’s the hoot and holler over this?
MYTH: The bill will pass the Congress next week without amendments or debate.?
FACT: Food safety legislation has yet to be considered by any Congressional committee.?
I can’t speak to the time frame. [Note from NSF: our sources “on the Hill” told us they believed these bills had been “fast tracked” to be passed during President Obama’s “First 100 Days”]
[It came from those who first discovered the bills were there, inserted only one week after Vilsack had said the USDA wasn’t even considering centralizing the FDA and USDA at this time, so people saw how similar the bills were, knew who fast other things were being shoved through Congress without even reading those bills, and estimated how fast this could happen.
Perhaps with people alerted now, these bogus “food safety” bills can be stopped by the organic community once it realizes they will utterly destroy it.]
However, since I did have the luxury of listening to the farce taking place on the floor of the House of Representatives on March 11 concerning HR1105 (which FUNDS NAIS among its hundreds of other projects) while awaiting the Livestock, Dairy and Poultry subcommittee hearing on NAIS – I have no doubt that this bill will move quickly now that 1105 has passed and since it has so many co-sponsors.
Especially since the Representatives were honest enough to admit that though the Senators claimed everybill in the Omnibus Act had been heard and passed in the previous session, when in actuality, some 100 of the 170 bills in the package had NOT.
But this is my personal opinion.
The “ominous Omnibus Act” as several Representatives called it, went from introduction to the President in less than 13 working days.
I really have to question just who’s side those groups are really on that are in support of this bill…..
And finally,
Walk Index
Third Walk… Meaning of the Bills
WHAT THE NEW “FOOD SAFETY” BILLS MEAN TO YOU
by Gail Combs
Our food safety system was trashed in 1995 by Sec of Ag Ann Veneman (Board member of Monsanto). She appointed Dan Amstutz (VP of Cargill) who wrote the World Trade Organization Agreement on Agriculture (WTO AoA). Unlike GATT, WTO has major clout from trade sanctions and control of 90% of the international trade. http://www.publiceyeonscience.ch/images/the_wto_and_the_politics_of_gmo.doc
“Aims to ensure that governments do not use quarantine and food safety requirements as Unjustified trade barriers.. It provides Member countries with a right to implement traceability {NAIS} as an SPS measure.” WTO
In other words the WTO did away with “quarantine and food safety requirements” that gave us “the safest food in the world” and is graciously going to allow Farmers to track AND COUNT the world’s livestock for them instead. Now HR 875 and an FDA release indicate All food will be tracked and all food producers will have Food inspections and the threat of fines up to $1,000,000 a day will eliminate all the independent farms that have acted as a check on Corporate AG.
The FDA wants
to implement a more effective trace-back process, using technologies to rapidly and precisely track the origin and destination of contaminated foods, feed and ingredients
Nanotech in Food can make it happen “California’s Oxonica makes Nanobarcodes from nano-particles that contain silver and gold stripes varying in width, length and amount, such that billions of combinations can be created to tag individual products. The barcodes have been primarily used to assure brand and authenticity in pharmaceuticals, but applications could be forthcoming in tracing food batches”.
In regard to pets:
HR 875 uses “animals” and then “animals raised for food” and there are no exclusions. The Animal Welfare Act had exclusions for livestock, pets and people raising three or less litters of puppies a year. Therefore pets are not excluded.
“set good practice standards to protect the public and animal health and promote food safety”
“conduct monitoring and surveillance of animals, plants, products, or the environment, as appropriate”
“with respect to animals raised for food, minimum standards related to the animal’s health, feed, and environment which bear on the safety of food for human consumption;
In regard to gardens:
The Feds Already have plans for controlling food “FROM FARM TO FORK” including home preparation since September of 1995 (WTO ratified in 1995)
HR 875
“require each food production facility to have a written food safety plan that describes the likely hazards and preventive controls implemented to address those hazards;”
“include, with respect to growing, harvesting, sorting, and storage operations, minimum standards related to fertilizer use, nutrients, hygiene, packaging, temperature controls, animal encroachment, and water”
“include, with respect to animals raised for food, minimum standards related to the animal’s health, feed, and environment which bear on the safety of food for human consumption;”
“set good practice standards to protect the public and animal health and promote food safety”
“..facility owned or operated by a person located in any State that processes food or a facility that holds, stores, or transports food or food ingredients.”
Notice it does not say a person SELLING food, it says a person holds, stores, or transports food or food ingredients. The bill specifically states it covers commerce with in state but again there is no exclusion for food raised for home use. The fact you are growing veggies for your and friends and not selling them does not exclude you.
“in any action to enforce the requirements of the food safety law, the connection with interstate commerce required for jurisdiction SHALL BE PRESUMED TO EXIST.”
Under Ag Sec. Veneman …
in September, 1995, the USDA’s Food Safety & Inspection Service presented a 600-page document “Farm-To-Table” intended to control of every step in the food chain from production to home preparation.
This is a real life example of what has already occurred and what people may have in store:
Today a state Ag inspector and two county officials show up and scare the bee-jesus out of me. First they accuse me of selling products and milk, then explain that even “giving milk products away” is illegal in California. Now everything is pasteurized, but it is illegal to share milk products in any form! They explained it was even ILLEGAL to give it to my own children if they did not live under my roof! I can’t even take a lasagna dish to my grown sons home without risk of being fined, arrested and or jailed! This is OUTRAGEOUS!!!!…..” Donna Tue Aug 12, 2008 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Americans_Against_NAIS/message/26452
More stories on Feds raiding farms and co-ops
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Last Walk… Conclusion
The related package of “food safety” bills are totalitarian. There are no two ways about it.
They allow government warrantless intrusion into and extreme, detailed, surveilled control over every aspect of farmers’ land and home, straight-jacketing them into a bureaucratic nightmare which precludes their even functioning as farmers. And yet for real food safety and for food security, it is exactly farmers we need.
We need the real food they produce and the farmland they spare and protect from industrialization and the heritage animals and seeds they raise and their knowledge about nature and animals, and we need the way of life they represent. Free. How interesting that to have real and clean and wholesome food, it requires that farmers have freedom.
