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THIS IS THE LINK TO THE
VERSION THAT WILL BE SENT TO
THE HUFFINGTON POST THIS MORNING
of September 30, 2010
CHEWING ON FOOD SAFTY:
A NATIONAL CONVERSATION IS NEEDED
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1697407
L TO R, Mark Victor Hansen, Keep The Beet Media Star,
The Worlds FIrst Talking Beet Plant, and Regina Jensen,
editor of Space of Love Magazine. I want to thank Regina Jensen
for editing Version #7 here of Chewing On Food Safety:
A National Conversation is Needed. This edition
was edited,
September 29, 2010 11:24:25 PM PDT
VERSIONS OF
CHEWING ON FOOD SAFETY:
A NATIONAL CONVERSATION IS NEEDED
PHOTOS TO GET THE POINT ACROSS ABOUT
KEEP THE BEET
Keep The Beet Media Star
with R Paige Donner, who blogged first
about Keep The Beet on the Huffington Post
December 2008 when she heard her
at Hollywood Goes Green
COMMENTS
On Sep 30, 2010, at 9:06 AM, gvutetakis@aol.com wrote:
Hi Leslie,
Send me the link on the Huff Post when you get it up. The message is strong and clear, unfortunately the little guys are easy targets. Whether small businesses follow the rules or not, they tend not to have a large enough voice. Under the Reagan tax cuts, taxes at my restaurant went up $500 a month the first day they were in place. I keep focused on the positive healing and nurturing effects of food at home, in schools and at the farmers markets. We can change these things on a generational level, but there will be casualties on the way. Thank you for being a voice worth listening to.
The link opened fine.
All the best,
George
George Vutetakis
Author of Vegetarian Traditions
http://www.thevegetarianguy.com
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1699086
Chewing On Food Safety:
A National Conversation is Needed
By Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener
If beets could talk, and in my life they do, most of what is happening in Washington right now regarding food safety sounds certifiably nuts. I hear that we now have about 2% of the population controlling most of our money. One of the easiest ways to control the rest of us is to control our food supply. From the looks of it, large multi-national interests, big corporations and legislators who have never been inside a health food store, to their local farmers’ market, or grown a beet themselves, are given the rest of us indigestion.
Food safety laws that were being discussed on the hill during September - S.510 and S.3767- may be history, but the issues remain. We need a national conversation about food that is making us sick, and ask each other: Why? Most of us do not know how to eat. This plays into the hands of those who would dictate food policy. We need a moment of awakening. We need to regain our beat with nature. We need to have some relationship with healthy soil and growing things.
From a beet’s point of view, food was never meant to be a commodity. Food was never meant to be a force in the political arena to restrict people from foods they feel they need for natural health. Food was never meant to be in the hands of large industrial growers who prefer to have fewer people growing food. They rely more on drugs and chemicals to provide a poor imitation of what nature had in mind.
What Washington knows about food has no ground from a beet’s point of view. The cornerstone of authentic food safety is first of all, growing some of your own food, and second, having a personal relationship with the farmers growing the rest of your food. This is an ideal. How many of us live in places like San Diego where we can grow food 12 months of the year and get to know more than 100 local farmers by name?
At the bottom end of the scale of food growers are the micro farmers - small food growers - and everywhere now, from New York City to the West, people are returning to food growing. Micro farmers, in a truly healthy food safe economy need to be encouraged, yet currently they are falling between the cracks. For authentic food safety, we need more food growers, more gardeners and farmers, not less. We are being called to be a nation of gardeners. This is essential if we want to return to true food safety.
Micro farmers and gardeners growing on less than a few acres live by other codes. They grow food that is labor intensive. The 15% of people who still micro-farm are part of that tradition. Modern conventional food and its PR are ensuring a growing climate in America that is not good for small growers.
Take as an example the case of Barry Logan,
who had a final harvest celebration September 18, 2010. Barry Logan, with the help of his live-in community, served San Diego for seven years with fresh food. I am talking about food that can turn health around. He sold food at three farmers’ markets. His customers were his regulators. He had been running La Milpa Organica Farm as a social experiment, as an open university. He farmed on a small field, organically. His workers were from around the world. His customers became friends and he would invite them to the farm for potlucks and pizza each month. That life does not exist any more on that land.
He broke a lot of rules: Workman’s Compensation codes, tax codes,
and numerous other regulations. Enough of the larger organic farmers can live within these rules, and do; and yet, our laws are out of touch for the most part with what it takes to grow quality real food that is safe food. Safe food, healthy food, and food safety are not on the same plate.
Do local farmers really need more red tape? Truly Big Ag does. Logan believes micro small growers should not be regulated. A system of labor intensive farming that has existed for 10,000 years is butting heads with legislators, regulators, and regulations who would benefit from on the farm training at a La Milpa Organica Farm Open University. The farm is gone. But we can still learn from it.
Shift happened. We are now being asked to be stars in a real-life Rock Your Soul Opera by Keep The Beet Media Star called Beet Keepers, Return! Can you hear the “beet”? Yes, people can die from contaminated food. But regulations without a healthy conversation create more illness, not less.
Nature’s original technology is here to stay on
an Enchanted Garden planet. We can grow 1000 years of peace in harmony with nature if we begin now to regain our beat with nature. Gloria Estefan sang, “Turn the Beat Around!” Truly, to reform food safety, we are asked to turn the beet around. Small size growers are part of nature’s original technology - and healthy legislators should be too. High tech and GMO’s give us the option to have fewer people on the farm; they need a thorough vetting. A true dialogue between science, ethics, and food is coming into focus. Indeed, we are only now beginning to understand the true meaning of food safety.
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BIO NOTE - short
Leslie Goldman, AKA Your Enchanted Gardener, is the ultimate gardener planting seeds for super ripe people and their dreams. His companion is Keep The Beet Media Star, the world’s first talking beet plant. They write on the Plant Your Dream Blog on Curezone.com. He received a U.N. Peace Medal in 1984 for the work he would do in his life.
