FrankenSalmon -

Coming Soon To

A Table Near You

Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor

(Healingtalks) In September of 2010 the FDA approved the first genetically animal safe for eating. The “product” is a genetically modified Atlantic salmon developed by AquaBounty Technologies  named AquaAdvantage Salmon (AAS).

“Improved” salmon

AAS can incredibly grow twice as fast, which is an economic boom. More $$ are to be made, which blinds consciousness not to look at the likely negative impacts.

How this was accomplished

This growth rate was gained by modifying the salmon’s genome, the addition of a growth hormone gene, and an antifreeze gene. AquaBounty claims its salmon is an environmentally sustainable alternative . With AAS, the unnatural modification occurs in that two proteins are being introduced into the salmon’s genetic makeup are from other fish.

Supposed benefits of huge and hugely profitable frankensalmon

Presumed benefits include:

• Enviro impact – AAS will be raised in land-based facilities to reduce the environmental impact on coastal areas
• Diseases – May eliminate the threat of disease transfers.
• Transport – Will allow the harvesters to live near these landbased food facilities, reducing some of the costs of fish transport and the use of fossil fuels, again helping the environment.

Ploy to sell harmful frankensalmon

The above ignores the following:

• Health impacts – First there is the  issue of safety in eating  genetically modified salmon is “are they safe to eat?”  There is amply evidence that other genetically modified foods have ill health effects – including causing allergic reactions, digestive disturbances, infertility, and an overall weakening of the immune system. There have been no long term studies, as usual.
• Environmental impacts – Then there is the issue of an ultimate environmental impact, especially if the AAS salmon are accidently introduced into the wild.  While AAS are designed for land facilities, precautions can never be fool-proof. This is why he Fish and Wildlife Service opposes frankenfish.

AAS salmon are all triploid females, which means that they are not only all female, but sterilized.  Sometimes this sterilization doesn’t work. There is a failure of sterilization in .1 to 1% of fish, which is a pretty small number, except fish farms usually contain  up to a 1 million fish – and many of these farms are to be established.

Given the size of Frankensalmon

How this could impact wild fish populations is unknown. But given their size, they may be more attractive for mating then a natural Atlantic salmon, which could negatively impact wild salmon populations.

Ultimately these farms should be outlawed. But is established, knowing the industry’s history and arrogance, it is unlikely there will be adequate  monitoring to make sure these salmon mutants none escape to the wild. Also the US government has had a nonchalant attitude toward such environmental threats, as evidence by the growing of GMO crops in wildlife preserves. This is especially important in areas where a salmon population is now already present. As the video below shows, there is a real potential for destroying the natural salmon population.

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Common Ingredient

In Commercial Breads

Comes From Human Hair

Harvested in China

Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor

(Healingtalks) If you read the ingredients label on a loaf of bread, you will usually find an ingredient listed there as L-cysteine.

This is a non-essential amino acid added to flour and baked goods as a dough conditioner and to speed industrial processing of breads. It’s not added in home use but rather for making of commercial breads, pizza dough, bread rolls, pastries, and the like.

How L-cysteine Is Made

L-cysteine is usually either synthesized in laboratories or extracted from a natural protein source: human hair. The hair is dissolved in acid and L-cysteine is isolated chemically, then packaged and shipped off to commercial bread producers.

Other Source of L-cysteine

L-cysteine can also be made from chicken feathers, duck feathers, cow horns and petroleum byproducts. But most of the hair used to make L-cysteine is from the floors of barbershops and hair salons in China.

While the thought of eating dissolved hair might make some people uneasy, most Western consumers have no principled objections. though some do.

Religious Objections

For Jews and Muslims, the hair-derived L-cysteine poses significant problems. Muslims are forbidden from eating anything derived from a human body, and many rabbis forbid hair consumption for similar reasons. Even rabbis who permit the consumption of hair would forbid it if it came from corpses — and since much L-cysteine comes from China, where sourcing and manufacturing practices are notoriously questionable, this is a real concern. In one case, a rabbi forbade the consumption of L-cysteine because the hair had been harvested during a ritual at a temple in India.

Source: 25 Amazing Facts About Food, authored by Mike Adams and David Guiterrez. This report reveals where your food comes from and what’s truly in it! Full  report here with 24 more surprising facts about foods, beverages and food ingredients.

Other resources:

See :  Fun food facts video

and video below.

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(Healingtalks) The recent destruction of the American people’s way of life began more than 30 years ago when the Reagan administration crafted deliberate policies that stopped enforcement of antitrust laws at the Department of Justice. This encouraged vast corporate mergers. It launched an assault on common sense government and its oversight.

