“If people let the government decide
what foods they eat and what medicines
they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry
a state as are the souls who live under tyranny”

Thomas Jefferson


BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
COMMENTS ON #US BILL HR FSEA 2749
and S-510, and all impending
FOOD SAFETY LEGISLATION

"Those who would give up essential Liberty,
to purchase a little temporary Safety,
deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,

Pennsylvania Assembly:
Reply to the Governor,
November 11, 1755.—
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin,
ed. Leonard W. Labaree,
vol. 6, p. 242 (1963).
This quotation, slightly altered,
is inscribed on a plaque in the stairwell of the pedestal
of the Statue of Liberty:
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain
a little safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

http://www.bartelby.net/73/1056.html



THE MOVEMENT IN AMERICA
TO MAKE FOOD SAFE and SECURE
FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE:

SORRY TO SAY THAT IS WHAT I SEE AS A MAJOR
FACTOR BEHIND OUR CURRENT FRENZY
TO ENACT FOOD SAFETY REGULATIONS
THAT MAY HAVE AS MUCH TO DO WITH
SECURING AND DEFENDING INTERNATIONAL
TRADE, as PROTECTION CONSUMER HEALTH.
TRUE CONSUMER HEALTH WOULD BE
MAKING SURE EVERY SMALL FARMER IN
AMERICA COULD SAY,
"HAPPINESS IS ORGANIC."
IT WOULD MEAN TAKE IMMEDIATE STEPS
TO PRODUCE AND CREATE MORE--MANY
MORE LOCAL FARMERS.--

Leslie Goldman,
Your Enchanted Gardener
October 21, 2009

Update on US BILL FSEA #HR2749
and SENATE BILL S 510.


3:26 AM
October 21, 09

It may have been the brownie I ate
at last nights Monthly
FOOD NOT LAWN Potluck,
or maybe it is that I have been
spending too much time hanging out with beets.

Keeping a Beet in a pot can be dangerous.
You may find yourself learning the language
of the Beat. You may find yourself
getting back in step with Mother Earth.

There have been a wash of FOOD SAFETY bills attempting
to go through
the US Congress this year of 09.
Some of them seemed unlikely to succeed.
Others caused such a stir among the People
of our Great Nation that they imagined
the Government was attempting to pull
the wool over our eyes, and shove some
unwholeness legislation down your throats
faster than a train speeding by at
90 miles per hour.

The version of the Bill Called USBILL #HR 2749--
The FOOD SAFETY law that aimed to extend
the power of the FDA down to the level of the farm
and put the the FDA in bed with the accounting
books of little family farmers, actually passed
the House in late July.

Some local organic family farmers felt,
in spite of a number of concessions,
that that bill that passed, still left much
to be desired that would be good their future.

That bill in particular also stirred up the
the Eaters of our Nation--those Organic Eaters
with a bent toward local.

The passage of the bill was a near embarrassment
to the Powers that Be. US BILL HR 2749 actually failed
the first time it came to a vote. Leave it to
Washington, they can move fast when they want
Without even giving the legislators
a chance to read the revisions, they presented a Revised
Version less than 24 hours later, that did pass the
House of Representatives.

In little over one hour of discussion on the floor,
a bill passed the House that could influence our
Food Policy for decades. US BILL #HR2749 could extend
FDA influence and give it eyes at our Farmers' Markets.
Maybe our local FDA sheriffs will learn a thing or two
about community when they come to visit us.

It's not that our farmers already do not have enough
red tape or regulations. The USDA and state Ag Departments
are already pretty good at sizing up what bugs may
need quaranteen, or whta other kind of opportunistic
aliens from overseas might be invading our
citrus crops.

I don't know. It can be dangerous
growing a beet in a pot. Before you know it,
you may be thinking like a farmer.

The new food bill that passes the house
many felt was inspired to make food Safe for
International Trade, or than institute
authentic food safety. On the surface, it gained
a lot of consumer Union ayes, and Water Watch
ayes, and got a lot of Care2 petitioners to say
that law was a Goody. It seemed to offer a solution
to the bad peanut butter and contaminated lettuce
that has been causing our big ag folks a pretty penny
in headaches and crop losses.

The new law that passed the house
is enough to scare the "Manure" out of some
local organic farmers, and where it may be leading
is a kind of Leafy Green growing that aims
to have growers wearing white suits and avoiding
putting roots in the dirty stuff some of us still
call Holy Soil.