BIO NOTE - longer version
Leslie Goldman, AKA Your Enchanted Gardener, is the ultimate gardener planting seeds for super ripe people and their dreams. The Ultimate Gardener, published by HCI in 2009, authored by Charlie Nardozzi, a consultant on the White House Organic Garden, morphed from a “Seed Dream” from Leslie to publisher Peter Vegso. Leslie’s companion is Keep The Beet Media Star, the world’s first talking beet plant. The beet’s message is that we can each grow our own food, starting with growing a local, organic beet in a pot. Keep the beet. Eat the beet greens.” Her celebrity began in the Huffington Post in December 2008 when Blogger Paige Donner heard her say at Hollywood Goes Green, “I am committed to create a nation of gardeners.” She writes her own column with a little help in the international Space of Love Magazine. A little bit of humor, during these times of turning our beet around with nature, is good medicine, she says. Her latest project is her Rock Your Soul Opera called Beet Keepers, Return! She is calling forth new stars to root the dream of the Enchanted Garden Era, 1000 years of peace. They write on the Plant Your Dream Blog on Curezone.com.
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SPECIAL THANKS
THIS VERSION #7
of CHEWING ON FOOD SAFETY
was added
September 29, 2010
right before midnight.
It was edited Regina Jensen
of Space of Love Magazine
7:40 am
September 29, 2010
I am learning how to use Microsoft Word this morning.
I generally write directly into my blog here on Curezone,
but my first attempt to send in a blog ended up with all kinds
of strange marks and symbols. This may happen when
I copy from my curezone blog to Microsoft Word.
The Huffington Post Blog needs to be between 500 and 1000 words.
I like that there is a way to get a word count. This helps me,
however, it is cause me to write and then cut out too many good
paragraphs.
I am going to put my various editions here, so I do not
lose the work. I have not figured out another way yet to
save paragraphs I may want to keep.
Here is the one version...
EARLIER VERSION
WRITTEN YESTERDAY
EARLIER VERSION,
WRITTEN SEPTEMBER 28
A NATIONAL CONVERSATION IS NEEDED NOW
BEFORE PASSING FOOD SAFETY LAWS
Right now in Washington, some would like us to imagine that food safety bills such as the still alive S.3767, The Food Safety Accountability Act, or last week’s S.510, The Food Safety Modernization Act, are non controversial, yet all over the internet bloggers are working night and day to point out problems with the passage of these Food Safety bills. S.510 stalled out a few times in recent weeks, but this new bill, S. 3767 was still alive as of Monday September 28.
Food safety needs to be a conversation as vitally discussed as health reform. This is no time to rush legislation into law. This is a time to open a national conversation on what is safe food and food safety as well as to vet the FDA, the lead agency whose authority would increase through the passage of these highly controversial food safety laws.
Safe food is a core value wanted by everyone who eats; yet is the remedy for food safety to pass legislation that would fail to debug an ill regulated food safety system?
We have reached a moment through the internet when each of us are called to participate in government. We have voice. Our voice is being heard and influences legislators. We each have as much to say to determine the fate of the quality of our food supply through our numbers, as much as others behind the scenes who influence the fate our our food supply through those they help elect.
Currently the FDA and USDA have many regulations that are not enforced. Such was the case in the recent egg recalls. These same agencies apply regulations to small micro growers and people who want to the right
to purchase food that is whole, pure and in its raw state and raw if that is their choice.
The issue might not come up if those who want natural medicines were not an economic force, a potential thorn in the side of those who want a more conventional approach to medicine that values pharmaceutical drugs or industrialized food. Those who want local, fresh, organic food
are also made causing the future of food to be unsafe for multinational influences that may have other agendas now percolating down
into U.S. food safety legislation.
The new Food Safety laws would increase FDA authority. Some call the bills “FDA on the farm” because of the increased regulations it would give over small farmers who are already Regulated thorugh the USDA Organic Standards.
Is it really time to increase the regulatory powers to an FDA when the agency and the USDA have shown themselves unwilling to apply regulations to manage contaminations that are already under their jurisdiction? Many see the FDA backing unsound health reform. Many see the FDA as a biased agency beholding to vested corporate interests who have funded the research they enforce.
Look at FDA history current and recent. The FDA backed GMO’s. They bought us growth hormones in milk that are rebuked in Europe. The FDA was embroiled in the recent GE salmon controversy. They oppose GE labeling. They say its O.K. to put mercury in our mouths, yet the dangers of amalgams are widely known. The National Health Federation reports, “In many states, including Connecticut, mercury fillings are treated as hazardous waste once they’re removed from a tooth.
Then there is Aspartame. Many say it is a neuro toxin. Then there is BPA, is a common addition to most every can. BPA is approved by the FDA yet cites as a poison.
A 10,000 year system of labor intensive farming is butting heads with legislators who would benefit from on the farm training.
Local Farmers, one recently in my own city of San Diego—a city where we can grow enough food 12 months a year to feed ourselves and export to others, are shutting down because they cannot grow food in the climate of regulations as they now stand. More regulations will increase with the passage of Food Safety laws—unless they are amended.
Legislators, before voting on food safety laws, need to spend time talking to local organic farmers such as Barry Logan of La Milpa Organica Farm.
His position is that his customers are his regulators. Legislators need to know what it takes to grow real food grown from healthy soil. How does a community come together and live together in light of so many local, state, and federal regulations that are contrary to the laws of nature?
Farmers’ Markets are a burgeoning multi-million industry now vetted by the USDA and local Ag authorities. Do local farmers
Really need more red tape? Truly Big Ag does.
They are out of touch with food and its intent to help ground dreams.
Shift happened. Many of us now realize that the world is no longer the ground we knew a few years ago. Truly people are dying from contaminated food, yet more regulations now without open conversation will only create more breakdown.
What is the cost of new proposed laws?
Dr. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma was one senator
Wo raised the question and said no to S.510 September 13.
What is being asked of us?
Is it not a return to growing some of our own food, even a little food in a pot that we might regain our beat with nature?
Are we not being asked to know personally
The farmers growing the rest of our food?
Local organic food grown by small farmers
Is the cornerstore of food safety and the foundation for authentic earth based Home Land Security. We will have authentic food safety when we stop giving corporate interests and International bodies such as the USDA Codex
Alimentarius Commission, and the ill informed
FDA the upper hand.
Nature’s Original Technology is here to stay.
Our ideas of High Tech and GMO applied to farming need to leave. Truly, we are only beginning to talk and come to an understanding of food safety.
