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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.

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First I want to say that I am appalled at the way Congress is working on weekends, over holidays and under cover of darkness to push through legislation that they know their constituents would object to. Like I said in a previous post, I think they’ve forgotten who they really work for. I think it’s high time we remind them.

So, while we’ve been busy planning for our holiday festivities, they’ve quietly been pushing through a ‘Food Safety’ bill. It would essentially require that all food come from commerical agriculture, so that it can be monitored and controlled.

Now mind you – this is the very food that is keeping everyone fat and sick, but under this legislation- that would be your only choice. The original language would have made it illegal to even grown your own food!

Fortunately, HealthFreedomUSA.org has been on top of it. They rounded up a petition and were able to get some language changes made – but it’s not enough. They need you to go and sign the petition too!

It is very important that you take at least this small action to protect your right to eat fresh nutritious food. Please go here and sign the petition – http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

 I feel bad that I’ve been busy and missed it.  But that is exactly what they hoped for – that we’d all miss it and they could just quietly pass it through. I promise to stay on top of this one better.

If you don’t understand why this is so important – you need to read High Energy Eating. The good new is that you can read it for free when you take a 10 day free trial at Rebel With a Fork. Learn how to get fresh real food back in your household, while you still have the right.

You’ll find tons of information, recipes and gift ideas to make healthy eating easy and totally enjoyable!

Don’t let them take away your right to be healthy. You may not be exercising this right at the moment, but you’ve been meaning to, haven’t you?