IF anything has come out of all the FOOD SAFETY focus,
it has been the understanding that authentic
FOOD SAFETY roots out of knowing the name
of your local organic farmer. More of us have
been joining Community Supporting Ag programs
and shopping at our local Farmers' Markets.
That in itself is enough to want to create
some kind of pushback by those who prefer
a more controllable food supply that harmonizes
with international Food Safety Regs.

AUTHENTIC FOOD SAFETY

Authentic Food Safety will likely come out of
the FAIRFIELD IOWA model, where folks with
a Mararisha Meditative bent are growing tons and tons
of food year round--even in an icey climate to
feed the more than 10,000 nearby locals.
Now that's what KEEP THE BEET calls Food Safety.
She sees a network of local growers
that are part of her ENCHANTED GARDEN GROWERS
NETWORK. Such a Network of Growers has at least
two acres in each of our neighborhoods and provides
local, organic food and Farmers' Markets within
walking distance of most elementary schools.
These local organic growers and surrounding gardeners
would feed the kids more than macaroni, cheese,
and canned sugar fruit for lunch. Hopefully, such
a move as feeding Real Food to Children
would not hurt the sale of all the drugs
that are kids eat to keep them in their seats.

CO-LATERAL DAMAGE?

The first time I ever heard the word
CO-LATERAL DAMAGE
was when we began dropping smart bombs.
Inevitably, a few innnocent thousand neighbors
had limbs exploded as we zeroed in on
this or than villain.

We won the war so to speak, but somehow
ended up making our future less safe for Peace.
Armless neighbors of smart bombs have a tendency
to dislike their bombers.

TRADE RULES
FOOD RULES

It may very well be the case,
that some international food regulators in our world
want to see
FOOD SAFETY laws passed to make our world
safe for International Trade.

We, of all nations, would hate to have
Trade Sanctions against us, just because
we failed to pass regulations good for trade.
What does it matter if a few million,
or billion of us
are hurt in the process.

Thus, speaketh the Beet.

RELATED TO STUDY

IT"S ABOUT TRADE
It's About Trade: FSEA HR 2749 Hurts Small Farmers
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1452740


THE POSITION OF ONE LOCAL ORGANIC GROUP
ON #HR FSEA2749
THE POSITION OF THE CALIFORNIA
ASSOCIATION OF FAMILY FARMERS
as of last updated June 4, 2009

http://www.caff.org/policy/foodsafetyfederal.shtml

COLATTERAL DAMAGE
THE FILM
http://collateraldamage.warnerbros.com/


"Nothing is more dangerous than a man
without nothing to lose."

MIchael R Taylor-Codex Alimentarius Connection
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1465607




OTHER QUOTED OF INTEREST
ON FSEA FOOD SAFETY BILL

Growing Standards
in HR 2749

http://www.ftcldf.org/news/news-15june2009.htm



Based on the FDA’s track record with “good agricultural practices”, the agency is unlikely to adequately address the differences between industrial operations and sustainable farms. The danger is that FDA will adopt regulations that treat small farms growing a diversity of crops organically (whether certified or not) the same as a facility growing thousands of acres of a single crop conventionally. The regulations could be expensive and burdensome, or simply not feasible, for small farms. Any produce that does not meet the established safety standards would be considered adulterated under the FSEA [section 104(a)–p. 30].


FROM SUMMER WRITINGS
ON USBILL HR #2749 by YOUR ENCHANTED GARDENER

Commercial industrial farming
and the advances of science into agriculture
lead to fragmented systems of food growing. These 
are a by product of errors in judgement as well as practice. When food becomes an extreme commodity,
the grower and processor are out of step with the beat of nature. The inherent integrity of what they are doing, loses. The farming system becomes contaminated.
It it the system itself that is contaminated.
Deaths from peanut butter, or injuries from spinach
are symptoms of an underlying disease condition--
we have strayed from the basic understanding
that food growing and Cultural advancement go
hand in hand and the Farmer and Gardener
 hear the "beet." We have lost the vision that Agriculture is intended to foster culture more than promote Trade.