##
9:53 pm
September 28, 2010
9:22 am--1000 words or so
A National Conversation is Needed Now About
Food Safety
By Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener
If a beet could talk, and in my life she does, most of what is happening in Washington right now regarding food safety is certifiably nuts. I hear that we now have about 2% of the population controlling most of our money. One of the easiest ways to control the rest of us is to control our food supply. From the looks of it, large multi-national interests, corporate greed, and senators and reps who have never been inside a health food store, to their local farmers’ market, or grown a beet themselves, are given the rest of us indigestion.
Food safety laws, that were being discussed on the hill during September—S.510 and S.3767-- may be history, but the issue remains, we need a national conversation about the food that is making us sick. Most of us simply do not know how to eat. This plays into the hands of those who would dictate food policy. We need a moment of awakening. We need to regain our beat with nature. We need to have some relationship with healthy soil and growing things.
From a beet’s point of view, food was never meant to be a commodity. Food was never meant to be a force in the political arena that can be used to restrict people from getting the kind of foods they need to be healthy. Food was never meant to be in the hands of large industrial growers who prefer to have fewer people growing food. They rely more on drugs and chemicals to provide a mere facsimile
of what nature had in mind.
What is food is intended to do for us? I suggest we can each find out when start to grow a beet in a pot. Your beet may very well start talking to you, as my beet, called Keep The Beet Media Star, The World’s First Talking Beet Plant, talks to me.
Food not talk to you? Start by eating a Sunday Brunch of bagels, lox, coffee, dessert and then
A piece of watermelon. Likely, many of us
would then want to add some kind of
pharmaceutical drug for stomach upset.
So much of what Washington knows
About food has no ground to stand upon, from a beet’s point of view. The cornerstone of authentic food safety is #1 growing a bit of your own food, and second, having a personal relationship with the farmers growing the rest of your food. This, of course, is an ideal. How many of us live in places like San Diego where we can grow food 12 months of the year and get to know more than 100 local farmers by name.
At the bottom end of the scale of food growers are the micro farmers. Micro farmers, in a true healthy food safe economy need to be encouraged, yet currently they are falling between the cracks. We need more food growers, not less. We are being called to have a nation of gardeners. This is necessary to return to a relationship to food safety that is healthy.
Micro farmers, and gardeners growing on less than a few acres at most, live by other codes. They grow food that is labor intensive. The US and the world is still based on that model of food growing that has existed for more than 10,000 years, but as modern conventional food for thought prevails, we are not ensuring a growing climate in America that is good for them.
Take as an example the case of Barry Logan,
who had a final harvest celebration September 18, 2010. Barry Logan, with the help of his live in community, served San Diego for seven years with some of the finest fresh food available. He sold food at three farmers’ markets. Barry Logan believes that his customers are his regulators. He had been running La Milpa Organica Farm as a social experiment, as an open university. He farmed on a sma;; field with the help of students from around the world who came to study what he calls peasant farming. His customers became friends. He would invite to the farm for potlucks and pizza each month. That life is no more on that land.
He broke a lot of rules, codes of workman’s compensation, codes of being on top of taxes,
and a ton of other regulations that are now on the books. The problem is, our laws are out of touch with what it really takes to grow the finest quality real food that is safe food.
Logan speaks of representing a 10,000 year system of labor intensive farming that is butting heads with legislators, regulators, and regulations who would benefit from on the farm training at a La Milpa Organica Farm Open University.
Shift happened. The world is no longer the ground we knew a few years ago. People are dying from contaminated food, yet more regulations without open conversation will only create more breakdown.
What is being asked of us?
Is it not a return to growing some of our own food, even a little food in a pot that we might regain our beat with nature?
Are we not being asked to know personally
The farmers growing the rest of our food,
and to make sure we have a climate that
encourages more and more food growing, not less?
Do local farmers Really need more red tape? Truly Big Ag does. Logan believes small growers should not be regulated.
Nature’s original technology is here to stay. Small farmers, and healthy legislators are a key part of nature’s original technology. Our ideals of high tech and GMO, that give us the option of having fewer people on the farm, needs a thorough vetting. A true dialogue between science, ethics, and food needs to come into focus. Truly, we are only beginning to talk and come to an understanding of food safety.
##
8:10 am--1142 words
A National Conversation is Needed Now Before Passing Food Safety Laws
If a beet could talk, and in my life she does, most of what is happening in Washington right now regarding food safety is certifiably nuts. I hear that we now have about 2% of the population controlling most of our money. One of the easiest ways to control the rest of us is to control our food supply. From the looks of it, large multi-national interests, corporate greed, and senators and reps who have never been inside a health food store, to their local farmers’ market, or grown a beet themselves, are given the rest of us indigestion.
Food safety laws, that were being discussed on the hill during September—S.510 and S.3767-- may be history, but the issue remains, we need a national conversation about the food that is making us sick. Most of us simply do not know how to eat. Most of us are truly in the dark about how to eat and what is good for us. This plays into the hands of those who would dictate to us food laws. The essence of the problem is that we are out of touch with the beat of nature.
We need a moment of awakening. We need to rekindle this relationship.
What is food is intended to do for us? I would suggest regaining our beat with nature through starting to grow a beet in a pot. Your beet may very well start talking to you, as my beet, called Keep The Beet Media Star, The World’s First Talking Beet Plant, talks to me.
Food not talk to you? Start by eating a Sunday Brunch of bagels, lox, coffee, dessert and then
A piece of watermelon. Likely, many of us
would then want to add some kind of
pharmaceutical drug for stomach upset. Food does talk to us. It is time to start having a conscious relationship with our food.
So much of what Washington now knows
About food makes no common sense at all.
The cornerstone of authentic food safety
is #1 growing a bit of your own food, and second, having a personal relationship with the farmers growing the rest of your food. This, of course, is an ideal. How many of us live in places like San Diego where we can grow food 12 months of the year and get to know more than 100 local farmers by name.
The problem is, when we add regulations, when we are out of touch with the beat of nature, we potentially harm the smaller farmers. At the bottom end of the scale are the micro farmers. Micro farmers growing on less than a few acres at most, live by other codes. They grow food that is labor intensive. The US and the world
is still based on that model of food growing
that has existed for more than 10,000 years,
but as the modern conventional food for thought prevails, we are not ensuring a growing climate in America that is good for micro farmers
Take as an example the case of Barry Logan,
Who had a final harvest celebration September 18, 2010. Barry Logan believes that his customers are his regulators. He had been running La Milpa Organica Farm for seven years as a social experiment, as an open university. He farmed on less than three acre field with the help of students from around the world who came to study what he calls peasant farming.