These bills which claim to be about “food safety” but are proven in the EU already to be about the destruction of farmers, are so frighteningly broad, they allow the government to take over our lives, too. They allow the government to use rules written by multinational corporations within the WTO, to control whether we can garden or how, whether we chip our pets, even what happens inside our homes in our kitchens.
These controls all all for mandating things that make money for corporations just as we are all trying to get off the corporate grid of power, fuel, food, … Now it is easy to appreciate people’ resistance to mandated vaccines (and they keep adding more kinds).
There is point at which we must say stop. Our lives are our own, our property is our own, our decisions on what to eat and how to heal ourselves are our own. We must protect our own freedom and now it is apparent how intimately tied it is those who have been providing for us for ever – our farmers.
HR 875, SR 425, HR 814, HR 759 and all related bills must be withdrawn immediately and then trashed.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-solemn-walk-through-HR-8-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-090314-67.html
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Further information linking Codex Alimentarius (the World Food Code) and the (sic) Food (sic) Safety bills, see:
A Natural Solutions Foundation White Paper
Regarding U.S. Codex Office and Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) for
Adoption of Codex Committee Policies by the U.S. Codex Delegation and FSIS
in Harmony with the Dietary Substances Health and Education Act (DSHEA),
19 USC 3512 (the Anti-Harmonization Statute) and other Statutory and Case Law
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
Action Item:
Here is the Action Item:http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714
The new food safety agency bills pending before Congress contain language that may threaten organic and natural food and small farms and ranches, as well as dietary supplements. While large-scale industrialized agriculture may pose a threat to public safety, applying highly restrictive rules appropriate to large-scale agri business to these alternative producers will cause serious harm to them, while not increasing public safety.
Therefore, while we do support Divesting the FDA of food authority, we do not believe these bills are the way to do that. However, if Congress insists upon adopting this course of action, we seek an protective amendment to these bills similar to the amendment that was added to the 2007 FDA law, protecting dietary supplements.
This bill is being “fast-tracked” for passage during the “honeymoon” period of the new administration when its harmful potential will not be noticed unless we take action now!
Here is the text of the Petition to Congress:
PETITION
To Amend the Food Safety Modernization Act
H.R. 875 [and Substitutes]
By the Addition of the
Natural and Family Food and Farming Exclusion Amendment
To: The Members of the Congress of the United States of America:
Whereas the proposed Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services should focus its activities on the significant public administration issues involving the capacity of large scale, industrialized agriculture to threaten public safety,
Whereas organic and natural agriculture, family farms and ranches, and natural or organic food products, including dietary supplements are not a significant part of the food safety problem, and
Whereas Congress previously provided for an exemption for natural food dietary supplements from the increased agency authority granted by the FDA Modernization Act of 2007, through a rule of interpretation, added as section 1011 of that Act, and has on numerous occasions exempted small and family farms from the same level of regulation as has been deemed necessary in the case of industrialized agriculture,
The citizens ascribing to this Petition therefore hereby request that the Food Safety Modernization Act be defeated, or that it, or any substitute for it, such as H.R. 759, be amended to exclude organic and natural agriculture, family farms and ranches, and natural or organic food products, including dietary supplements, through a rule of interpretation, as follows:
“Rule of Interpretation
“No provision of this act shall be deemed to apply (a) to any home, home-business, homestead, 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 regulated under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994.”
We also note the language of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 USC sec 203 (s) (2) which provides, “(2) Any establishment that has as its only regular employees the owner thereof or the parent, spouse, child, or other member of the immediate family of such owner shall not be considered to be an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce or a part of such an enterprise…” Language such as this would be helpful to allay our concerns.
If the FDA Center for Food Safety is to be moved into a new Food Safety Agency, then Dietary Supplements, regulated as foods under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) should be included in such agency, with the proviso that such substances, as foods, are deemed safe when used as directed.
Furthermore, the ascribing citizens Petition the Congress of the United States to declare it the public policy of the United States that organic and natural agriculture, family farms and ranches, and natural or organic food products, including dietary supplements shall be at all times free from suit, vexation, trouble, penalty, or loss of their goods, for the inestimable values they confer upon the public.
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Here is the Action Item:http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714
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More information on this issue:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2128
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[March 7, 2009 – This Petition was prepared by Ralph Fucetola JD, a Trustee of the Natural Solutions Foundation, for educational purposes – www.HealthFreedomUSA.org]
Natural Solutions Foundation
Health Freedom Action eAlert
PANDEMIC FLU
EMERGENCY ACTION eALERT
March 6, 2009
* Pandemic Alert: The General’s Communiqué
* Mouse Warrior eAlert Action Items
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Action Item: Protect your right to refuse medical experimentation
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26830
Text of the Open Letter to the President and Congress about the contamination of vaccines with live Avian Flu virus in January 2009 – http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2233
UPDATE: Proactive Protection from the “Pandemic” – http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2581
And this quote just in from Dr. Joseph Mercola (04/29/09):
“Could a mixed animal-human mutant like this occur naturally? And if not, who made it, and how was it released?
“Not one to dabble too deep in conspiracy theories, I don’t have to strain very hard to find actual facts to support the notion that this may not be a natural mutation, and that those who stand to gain have the wherewithal to pull off such a stunt.
“Just last month I reported on the story that the American pharmaceutical company Baxter was under investigation for distributing the deadly avian flu virus to 18 different countries as part of a seasonal flu vaccine shipment. Czech reporters were probing to see if it may have been part of a deliberate attempt to start a pandemic; as such a “mistake” would be virtually impossible under the security protocols of that virus.”
http://www.voteronpaul.com/newsDetail.php?Critical-Alert-The-Swine-Flu-Pandemic-Fact-or-Fiction-899
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The General’s Communiqué
Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III
(US Army, Ret.)
Big Pharma Company “Accidentally”
Contaminates Vaccines With LIVE
AVIAN FLU VIRUS in 18 Countries
Protecting Yourself and Family
Dr. Rima and I are still in Germany where the talk of health freedom advocates is this horrifying late-breaking story, though you may already be aware of it. Although it is being widely reported around the world, the US MMD (media of mass deception) appears to have a blackout placed on this story.
World media are reporting that Baxter Pharmaceuticals has admitted that it “accidentally” contaminated various vaccine batches with Avian Flu viruses. These batches were shipped to 18 countries. Clearly, either 1. stupidity and incompetence or 2. intentional contamianation of flu vaccine lots was at work.