Who wants to stand out against Food Safety? That answer is simple. No one in their intelligent mind is against Food Safety. There are too many lives at stake. Both the lives of eaters and a system of growing food that is older than time, and more inherently Intelligent than science as we now know it. We must take time. We haven't a moment to loose. We do not want a train wreak. --Leslie Goldman Your Enchanted Gardener



'Foolhardy' approach
"Sanitizing American agriculture, aside from being impossible, is foolhardy," said UC Berkeley food guru Michael Pollan, who most recently made his case for smaller-scale farming in the documentary film "Food, Inc." "You have to think about what's the logical end point of looking at food this way. It's food grown indoors hydroponically."

This article appeared on page A - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/12/MN0218DVJ8.DTL&fe...




THE MOVEMENT TOWARD STERILIZED
HYGIENIC FOOD PRODUCTION
GAINS GROUND IN JAPAN.
These do not use organic methods
of food production

The vegetables from plant factories - which include green leaf, romaine lettuce and garland chrysanthemum - are sold at a premium to Japanese shoppers. No pesticides are used - and there is no risk of contamination with food poisoning bugs.

Because the plants are grown in a clean room, they can be eaten safely without washing. Lettuce grown in the factories can be cropped up to 20 times a year.Some factories are vast - and can produce three million vegetables a year.

is this the future of food? Japanese 'plant factory' churn out immaculate vegetables

By DAVID DERBYSHIRE
Last updated at 9:56 AM on 03rd June 2009

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1190392/Is-future-food-Japanes...


Seattle trial lawyer Bill Marler, who represented many of the plaintiffs in the 2006 E. coli outbreak in spinach, said, "If we want to have bagged spinach and lettuce available 24/7, 12 months of the year, it comes with costs."
Still, he said, the industry rules won't stop lawsuits or eliminate the risk of processed greens cut in fields, mingled in large baths, put in bags that must be chilled from packing plant to kitchen, and shipped thousands of miles away.
"In 16 years of handling nearly every major food-borne illness outbreak in America, I can tell you I've never had a case where it's been linked to a farmers' market," Marler said.

THE BIG PROBLEM HAS BEEN THE MASS-PRODUCED
PRODUCT

"Could it happen? Absolutely. But the big problem has been the mass-produced product. What you're seeing is this rub between trying to make it as clean as possible so they don't poison anybody, but still not wanting to come to the reality that it may be the industrialized process that's making it all so risky."
Some major recent outbreaks of food-borne illness
The Food and Drug Administration lists 40 food-borne pathogens. Among the more common: E-coli O157:H7, salmonella, listeria, campylobacter, botulism and hepatitis A.
June 2009: E. coli O157:H7 found in Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough manufactured in Danville, Va., resulted in the recall of 3.6 million packages. Seventy-two people in 30 states were sickened. No traces found on equipment or workers; investigators are looking at flour and other ingredients.
October 2008: Salmonella found in peanut butter from a Peanut Corp. of America plant in Georgia. Nine people died, and an estimated 22,500 were sickened. Criminal negligence was alleged after the product tested positive and was shipped.
June 2008: Salmonella Saintpaul traced to serrano peppers grown in Mexico. More than 1,000 people were sickened in 41 states, with 203 reported hospitalizations and at least one death. Tomatoes were suspected, devastating growers.
April 2007: E. coli O157:H7 found in beef, sickening 14 people. United Food Group recalled 5.7 million pounds of meat.
December 2006: E. coli O157:H7 traced to Taco Bell restaurants in New Jersey and Long Island, N.Y. Green onions suspected, then lettuce. Thirty-nine people were sickened, some with acute kidney failure.
September 2006: E. coli O157:H7 found in Dole bagged spinach processed at Earthbound Farms in San Juan Bautista (San Benito County). The outbreak killed four people, sent 103 to hospitals, and devastated the spinach industry.
E-mail Carolyn Lochhead at clochhead@sfchronicle.com.
This article appeared on page A - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/12/MN0218DVJ8.DTL&fe...



"The government needs to change its overall policy on food for there to be any chance of true food safety. HR 2749 rightly tries to strengthen regulation of imported food and foreign food facilities; however, given the immense resources needed to effectively police imported food and foreign facilities as well as the limitations on food safety measures effectively imposed by international agreements, food safety problems with imports will continue. Resources that would be spent regulating small producers, if HR 2749 passed into law, should be redirected toward regulating imports."
--Pete Kennedy,
Food to Consumer Legal Defense Fund
October 09

http://www.ftcldf.org/news/news-20Oct2009-2.html


ONE OF THE LEAD FORCES
BEHIND HARMONIZING WITH
CODEX is MICHAEL Rl TAYLOR
WHO NOW WORK FOR THE FDA
and has worked NUMBERS OF TIMES
FOR MONSANTO.