He sold food at three farmers’ markets where
the people he served became his friends that
he would invite to the farm for potlucks and pizza each month. That life is no more.
He broke a lot of rules, codes of workman’s compensation, codes of being on top of taxes,
and a ton of other regulations that are now on the books, but our laws out of touch with what it really takes to grow real food.
With the passage of the new food safety laws,
more farmers such as Barry Logan are very
concerned they will be eating more red tape
than having time to feed the customers a quality of food capable of grounding dreams--
that is after all the intent of food. For authentic food safety, we need more food growers, not less.
Food was never meant to be a commodity.
It was never meant to be a force in the political
arena that can be used under food safety laws
to restrict people from getting the kind of foods
they need to be healthy. Food, from a simple beet’s point of view, was never meant to be in the hands of large industrial Ag growers, who
do not need people, but rely more on drugs
and chemicals to provide a mere facsimile
of what nature had in mind.
Safe food is a core value wanted by everyone who eats; yet the remedy for food safety was never to pass legislation that will never debug an ill regulated food safety system.
The issue might not come up if those who want natural medicines were not an economic force, a potential thorn in the side of those who want a more conventional approach to medicine that values pharmaceutical drugs or industrialized food. Those who want local, fresh, organic food
as a growing movement may cause the future of food to be unsafe for multinational influences that may have other agendas now percolating down into U.S. food safety legislation.
A 10,000 year system of labor intensive farming is butting heads with legislators who would benefit from on the farm training.
Legislators need to know what it takes to grow real food grown from healthy soil. How does a community come together and live together in light of so many local, state, and federal regulations that are contrary to the laws of nature?
Farmers’ Markets are a burgeoning multi-million industry now vetted by the USDA
And local Ag authorities. Do local farmers
Really need more red tape? Truly Big Ag does.
They are out of touch with food and its intent to help ground dreams.
Shift happened. Many of us now realize that the world is no longer the ground we knew a few years ago. Truly people are dying from contaminated food, yet more regulations now without open conversation will only create more breakdown.
What is being asked of us?
Is it not a return to growing some of our own food, even a little food in a pot that we might regain our beat with nature?
Are we not being asked to know personally
The farmers growing the rest of our food?
Nature’s Original Technology is here to stay.
Our ideas of High Tech and GMO applied to farming need to leave. Truly, we are only beginning to talk and come to an understanding of food safety.
##
RELATED GOOGLE MICRO FARMING....
Lots of links to explain this....
About 8,050,000 results (0.08 seconds)
Silhouette of Barry Logan who shut down his seven
year experiment La Milpa Organica Farm, September 18, 2010.
Logan applied gardening principles to local Micro Farming
in San Diego, but broke regulations on the books that
are out of the beat with nature. He is on probation
for breaking laws. The current laws and proposed
regulations will further define local farming
in the U.S. A national intensive conversation
about food safety is needed. There are many lessons
to be learned from Barry Logan. A number of the
interviews with him are on this blog.
VERSION TURNED IN
REWRITTEN
SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1697407
EARLIER VERSION
WRITTEN FOR HUFFINGTON POST
IN MIND
WRITTEN SEPTEMBER 28
A NATIONAL CONVERSATION IS NEEDED NOW
BEFORE PASSING FOOD SAFETY LAWS
Right now in Washington, some would like us to imagine that food safety bills such as the still alive S.3767, The Food Safety Accountability Act, or last week’s S.510, The Food Safety Modernization Act, are non controversial, yet all over the internet bloggers are working night and day to point out problems with the passage of these Food Safety bills. S.510 stalled out a few times in recent weeks, but this new bill, S. 3767 was still alive as of Monday September 28.
Food safety needs to be a conversation as vitally discussed as health reform. This is no time to rush legislation into law. This is a time to open a national conversation on what is safe food and food safety as well as to vet the FDA, the lead agency whose authority would increase through the passage of these highly controversial food safety laws.
Safe food is a core value wanted by everyone who eats; yet is the remedy for food safety to pass legislation that would fail to debug an ill regulated food safety system?
We have reached a moment through the internet when each of us are called to participate in government. We have voice. Our voice is being heard and influences legislators. We each have as much to say to determine the fate of the quality of our food supply through our numbers, as much as others behind the scenes who influence the fate our our food supply through those they help elect.
Currently the FDA and USDA have many regulations that are not enforced. Such was the case in the recent egg recalls. These same agencies apply regulations to small micro growers and people who want to the right
to purchase food that is whole, pure and in its raw state and raw if that is their choice.
The issue might not come up if those who want natural medicines were not an economic force, a potential thorn in the side of those who want a more conventional approach to medicine that values pharmaceutical drugs or industrialized food. Those who want local, fresh, organic food
are also made causing the future of food to be unsafe for multinational influences that may have other agendas now percolating down
into U.S. food safety legislation.
The new Food Safety laws would increase FDA authority. Some call the bills “FDA on the farm” because of the increased regulations it would give over small farmers who are already Regulated thorugh the USDA Organic Standards.
Is it really time to increase the regulatory powers to an FDA when the agency and the USDA have shown themselves unwilling to apply regulations to manage contaminations that are already under their jurisdiction? Many see the FDA backing unsound health reform. Many see the FDA as a biased agency beholding to vested corporate interests who have funded the research they enforce.
Look at FDA history current and recent. The FDA backed GMO’s. They bought us growth hormones in milk that are rebuked in Europe. The FDA was embroiled in the recent GE salmon controversy. They oppose GE labeling. They say its O.K. to put mercury in our mouths, yet the dangers of amalgams are widely known. The National Health Federation reports, “In many states, including Connecticut, mercury fillings are treated as hazardous waste once they’re removed from a tooth.
Then there is Aspartame. Many say it is a neuro toxin. Then there is BPA, is a common addition to most every can. BPA is approved by the FDA yet cites as a poison.
A 10,000 year system of labor intensive farming is butting heads with legislators who would benefit from on the farm training.
Local Farmers, one recently in my own city of San Diego—a city where we can grow enough food 12 months a year to feed ourselves and export to others, are shutting down because they cannot grow food in the climate of regulations as they now stand. More regulations will increase with the passage of Food Safety laws—unless they are amended.
Legislators, before voting on food safety laws, need to spend time talking to local organic farmers such as Barry Logan of La Milpa Organica Farm.
