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An Ounce of Prevention....Gosh! We Need Help Now!!!
Help is needed now.
Divine help.
I am feeling like Frances Scott Key
right now, the dawn before he saw
the fireworks and knew we were o.k.
Our nation is in desperate straits this
early morning.
It is still dark outside.
We are in a National Health Care
and Healthy Food Safety Crisis,
and most of us do not know it.
#HR 2749 will likely be heard from
July 28. Watch this historic moment
on C-Span, and call your reps.
The food you are eating is at steak,
even for Vegans.
"The FDA is presently recommending that the U.S.
harmonize with Codex standards, and it seems
they would prefer to apply those standards within the U.S.
as well as for international trade.(It is more
than likely that we will have no choice in the matter
once we are signed on to Codex.)"
Sharrhan Williamson — Boston, Massachusetts Area
Codex Action Committee
Date: 7/29/2009 6:30:41 AM ( 15 y ) ... viewed 1933 times
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin,
Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
US author, diplomat, inventor,
physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)
Update
Found one more
appropriate qauote
from Founding Father of
America, BEN FRANKLIN
appropriate to this moment.
uploaded
8:43 AM
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5:18 AM
July 28, 09
Just got this petition from Care2 in my emails
This is pro #2747.
I am against it after two weeks of solid
study on this.
Here is the Pro #2749.
Anyone can do a petition on
Care2:
This petition with more than 5,000 signatures,
only touches the surface.. I wonder who wrote this...
Dear Leslie,
After the recent scare with tainted peanut butter, the American people learned that the FDA hadn't visited the Georgia plant that produced the tainted peanut products since 2001, and never visited the company's Texas facility, where salmonella was also found.
Tell your Representative and Senators to pass a strong food safety bill quickly – before another food contamination outbreak »
Congress could be voting later today on the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, which would prevent food poisoning by requiring frequent inspections of food processing plants, new standards for growing lettuce, company plans to prevent contamination, registration fees to help cover the cost of safety work, and tough fines on those who dodge rules and put Americans at risk.
We can't wait for food safety reform. Sign the petition today. »
Thank you for taking action!
Natasha
Care2 Campaign Team
4:30 AM
July 28, 09
Benjamin Franklin once said, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." What would this founding father think about our nation's current health care system, where the focus is on disease care rather than health, on paying bills and shifting costs rather than on preventing disease and dealing with the chronic conditions that are affecting more and more of our nation's population? Where insurance will pay for quadruple bypass heart surgery but not to encourage healthy behaviors that could prevent heart disease? He might say, as he did at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." In other words, Divided We Fail.
The time has come for the U.S. to put prevention into practice. Disease prevention can enable us to improve the quality of life for millions of people and make health care affordable. Our government, our businesses, and perhaps most importantly, we ourselves must make disease prevention paramount. We need a society that values and rewards healthy eating habits, healthy exercise, and healthy choices in our daily lives.
http://www.aarp.org/issues/dividedwefail/about_issues/an_once_of_prevention_i...
RELATED BLOG
Urgent! Food Safety Law #HR 2749--Vote No now
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1463553
THE DEATH OF THE DIVERSIFIED FARM
Small Farmer Warns “HR2749 Will Put Me Out of Business”
By Kimberly Hartke | Published: July 24, 2009
http://hartkeisonline.com/2009/07/24/small-farmer-warns-hr2749-will-put-me-ou...
THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE
ON AGRICULTURE, another URL from
the incredible
from GOVTRACK.us
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/committee.xpd?id=HSAG
IT's ABOUT TRADE
THIS LAW is here to make FOOD SAFE FOR WHO????
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1452740
INTERESTING FIND
The early morning of the day
that it is anticipated that HR 2749
will come up for 40 minutes.
The cost of implementing this?
2 Billion, by the way.
The question has come up in discussion on the Internet that H.R. 2749 will bind U.S. farmers to the standards of the Codex Alimentarius and the dictates handed down by the international Codex Alimentarius Commission. [Codex Alimentarius is Latin for “food code” or “food book”].
“The word ‘Codex’ doesn’t appear in the bill,” said Kennedy. “But there is a provision in there that information can be shared. There’s talk about harmonizing standards, and there’s language that says information that’s exempt from the Freedom of Information Act can still be shared by another country that the U.S. has a treaty with.” [pp. 83-86 of the Waxman amendment]
“There’s language about harmonizing standards,” Kennedy continued, “So while there’s nothing that specifically mentions Codex, when you’re talking about ‘harmonization of standards’ – that sounds like the Codex to me.”
Half optimistic, half not -- Kennedy called attention to the online petition on his group’s website.
“There’s still time to defeat H.R. 2749,” he said. “There’s an online petition people can sign – and they can add a message. But they need to phone too. They need to talk to someone in their representative’s office.”
HOUSE SET TO VOTE ON FAST-TRACKED “FOOD-SAFETY” BILL
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news156.htm
4:45 AM
I find this searching
for THE WHEEL OF HEALTH
I included this about this July 2, two
days before July 4, 2009
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/codexalimentarius15jan09.shtml
Uploaded
9 PM
July 2,
two days before July 4, 2009
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1448838
Sharrhan Williamson — Boston, Massachusetts Area
Codex Action Committee
The problem with U.S. membership in NAFTA and CAFTA
is that all the trading countries have to be on the same page,
in lockstep, accepting the same standards and regulations.
This is the purpose of the Codex Alimentarius Commission:
to standardize all regulations, resulting
in product policies that are more convenient
and more profitable for trade interests but that work
against consumers' interests. Under Codex,
American sovereignty is lost, at least for international
trade purposes, and the WTO will make rulings based upon
Codex standards rather than Congress
and/or other government agencies.
The FDA is presently recommending that the U.S.
harmonize with Codex standards, and it seems
they would prefer to apply those standards within the U.S.
as well as for international trade.(It is more
than likely that we will have no choice in the matter
once we are signed on to Codex.)
The recent actions of Congress (bills that threaten DSHEA)
lead me to think they have a similar agenda.
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1209704
WHO DOES THE CONSUMER UNION WORK FOR?
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/673377770?z00m=19779689
SOUND SCIENCE IS KILLING US
JOEL SALATIN
http://naturefinder.net/April04_Salatin.pdf
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