HE IS FEATURED IN THE FILM
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO.


In THE (90's HE BROUGHT US
THE BOVINE GROWTH HORMONE.
HE is NOW OUR CURRENT CZAR OF FOOD
WITH THE RIGHT EAR TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

PLEASE NOTE MR TAYLOR's
BLOCKBUSTER COMMENT
BEFORE THE LEAFY GREEN
CONFERENCE DURING THE SAME
WEEK THAT THE HOUSE WAS PASSING
#US BILL HR 2749.

MORE THAN a FAST TRAIN MOVING
THROUGH CONGRESS,
THE TIMEFRAME OF HR 2749
WAS PRECISELY ON TRACK
to BRING US INTO HARMONY
WITH CODEX TIME FRAMES
SET FOR EARLY 2010


KENNEDY CONTINUES

In November 2008, FDA responded to the growing public concern over melamine by publishing a document, entitled “Interim Safety and Risk Assessment of Melamine and its Analogs in Food for Humans”. The risk assessment determined that “based on currently available data and information, there is too much uncertainty for FDA to establish a level of melamine and its analogs in infant formula that does not raise public health concerns. In foods other than infant formula, FDA concludes that levels of melamine and melamine-related compounds below 2.5 ppm do not raise public health concerns” [9]. The tolerance level set for melamine by the agency was widely unpopular with many believing there should be a zero tolerance standard. Unfortunately, it now looks like that even if FDA does change its risk assessment, imported food containing melamine will still be allowed into the country. An international standard establishing a tolerance level for melamine is in the process of being adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex).

Codex is a creation of two United Nations organizations, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO); it “is the principal international organization for encouraging fair international trade in food and protecting the health and economic interests of consumers. Through adoption of food standards, codes of practice, and other guidelines developed by its committees and by promoting their adoption and implementation by governments, Codex seeks to protect the health of consumers, ensure fair trade practices in the food trade, and promote coordination of food standards work undertaken by international governmental and non-governmental organizations.” [11] The World Trade Organization (WTO), of which the United States is a member, uses the Codex food standards as binding guidelines in disputes between member nations.

This past summer Codex approved a “proposal for new work on maximum levels of melamine for food and feed”; the proposal was to establish maximum levels for melamine in food and feed products “resulting from non-intentional and unavoidable presence from different sources.” [12] It was not to apply to the deliberate addition of melamine in food and feed which was not to be tolerated under the Codex standard.



PLEASE NOTE THE 2010 TIMELINE


The proposed standard was to be 2.5 ppm in food and feed products and 1.0 ppm in infant formula products [13]. These standards could be adopted by Codex as early as 2010. If the standard is adopted, it is unlikely that the U.S. would be able to prevent foods containing melamine with levels below 2.5 ppm from entering the country even if tolerance levels were subsequently lowered for domestically produced foods. If the U.S. then tried to refuse entry for such an imported food, it would be vulnerable to a claim filed with the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Panel by the originating country of the import. In violating an agreement governing an international standard, the U.S. could be subject to sanctions imposed by the WTO. As a member nation of the WTO, the U.S. is bound by any ruling.


QUOTE FROM MICHAEL R TAYLOR


7:59 PM
July 31, 09

MICHAEL TAYLOR
BEFORE the DENNIS KUCINICH
ON LEAFY GREENS
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

READ THE FULL TESTIMONY HERE
OF MICHAEL R TAYLOR HERE

http://groc.edgeboss.net/download/groc/domesticpolicy/testimony.of.mr.michael...



OTHER VOICES IN GOVERNMENT

HOORAY!! FOR KATHLEEEN MERRIGAN
the LEFT SIDE EAR TO PRESIDENT OBAMA
and a FRIEND OF KEEP THE BEET MEDIA STAR,
THE WORLD's FIRST TALKING BEET PLANT.
KEEP THE BEET IS PUSHING TO BE THE
CZARINA OF FOODS.


Kathleen Merrigan has roots in the soil.
She is a friend of the ORGANIC TRADE ASSOCIATION

[video/audio] Know Your Farmer. Know Your Food USDA Initiative
http://www.curezone.org/blogs/fm.asp?i=1496763

MORE ON THE CODEX TIMELINE
of 2010

What is Codex Alimentarus?70
rate or flag this page
By sunriseconcepts








CODEX…HERE TO STAY?

