ADD YOUR NAME TO THIS PETITION
AGAINST PASSAGE OF #S-510 in ANY FORM
BETWEEN NOW AND THE END OF THE LAME DUCK SESSION

http://www.ftcldf.org/petitions/pnum1061.php



CDC ISSUING OF LOWER STATS
WAS HELD BACK SINCE 2007
WHY?

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2010/12/why-now-was-cdcs-timing-on-estimates-po...


LOWER RATES WERE HELD BACK SINCE
2007

AMI Foundation strongly supports the update of the Mead et al. report and
encourages the expedited publication of the new estimation model for the
burden of foodborne disease.
The food industries, including the meat and poultry sector, with other
stakeholders have invested significant resources to make our food supply safer.
Eleven years ago AMI members made food safety their top priority and a noncompetitive
issue. This last decade, the meat and poultry industry has been
successful in making a tremendous reduction in the pathogen risk profile of their
products. Updated foodborne illness estimates could show tangible results to
these efforts. AMI and the Foundation are eagerly awaiting the update to the
Mead et al. report, which has been in preparation since before 2007 and,
inexplicably, has not yet been released.

http://www.meatami.com/ht/a/GetDocumentAction/i/62612




FROM CHEWING ON FOOD SAFETY
A NATIONAL CONVERSATION IS NEEDED
as printed in the HUFFINGTON POST
October 3, 2010

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?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lesliex/chewing-on-food-safety-a-_b_750967.html


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MAKE OUR FOOD SAFE
IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO SENATORS
COMES IN THE FORM OF A BAGGED LUNCH

I want to thank the members of the Make Our Food Safe
Coaltion for their sincere desire to help America regain
ts a Safe Food Supply.

Real Food Safety will come out of followup where
Make Our Food Safe delivers to the senators
locally grown organic food in their lunches, accompanied
by requests for programs in the schools to have
children everywhere grow a bit of their own food.

The more we regain confidence that we can grow even
one beet in a pot, the more we will come to understgand
how to wash our food and treat in a healthy manner.

We all have become lazy to foodborne possibilities.
I know I have. Even locally grown fresh that morning
foods from the local farmers' market needs to be tended
with respect.

The tendency of large scale food producers is to take
away from the consumer common knowledge about
food and where it comes from. In looking at food as a commodity
rather than appreciating that food natural is intended to be
eaten fresh, local, pure, and whole, we open ourselves up
to the foodborne disease that the Make our Food Safee
Coalition points out are so prevalent.

The answer to foodborne disease is creating 1 million more
gardeners and micro farmers who grow food at a quality
of delivery where the immune system of the food is at its peak.

Food natural rots. It is meant to rot. This is nature's way.

Food is intended to spoil. There is a moment when it is
at its peak. This is the time intended by nature for it to be eaten.

There is much to learn here.

We can all work together now to
enter into a Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Food on
Facebook.

DIALOGUE ON SCIENCE, ETHICS,
AND FOOD ON FACEBOOK

Go here to join.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=348831351129

SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
SUPPORTS DIALOGUE ON SCIENCE,
ETHICS, AND FOOD
Feb 2010




Your opinions from every side of the dialogue will be honored.

I am asking for each of us to Chew on Food Safety:
A National Conversation is Needed.

Senators and Members of the House are to be thanked
for not rushing #S-510 to passage. In the long run,
we will more fully educate children and adults
and continue to lessen the dangers of foodborne illness
through coming to terms with what food is.

Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener

7:57:30
December 18, 2010

WATCH THIS AMAZING INTERACTIVE PRESENTATION
FROM MAKE OUR FOOD SAFE COALITION

http://www.makeourfoodsafe.org/news?id=0005


EXCELLENT INTERACTIVE PRESENTATION
http://www.makeourfoodsafe.org/sandwich


FACT SHEET ENCOURAGING
SENATORS TO VOTE YES ON FOOD SAFETY
MODERNIZATION

http://www.makeourfoodsafe.org/tools/assets/files/S510_food_safety_modernizat...



