The Great Organic Deceivers

August 21, 2012
anh-usa.org

 

Which organic brands really believe in organic—and which are working behind the scenes to betray natural health consumers?

Many natural and organic brands are actually owned by huge conglomerates that don’t support sustainable, organic, non-GMO, non-toxic agriculture. In fact, their product labels are often designed to mislead consumers just so they can grab a share of the lucrative health-conscious consumer market.

Even worse, many of the conglomerate companies that produce so-called natural foods—and even some labeled “organic”—are allied with the biotech industry fighting by any means to defeat “Label GMO,” a.k.a. Prop 37, the California Right to Know 2012 Ballot Initiative. Why are they doing such a thing? Because they sell more food that has GMO ingredients than organic food, and don’t want consumers to have a choice about the GMO. They especially don’t want consumers to know what is actually in their so-called “natural” products.

Keep in mind that the term “natural” has no legal or regulatory meaning at all: FDA has never created a definition for it and claims that “it is difficult to define a food product that is ‘natural’ because the food has probably been processed and is no longer the product of the earth.” In fact, FDA even says high-fructose corn syrup is natural! “Natural” is nothing more than a marketing term, one that is in fact meaningless.

You’d think a “natural” food wouldn’t have genetically engineered ingredients, but you’d be wrong. Kashi, which everywhere proclaims its passion for “healthy, all-natural foods,” has GMO soy in its ingredients. Kashi is owned by Kellogg, the multinational food manufacturing company that produces everything from sugary cereals to Morningstar Farms vegetarian products (some of which are organic but still use GMOs) to Keebler cookies (filled with GMOs). The company has contributed $612,000 to defeat Prop 37 and keep GMO labels off their products.

Sierra Mist Natural wears that moniker proudly because their soda is “made with real sugar and 100% natural flavors”! The brand is owned by PepsiCo, which has contributed more than $1 million to defeat Prop 37.

What you may not realize is that many organic brands have been snapped up by Big Food companies; their ownership is deliberately hidden from consumers. While they purport to have an environmental and health-conscious mission, they completely undercut that claim by fighting GMO labeling. Honest Tea, for example, is USDA-certified organic. Yet Honest Tea is owned by Coca-Cola, which has also contributed more than $1 million to defeat Label GMO. We don’t think that’s very honest. Coke also owns Odwalla, which produces “all-natural juices” and “nourishing protein bars,” and supposedly supports sustainable agriculture. GMO is sustainable agriculture?

Silk carries the “Non-GMO Project Verified” seal on its soy milk, coconut milk, and almond milk products. Both Silk and the Horizon Organic brand tell their customers that the brands oppose GMOs. Yet both are owned by Dean Foods, which has contributed $253,000 to defeat Label GMO. (CONTINUE READING)

The Huntsman Corporation: BPA and the Molecular Vision of Life

By Daniel Taylor
oldthinkernews.com
June 21, 2012

Cancer is a major business. It seems that massive amounts of money are raised in a “race for the cure” while the cause of cancer is ignored. The influence of foundations, corporations and entrenched scientific theory are all at work in this business.

The Molecular Vision of Life

Cancer research has historically focused on narrowly technical aspects of the disease. The same can be said for western medicine in general. This is largely due to the influential wealth of the captains of industry that have shaped the overall structure and focus of scientific research. This “molecular vision of life” has been the dominant view of western medicine since the beginning of the 20th century. E. Richard Brown writes in Rockefeller Medicine Men,

“Like the foundations and individual capitalists earlier in the century, federal health research has focused on the narrowly technical components of disease and death rather than on the broader economic and physical environments so central to… health… Neither the National Cancer Institute nor the American Cancer Society has shown much interest in investigating the environmental contribution to cancer.”

Today, cancer research is focused heavily on what may be called the “narrowly technical” model of genetics and heredity. While this research has revealed valuable information, there is another level of genetics that plays a dominant role in genetic expression. This upper level of genetics is called Epigenetics, and it is radically changing the entire field. This new field of study is showing that environmental toxins, diet and other factors play a major role in whether or not certain genes express themselves. It is in fact showing us that we have more control over our health than previously thought.