By: Dr. James Goetz
http://hubpages.com/hub/What-is-Codex-Alimentarus


CODEX in its completeness is intended to go into full effect on January 1, 2010, world wide. If we do nothing now, all our health freedoms will have been wiped out by that time.

A series of standards and guidelines are being readied and ratified which, one by one, are intended to remove our health rights and freedoms to choose anything but pharmaceutical medicine and poisoned foods of big agriculture (pesticide/herbicide-ridden foods and foods with genetically modified organisms).

THE CODEX ALIMENTARIUS STANDARD
FOR INTERNATIONAL FOOD SAFETY PROPOSED
REGULATION

NUTRIENTS as TOXINS????
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=225049.0



Directors of the UN Codex Alimentarius program
say "nutrients are toxins." Will you help oppose this insanity?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF2mg5krIjc


INDUSTRY PUSHES GMOS WHILE
CONSUMERS JUST SAY NO INo
July 2006 Features
By Helke Ferrie

http://www.vitalitymagazine.com/industry_pushes_gmos_while_consumers_just_say_no


THE ROLE OF CODEX IN ENDANGERING PUBLIC SAFETY
Meanwhile, Codex appears determined to regulate trade to make the world safe for Big Pharma and biotech, even as many of its member states pass defensive laws at home and the European Union is up for grabs. So far, Codex has approved pesticide residues on foods in higher quantities than World Health Organization standards. Irradiation is fine by Codex, as is microwaving and biotechnology – anything is okay, it seems, that reduces nutrient value to zero.

On July 11, 2005, Codex announced their intention to enforce “labeling [designed] to stop overdosing on vitamin and mineral food supplements” (for which there is no shred of evidence). It proposes using “scientific risk assessment protocols” (designed for toxins, not nutrients) in order to establish “upper safe limits” (a meaningless concept for essential nutrients because the body metabolizes them as needed) predicated on a mythical “average” human. Fortunately, the scientific community has woken up and research from the UK, Germany and Israel is challenging Codex on, for example, Codex-approved baby formula that makes cow’s milk equivalent to human milk to serve the financial interests of the dairy industry (British Medical Journal, March 20).

Codex chairman Dr. Rolf Grossklaus’ pronouncements include the assertion that “only pharmaceutical drugs prevent and mitigate disease”, even though product inserts state categorically that drugs don’t cure disease, but only control symptoms.

QUOTED FROM
http://www.Dr-Rath-Foundation.org


Should this scientific gobbledygook actually become international regulatory policy, it would be enforced by the WTO; how it is obeyed, was described above. An excellent source of information on Codex is a new book by Mike Fillon.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090418214006AAfnIzt


RISK ASSESSMENT IS FLAWED SCIENCE
PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOG
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1477616




WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW
WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW

THE FDA is currently moving
to collect data to support
the inclusion and acceptance of
BIG AG LEAFY GREEN POLICY.
YOu can submit your testimony
for the NEED FOR DECENTRALIZED
AG HERE

http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1465702


SUBMIT YOUR TESTIMONY
TO COUNTER THE INDUSTRY MOVE

RELATED

THE DARK ROOTS OF THE EU
http://www.eu-facts.org/en/background/dark_roots_europe_lecture.html

Fascinating!!!!
Fascinating!!!

FOUNDING FATHERS OF THE EU
http://www.eu-facts.org/en/whoiswho/architects.html

Uploaded
6:04 PM
October 22, 09

CODEX ALIMENTARIUS and the EU

IS THE US AFRAID OF
ECONONIC ISOLATION
if it GOES AGAINST THE CODEX????

EU REPORT seems related....
IRISH VOTE YES AFTER BEING ARM TWISTED
LISBON TREATY SIGNED.

http://www.eu-facts.org/en/ireland/irishyesvote.html


On this occasion, however, following unlawful political interference from the EU Commission; widespread threats and lies to the Irish electorate - including propaganda that a ‘No’ vote would condemn Ireland to economic isolation; corporate interference from the likes of Ryanair (who spent half a million euros campaigning for a ‘Yes’), Intel (who spent several hundred thousand) and multi-billion euro drug company Pfizer (who openly warned of a “flight of capital” from Ireland if it voted ‘No’); and, not least of all, the blatant sweeping away of Ireland’s guidelines on media impartiality, the Irish people voted ‘Yes’.