INFORMATION ENCOURAGING SENATORS
TO VOTE NO ON FOOD SAFETY MODERNIZATION
FROM NICOLE JOHNSON

http://farmwars.info/?p=594

Identifying What Ails Us
Americans should be able to have confidence that the food they eat is safe. The Trust for America’s Health, however, is using recent food-borne illness events as an excuse to make radical and unnecessary changes to a regulatory system has been purposely underfunded and understaffed.(16)Â While focusing exclusively of food borne illnesses, it has ignored the predictable diseases suffered by millions that are caused by the chronic consumption of foods adulterated with ingredients that an industry-dominated FDA deems to be GRAS, that is, “generally regarded as safe.”
Restoring and protecting our health requires a real understanding about what ails us. To put things in perspective, food borne illnesses are responsible for some 5,000 death a year; but over 700,000 people die each year from government-approved medicine(17), and millions more suffer from predictable diseases that could be prevented if we had a safe, clean, whole-foods based food supply. If we allow those behind the food “safety” bills to use this crisis as an opportunity to change the food safety system, transnational corporations will have even more control over our health than they do now. Â
Prevention, as they say, is the best cure.



7:33 pm
December 18, 2010


New Data Counters Half-Baked Claims of Food Safety Crisis
Posted December 17th, 2010 at 11:00am in Enterprise and Free Markets 1 Print This Post


The incidence rate of food-borne illness in the United States is dramatically lower than previously estimated, according to findings reported Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The new data thoroughly refute the misleading claims of alarmists advocating for vastly expanding federal regulation of the food supply.

According to the new research published in the current edition of the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, some 16 percent of Americans experience some form of food-borne illness annually—compared to the previous estimate of 25 percent. Best of all, the new analysis has lowered the number of deaths related to food-borne illness from 5,000 a year to 3,000 annually—a difference of 40 percent.

The previous figures cited by the CDC originated from estimates compiled in 1999. The new figures, employing data from 2000 to 2008 and better statistical methods, represent “the most accurate picture yet” of food-borne illness, agency officials said.

All of which is very good news for us all. It also is particularly useful to counter the misinformation enveloping pending legislation that would grant the Food and Drug Administration control over virtually all aspects of food production, from farm to table.

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/12/17/new-data-counters-half-baked-claims-of-fo...




FROM THE BALTIMORE SUN

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is out with new estimates about how many people get sick from foodborne illnesses every year and it’s a lot of people – 48 million, or 1 in 6 Americans.

About 3,000 die from forborne diseases.

The CDC has had estimate before, but the agency believes these are the most accurate.

“We've made progress in better understanding the burden of foodborne illness and unfortunately, far too many people continue to get sick from the food they eat,” said Dr. Thomas Frieden, CDC director, in a statement. “These estimates provide valuable information to help CDC and its partners set priorities and further reduce illnesses from food.”

The new estimates are lower than past estimate because the agency says it’s using better methodology.


http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/health/2010/12/cdc_says_1_in_6_people_get_sic...


REVISED FIGURES

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/12/17/new-data-counters-half-baked-claims-of-fo...



COMMENT AT THIS LINK

George Colgrove, VA on December 17th, 2010 at 11:33am said:
This example of federal ineptitude demonstrates that as we dump valuable financial resources in one federal agency for one purpose, other federal departments are blind to the findings. CDC needs to legitimatize itself with one set of findings that if taken as the truth would illegitimatize another federal department, namely the FDA. However, in order for the FDA to legitimatize itself it needs to come out with completely different findings.

All this proves is that the federal government lies for its own benefit. If it were honest, we would not need a federally based CDC nor would we need a FDA. Both of these organizations can perfectly reside within the private sector as trade organizations with paying members from state governments, industry, academia, and private citizens. These organizations would then work for its paying membership and would be fully transparent. These organizations would be located in the private sector and have self-governance status. They would not need to lie, as their presence would be self-evident. In a political realm, their purpose and need is questionable.


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