Bisphenol A – Do you know who actually makes it? (CONTINUE READING)

Organic farmers sue Monsanto

Organic farmers sue Monsanto

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Published: 28 July, 2011, 20:50

Organic farmers are taking on corporate America.

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Nearly 300,000 organic farmers are filing suit against corporate agriculture giant Monsanto, who have in recent years squashed independent organic farms from coast to coast.
270,000 organic farmers filed a lawsuit in March 30 in an attempt to keep a portion of the world’s food supply organic. The plaintiffs in the case are members of around 60 family farms, seed businesses and organic agricultural organizations.
Led by the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association, the suit lashes out at Monsanto to keep their engineered Genuity® Roundup Ready® canola seed out of their farms. Organic agriculturalists say that corn, cotton, sugar beets and other crops of theirs have been contaminated by Monsanto‘s seed, and even though the contamination has been largely natural and unintended, Monsanto has been suing hundreds of farmers for infringing on their patent for incidentally using their product.
Not only are organic farmers trying to keep things — well, organic — but now many of them are being forced to throw in the towel as Monsanto unfortunately continues a successful war on the competition by suing indie growers that run organic farms. In recent years, Monsanto has acquired more than 20 of the biggest seed producers and sellers in the country, and The Street reports that they have instituted a policy whereas their customers are forced to use their bionengineered seeds — and purchase them each and every year — lest they want to be blacklisted forever.  (CONTINUE READING)

Consolidation of seed companies leading to corporate domination of world food supply

July 27, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

naturalnews.com

(NaturalNews) Throughout the history of agriculture across the globe, farming has always been a diversified sector of the economy. Small, self-sustaining, family farms were the order of the day in most cultures. Even as small farms grew larger and more specialized over time, many of them still saved seeds or purchased them from other farmers, which kept control of farming in the hands of the people.

But today everything has changed, as large chemical and agribusiness firms have acquired or merged with seed companies and other agricultural input companies. They have successfully gained a foothold on genetically-modified (GM) crops with transgenic traits.

These primary factors and several others have facilitated a crescendo towards the global domination of agriculture by corporations, and thus the world's food supply.

The dismal state in which we find ourselves today did not come overnight, of course, but it did pick up rapid speed after the introduction of GM crops in the mid-1990s. Since that time, multinational corporations like Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta have seized a significant amount of control over the global seed industry, which has greatly limited agricultural diversity and freedom.

The ability to patent both seeds and seed traits has also added injury to insult, as the ability to obtain natural or heirloom seeds is becoming increasingly difficult, and many farmers feel they have no choice but to go with the flow.

Professor Philip H. Howard from the Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies at Michigan State University published a study in 2009 entitled Visualizing Consolidation in the Global Seed Industry: 1996 - 2008 that analyzes the trend in agriculture towards corporate dominance.

The report, which was featured in a special issue of the journal Renewable Agriculture, provides both an extensive data analysis of agriculture's dramatic transformation over the past several decades, as well as a highly-informative visual analysis of this truly shocking hostile takeover situation.

The 'Big Six" pharmaceutical and chemical companies have acquired, created joint ventures with hundreds of seed companies over the past 15 years

In order to help assist his readers in understanding the state of the seed industry, Prof. Howard developed a very informative graphic that displays the reality of who really controls the seed industry.

Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta, Bayer, Dow, and BASF collectively own or partially-own hundreds of formerly-independent seed companies -- and Monsanto, of course, dominates them all.

You can view the graphic for yourself at the following link:
http://www.naturalnews.com/files/se...

As you will see, the blue circles in the diagram represent seed companies, while the red circles -- which happen to all be chemical or pharmaceutical companies -- control the vast majority of them. Solid gray arrows indicate complete ownership of a company, while gray lines indicate partial ownership.

One of the most obvious first impressions to be gathered from the diagram is Monsanto's excessive and widespread control over the seed industry. According to Prof. Howard's analysis, Monsanto acquired more than 50 seed companies just during the time represented by his study period, which spans the years between 1996 and 2008.