His position is that his customers are his regulators. Legislators need to know what it takes to grow real food grown from healthy soil. How does a community come together and live together in light of so many local, state, and federal regulations that are contrary to the laws of nature?
Farmers’ Markets are a burgeoning multi-million industry now vetted by the USDA and local Ag authorities. Do local farmers
Really need more red tape? Truly Big Ag does.
They are out of touch with food and its intent to help ground dreams.
Shift happened. Many of us now realize that the world is no longer the ground we knew a few years ago. Truly people are dying from contaminated food, yet more regulations now without open conversation will only create more breakdown.
What is the cost of new proposed laws?
Dr. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma was one senator
Wo raised the question and said no to S.510 September 13.
What is being asked of us?
Is it not a return to growing some of our own food, even a little food in a pot that we might regain our beat with nature?
Are we not being asked to know personally
The farmers growing the rest of our food?
Local organic food grown by small farmers
Is the cornerstore of food safety and the foundation for authentic earth based Home Land Security. We will have authentic food safety when we stop giving corporate interests and International bodies such as the USDA Codex
Alimentarius Commission, and the ill informed
FDA the upper hand.
Nature’s Original Technology is here to stay.
Our ideas of High Tech and GMO applied to farming need to leave. Truly, we are only beginning to talk and come to an understanding of food safety.
##
9:53 pm
September 28, 2010
THIS PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOG Is
the 1800 or more FIRST DRAFT
of my first blog submitted to the
Huffington Post.
It contains the
story edited and submitted
down to 1000 words
sent in less than one half hour ago.
A NATIONAL CONVERSATION ON FOOD SAFETY IS NEEDED
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1697407
I need to learn how to use footnotes.
2:28 pm
September 27, 2010
I am committed to get this Blog
done for the Huffington Post.
My main site is no longer working.
Http://www.lesliegoldman.com
The 21st Century Book Marketing Event
took me to the next level of making the connection
to blog on the Huffington Post.
FIRST BLOG FOR HUFFINGTON POST
OTHER MESSAGES THAT NEED TO GET OUT
NOW
Right now in Washington, some would like
us to imagine that Food Safety bills such as the
still alive SB 3767, the Food Safety Accountability Act,
or last week's SB 510, The Food Safety Modernization Act,
are non controversial, yet all over the internet,
bloggers everywhere are working night and day to point out
problems with the passage of these Food Safety Bills.
SB-510 stalled out a few times in recent weeks, but
this new bill, SD 3767 was still alive.
CODEX AND FDA FAVOR
LARGE SCALE CENTRALIZED FARMING
Are Food Safety laws the many senators would like to push through congress really as non-controversial as most senators imagine, other than the notable Coburn of Oklahoma who stood up last week to one bill called SB-510, The Food Safety Modernization Act?
Some SB -3767 would criminalize nutritional Supplement manufacturers who " tell the truth about their products or link to published scientific studies describing the biological benefits of their products."
http://secretsofnaturalhealing.blogspot.com/2010/09/senate-bill-will-imprison...
Food Safety needs to be a conversation as vitally discussed as Health Reform. This is no time to rush laws onto the books.
This is a time to open a national conversation on food and food safety,
and to thoroughly vet the FDA, the lead agency whose authority would
increase through the passage of the nighly controversial Food Safety
laws. Truly a national dialogue is needed now, now just new laws
whose intent may not be clear, whose underlying implications
need to be explored.
PARTICIPATING IN GOVERNMENT
THROUGH THE INTERNET
We have reached a moment through the internet, when each
of us are called to participate in government. We have voice.
Our voice is being heard. Nothing is really hidden.
We as a people have as much to say to determine the fate of our nation
and our food through constant communication with those we elect.
We can exercise as much influence through our numbers, as others behind the scenes who influence the fate our our food supply through those they help elect.
Food Safety, and safe food, is a core value wanted by every one who eats;
yet is the remedy passing legislative manuvers that would fail to debug an ill regulated food safety system? Currently the FDA and USDA have many regulations on the books that are not enforced. At the same time, these same agencies are more and more applying regulations to small micro growers, and people, who want to be responsible for their own health, who want food that is whole, pure, natural. Many want food in its natural raw state, food that is fresh and naturally grown in harmony with the laws of nature. This has been the rule, rather than the exception for those who have studied natural healing. Thousands upon thousands in the history of the US had benefited from natural healing approaches. The issue might not
come up if they had not become an economic force in the side
of those who want a more conventional approach to medicine and and
food that favors corporate influence and food for profit more than
nutrition, or nutrition per acre.
DR. TOM COBURN OBJECTS
TO SB-510
The SB-510, one very fervently opposed as well as supported bill,
attempted to come to the Senate Floor September 23, the day of Autumn Equinox. It was pushed back by one Senator. Dr. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma.
On his Senate website, he said the bill adds to the deficit and expands the power of an already troubled agency.
He cites a Government Accountability Office January 2007 report that states that the FDA had "inconsistent oversight, ineffective coordination, and inefficient use of resources.”
He also points out the potential harm that increased regulation who
cause to small farmers.
http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/rightnow?ContentRecord_id=8df5cb89-...
MORE AUTHORITY FOR THE FDA
One of the major points of contention is that then new Food Safety laws would increase FDA Authority. Some call it FDA on the farm.
Is this really the time to increase regulatory powers to
an FDA, or its upgrade versions, when the FDA and USDA
we have now, with so many regulations on the books,
have shown themselves either unwilling to apply regulations
currently in place or wanting to support ideas
that may very well promote unsound health reform?
Many who have researched the FDA found the agency
biased, and beholding to vested corporate interests
who have funded the research they enforce.
ALLEGIANCE TO CORPORATE INTERESTS
The FDA has backed GMO's and paved the way for
Growth Hormones in milk that are rebuked in Europe.
According to opponents of the effects of rBGH, the hormone milk additive, The FDA relied solely on one study administered by Monsanto in which rBGH was tested for 90 days on 30 rats. The study was never published, and the FDA stated the results showed no significant problems. Check out the report from Sustainable Table, a non profit that celebrates local sustainable food, educates consumers on food-related issues and works to build community through food.
rel="nofollow" href="/aa/?632897" title="http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/rbgh/">http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/rbgh/
THE FDA is CURRENTLY EMBROILED
IN THE GE SALMON CONTROVERSY
Look at FDA history, current and recent.