BIGGER IS NOT ALWAYS BETTER

By SCOTT TIPS
OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH FEDERATION
http://www.zeusinfoservice.com/Articles/CODEXALIMENTARIUSANDYOU.pdf


Bigger Is Not Always Better

In the European Union, which began innocently enough as nothing more than a Customs Union, decisions – important decisions – are increasingly made by the European Commission in Brussels. Each year, fewer and fewer decisions are being made in Dublin or London or Paris or Madrid. The natural
tendency of governments and their institutions to grow over time is asserting itself, inexorably, like the laws of gravity and space. Power is being sucked in to the Center. It is being increasingly centralized.
And therein lies the major problem, for the more that you distance the power wielders from those over whom they exercise that power, the more corrupt and arrogant they will become and behave. It is ultimately about accountability, and you cannot have true accountability when the rulers
are not immediately and directly accountable to the citizens.

GO SCOTT!!!
CODEX EU CONNECTION!!!!

On the other hand, much of today’s political and economic structure is not organic but artificial. It comes from the Top down, not the bottom up. It does not flow naturally, easily, and quickly but with
artificial constraints that are marked by dissension, delays, and waste. It is, by nature, coercive. ‘You do what we say because you have to and at the ultimate point of a gun. You do not do it voluntarily.’
With this in mind, we can see that the larger structures being created or expanded in the 21st Century are not geared to preserving or even considering individual freedom. Rather, they are all about
mass uniformity and commercialism in their worst forms. Whether it is the European Union or the still- in-utero North American Union, their object is the same: stifling individualism in favour of a collectivistic
uniformity. Yes, of course, lip service will be paid to the individual with such hollow slogans as ‘Land of the Free, Home of the Brave’; but it is still the Whole consuming the Parts. It is still artificial, stiff, and
unnatural.


SCOTT TIPS PODCAST ON CODEX

SCOTT TIPS PODCAST ON CODEX:
http://www.thenhf.com/codex/codex_92.htm

BAYER, TER MEER ROOTS
and MODERN CRIMES?

GROUP URGES NCSU
TO END DEAL WITH BAYER

A German activist group is attacking N.C. State University
for agreeing to collaborate on research
with Bayer CropScience and accepting a $1 million
endowment from the company to establish
a chair in sustainable development.

"Bayer has a long history of giving precedence to profits
over human rights and a sound environment,"
the Coalition Against Bayer Dangers wrote
in a recent letter to university officials.
"By helping this corporation to greenwash its image,
you reduce the concept of sustainable development
to absurdity. We therefore urge you to stop this cooperation."

Bayer CropScience's endowment and collaboration
with the university's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
was announced last week in conjunction with a symposium
at the university titled "Stewards of the Future:
Research for Global Sustainability Tomorrow."

Bayer CropScience has its U.S. headquarters
in Research Triangle Park, where it employs 450 people.
It's a subsidiary of Bayer AG, a corporate behemoth based
in Germany whose businesses span the pharmaceutical,
materials and agribusiness sectors.

BAYER PESTICIDE
IMPLICATED IN BEE's
DISAPPEARANCE?

The Coalition Against Bayer Dangers has been monitoring --
and criticizing -- Bayer for decades, but it has stepped
up its efforts in the wake of the controversy surrounding
one of Bayer's best-selling pesticides and the disappearance
of millions of U.S. honeybees.

In August, the group filed
a complaint in Germany alleging Bayer knowingly
polluted the environment. Company officials
have rejected the contention that its pesticides
played a role in the bees' disappearance.

Johnny Wynne, dean of the College of Agriculture
and Life Sciences, said he has not seen the letter
and knows of no reason "at this particular point"
to end the collaboration.

Wynne said the school has had discussions
with Bayer CropScience officials on SUSTAINABILITY issues
such as reducing greenhouse gases,
protecting water supplies and biodiversity.

SEE ARTICLES ON THE WEB
about TER MEER, The founder of BAYER,
and implicated in the Seed germ to found
CODEX, some say.
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1465348


ALSO check on the accident at the BAYER
PLANT IN North CAROLINA THAT WAS
COVERED UP. THAT WAS A BAYER PLANT
AND CAUSED BY CHEMICAL MISUSE
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aOnvwuLxlF.Y&refer=home



Press Release, June 16, 2009
Coalition against Bayer Dangers (Germany)

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=404947634&bl...


"The aim of Codex is to regulate everything we put in our mouth."


 

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