Monsanto had little-to-no involvement in the seed industry prior to the mid-1980s, but since that time has been rapidly eating up seed companies and furthering its development and control over the food supply through GMOs. Today, Monsanto is the world's largest seed company, and the transnational behemoth continues to acquire or otherwise create "partnerships" with various independent seed companies that are still in existence.

Behind Monsanto, the other five of the "Big Six" that Prof. Howard illustrates -- DuPont, Syngenta, Bayer, Dow, and BASF -- collectively own or control a great portion of the remaining major seed companies not owned or controlled by Monsanto. And one of the biggest factors that has contributed to this dismal setup is GMOs and transgenic, patentable seed traits that are shared among the industry players.

The "Big Six" each have agreements with one or more of the others; their overall success has largely hinged on GMOs and increased control of agricultural inputs

The only thing worse than Monsanto and the dominance of the seed market are the cozy relationships with one another. Prof. Howard's analysis reveals that every company in the "Big Six" has at least one mutual relationship with one another, and they together share corporate control of the seed industry. (CONTINUE READING)

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/033148_seed_companies_Monsanto.html#ixzz1TMYvyCL9

6 Ways Food is Being Used as a Weapon

Activist Post
July 25, 2011

Hungry people will do anything for food, which means that those who have control over food can use it as leverage.

Dees Illustration

In 1974, Henry Kissinger suggested using food as a weapon to induce targeted population reduction in a previously classified 200-page report, National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests.  The primary tactic to be applied is that food aid would be withheld from developing nations until they submitted to birth control policies:

There is also some established precedent for taking account of family planning performance in appraisal of assistance requirements by AID [U.S. Agency for International Development] and consultative groups. Since population growth is a major determinant of increases in food demand, allocation of scarce PL 480 resources should take account of what steps a country is taking in population control as well as food production. In these sensitive relations, however, it is important in style as well as substance to avoid the appearance of coercion.

So, food was to be used as just another method of imperial colonization to force countries to conform their policies to those desired by the controllers. Notably, this tactic only works as a blunt weapon on territories enduring a severe economic collapse and with little resources for food production. Today, however, it appears that the entire globe is receiving an arsenal of food bombs as there appears to be a multifaceted attack on people’s access to food.  In other words, what has been an admitted tactic for nearly 40 years of controlling food aid for regional population reduction has now grown more complex and expansive. Because of massive corporate consolidation of agriculture, centrally coordinated global regulations, a devalued commodity-dollar and unrestrained commodity speculation, chemical and genetic modification, and real or manipulated food shortages; there is indeed a war being waged -- with food as the primary weapon.  Understand, this is a not purely a war on food, but rather a war on the general population. Therefore, it is crucial to understand these tactics in order to defend against them.

Here are six ways food is being used to wage war against the population:

1. Food inflation: Crippling food inflation is now affecting every corner of the world with the poorest feeling the worst pangs.  The U.N.  Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) food price index increased by 3 points to 234 points in June – a 39% increase on the year. These increases are causing mass starvation and rioting in many poor regions of the world, but they are also beginning to punish the middle-class in the Industrialized nations.  The price of food is inflating primarily because of a devalued commodity-dollar from excessive money printing and Wall Street commodity speculation.  Perhaps it's more appropriate to call it commodity manipulation, not speculation.  As William Engdahl recently pointed out: "The ability to manipulate the price of essential foods worldwide at will -- almost irrespective of today’s physical supply and demand for grains -- is quite recent....Up until the grain crisis of the mid-1970s there was no single 'world price' for grain, the benchmark for the price of all foods and food products."

What fuels commodity speculation is not just the obvious decline of the dollar and a flight to something tangible, but also genuine supply concerns based on a variety of factors that cause crop shortages like extreme weather or disease. Regardless of real or manipulated food shortages, food prices will continue to rise because of increased demand and an incrementally weaker dollar. Luckily, there are many ways to protect yourself from food inflation and the food war in general.
(CONTINUE READING)

USDA trying to run organic leafy green growers out of business

Sunday, July 17, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

(NaturalNews) Results of the passage of S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, are beginning to come into play -- and in this case the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), rather than the FDA, has decided to take the helm.