In recent days, The FDA was recently embroiled
in GE Salmon controversy.
They have long opposed GE labeling,
Now they are pushing for GE salmon that would not be labeled.
http://truefoodnow.org/2010/09/21/misguided-fda-opposition-to-labeling-could-...
MERCURY AT THE FDA
MERCURY AMALGAM AND TOXINS OF MERCURY
IN FISH
The FDA has been telling us
for decades that it's O.K. to put mercury
in our mouths. They ruled
in August 2009 mercury in the mouth in amalgams
are safe, yet the internet is filled with reputable sources
backed by science who report the dangers of Amalgams. The National Health Federation site reports "In many states, including Connecticut, mercury fillings are treated as hazardous waste once they're removed from a tooth. Dentists are prohibited from flushing the scraps of mercury fillings down the drain and need special filters -- like the ones in Dental Care of Stamford’s office -- to trap the mercury and have it removed by a medical waste specialist."
US NEWS REPORTS THEY ARE SAFE
Are Mercury Dental Fillings Safe?
JUDITH PALFREY, M.D.
US News reported amalgams are safe in a January 20 article by
Dr. Judith Palfrey, M.D. This was followed
by significant reports, including FDA hearings, that question
this position.
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/health-advice/2010/01/20/are-mercu...
http://www.thenhf.com/articles/articles_730/articles_730.htm
http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/mercury_mischief.php
ASPARTAME
Then there is the FDA O.K. on Aspartame,
that many say its a neuro toxin? What about the FDA
O.K. of BPA, a common addition to most every can.
BPA is a poison as cited heavily, yet it is backed once
again by companies who earn profit from its sale.
Dr. Janet Starr Hull, in a well researched article on aspartame history,
reports, "Well, FDA approval may not be something the American consumer can actually depend upon anymore, like in days past. The FDA rules and regulations for the approval of food additives is a standard procedure for every applicant, but it has some serious flaws that need to be addressed."
She says.
ASPARTAME HISTORY
http://www.sweetpoison.com/articles/0406/aspartames_fda_approval_p.html
FDA RESEARCH
Having spending many hours researching the FDA, I can only agree
with Pete Kennedy of the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund,
that the "FDA’s true clients are not the American people but rather the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries."
http://www.ftcldf.org/s510-revised-fda-coming-kennedy.htm
According to Attorney Kennedy, the
FDA permitted the sale of antibiotics for nontherapeutic purposes in animals in CAFOs, a practice that has resulted in antibiotic resistance and the creation of difficult-to-treat infections like MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus). Properly-prescribed, FDA-approved pharmaceutical drugs are responsible for over 100,000 deaths each year in this country [B--p. 484]. FDA’s true clients are not the American people but rather the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.
THE MOST ALARMING IMPACT
HARPC Requirements
Kennedy says, The most alarming change from the prior version of S510 can be found in an amendment to section 103 of the bill-"Hazard analysis and risk-based controls" [HARPC]; this section can now be applied to farms selling or otherwise distributing any "manufactured/processed" food. The HARPC requirements are similar to the HACCP (hazard analysis and critical control points) plans that various sectors in the food industry are currently mandated to have.
HARM TO LOCAL FARMING NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT
MORE DEEPLY
Local farmers, one recently in my own city of San Diego, where we can grow enough food 12 months a year to feed ourselves and the nation, are shutting down because they cannot grow food in the climate
of regulations, even as they now stand. A 10,000 year system of labor intensive farming is butting heads with legislators that may benefit from on the farm training. What does it take to grow real food grown from healthy soil. How does a community come together, live together, in light of so many laws that now control farming as we know it?
This too needs to be an open conversation, a national dialogue.
FARMERS' MARKETS
Farmers' Markets are a burgeoning multi-million
billion dollar industry now vetted by the USDA and
local agents. Do our farmers really need more red tape?
Are
Barry Logan, the farming shutting down, says his
costumers have been his regulators for seven years.
WHAT ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
THE FDA and THE CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION
RULINGS?
Truly a national dialogue is needed now, now just new laws
whose intent may not be clear, whose underlying implications
need to be explored.
Further, the internet, is abuzz with mention
of an international body, the Codex Alimentarius
commission. This guiding organization, that has been meeting since 1963 under the U.N and influences the World Health Organization, mandates Food Rules. It has members from many nations. Many feel the new Food Safety Laws and their regulations, come from Codex inspiration, top down, basically want to undermine the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994.
http://www.fda.gov/food/dietarysupplements/consumerinformation/ucm110417.htm
What does the National Health Federation mean when it says
that The U.S. FDA despises the 1994 DSHEA Act – which, by removing the FDA’s arbitrary enforcement powers, has protected our rights to healthy food supplements. Unfortunately, as a cozy friend of the drug companies and with an anti-supplement mentality, the FDA has acted to suppress supplements in favor of drugs instead.
Lets look this.
http://www.thenhf.com/codex/codex_handout.pdf
Is it enough to attempt to apply
Archaic Codex Food Rules that favor Big Pharma,
GMO agriculture, reduce accepted nutrient health standards.
MICHAEL R TAYLOR
Our very own Food Czar, Michael R. Taylor, named deputy commissioner for foods at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in January 2010. He the first individual to hold the position, position which was created along with a new Office of Foods in August 2009. Taylor is one of the most influential men in food US history. He played a significant role in the acceptance of GMO's as well as growth hormones added to milk during the 1990's. Taylor, speaking before the Kuchinich committee in July 2009, called "Ready to Eat or Not?" clearly wants to harmonize US law with the Codex and WHO standards.
He has voiced strong opinions against the labeling of Milk that does not
contain the growth additive.
Many of our regulators, out of touch with nature, would like to apply hygienic rules to the garden. They are out of sync with rules of healthy soil management that have proven safe for centuries.
A really big question rises, and needs to be part of our national
conversation.
Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/2010/09/15/1436436/gop-senator-says-he-will-hold.html...
http://www.kentucky.com/2010/09/15/1436436/gop-senator-says-he-will-hold.html...
http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/CentersOffices/OC/OfficeofFoods/ucm196721.htm
http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/CentersOffices/OC/OfficeofFoods/ucm196720.htm
CONCLUSION
Shift happens. Many of us now realize that the world is no longer
the ground we knew a few years ago. What is being asked of us?