Number 1 is easy to understand. Number 2 comes into focus quickly when you realize that there are many competing Avian Flu Vaccines already in production and in the Pharma “pipeline” although Avian Flu has been slow to become pandemic by “jumping the sepecies barrier” to humans in large numbers.
Vaccines are profitable ONLY if used in huge numbers. Competing vaccines, for a disease which has yet to pose any reasonable threat, have a tough economic row to how. But a good, solid cluster of cases, or, better yet, several clusters, would create a hue and cry for those vaccines which is difficult to imagine. Bottom line for Big Pharma? One of the biggest wins in history. Bottom line for Little People? A manipulated disaster of unprecedented magnitude precipitated by unprecedented avarice and greed.
Baxter International Inc. is no stranger to recalls and lethal contaminations:
January 17, 2008 Recalls 9 lots of heparin sodium injection products due to a higher than usual number of reports of adverse patient reactions after suspending production Voluntary recall of all remaining lots and doses of its heparin sodium injection multi-dose, single-dose vials and HEP-LOCK heparin flush products http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/baxter02_08.html
February 28, 2008 Voluntary recall of all remaining lots and doses of its heparin sodium injection multi-dose, single-dose vials and HEP-LOCK heparin flush products http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/baxter02_08.html
July 30, 2007 Baxter recalls faulty infusion pumps http://www.devicelink.com/mddi/blog/?p=443
February 2, 2006 Urgent recall letter on faulty volumetric pumps classified by FDA as a Class I recall http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/baxter-unit-fda-classifies-customer/story.aspx?guid={FE374F7D-FCE4-40B8-99CF-4E0A0C46F058}
July 24, 2001 Albumin Buminate 5 percent, used to treat burn and shock victims, recalled following revelation that it was tainted with HIV-2 http://www.aegis.org/news/ct/2001/CT010716.html
December 12, 2005 Dialysis machines recalled due to faulty transfusion tubing which kinks http://www.redherring.com/Home/14857
October 21, 2001 Baxter International Inc. recalled some of its blood-cleaning filters pending results of an investigation into the deaths of 23 kidney dialysis patients in Croatia http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-10322069_ITM
So through either conspiracy or stupidity, either way, a potential pandemic was nearly unleashed on the world.
What happens then? Here is what the US has planned:
1. Immediate demand for mass vaccination without the right to object on religious or other grounds.
2. Compulsory vaccination or dentention under Patriot I, Patriot II, BARDA, BioShield I, BioShield II and/or State Emergency Medical Powers Acts.
And here is what the UN has planned:
1. The “North American Plan for Avian & Pandemic Influenza” provides that in the case of a pandemic, “U.N. law along with regulations by the World Trade Organization and World Health Organization as supreme over U.S. law during a pandemic” setting the stage for militarizing the management of continental health emergencies (Jerome Corsi, http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2007/020907_power_grab.htm)
Baxter mixed a virus which has a hard time infecting people (H5N1 Avian Flu) with one that infects them easily (“Seasonal Flu”) in a medium which can promote mutations of the H5N1 virus into a type which can infect us easily. What will be in the vaccine you are forced/coerced/threatened into allowing into your body? Who knows?
What we do know is that you and I want, demand, must have, the right to say “NO!” to vaccinations and other treatments that we do not want. The Police Power of the State ENDS at my skin and yours!
Your action is needed now. Click below to send your letter demanding that Congress pass legislation NOW assuring your right to refuse vaccination whether there is a declared Pandemic or not.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26830
Text of the Petition Letter:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2233
If, in the event of a Pandemic, you choose, for example, to take safe and effective Nano Silver – www.nutronix.com/naturalsolutions
– (as I will) rather than dangerous and potentially deadly vaccines, this MUST be your right without being detained or declared a felon, forcibly detained or otherwise moles.
Now that you have this information, please make sure that everyone you know gets this information from you with the request to take action and send this on to their contacts as well.
You can read more about the details at this page, where we first broke this story and are reproducing some media articles substantiating this matter.
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2191
This is an Emergency Action eAlert. What we need to address here is what you can do now.
Health Freedom needs your support. We need you to take the Action Steps outlined in this urgent Pandemic Alert.
< < < PLEASE DO NOT PANIC > > >
Here is what you can do:
1. Stock up on foods and necessities, in the event you need to self-quarantine. Two to three months worth.
2. Stock up on nutrients and natural remedies that will help support your immune system, such as Vitamin C, Vitamin D, nano-silver, herbs such as echinacea. Visit www.Organics4U.org or other reliable sites to find clean, unadulterated nutrients.
3. Read these Health Freedom Blog postings from last summer, when we first raised the issue of weaponized avian flu.
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=755
4. Avoid large crowds. Shop on line; while you are at it, patronize our sponsors whose links are on the right hand menu of this email.
5. Protect your immune system: Avoid vaccinations!
6. Read our Preparedness Memorandum:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=752
And one more thing. We need your financial support, now more than ever. Please give generously at:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=189
Stay Healthy!
General Bert
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This week, Austria and Hungary won the right, after several rounds of losses in the WTO and EU dispute resolution systems, to ban genetically modified foods, specifically MON810 and TK25 maize (corn) from their countries. This is of enormous importance to food quality, health and health freedom and sets important precidents in Europe and, because of the WTO, potentially around the globe. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/038509e8-0794-11de-9294-000077b07658.html
The Natural Solutions Foundation is just giving birth to Natural Solutions Foundation – Europe and we will be taking this opportunity to create national petitions here in Europe, starting with Germany, to tell national parliaments that the will of the people is NOT to eat Frankenfood.
As you probably already know from our discussions of what is going on at Codex, the US is trying very hard to force GMO “food” and seeds on an unwilling third world and on Europe. This victory in Europe can help to change the balance of power in Codex as well.
If you are in Europe, or have European connections, please join our new Natural Solutions Europe forum. We need your voices in Europe AND around the world!
Join Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NSF-EU/join
We are, after all, the net roots of Health Freedom and we are global activists, not globalists!