A recent Action Alert posted by the Cornucopia Institute (CI) warns that current efforts by handlers and marketers of green leafy vegetables are attempting to formulate one-size-fits-all "food safety" standards for the entire industry that threaten to put small, organic growers at a competitive and economic disadvantage. They may even put small, family-scale growers out of business.

NaturalNews and many other news sources put out repeated warnings last year about the ill intentions of S. 510, including that the small growers would be uprooted by its provisions if it passed (http://www.naturalnews.com/S_510.html).

Now that it has, we are beginning to see the consequences of this bill come into play. Difficult guidelines for all growers, are being proposed.

According to the alert, corporate agribusiness is attempting to form a "National Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement" with the USDA that will allegedly set standards to help prevent contamination and disease outbreaks. But as many NaturalNews readers already know, leafy greens are not dangerous. It is large-scale factory animal farms that pollute air and water that are mostly to blame. (CONTINUE READING)

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/033021_leafy_greens_food_safety.html#ixzz1SNufc0N4

The worlds largest human experiment: GMOs, Roundup and the Monsanto monstrosity – part one

Madison Ruppert, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

Informed consent is one of the most basic aspects of patient-physician relations, as well as subject-researcher relations in the case of research studies. This involves making the patient aware of and verifying that they understand the risks, benefits, facts, and the future implications of the procedure or test they are going to be subjected to.

In the case of genetically modified organisms we have not been made aware of the risks. In fact, the GMO industry has deliberately hidden the real dangers behind the seeds and herbicides they peddle.  The Food and Drug Administration of the United States of America has defined informed consent in the following bureaucratic jargon:  (CONTINUE READING)

Our Immune System: Nature’s Perfect Machine

Ben Fuchs
Infowars.com
April 7, 2011
The human immune system is an amazing, complex, intricate biological framework of structures and processes that is exquisitely designed to protect the body from a wide variety of pathological agents. It is composed of countless cellular and subcellular mechanisms that gives it an intelligence and flexibility that is nothing short of miraculous. B cells and T cells, and Natural Killer cells (that’s really what they’re called!) and immunoglobulins all coordinated and synchronized and astoundingly effective, in most cases the immune system is all that stands between us and potential disaster caused by bacterial, viral and environmental invasion. Without an immune system you would be dead in hours.
That’s why, in the world of toxic pharmaceutical drugs, among the worst, are drugs that suppress the immune system. The medical community loves these drugs as many of the health challenges patients face today involve excessive immune activity, misdirected immune action or inflammation which can be regarded as the obvious manifestations of the immune system. Prednisone, and its derivatives, has long been a mainstay of treatment for immune based disease states. Many drugs for asthma and rheumatoid arthritis are likewise immune suppressants. And just last week, a study appeared in the journal Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases that suggested that the immunosuppressant anti-cancer drug Gleevec (imatinib) showed promise for treating the autoimmune disease of the connective tissue called scleroderma.
Folks, please understand: suppression of the immune system is serious business. It’s playing with biochemical fire. The immune system is nature’s way of protecting the body from assault and knocking it out in the name of good health is flat out bad medicine. The appropriate response to an overactive immune system is NOT to shut it down! The correct response is to try to figure out why it’s overactive. If your baby is crying and you put duct tape on his mouth, you may not hear him crying any more, but you aren’t taking very good care of your baby. Likewise, a hyperactive immune system that is showing up as scleroderma or lupus or rheumatoid arthritis can be shut down, but you aren’t doing your body (baby) any favors.  (CONTINUE READING)