Is it not a return to growing some of our own food, even a little food
in pots? Are we not being asked to know personally the farmers growing the rest of our food? Is this long time held American value truly not the cornerstone of Food Safety as well as authentic earth based Home Land Security? Is this value not asking for a comeback at the same time we want to further centralize and enforce industrial agriculture?
Truly, we are only beginning to talk and come to an understanding
of Food Safety. Now is the time.
##
http://www.fda.gov/food/dietarysupplements/consumerinformation/ucm110417.htm
CODEX AND FDA FAVOR
LARGE SCALE CENTRALIZED FARMING
Are Food Safety laws now being pushed through congress really as non-controversial as most senators imagine, other than the notable Coburn of Oklahoma who stood up last week to one bill called SB-510, The Food Safety Modernization Act?
While SB-510 stalled in the senate, Food Safety bills continue to survive through other bills very much near the senate floor, such as one called SB-3767, called the Food Safety Accountability Act. Some SB -3767 would criminalize nutritional Supplement manufacturers who " tell the truth about their products or link to published scientific studies describing the biological benefits of their products."
http://secretsofnaturalhealing.blogspot.com/2010/09/senate-bill-will-imprison...
FOOD RAIDS
Passage of current Food Safety laws would give grounds for more pressure. Raids, with federal agents on site from the FBI and FDA, as occurred in Los Angeles June 30, 2010, are currently exerting pressure on community groups.
VENICE FOOD RAID
o! Venice! On June 30th, federal, state and local authorities raided Rawesome on Lincoln. The story hit the LATimes yesterday along with some video. “Raw food raid highlights a hunger” —
http://upcoming.current.com/search?q=%22Rawsome+Food+Raid!%22+and+related+posts
MORE REGULATIONS NOW FROM FDA?
Is this the time to turn over further regulatory powers
to Federal agents without first regulating our
regulators?
Farmers' Markets are a burgeoning multi-million
billion dollar industry now vetted by the USDA and
local agents. Do our farmers really need more red tape?
Are local farmers not regulated by their customers?
Please, at least let us
have national conversation before pushing through the likes
of Food Safety Bills such as SB-510 and SB-3767
BACKGROUND ON SB 510 and SB-3767
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-213262.html
POWERFUL!
IRREGULATIES IN PROCESSING OF MEAT
HAMPERING SMALL PLANTS REPORTED
WHILE DEREGULATING THE BIG GUYS
http://www.ftcldf.org/refdocs/Munsell_Pwrpt_HACCP_FDAs_style_Jan_2010.pdf
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I am not sure how much more work it would take
to have a finished article for Huffington Post
from this material.
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THINGS THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW NOW
Our food supply on land and sea can be restored.
It is mandatory if we want to continue to
living here on this planet.
Shift Happened. What are we headed?
Mother Earth--the ground underfoot--
is calling us home. What is the ultimate
technology that works for this planet?
It is callled Nature's Original Technology.
The word itself, technology goes back to Greece.
Today, we associate it with something of wires
and for the energetically savvy, a world that
draws us to the computer for our livelihood and
for education, but needs a Kill Switch installed
to turn off the confusing pattern that has
a potential to disconnect Soul from Body.
High Tech as we call it is here to stay for a while.
It is a tradeoff. It has the potential to shorter
or lives and call in a need more than ever
for nature and her remedies that
hold us together and help us make wise
decisions.
ADRIANA HUFFINGTON
SAID AT SOLFEST
Photo from The Ukiah News
September 26, 2010
Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief
of The Huffington Post, brought a bit of good news to SolFest on Sunday afternoon.Despite being on the "wrong course" the United States still has time to correct itself, she said. Starting with the conclusion of her book titled "Third World America" Huffington, SolFest's second featured speaker (after Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on Saturday), said that seven steps can save the country. Huffington said that we now have legitimate anger but that we need to channel it in the right direction. The government is not a spectator sport, she said. The public needs to get involved.
http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_16183805
Published
September 26, 2010
KEEP THE BEET SAYS
We have one more week to stop Unpalatable Food Safety Laws
from passiing that would not do enough good to debug the
broken Big Ag system while harming true Earth based Homeland Security,
our local sustainable small farm network.
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ARIELLE FORD ON THE HUFFINGTON POST
THINGS I NEED TO TELL ARIELLE FORD
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WHAT IS THE STYLE OF WRITING ON THE
HUFFINGTON POST?
BLOG BY ARIELLE FORD
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KEEP THE BEET MEDIA STAR
THE WORLD's FIRST TALKING BEET PLANT
as quoted on THE HUFFINGTON POST
BY PAIGE DONNER
December 2008
at HOLLYWOOD GOES GREEN
This was Keep The Beet's Media Debut.
She debuted on the Huffington Post!!!!
FROM
THE HUFFINGTON POST
DECEMBER 2008
PAIGE DONNER QUOTES
KEEP THE BEET MEDIA STAR
FOR THE FIRST TIME ON
THE HUFFINGTON POST.
Way to go, Paige!
Much constructive conversation took place during breaks, at the wine reception, sponsored by Mendocino Wine Commission, and throughout the conference. And though the lackluster economy was in evidence this year, the real decisionmakers showed up and turned out for the Hollywood Goes Green Conference to further the dialogue and deepen the work. And on a very earthy note, The Enchanted Gardener (aka Leslie Goldman), who was everywhere at the conference with KEEP the BEET Media Star, The World's First Talking Beet Plant, said "I am committed and excited about my project to create a nation of gardeners."
READ THE WHOLE STORY HERE
ON THE HUFFINGTON POST
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paige-donner/greening-hollywood-ecotai_b_151315...
KEEP THE BEET WANTS YOU
THANKS YOU FOR STARRING IN HER
ROCK YOUR SOUL OPERA
called BEET KEEPERS, RETURN!
Sara Show, TV star Hostess and soon to be mom
of the Rebirth of Mother Earth (RME) waters Keep The Beet
Media Star, The World's First Talking Beet Plant
at the I-Hollywood Forum's historic Hollywood Goes Green
conference, December 2008. That was where Keep The Beet
hooked up for the first time with Tony Tracy of
Bambooies Diaper fame, and a host of Hollywood Greenies,
including noted filmmaker Paige Donner, winner of
an Academy Award, 2018.
Dear Adriana!
I have been wanting to make a more direct connect
for a long time. Thank you for this opportunity.
