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Can we be arrested for saying Junk Food is Junk?
Can we be arrested for saying Junk Food is Junk?
Date: 5/10/2011 2:56:39 PM ( 13 y ) ... viewed 32917 times
12:31 pm
May 10, 2011
CAN WE BE ARRESTED FOR SAYING JUNK FOOD
IS JUNK?
I was just at Hani's doing some shopping.
We have a household that eats various diets
from aspiring vegans, to vegetarians, to
Nourishing Traditions folks that eat
pasture fed butter and cheese.
We even have some meat eaters here
and one cocacola drinker.
Recently, we have been serving eggs,
so of course I went out of my way to get
the kind that is laid from happy chickens
who run around on the farm.
I was surprised that when I asked for
the happy chicken eggs that hunt and peck
Hani pulled out a dozen from the refrigerator.
Those in sync with the beat of nature know
that eggs from the farm that are not washes
have a protective coating that allows them to
stay fresh for weeks, even longer.
I recently took a dozen eggs with me to the
Passover Village in Joshua Tree, a desert climate.
I did not eat them and they came home from the desert.
It was pretty mild out there but I had concerns.
The eggs were still fresh and eatable.
The health department, a man from the Philpines
came into Hani's the other day. He told my friend
who was born in Bethlehem that he could no longer
sell unrefrigerated eggs. The chemistry of the egg
shifts when it is refrigerated. Refrigerated eggs needs
to continue to be refrigerated, thus the beat of Nature,
AKA Keep The Beet Media Star, The World's FIrst Talking Beet Plant
says.
Hani told me that the Health Department worker
from the Philippines remembered as well that in his home
country and in his youth, eggs were not refrigerated,
however now here, the Health Department regulation
told him to enforce the law: Eggs cannot be sold
in Hani's store unless they are refrigerated.
He told Hani to destroy his unrefrigerated eggs and came
back two days later to make sure that he did.
Of course, Hani did not throw them out, he ate them himself
at home, and lived to tell the story.
WHISTLEBLOWER FOOD LAW?
This brings to mind another story I read recently on the internet
about an impending "whistleblower" law that can arrest someone
for reported things like factory farmed animas keep in unsanitary
conditions, or chickens factory farmed for that matter.
Who wants to know that our chickens are grown in ways that
are so unfresh and unhealthy that they are really not food fit
for human consumption.
We even have some accepted regs now from the FDA, one of
my favorite gov agencies that says that conventionally grown
foods are no different than GMO foods. That is the accepted policy
and many of our GMO's foods, increasingly present in the
marketplace, go unlabeled as not to infer that organic or non GMO
is any better than GMO.
It does not matter what real science has to say about this.
The accepted policy coming from the FDA is Don't Ask, Don't Tell
about GMO's. After all, people might get scared if they saw
an label non GMO. What might that do for public confidence
about the FDA stance that feeds into the While House.
Meanwhile, in our cracked up world out of sync with the beat of
nature, I hear that Laura Bush was adamant about serving her
hubby organic during their stint in the White House. Michelle Obama
preferred an organic garden for her food not lawn space, although
she kind of keeps that more hush as not to offend the GMO learnings
of those who support her husband in office.
Show me the movement was the story I heard and told here
on the Plant Your Dream Blog. I was repeating the story that
we heard from the President. He said that he did not think
the sustainability movement was ready to have any clout until
we showed him the movement, the popularity of organic and sustainable
eaters.
Now a days, more and more of us are eating organic and local
as an issue of earth based homeland security, but most of the people
are kept in the dark by public policies and local health department
regs that may have little to do with real food safety.
i told Hani, " I do not believe that the health department
knows too much about health these day!"
I hope what I was saying is not against the law.
The trend seems to be that laws will soon be passed
that forbid advocates from telling what they see on the farm
that may be against the law, from the point of view of Mother Earth.
The trend, if I am reading the writing on the wall now,
is the want to protect even the foods that some of us know
as junk. I imagine there will soon be a law against saying that
junk food is junk. Just watch.
12:52 pm
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