Industrial Farming: Immorality, Subsidized

By David Kretzmann  Feb 7th, 2011

As a lifelong vegetarian, no style of meat production is particularly appealing or justifiable to me. However, despite my herbivore bias, I still see an ethical dilemma present in current industrial meat facilities. Little respect is given to the conditions and treatment of the animals in industrial facilities. Animals rarely see the light of day for any substantial amount of time and they are raised on concrete floors; they are treated as mere products without regard for their status as living, breathing beings. The greatest crime, however, is that industrial facilities survive purely out of price floors, legal code, and other direct government subsidies that hinder competition from natural, local food systems.
A superior product in the marketplace should not require extra help from a government agency, whether it be in the form of a price guarantee for corn (the main substance fed to livestock in industrial facilities), legal code that mandates industrial farming (or heavily restricts other methods of non-industrial farming), or other government subsidies. The fact that industrial livestock facilities rely on government assistance for survival is a testament to their flawed, unnecessary, and undesirable business practices. (If they don’t require government assistance for survival, why continue providing subsidies and other competitive advantages to these corporate industrial livestock giants?) If people prefer to purchase industrial livestock meat over locally grown free range meat, there is no need for subsidies or other governmental involvement. Clearly, subsidies are needed only when a corporation or industry (such as industrial livestock producers) offers a lousy product that people won’t normally desire.
Government subsidies merely provide the illusion of cheap prices, which goes a long way in distorting the prices and actions of people in the marketplace. The fact that industrial meat is the cheapest does not mean it’s a better product or business model, particularly when you account for the government assistance needed to lower the price in the first place. Of course, it is us, the taxpayers, who are providing the subsidies, so the cost we pay for “cheap” food at the grocery store isn’t actually very cheap. We pay taxes to provide farm and grain subsidies, fund the bureaucracies who regulate and administer fines to farmers who don’t cooperate with the industrial system, among other taxpayer-funded programs.

Society is not bearing the cost of water pollution, of antibiotic resistance, of food-borne illnesses, of crop subsidies, of subsidized oil and water- of all the hidden costs to the environment and the taxpayer that make cheap food seem cheap. No thinking person will tell you they don’t care about all that. I tell them the choice is simple: You can buy honestly priced food or you can buy irresponsibly priced food. – Joel Salatin [i]

Clearly the industrial food system has government tilted in its favor; its products are cheap not because of their superior taste or flavor, but because they have managed to successfully crawl into bed with government to dismantle other legitimately competitive businesses. The philosophy of the industrial food system can be summed up in this statement: if people won’t buy your lousy, nauseating product, lobby government for subsidies and other protectionist interventions to dismantle competitors who actually offer a product desirable to the public. (CONTINUE READING ARTICLE)

Killing You Softly - Rat Poison Found To Make Good Blood Thinner

by S.Becker
Infoleaks.blogspot.com

The only catch is that one or more of the following symptoms may occur:

pain, swelling, hot or cold feeling, skin changes, or discoloration anywhere on your body; sudden and severe leg or foot pain, foot ulcer, purple toes or fingers; sudden headache, dizziness, or weakness; unusual bleeding (nose, mouth, vagina, or rectum), bleeding from wounds or needle injections, easy bruising, purple or red pinpoint spots under your skin; blood in your urine, black or bloody stools, coughing up blood or vomit that looks like coffee grounds; pale skin, feeling light-headed or short of breath............, rapid heart rate, trouble concentrating; dark urine, jaundice (yellowing of the skin or eyes); pain in your stomach, back, or sides; urinating less than usual or not at all; numbness or muscle weakness; or illness with diarrhea, fever, chills, body aches,  flu symptoms,. nausea, vomiting, mild stomach pain; bloating, gas; or altered sense of taste..

Not Happy?
What did You Expect?.......... IT'S RAT POISON !! 

The preceding symptoms are due to the possible side effects from the Medically prescribed  "Coumadin" also known as: Warfarin, Rodafarin, Ro-Deth, Rat-ola and Rat-Kill among others, which has been used for over fifty years as an anti-coagulant in humans.