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Congress, the President and other decision makers must get your message loud and clear! Now that Health Freedom made it among the Top Ten social issues on Change.org and Change.gov, we are ready to push even harder. That’s where these Health Freedom Action eAlerts make a difference. Please take these actions:
New Action Item:
Tell the President and Congress that we want them to protect our right to refuse medical treatments including vaccinations
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26830
1. Tell Congress “No” on the farm control bills!
HR 875 and S.425
We’ve set up an Action Item for you to send an unmistakable message to your representatives in the Senate and the House. We must educate Congress that you do not want organic and small farmers regulated out of existence.
You do not want “Big Agra” regulations, perhaps necessary to protect the public when dealing with large scale agra business, applied to organic and small family farms and ranches or to natural and organic food products including Dietary Supplements.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714
2. Tell the President about Change: Health Freedom is Our First Freedom
You made “Health Freedom Is Our First Freedom” one of the top 10 items on America’s mind with your votes to Change.org. Now we have to make that message resonate through the White House halls.
Will the new President listen? Only if we tell him, in our hundreds of thousands! We need your help in making this campaign “go viral” to “infect” the Internet with health freedom! Please forward to your entire list and ask them to ACT NOW!
Click below to tell President Obama that we want REAL change — which means more freedom and choice in our lives, not more control over needed medical treatments by yet another overblown, impossible to approach Federal bureaucracy!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26671
Click here to send an Open Letter to the President
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2096
3. Right to Use – Right to Choose – Use Nano Silver
Thanks to Mouse Warriors, the Deadline for Comments has been extended to March 20, 2009 by the EPA. We won that skirmish, but the war is still raging.
Retain the Right to Choose Nano Silver. Tell EPA Not to topical Ban Nano Silver of Any Type. Whether you use Nano Silver or not (and we certainly do!), let’s make sure that we have the right to make that choice!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26405
Want to know more? Read Defending Nano Silver:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=1773
4. Divest FDA/USDA of Food Regulation Authority – and all government agencies of their often misused power to deny us access to wholesome nutrition and natural remedies. Protect Food from FDA/USDA Regulation! We oppose H.R. 875 and S. 425, but do support divesting the FDA!
With those bills, Congress is about to create a new agency for “Food Safety”. Our analysis is that it will be worse than both FDA and USDA combined. We need to get food out of Federal hands, and quickly. Just think what the new farm bills, coupled with a new industry-controlled, agency will do to your food, your health and your freedom. Having contemplated that horrific outcome, take action and ask everyone you know to do the same.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26314
5. Please join the Natural Solutions Foundation’s new Food and Farming Yahoo!Groups forum. Check it out at:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/natural-solutions-food-and-farming/
And here’s an invitation to join our other very active and informative forums:
NO to GMO
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/no-genetically-modified-foods/join
No Forced Vaccinations
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/no-forced-vaccination/join
European Health Freedom Forum
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NSF-EU/join
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Order your Valley of the Moon(TM) GMO Free, Chemical Free Coffee here:
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Mmmm! Do You Want Your Friendly Food™
Whole or Ground?
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Friendly to You, the Environment, the Workers!
Why Coffee? How are Coffee and Farms and Freedom and Health linked?
Because Natural Solutions Foundation understands that the food we eat is the food we grow and unless we take back – globally – the production of food, there can be no health freedom. Literally.
How does that work? Check out:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=1130#FreedomCup
Remember, when this year’s crop of Valley of the Moon(TM) Coffee is gone, there won’t be any more until next year! Order yours now
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Featured Video
Dr. Laibow Reporting from Europe
Europe is ripe for health freedom because they are loosing their health, food and freedom at an astonishing rate. In some ways, that rate is even faster than the loss of freedoms in the US. Things have gotten so bad here that people are ready to make them right now.
We have been meeting with anti-censorship, food freedom activists, physicians, dentists, patients, vaccine “truthers” and others on a gruelling schedule here in Europe since we arrived about two weeks ago. The consensus is clear: Europe is ready for a strong and effective health freedom movement and we are here to make that happen.
There are organizations here which focus on health freedoms and we will be forging alliances with those that are effective and focused on the solutions, not on internacine warfare and wasting time (that should sound familiar to Health Freedom advocates in the US!) General Bert and I are finding a huge welcome from the people we are meeting with during our fact-finding, private diplomacy mission here in Europe. Click below to see my report on our activities (and stay tuned for the next update).
The report includes our presentation to a 2,000 person anti-censorship gathering in Switzerland and work with videographers and health freedom advocates in Germany. We’ll be discussing the new allignment developing in the EU and how what happens in Europe will effect our freedoms here in the US and the rest of the Americas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmMXIfYZ6AE
We first raised the issue of Weaponized Avian Flu as a real threat to world security last summer. Since then we have revisited the issue as developments warranted.
We questioned how many laboratories around the world had pharmaceutical and gov’t funding for weaponized Avian Flu research, and how many such “studies” were needed to guarantee that a virulent version of the virus would escape containment and lead to a pandemic. That question still remains unanswered.
However we now see that even the most sophisticated pharmaceutical containment systems are not full-proof. And what was the Avian Flu virus doing “accidentally” in the vicinity of vaccines?
We must be clear: we do not know if this “accident” will lead to a world wide flu pandemic. We pray not. But what we want the most is for you all to be prepared.
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Health Freedom Action Webinar
Current Webinars
Natural Solutions Foundation Webinars are live, interactive learning experiences where you’ll hear us, see powerpoint images and be able to ask questions. Webinars are archived for subsequent retrieval.
Be sure to bookmark this page and check it frequently!
Here is a list of some planned or archived Natural Solutions Foundations Webinars:
1. Valley of the Moon Eco Demo Project: FREE – Archived
2. Legal Considerations for CAM Practices / eBook – Archived
3. Protecting your IRA/401 in Land – March
4. Bringing New Natural Products to Market: Legal – April
More information and the archived webinars are available through the links at:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=2002
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What do I recommend today? Just what I recommended a couple of days ago, in our last Action eAlert, before the pandemic risk threat level was so dramatically raised by the Baxter Pharmaceutical “accidental” flu virus contamination of vaccinations —
“I recommend a large dose of HOPE and a fulfillment of PROMISE… the Hope that together we are making a difference… the Promise that we will always try!”
