Common Sense Living

Here is an exerpt from an atricle at the Washington Post on the Delay of the Food Safety Act that you should read carefully -

“Dingell wrote the House bill, which would grant vast new authorities to the Food and Drug Administration and mark the first serious reform of food safety laws in 70 years. The measure was headed for easy passage in Senate until the spring, when Feinstein said she wanted to add language that would ban a controversial chemical, bisphenol A or BPA, from food packaging.

Feinstein’s BPA proposal won applause from some public health groups but sparked immediate protest from the chemical industry, food manufacturers and major business interests, who pledged to withdraw their support for the bill if it included a ban on BPA.

BPA has been linked in animal studies to cancer, reproductive problems and other disorders. The chemical has been used in commercial products since the 1950s and is found in thousands of items from sunglasses to compact discs. But researchers are most concerned about BPA in food packaging because it is found to leach from the packaging into food and beverages. BPA has been detected in the urine of 93 percent of the U.S. population, according to estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some scientists believe that BPA, a synthetic form of estrogen, could affect the endocrine system and disrupt child development.

Did you notice anything odd here? OK, I bolded it to give you a clue…

Big industry will withdraw thier support of the bill?

Excuse me?

Who is running this country?

It is big industry’s job to follow the rules – not make them. At least that’s what I remember from high school social studies. Seems to me the government is supposed to by by the people, for the people. Anyone remember that line?

The history of the house bill that passed last year is interesting too -

From GovTrack.us -

Jul 29, 2009: This bill failed in the House of Representatives by roll call vote. The vote was held under a suspension of the rules to cut debate short and pass the bill, needing a two-thirds majority. This usually occurs for non-controversial legislation. The totals were 280 Ayes, 150 Nays, 3 Present/Not Voting. Vote Details.

Jul 30, 2009: This bill passed in the House of Representatives by roll call vote. The totals were 283 Ayes, 142 Nays, 8 Present/Not Voting. Vote Details.

Despite Dr. Rima’s rantings, the house bill (which is HR 2749, not HR 1279) doesn’t look all that terrible. It does exempt individuals, farmers, and fishermen.  I’m not sure how they separate small commercial farms from industrial farms, or just where they draw the line.  I haven’t read the entire bill.

I still think you should take the time to let your Senators know that you are concerned. I know Dr. Rima’s style is a bit overboard, but she is on a mission! You can’t deny that. And it is absolutely true that if Congress doesn’t think we’re watching, they will quietly pass whatever big industry wants. We have to let them know we’re watching.

The House Bill requires the FDA to determine the safety standards. If they do as well with food as they have with drugs, we’re in trouble.

This is not to say that the food safety system doesn’t need to be overhauled. It does. But to hand our food safety over to the FDA who has a corrupt history and supports big industry first, and our health last is not a very good idea, don’t you agree?

And the FDA’s preferred methods of making food safe will only further decrease the nutrient value. And as you saw above, the commerical industries will have too much say in how that is accomplished.

At least at this point, our right to buy locally grown and/or raised food seems to be preserved. I don’t trust the commercial food or drug industries, or our agencies that regulate them. I want my right to not consume them, to be able to buy my food from local farmers, or grow it myself to be protected. I really am a Rebel With a Fork

And yes, BPA should be banned!

So should GMO’s.

The FDA should be dismantled and a new agency formed that actually does the job of protecting us. Let those high paid scientists tell us what they really think instead of the FDA gagging them.

If big industry doesn’t like the fact that they have to stop killing us – that’s tough!

Just my 2 cents…

Has any of this changed the way you shop or eat?

Have you taken any ‘mouse warrior’ action on these bills?

Do you find the timing of the egg crisis to be a little suspect? Oh, don’t look so shocked. Wouldn’t be the first time. Watch how fast this bill moves now.