Don't take my word for it! look for yourself....
See the: MSDS Material Safety Data Sheet for Coumadin

Special Remarks on other Toxic Effects on Humans:

Toxic if swallowed. May be fatal if swallowed. May cause ulceration or bleeding from the small intestine. May affect the blood (hemorrhage, change in clotting factors, normocytic anemia, changes in red blood cell count), vascular system, behavior/central nervous system/nervous system (somnolence, muscle weakness), respiration (dyspnea), urinary system (hematuria). General symptoms of poisoning which begin after a few days or weeks of repeated exposure (ingestion), include epistaxis (nosebleed), bleeding gums, pallor, petechial rash, and hematomas around the joints, or on the buttocks, blood in the urine and feces. Bleeding may be initiated by normal movement of muscles and organs, or may occur spontaneously in organs which do not have substantial movement.

See: Chemical Encyclopedia 

Description

Warfarin is a rodenticide used in the home, outdoors, in food service establishments, near fruit trees, in storage buildings, sewers and other places where rodents may be a problem. This white, odorless, tasteless compound, an anti-coagulant, causes bleeding and blood-thinning.
Children may come into contact with warfarin in its powder, pellet or bait forms. It should never be used anywhere near children!
Warfarin is also used for medical purposes.

Health Effects

Immediate Health Effects

• If SWALLOWED, 3-(alpha-acetonylbenzyl)-4- hydroxycoumarin (warfarin) is Very Highly Toxic
• If ABSORBED THROUGH SKIN, 3-(alpha-acetonylbenzyl)-4- hydroxycoumarin (warfarin) is Very Highly Toxic
• If INHALED (SNIFFED OR BREATHED IN), 3-(alpha-acetonylbenzyl)-4- hydroxycoumarin (warfarin) is Very Highly Toxic

Longterm or Delayed Health Effects

• This chemical may cause cancer.  It is considered a Possible Carcinogen by the World Health Organization, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or another agency.
• Neurotoxin = Can harm brain and central nervous system
• Development Toxicant = Can interfere with normal development of a fetus or child

Other

• Multiple birth defects including bone and nasal deformities, blindness or unusually small eyes, hydrocephalus (water on the brain), mental retardation.
• Fetal, neonatal or maternal bleeding.
• Bleeding from the nose, lip, gums or upper airway, blood in urine and feces, bruising, rash.
• Paleness or fatigue caused by anemia, muscle and joint pain, blurry vision, eye pain.
• Vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea.
• Upper airway pain, difficulty in speaking and swallowing, shortness of breath.

Think about this.... If your doctor said to you: " I can't prescribe anything that's natural, but I do have a synthetic chemical that will thin your blood, It's called "Rat-Kill"

How would you react?

When considering a source for a drug that thins the blood of those that ingest it, one would expect  Rat Poison to be  nowhere near the list of contenders, but when you do a bit of research on who is behind  the Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex. It all makes perfect sense.

They want to Kill You Softly,  just softly enough so that you're not aware of it. Meanwhile they can suck every dime out of you until your good and dead.

You could also think of it like this:
A couple of company scientists are searching for a marketable substance to use as a blood thinner and make lots of Money for the "Company's Shareholders" One says to the other, Hey!! What about that rat poison in the cabinet? one of it's effects is that it thins blood.
The other Scientist says:  Well what about all the other effects that are extremely toxic and could cause a whole new set of problems for the patient? 

Not a problem say's the other Scientist, I think of it as Job Security. We'll be busy coming up with new drugs, Besides! It's not up to us anyway.

The "owners" won't put an end to this process because it Fits the Agenda. 
That's why it's up to us to stop believing and start doing our own thinking.
Only We Can Change Things!

If you think this all sounds like a Conspiracy,  then your right!. It's a Conspiracy from the very top. Only those at the top need to know the agenda and everyone below is neatly compartmentalized into doing what they're told or "doing their job". The world has plenty of useful idiots, straw men and patsies to carry out their plans.

The Elite have been using the left-right paradigm and practicing the Hegelian Dialectic on the public (aka: peasants, useless eaters, the masses, common folk, sheep or sheeple)  for centuries. First they create a problem, wait for the expected reaction, then offer up the desired solution. In this case, make as many of us as sick as possible and absorb as much wealth as possible in the process of "healing" us, then depopulate the planet.