My friend, Ariella Ford made a big point at the
21st Century Book Marketing Event
September 25-26, 2010
that those of use in attendance
should follow up with sending you a
Blog for the Huffington Post.
The blog is from 500-1000 words.
You also want a Jpeg photo.
I am going to continue to use
the Thumbnail that I already use on the
Huffiington Post.
I have been up about 90 minutes this morning
organizing some of my papers from the weekend.
I had a rush of inspirations.
I was organizing them into piles
so I can piece my thoughts together later.
HERE ARE SOME INSPIRATIONS
THIS IS WHAT KEEP THE BEET IS
ASKING OF US
I had a break in thoughts when I realized
that I need some more space on my Simple Drive
to fully upload my photos.
I bought a new Pro Duo Drive 2,0
but it is very noisy.
I do not want this noice consistently on my desk
to the right. I stooped to transfer two
Iphoto Libraries to the Pro-Duo Drive
and erase them from the Simple Drive
so I can have more space o upload.
I am back in action now, however,
I am very tired. I want to go back to bed
and trust that I will continue to have some
space around the house this morning
to keep writing in an inspired state.
SUBJECT LINE TO YOU
I have that here.
SHORT BIO
JPEG
on MICROSOFT WORD
I need to learn better how to use this program.
I use Pages.
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Putting you in my Address Book
on the Imac.
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"Huffington said that we now have legitimate anger
but that we need to channel it in the right direction.
The government is not a spectator sport, she said.
The public needs to get involved."-- Adriana Huffington,
September 26, 2010
Seven Steps to Save The Country
http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_16183805
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ABOUT MIKE KOENIGS
http://mikekoenigs.com/about/
Geek, surfer, marketer, video producer and didgeridoo player, Mike Koenigs is best known as the guy who created the Web 2.0 syndication service, Traffic Geyser that distributes over a million videos per week and generates top ranking, web traffic and leads in minutes by sending video content to over 70 video sites, social bookmarking, social media, blog and podcasting directorie
5:15 am
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THE TRAFFIC GEYSER
http://www.trafficgeyser.com/
THE FORD SISTERS
THE SOULMATE SECRET
5:18 am
switching Iphoto Library.
Making a copy of Rancho La Puerta
Iphoto Library from DouPro 2.0 to Simple Drive
Break in Focus.
5:42 am
Can't copy Iphoto Keep The Beet from Duo Drive
to Simple Drive. Not enough room
Weariness setting in. Loud Sound of
Dou Drive...depletes me on my desk.
Turning it off. Disappointed. Frustrated.
Hot in here. Very hot day yesterday and today.
I want to go back to bed.
Taking Mind Full, FES remedy
to reconnect my Soul and Body.
KEEP THE BEET HERE,
SPEAKING NOW
GMJ GRAPHICS
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September 27, 2010
Added smaller sizes
of GMJ and Keep The Beet Speaks.
THUMBNAIL SIZE
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DEEPOK MAKING MOHAMMED SAFE
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MAKING THE ROAD SAFE FROM DEEPOK
CHOPRA--comments from GOTHAM CHOPRA
at the 21st Century Book Marketing EVENT
September 25-26, 2010
Gotham Chopra, on the High-Tech Marketing Panel at the
2ast Century Book Marketing Event September 25-26, 2010
said he dad was a bad driver. He sounded like it was enough
to cause each of us to want to pray for safety. He also
frequents Starbucks often, said the cartoon maker
who has won the support of Keep The Beet Media Star,
The World's First Talking Beet Plant.
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She said that she is not letting Washington off the hook, but communities, families, and individuals need to solve problems and right the wrongs of our times.
Quoting Winston Churchill, "America can always be counted on to do the right thing, after it has exhausted all other possibilities," Huffington ended her speech on Sunday with a sense of urgency -- to make change now.
After her talk, Huffington allowed time for questions. One person asked why The Huffington Post has gone from focusing on just the political issues to now offering entertainment stories. Huffington responded that she never just wanted to draw in the "converted" but that if someone was interested in a story on Angelina Jolie, for instance, he might later be drawn to other more political or environmental stories on the site. Huffington also added that the website has grown from just one page to 22 sections.
Monica Stark can be reached at udjfeatures@pacific.net
MICHAEL R TAYLOR TESTIMONY
MICHAEL TAYLOR
BEFORE the DENNIS KUCINICH
Hearing JULY 29:
"In addition, FDA is leading an effort
through the Codex Alimentarius Commission,
the international food safety standards body,
with support of the Food and Agriculture
Organization/World Health Organization,
to develop commodity-
specific annexes to the Codex hygienic code
for fresh fruit and vegetable production,
starting with an annex for fresh leafy
vegetables and herbs."
--Mr MICHAEL TAYLOR
Our Food Czar for the FDA
Senior Adviser to the Commissioner on food issues
The above quote is from the written testimony
of MICHAEL TAYLOR July 29 at the
REP DENNIS KUCINICH
SUBCOMMITTEE ON DOMESTIC POLICY
COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT
AND GOVERNMENT REFORM
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The Subcommittee Hearing was Titled:
"Ready to Eat or Not? It Examined
the Impact of Leafy Green Marketing Agreements.
http://groc.edgeboss.net/download/groc/domesticpolicy/testimony.of.mr.michael...
OUTAKES
Should Tuna be outlawed?
http://www.seriouseats.com/2008/09/mercury-levels-dangerous-health-canned-tun...
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ABC NEWS
ON GE SALMON
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WellnessNews/fda-unable-reach-conclusion-genetic...
CANNOT FIND ARTICLE I WAS LOOKING FOR
Codex favors industrial centralized, controlled large scale farming.
FOR A CLEAR ARTICLE ON THE BIOTECH
diretive and Codex position, as well as FDA leanings
look to articles on the internet on.
One from ABC says it all.
SB-
While SB-510 stalled in the senate, Food Safety bills continue to survive through other bills very much near the senate floor, such as one called SB-3767, called the Food Safety Accountability Act. Some SB -3767 would criminalize nutritional Supplement manufacturers who " tell the truth about their products or link to published scientific studies describing the biological benefits of their products."
http://secretsofnaturalhealing.blogspot.com/2010/09/senate-bill-will-imprison...
OUT TAKES
FDA APPROVED CLONED FOODS
http://www.pakistan.tv/videos-corrupt-fda-approves-cloned-meat-milk--%5BFDzpw...
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