We’ve been in Europe where people are shocked but not surprised about revelations such as the Baxter contamination indictment. Gen. Bert and I presented at the well attended AZK anti censorship coalition conference in Chur, Switzerland weekend before last. Approximately 2000 people filled the City Hall of Chur where leading truth and freedom movement activists and whistleblowers spoke to a rapt crowd. The video report of this conference will be available on line shortly and I’ll let you know when you can watch it.
Corruption in the Economic and Pharmaceutical worlds were detailed by insiders. General Bert and I offered a detailed and comprehensive look at Codex and its Genocidal agenda, past and future.
But what happened after that is really exciting. We see a new alignment developing in the EU! What happens in Europe will effect our freedoms here in the US and the rest of the Americas.
So here is your part: if you are a health freedom supporter in Europe or have language skills that you are willing to volunteer to translate information into various languages, we can share what we know, and learn from our European colleagues as we create the “Natural Solutions Foundation – Europe” organization. If you have friends, relatives and contacts in Europe, please contact them and ask them to visit www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org and sign up for the free, secure and very important Health Freedom Action eAlerts. We will be publishing action steps for those living in Europe as we go forward. And of course, please ask them to join our NSF-EU forum at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NSF-EU/join
Health Freedom Is Our First Freedom, globally! The globalists are trying to destroy it. Let’s “planetize” it!
You can find out more at my video Report from Europe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmMXIfYZ6AE
European Health Freedom Forum for People Interested in Helping to Shape our National and Regional Organization in Europe
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NSF-EU/join
And you can read more about what I recommend:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2183
Please share this health freedom information with your friends and contacts and ask them to help protect food and freedom, too. Let them know that they can get their very free subscription to the Health Freedom Action eAlerts at: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=187
We first raised the issue of Weaponized Avian Flu as a real threat to world security last summer. Since then we have revisited the issue as developments warranted. We questioned how many laboratories around the world had pharmaceutical and gov’t funding for weaponized Avian Flu research, and how many such “studies” were needed to guarantee that a virulent version of the virus would escape containment and lead to a pandemic. That question still remains unanswered. However we now see that even the most sophisticated pharmaceutical containment systems are not full-proof. And what was the Avian Flu virus doing “accidentally” in the vicinity of vaccines?
We must be clear: we do not know if this “accident” will lead to a world wide flu pandemic. We pray not. But what we want the most is for you all to be prepared.
Thanks!
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
PS – don’t forget to buy your nano-silver supplements while you still can. Visit:
www.nutronix.com/naturalsolutions
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
Health Freedom eAlert
February 24, 2009
Welcome! In This Issue:
Things that go bump in the night…
* eAlert Action: eMailing the President & Congress
* Health Freedom Webinars and Webinar Video!
* Video of the Week: Health Freedom is Our First Freedom!
* The General’s Communiqué – Crisis After Crisis
* Dr. Rima Recommends – Save Health Freedom!
Remember: Check our Health Freedom Blog on our website, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org . New items are posted frequently like –
Stimulus Package: Health IT and Health Freedom
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2150
Innovative Medicine Attacked by Monopolists
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2144
Thursday, February 26, 2009
“CAM” Practitioners’ Webinar
Intro Video Here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTCBxute9Gw&
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The General’s Communiqué
Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III
(US Army, Ret.)
Crisis After Crisis…
Remember the “Food Safety Agency” bills (H.R. 875 and S.425) pending in Congress… ” These bills will industrialize all farms and insure the farmers are forced to buy chemicals and drugs. Organic is dead. As well as human control over the food supply. As well as health.” – Linn Cohen-Cole.
Here is the Action Item so you can send an unmistakable message to your representatives in the Senate and the House. Please click your Mouse and take action NOW!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714
The Nano Silver Controversy
As you know, these “food safety” bills are not the only issue we’ve brought to your attention recently. You’re aware of the FDA’s banning of a certain natural form of Vitamin B-6 last month, in a way that puts all dietary ingredients at risk. You’re aware of the effort of some to have the EPA declare topical silver products “unapproved pesticides” and our efforts to send comments to the EPA before the March 20th deadline.
Recently some usually pro-freedom consumer groups have joined the pro-regulator band-wagon regarding EPA banning nano-silver products. Natural Solutions Foundation supports the availability of nano-silver products.
We think what is happening is that some well-meaning people are confusing silver ions with the types of untested GMO (genetically modified organisms) products and new technology nano-products to which we have always urged the application of the Precautionary Principle [that the company offering a truly new technology product is obligated to reasonably substantiate that it is safe for use as directed, and that new products should not be offered to the public without meeting this standard].
We do not think nano-silver products fit that criteria.
All silver products work the same way: they shed silver ions which have germicidal capacity. An ion is a single atom stripped of some of its electrons, leaving it electrically charged. A nano particle is made of many atoms. A nano particle of silver is simply a small chunk of the element, smaller even than the microscopic size silver particles found in the colloidal silver solutions that have been available for nearly two centuries.
Silver has been used safely for utensils for millennia, with traditionally noted germ-suppressing capacity. The uses being questioned by the EPA are substantially equivelent to this traditional use. Supplemental silver has been ingested safely (argyria is not a safety issue!) for nearly two centuries.
Silver products are quite distinct from the GMO or untested nano-particle products to which the Precautionary Principle should apply. Therefore, we urge you to send an appropriate message to the EPA:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26405
You know how much we need your help to continue this fight. Please make your most generous deductibe donation at:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=189
Recurring donations of whatever size, are especially helpful.
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“Mouse Warrior” Action Items
Congress, the President and other decision makers must get your message loud and clear! Now that Health Freedom made it among the Top Ten social issues on Change.org and Change.gov, we are ready to push even harder. That’s where these Health Freedom Action eAlerts make a difference. Please take these actions:
1. Tell Congress “No” on the farm control bills! HR 875 and S.425
We’ve set up an Action Item for you to send an unmistakable message to your representatives in the Senate and the House. We must educate Congress that you do not want organic and small farmers regulated out of existence.
You do not want “Big Agra” regulations, perhaps necessary to protect the public when dealing with large scale agra business, applied to organic and small family farms and ranches or to natural and organic food products including Dietary Supplements.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714
2. Tell the President about Change: Health Freedom is Our First Freedom
You made “Health Freedom Is Our First Freedom” one of the top 10 items on America’s mind with your votes to Change.org. Now we have to make that message resonate throught the White House halls.