The latest from the GMO Wars! (From the Natural Solutions Foundation)

As we’ve said before… the GMO invasion continues and unless it is stopped, there will be NO CHOICE.
Action Item: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2049

This just in from our friends at the Organic Consumers Association: the OCA is leading a boycott Kellogg campaign due to the company’s pro-GMO stance. In response to consumer complaints, this is what the company says — please carefully read this short paragraph, it confirms exactly what we’ve long asserted:

“Biotech ingredients are [sic] safe and have become common in the open market. Sixty to seventy percent of packaged foods in the U.S. include biotechnology crops. Even organic ingredients can contain biotech ingredients due to cross-pollination.“
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Keep S. 510 from controlling our Food and Our Lives! Click here:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

For an In Depth Discussion of What Is At Stake If We Lose on S. 510, click here:

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6300

We Still Need to Keep The Pressure On
New URGENT Action Item: Senate May
Sneak Disastrous Fake “Food Safety Bill” Through Unless We Act NOW!

Take Action NOW: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

Short, But Not At All Sweet: We WILL Lose Access to Clean, Unadulterated Food If We Do Not Act Now In Huge Numbers. Even if you have taken action on this issue before, make sure you take action on this new item.  We need hundreds of thousands of emails to stop this bill – we’ve kept it off the floor for 9 months through our pressure.  This is vitally important.  Please act and motivate your contacts to do the same.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4252

November, 2009, looked like the end of the road for health freedom and healthy food.  Giant industrial segments of the Uber-Cartel had set their sights on eliminating, once and for all, local, clean, unadulterated and organic food growing while bringing Codex into full effect in the US.  After passing HR 1279, the House version of this horrific bill, the Senate took up the matter of this bill. 

And it seemed that there was simply too much power for us, who are, as the past president of BP called us, “the little people” to push back this onslaught of dedicated might, money and power.  But that is exactly what we “little people” have done. 

First, we made it so politically uncomfortable for members of the Senate that they could not openly take up the Uber-Cartel’s cause.  And then we kept on pushing them back with our emails – 150,000 of them in one weekend after which Senator Harkin said that the Bill would not be voted upon because the Senate has received “a few” emails over that weekend.  And we kept on pushing, helped along by our friend, the long time Washington lobbyist and insider.  From him we learned that the end of the Senate session before August recess was the most dangerous time for us.  If they could get away with it, the Senate would pass S. 510 by “unanimous consent” as if the bill were totally uncontroversial.  He also told us that if we could pressure the bill off the voting schedule, it was unlikely that we would have another battle to pass this bill in the fall when Congress reconvenes.

We, collectively, took his advice and the bill never came to a vote.  In the autumn, we have to make sure that the same kind of pressure yields the same results: NO food fascism!

Please take this simple action now to protect our right to eat real food –

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4252

I will be working on finding a list of all of the representatives who voted to pass HR 1279 and publishing it.

There is a push by the US government to make Labeling GMO foods illegal – WORLDWIDE. If this passes, even the countries that have so far fended off GMOs will be powerless. It will be over. Monsanto will continue to gain control over all food – period.

How do you feel about that?

How do you feel about food that will make your children sterile and shorten their lifespan?

Every single American should be screaming NO! At the top of their lungs.

If your voice has not been heard on the subject – WHY NOT?

Click this link for more information – and to take action – http://www.seedsofdeception.com/GMFree/TakeAction/CodexConference/index.cfm

Read the whole letter.

Your health, and your kid’s health depend on you taking a stand.

You must care some, or you wouldn’t be reading healthy eating sites. Take action now before your right to have healthy food is gone forever.

Have you ever wondered? I mean, to hear some tell it, you have to wait months for treatment. Right? Haven’t you heard that?

But when you actually talk to someone from Canada, they say that’s not the case at all. And if you saw Sicko, it painted a totally different picture from what we’re being told.

Well, I stumbled across an article written by Dr. Simeon Roger, from Canada – and he had a lot to say about what we’re being told.

U.S. Health Care Debate: This Irate Canadian Speaks Out!

What do you think?

I just finished listening to a webinar that I’m passing on to you.

I knew some of this stuff, but even I was horrified by some of the information. It goes far deeper than we realize.

Just follow this link  – Things you need to know -

Your life may depend on it.