To them, were all just a bunch of Rats anyway.....

Want a solution?
Here's where to start:

List of blood thinners found in nature: 

Foods like Curry powder, Cayenne pepper, Ginger, Paprike, Thyme, Cinnamon, Dill, Oregano, Turmeric, Licorice, and Peppermint, Raisins, Prunes, Cherries, Cranberries, Blueberries, Grapes, Strawberries, Tangerines, Oranges, Honey, Vinegar, Garlic, Onions, Olive oil, Avocados, Cabbage, Broccoli, Brussel sprouts, Cauliflower, Parsely, and some wines and ciders  all have thinning effects on the blood.

So why would drug companies want to sell you Rat Poison instead?  Is it because they cannot Patent Garlic, Ginger or anything else that occurs naturally? But of course, none of them have the desired side effects, like BPA in the plastics, Fluoride in the water Aspartame in your food and numerous other chemicals that have been known to cause problems for many years and still find there way into your food supply. Don't expect your government to protect you when the Military, Pharmaceutical, Agricultural, Industrial Complex  (Video) ........ Is Your Government.

It's not that Coumadin has not saved lives. That is not disputed. In Fact it is this very thing that is attributed to keeping President Eisenhower alive after warning us about the Military Industrial  Complex,  but if you settle on poisons rather than naturally occurring medicines,  then you're just another lab rat being used as a test subject for a new line of drugs to profit from.

You can do one of two things: You can do your own research right at home on your computer, then approach your doctor with the information that you have found and ask questions. If your Doctor has no information on natural alternatives or has not studied it,  then you can decide right there whether he or she is still your doctor. It's up to you.

Or,  you can just take your Rat-Kill and shut up!.....It's your choice !

MORE INFORMATION ON NATURAL SOLUTIONS

Warfarin and Chinese Medicine
 http://www.healthiertalk.com/natural-alternative-coumadin-2230

http://www.healthy-heart-guide.com/natural-blood-thinners.html

http://drbloem.com/2009/06/11/coumadin-alternatives/

http://www.naturalnews.com/020682.html

http://www.herbalremedies.com/blthansu.html

http://www.ctds.info/natthinners.html

http://www.drlam.com/opinion/coumadin.asp

Some thoughts on S510,and the "spin" of all the calls for action

by Katrin Themliitz
Director: Sedona, AZ Farmers Market
sedonamarket@gmail.com

Genetically Modified......WTF!!

   As I am trying to understand the spin of all the calls for action out there on S510 and Codex, here are some things I found interesting. This is a link I found that exposes the spin of Natural Health Solutions and Citizens for Health to mislead public about the application of CODEX -  http://www.nocodexgenocide.com/page/page/3312735.htm

   Also see newsletter  to kill S510 (founded by retired general from Dept.of Homeland Security).
 http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/0/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=1200414

    I was confused by different messages by local food activists including why Michael Pollan and some other Food, Inc folks are for S510 (with small farm and manager's amendments)

   Attached is the 400 something page proposed legislation called S510 - check out page 11. It seems that the language leaves everything open for more detailed determinations after the bill is passed and after FDA and Dpt of Homeland Security are given the reigns to our food system. Specifically, farmers markets and CSAs are mentioned and defined as "retail establishments". They will be regulated, but we will not know how till a year after bill is passed into law. Yes - amendments for small farm and ranch and managers amendments are included but the language is vague and the fee structure though scaled is still undefined. I agree with Joe Sigg, our AZ Farm Bureau lobbyist, that "if this passes as is, the impact will depend a great deal upon how the rules are written." We won't know how the rules will be written till a year from when the bill passes as stated in S510. They propose meetings in different states to get feedback before rules are finalized. However, I remember the recent USDA sponsored public "community meetings" that were more like "token" meetings in regards to investigating anti trust violations by large seed companies like Monsanto. Results and public feedback were very poorly documented nor were they covered in the press.