Will the new President listen? Only if we tell him, in our hundreds of thousands! We need your help in making this campaign “go viral” to “infect” the Internet with health freedom! Please forward to your entire list and ask them to ACT NOW!
Click here to tell President Obama that we want real change — which means more freedom and choice in our lives, not more control over needed medical treatments by yet another overblown, impossible to approach Federal bureaucracy!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26671
Click to send an Open Letter to the President
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2096
3. Right to Use ~ Right to Choose Use Nano Silver
Thanks to Mouse Warriors, the Deadline for Comments has been extended to March 20, 2009 by the EPA. We won that skirmish, but the war is still raging.
Retain the Right to Choose Nano Silver. Tell EPA Not to topical Ban Nano Silver of Any Type. Whether you use Nano Silver or not (and we certainly do!), let’s make sure that we have the right to make that choice!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26405
Want to know more? Read Defending Nano Silver :
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=1773
4. Divest FDA/USDA of Food Regulation Authority
– and all government agencies of their often misused power to deny us access to wholesome nutrition and natural remedies. Protect Food from FDA/USDA Regulation!
Congress is about to create a new agency for “Food Safety”. Our analysis is that it will be worse than both FDA and USDA combined. We need to get food out of Federal hands, and quickly. Just think what the new farm bills, coupled with a new industry-controlled, agency will do to your food, your health and your freedom. Having contemplated that horrific outcome, take action and ask everyone you know to do the same.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26314
5 . Please join the Natural Solutions Foundation’s new Food and Farming Yahoo!Groups forum.
Check it out at:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/natural-solutions-food-and-farming/
And here’s an invitation to join our other very active and informative forums:
NO to GMO
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/no-genetically-modified-foods/join
No Forced Vaccinations
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/no-forced-vaccination/join
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What Does Freedom in a Cup™
Taste Like? – www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org
Mmmm! Do You Want Your Friendly Food ™
Whole or Ground?
Valley of the Moon™ Coffee is Certified Friendly Food™
Friendly to You, the Environment, the Workers!
Why Coffee? How are Coffee and Farms and Freedom and Health linked?
Because Natural Solutions Foundation understands that the food we eat is the food we grow and unless we take back – globally – the production of food, there can be no health freedom. Literally.
How does that work? Check out www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org to learn more and get involved. And while you are doing it, try sipping and supporting. Do both at www.Valley of the MoonCoffee.org
Sipping Valley of the Moon Coffee, our first Certified Friendly Food, produced by the Natural Solutions Foundation in our quest to find solutions to the problems farmers try to solve by using dangerous chemicals, and then teach others to produce wholesome products for their markets – that’s us, in this case, the coffee drinkers. More foods – and techniques for clean foods – to come.
Supporting because each bag you buy (or sell – see below) supports the work of the Natural Solutions Foundation. You see, we work on many fronts at the same time and we need your support to protect your freedoms.
Bert and I are in Europe this week to participate in some documentary filming on the Codex/Health Freedom battle and present “The Genocidal Feast” to a large and important meeting in Switzerland.
This Powerpoint presentation is available on a free webinar:
http://vital-connection.com/health-freedom-action-webinar/
Your coffee purchases and donations at www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org help make trips like this possible. And the next trip, of course, is to Codex. We’ll need to fill up the coffers a bit so that we do not miss this next, important, meeting in Canada this coming Spring the way we missed the Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) in South Africa late last year.
I forgot a word in my list, true, you can sip and support, but you will find that we should add “savor” to the list.
EVERYONE who has tasted our Valley of the Moon™ Coffee agrees that it is outstanding. www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org
1. For each donation of $25 we’ll say “Thank you!” with an 8 oz bag (plus shipping) of Valley of the Moon™ Coffee AND a $20 tax deduction certificate. Order 4 or more bags to the same address and we’ll throw in the shipping.
2. Order a minimum of 2 bags of coffee per month (no donation credit) for $19.95 per 8 oz bag (plus shipping) we will send your coffee to your cup!
3. Your organization, shop or store can sell Valley of the Moon Coffee™ Coffee as a fund raiser or great “customer pleaser”. Contact Gail Coba, marketplaceinfo@gmail.com
To find out how! Visit www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org
now and get some of the best coffee you’ve ever tried while you support the Natural Solutions Foundation. And while you savor Health Freedom in a Cup(TM)
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Video of “Health Freedom is Our First Freedom”
Counsel’s Corner
Ralph Fucetola, JD
Part of the battle for our health and freedom is through our food. But the issues are even more complex, as you know if you have been following our Health Freedom Action eAlerts and Health Freedom Blog for any time.
I was honored to address a Health Freedom Rally in New Jersey recently and was able to share the current state of the battle with the Health Freedom Advocates (and perhaps the infiltrators there.
The resulting two part film is an educational tool which I invite you to watch and share widely. My new 2 part video made while I informed other health freedom advocates at a Health Freedom Rally – Hunterdon Central High, Flemington, NJ can be seen now at:
http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2009/02/health-freedom-is-our-first-freedom.html
Now that you have watched it, please send this video, and this Health Freedom Action e Alert, to your entire list.
Let people know that they can sign up for their own copies of the Health Freedom Action e Alert at http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=187 . This information needs to become a “Freedom Virus” and we, the Mouse Warriors, can make that happen.
CAM Practitioners Webinar
And if you are an “alternative” practitioner (what I like to call an “advanced healthcare” practitioner, please check out the Webinar I wll be hosting this Thursday night, February 26, 2009,8 PM EST. Live attendees will have a chance to ask questions, and the Webinar will be archived for later viewing.
You can see a short video about the Webinar at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTCBxute9Gw&
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Health Freedom Action Webinar
Current Webinars
Webinars are a new, efficient and entertaining learning experience. We’re bringing together experts who can provide valuable information, practical advice and leading-edge knowledge. They will be teaching about discovering, demonstrating an implementing natural solutions. Here are some of the initial Webinars you are invited to attend on the Internet. (details below):
1. Valley of the Moon Eco Community: Free – Archived
http://vital-connection.com/health-freedom-action-webinar/
2. Ethical Considerations for CAM Practitioners
Live Online – $99 – 02/26/09
Want to know more?