READ THE BILL >>>> BILLS-111s510es.pdf
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Below is the newsletter by a very convincing spin machine .---------- From: Natural Solutions Foundation - Health Freedom Portal Date: Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:36 PM 
Subject: Take A Deep Breath: Get Ready For the Next Food Freedom Round.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/blastContent.jsp

RELATED INFORMATION:
http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/the-history-of-health-tyranny-codex-alimentarius-part-1/

http://thebovine.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/in-1999-35-million-small-family-plots-produced-90-of-russias-potatoes-77-of-vegetables-87-of-fruits-59-of-meat-49-of-milk-way-to-go-people/

http://www.natural-health-information-centre.com/codex-alimentarius.html

http://educate-yourself.org/cn/codexalimentarius15jan09.shtml

December 9, 2010 by president@farmtoconsumer.org.

SENATORS, Vote "NO" on Cloture for H.R. 3082 & Oppose the  FDA Food Safety Modernization Act By a 212-206 vote on December 8, the House passed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (formerly S.510) as an amendment to H.R. 3082 (the "Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011" to fund the government through September 2011). A food safety act should not be part of a spending bill. House Democrats attached what was S.510 (as passed by the Senate on November 30) to H.R. 3082 because they were worried about Republican opposition to it as a stand alone bill. The next step for H.R. 3082 is to go to the Senate for a vote. As this is the Senate, the first vote on H.R. 3082 will be on a cloture motion to limit debate before there is a vote on the bill itself.   TAKE ACTION People need to contact their Senators now to tell them to Vote "NO" on Cloture for H.R. 3082 and Oppose the "FDA Food Safety Modernization Act" (Division D of H.R. 3082). STEP 1 - Send a live fax message to your Senators through the online petition at www.ftcldf.org/stopS510    even if you've already used the petition this week. STEP 2 - Call your Senators and be sure to give your zip code Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121; ask to be connected to your Senator's office.     OR Go to www.congress.org; enter your zip code on the right side under "Get Involved" and click "Go". Click on your Senators' names then click the "Contact" tab to get office phone number(s). If you get voicemail, leave a brief message with your zip code. If the line is busy, keep calling until you get through. TALKING POINTS The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act is fundamentally flawed and is not in the best interest of small farmers, especially those who produce raw milk.  1. FDA does not respect individuals' rights to obtain healthy, quality foods of their choice. The agency has stated as a matter of public record, that:       "There is no absolute right to consume or feed children any particular food."      "Plaintiffs' assertion of a 'fundamental right to their own bodily and physical health, which includes what foods they do and do not choose to consume for themselves and their families' is similarly unavailing because plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to obtain any food they wish." FDA has even participated in armed raids on small-scale co-ops and membership organizations. This agency should not be given any additional power. 2. FDA has adequate powers under existing law to ensure food safety and effectively deal with foodborne illness outbreaks. FDA has power to inspect, power to detain product and can readily obtain court orders to seize adulterated or misbranded food products or enjoin them from being sold. The problem isn't that FDA needs more power; it's that FDA does not effectively use the power it currently has. The agency has power to inspect imported food yet inspects only 1% of food coming into this country from outside our borders. 3. The Act does nothing to address many significant food safety problems in this country, such as those resulting from confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs), genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and various contaminants (e.g., BPA, pesticides, herbicides, etc.). 4. FDA has used its existing power to benefit the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries at the expense of public health (e.g., allowing the overuse of antibiotics in confined animal feeding operations and refusing to require labeling for genetically-modified foods). This Act does not address the fundamental problems at this agency in order to truly protect public health. 5. The Act will expand FDA's involvement in regulating food in intra-state commerce, further interfering with local communities. State and local governments are more than capable of handling any problems related to food in intrastate commerce. All the major outbreaks of foodborne illness involve either imported food or food in inter-state commerce. 6. The Act will hurt our ability as a nation to be self-sufficient in food production because it has more lenient inspection requirements for foreign than domestic producers creating an unfair advantage for food imports. Giving an advantage to foreign producers will only increase the amount of food imported into this country that does not meet our domestic standards. The Act does not address food security--the ability of a country to produce enough food to meet its own needs.