Watch this Video Introduction
to this ground breaking course:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTCBxute9Gw&
Sign up here:
http://vital-connection.com/ethical-legal-considerations-course-february-26th-2009/
3. Protecting your IRA – Sustainable Living
Live Online – $49 – 03/07/09
4. Bringing New Natural Products to Market – April
Webinar updates
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=2002
Be sure to bookmark this page and check it frequently!
Our Webinars are live, interactive learning experiences where you’ll hear us, see powerpoint images and be able to ask questions. Webinars are archived for subsequent retreival.
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Dr. Rima Recommends:
What do I recommend today?
1. Click here to send this open letter to President Obama and your Congressmen and Women:
The President:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26671
Congress:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714
2. Click here to support the Natural Solutions Foundation, you health freedom champions. Wait a bit and there may be nothing left to defend. Remember, the “Stimulus Plan” makes any medical care which is not approved by the new Super Bureaucracy in Health And Human Services a forbidden treatment or option.
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=189
3. Click here to send a strong message to Congress that the so-called “Health Care Reforms” in the Stimulus Bill are unconstitutional and violate your rights. Therefore, they MUST be repealed in favor of legislation which memorializes you right to control your body and your health choices. Anything less is catastrophic and will mean that your options can only be exercised off shore in the near future.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714
Are you prepared to surrender your right to natural health to Codex, to President Obama and to the Pharmaceutical corporations? If you are, please, please do nothing.
Oh, by they way, your reproductive rights are next. Here is what is happening in the Netherlands. If Holland goes, can the US be far behind?
Bert and I presented at the AZK anti censorship coalition conference in Chur, Switzerland. Approximately 2000 filled the City Hall of Chur where leading truth and freedom movement activists and whistleblowers spoke to a rapt crowd. Corruption in the Economic and Pharmaceutical worlds were detailed by insiders. General Bert and I offered a detailed and comprehensive look at Codex and its Genocidal agenda, past and future.
Look for the video of our presentation… it will be posted soon!
We’re also discussing the creation of an EU Natural Solutions Foundation, with a leading European Constitutional Attorney and Law Professor — how to create the petition to reopen EU policy on natural supplements, food, herbs, medicine and Codex.
One million signatures needed in EU, 50K signatures needed in Switzerland , and we have allies from all of the continent who will work with us to bring this petition forward. The EU has strong recall provisions which we lack in the US but it would be very helpful to our side to detach the EC from the “rear” of the US in its slavish support of the policies of the Bigs (Big Pharma, Big Agra, Big Chema, Big Finance and Big Govt) which the US brings forward on every Codex issue.
Only on GMOs does the EU differ from the US, and that rift has been meaningful up to now. We want more rifts, bigger rifts, better rifts!
Perhaps we want the EU out of Codex. We shall see what the Constitutional Law Professor has to say when he advises us.And we will, of course, advise you!
Do we want a European presence for the Natural Solutions Foundation, just as we have an African and a Panamanian? Of course we do! And that, too, will be part of the discussion. We are building for Global Health Freedom at the same time that the other side is destroying for global health fascism.
Which side are YOU on? Where is your support? Of course it is with freedom. Now, check at least one of the boxes below to know what you want to do to build the momentum and power of the health freedom movement over the next 7 days:
[ ] 1. I want to become a community organizer. Email dr.laibow@gmail.com (with Organize in the subject line) and Kathy will send you an Organizer’s Handbook to help you get started
[ ] 2. Click here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/natural-solutions-food-and-farming/ to join the food freedom forum
[ ] 3. Click on each Action Item in this email!
[ ] 4. Click here to sign up for health freedom webinars:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=2002
[ ] 5. Click here: ralph.fucetola@usa.net, to propose your webinar topic so that we can share the wisdom and skill of our community with other health freedom advocates (put “Webinar” in the subject line).
[ ] 6. Click here: gail@marketplaceinfo.com, to let us know about a product you want to introduce our membership to on our Natural Solutions foundation Marketplace, www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org
[ ] 7. Click here: dr.laibow@gmail.com, to volunteer your skills and services for health freedom. What do you do best? We need that skill! (“Volunteer” in the subject line).
[ ] 8. Click here: www.Valleyofthemooncoffee.org, to sell our coffee as a Health Freedom Fundraiser through your church, school or club.
[ ] 9. Donate to the strongest, most pro-active global health freedom organization in the world and protect your own health freedom. Click here to make your tax deductible donation. If you’ve given before, thanks. If you haven’t what are you waiting for? The other side isn’t waiting to take your freedoms away.
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=189
[ ] 10. Disseminate, Disseminate, Disseminate! In activism, there are only two options: have enough money or have enough people to bring your point of view forward compellingly. Well, we have people. You have more people. And they have yet more people.
Please be aware of what all these people have accomplished already. Like stopping the ’06 anti-CAM FDA guidance; like keeping the DSHEA protective language in the ’07 FDA bill… Never lose heart!
It is up to us to make sure that the forces which are rapidly trying to destroy our food, our fertility and our freedoms do not succeed. We are, after all, free men and women who own our own bodies and we must vigorously protect that ownership.
So the time has come. Paul Revere is swinging his lantern. You are on the winning side, but you must act, and act and act. Now.
I am proud to be associative with the Natural Solutions Foundation and I know you are, too. Let’s take that pride and manifest it as power: the Power to Speak Truth and Manifest Freedom – Health Freedom
Please share this health freedom information with your friends and contacts and ask them to help protect food and freedom, too. Let them know that they can get their very free subscription to the Health Freedom Action eAlerts at http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=187.
Thanks!
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
PS – don’t forget to buy your nano-silver supplements at:
Think GMOs don’t impact you because you grow 100% of your own food in a closed environment greenhouse to control all pollination? Think again. If you live in the US, your world is being reshaped in the image of Monsanto. If you don’t like that image, get your head out of the sand in your greenhouse and get busy defending both the American value system and your food, along with your society, from this malign influence.
And, if you tend to think that the Federal Government won’t let this happen, recall that Secretary of Agriculture Vilsek is a Monsanto man.
This kind of atrocity is just fine with the GMO-friendly Federal Government which clearly cannot be trusted to regulate our food. It is imperative to divest the FDA and USDA of their food regulatory responsibilities and get food regulation back into the hands of those of us who eat the food, at the State level. Click here, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/112/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26405, to tell Congress to get the Federal Government out of our pantries and off our dinner plates before these agencies do even more harm.
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Monsanto Investigator in Illinois Laughs They Are Doing ‘Rural Cleansing’
by Linn Cohen-Cole
www.opednews.com
As of last night, a US marshal, 2 state police and a county police are all over Mr. Hixon’s area, serving notices to farmers that they are being sued by Monsanto. They arrive in pairs, with two cars parked a quarter mile and half mile down the road. They’ve served 3 so far and said “a bunch more are coming.” No telling how many will be served since Hixon has between 200-400 farmers he cleans seeds for and these farmers have been repeatedly threatened by Monsanto thugs for the last two months, getting “visits,” letters, and calls daily.
Farmers report that a Monsanto investigator laughed that they were doing “rural cleansing.”
Steve Hixon is a seed cleaner in southern Illinois. He has equipment that takes the plant materials and “cleans” it so that the seeds are separated out and can be given back to farmers to save for the next season. It’s a mechanized step up from farmers hand picking seeds off their own plants, which, with hundreds of acres – or even 10 – would not be easy to do.
Mr. Hixon has the non-distinction of being attacked by Monsanto. He is far from alone. Monsanto has been picking off seed cleaners across the Midwest, having already done its thuggish thing in Pilot Grove, Missouri, and in Indiana, attacking Maurice Parr, destroying business for all of them.
Mr. Parr reports that when he was sued, the first think out of the judge said was how “honored to have a fine company like Monsanto in my courtroom.”
“Shortly after someone broke into Mr. Hixon’s office and he found his account book on his truck seat where he would never have left it, evey one of his remotely located and very scattered customers had three men (described as goons with “no necks”) arrived at each farm, going out onto it without permission … Mr. Hixon and state police who were called in, believe a GPS tracking device may have been put on Mr. Hixon’s equipment.” Click here.
In 2002, when Mr. Hixon was at the state legislature for a meeting, he said he told a Monsanto representative there, “If you guys wnt to tak over the seed industry so bad, you ought to buy guys like me out.” The Monsanto agent is supposed to have responded “We’d rather put you out of business, it’s more fun that way.”
Mr. Hixon says that when he is cleaning seeds, he is pouring $13,000 a hour into the local economy, which right now is being hit. A fence company has gone out of business and other businesses are in trouble. And in using seeds that have been cleaned, those seeds have carbon footprint, by Mr. Hixon’s figures, less than a fraction of 1% of that of GMO seeds delivered over 1000s of miles at 5 miles a gallon that semis require to run.
But Monsanto’s GM-soy and other seeds have a much heavier carbon footprint that the absurd transport of seed across the country by semis. Petroleum-based pesticides are the essence of genetic engineering, and Monsanto has a poorly known history of their relation to warfare.
“Huge excesses of nitrogenous compounds that accumulated during World War I provided the basis for the beginnings of the mass production of synthetic nitrate fertilizers. DuPont — now the sole owner of the world’s largest seed company, Pioneer HiBred — was the largest manufacturer of gunpowder in the United States during the early 19th century and the first World War. Monsanto increased its profits 100 fold during the World War, from $80,000 to well over $9 million per year, supplying the chemical precursors for high explosives such as TNT.
“In the 1930s, chemists working for the German company Bayer discovered the highly poisonous properties of organophosphate compounds. …. As all of German industry became absorbed into the growing Nazi war machine, Bayer’s organophosphate compounds were developed simultaneously as agricultural pesticides and as nerve gases for military use. These included such notorious chemical warfare agents as sarin, soman and tabun gases, all of which are still manufactured today. …
“In the 1930s, scientists at the Swiss J. R. Geigy Company were searching for new compounds to disinfect seeds and prevent moths from feeding on wool. … These researchers’ key discovery was that DDT … could accomplish both of their desired ends and more. … DDT was seen as the “atom bomb of insecticides,” capable of permanently eliminating various pest species.
“After World War II, DDT became the most widely applied chemical in human history …. The widespread use of DDT — for both agricultural and household uses — led to a dramatic shift in the chemical industry’s approach to pest control … was in many ways a direct outgrowth of its wartime origins. …
“During the 1960s, Monsanto was a leading manufacturer of the herbicide ‘Agent Orange,’ which was used by U.S. military forces to obliterate the dense jungles of Vietnam. Today Monsanto’s Roundup-family herbicides play a central role in the U.S. “drug war” via its widespread use to eradicate coca and poppy plants in Colombia and other countries….”
The shift to genetically engineered food seems a welcome change from such a history. But it appears there has been no change, only a more thorough and disguises means of ensuring its sales.
“Of all of Monsanto, DuPont and Dow’s agricultural products, genetically engineered food crops might appear to be the least tainted with immediate wartime origins. But this technology emerged from a period when the future of chemical agriculture appeared very much in doubt. With the rapid expansion of the agrochemical industry during the post-World War II era, these companies and their European counterparts had established a profound degree of control over agricultural practices. But as public pressure and the weight of scientific evidence curtailed the use of DDT and many other chlorinated pesticides in the 1970s, executives and corporate scientists saw the potential for limitless advances — and ever-expanding marketing potential — in the incorporation of technological advances into the genetics of seeds. During the 1990s, Monsanto alone spent nearly $8 billion acquiring leading commercial seed suppliers in the United States and internationally; DuPont and others quickly followed suit, leading to today’s widespread proliferation of genetically engineered food crops.” Click here.
Today, in Illinois, our federal agents and police, working on behalf of Monsanto, are terrorizing … whom? Drug dealers? Financiers who have stolen this country blind? The people who took us to war based on lies and have profited while thousands of American and 100s of thousands of Iraqi have died? No. Our tax dollars are being used to turn our marshals and police into Monsanto agents to terrorize our disappearing farmers.
Terror is palpable in rural America. It defines American farming communities now.
Monsanto, with its history of warfare and creating chemicals to “cleanse” both enemies and agricultural pests of any area desired, appears to bring this power and method of thinking to all it touches.
“Rural cleansing” is its stated goal, and our farmers the pests to be eliminated.
Where is the Illinois ACLU? Where is Amnesty?