Since that time, politicians  have undermined public welfare and embraced the radical notion of “free” markets to feed corporate greed, and without accountability.

14 signs that the collapse

of our modern world

has already begun

By Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Editor Healingtalks

(Healingtalks) This is post is one of the most important we have put up.

So much of what is happening in our tumultuous world…..from earthquakes, river floodings and tzunamis, to the overturning governments in the Middle East and our own Occupy Wall Street movement…..is unsettling.

Why are these things happening now?

Here is an explanation you won’t find elsewhere

So PLEASE pass this on to friends and family. It is important.

My dad left Germany in the 1940′s just before its collapse, and after reading Hitler’s Mein Kampf he saw the writing on the wall.

When any person decides to become say…. an astronaut, football player, musician, actor or actress or whatever…. common sense tells us that their key decisions in life were made from deep inside, after some soul-searching along with the influences of  family, friends, teachers and their environment to then shape their lives. However, we don’t often think that way about what shapes the course of civilizations.

Perhaps this is because we don’t take serious the motto that ‘changes happen from the inside out.”

The dominant “religion” or highest set of truths for all the why and how things happen in our world is apparently physics and chemistry. They offers a mechanical explanation of the why and how of things or how  “changes happen from the outside in” …like a billiard balls might mechanically touch the outside surface of another after colliding to then move a ball in a certain direction.

Let’s assume the prior motto is true… the inside out one…and even for the collective or group consciousness. Then let us ask what is it on the inside view of modern civilization that is leading or misleading us to our demise.

What Most Sets of the Course of Civilizations From the Inside Out

Like the personal choice of a career, where to live, and whether to raise a family or not, the answer for the collective society might lie in something else – the core of the core of our vision of nature.

Why?

Because these visions tend to have certain beliefs that function as “central paradigms“  – some core view that connects the whole of understanding – the whole course of life – much like the center of a flower connects all the pedals in all directions.

Do we have such a central paradigm… a core of cores…. a ‘soul” to our modern worldview?

The answer is a resounding yes. Central paradigms give integrity to a vision and usually present.

The dominant culture-wide adoption of this particular central paradigm – taking root in the collective inner subconsciousness – occurred dramatically in the 17th century – and it is this process that has set us on our present course toward a precipice, to our own self-created demise and the destruction of nature around us.

A Global Mind Change in the 17th Century

Western civilization actually changed course from having a prior central paradigm or cultural soul.  It experienced what is called a global mind change.

It shifted radically to a new overall path during the 17^th century.

This was from the medieval, biblical or religious-led culture whose highest truth and/or central paradigm was revelations through the Bible to one a new reliance on the truths of astronomy, physics, chemistry, and related sciences. Did these sciences have a single common central paradigm that unified their separate discipline understandings as one?

They did.

It was the mathematical understanding of the universe or as Sir Isaac Newton expressed it in Latin the “principia naturalis mathematica.”

The vision also later developed its first duality, matter and energy, which E=mc2 attempted to reunite as one, mathematically of course. Its understanding focused around the atom, which in ancient Greek meant the indivisible 1, because mathematics is built up on integers with 1/1=1, or with 1 being indivisible. Thus nature’s building blocks had to be the same as those of symbolic mathematics. This was the new faith adopting by some in ancient Greece and which again came to cultural prominence and dominance in the 17th century.  That vision evolved, flowered and began to bear fruit in the 19-21st centuries.

This new highest, supposedly truest vision also led us onto the path of the Industrial Revolution and found a wecoming home in our modern commercial and technologically-driven world, departing again from the medieval, biblical God-centered view.

Mapping Out a New Course of Civilization From the Inside Out

How did the new understanding determine an overall course?

Well, the 17^th century was so extremely excited, self-assured and enamored by what they discovered  (and fueled by the Enlightenment belief that man,  under the direction of God, was destined to rule over all of nature and on a road of ever rising human progress) that objectivity went out the window.  Consciousness was not put above the mathematical view, rather the contents of consciousness were judged mathematically. Anything that couldn’t find precise math-correspondence wasn’t really real!

But sorry to inform my scientific friends, in my opinion physicists, chemists, allopathic doctors, and economists – all applying the symbols of mathematics in a dominant, central paradigm way – failed to truly see what they were doing in and to their consciousness. Even less did they have any sense of what they were about to do to the outer world “from the inside out.”

Stripping Naked the Illusions of a Mathematical Cosmos

There are four important things we need to know about the mathematical vision of nature, leading or misleading us on our present paths toward multi-dimentional self-destruction.

• Demythologzied – Stripped naked – and with consciousness placed above the mathematizing process,  first math symbols are simply mental symbols not something given to us by God to man in order to understand to the world.  It’s hard to imagine these days now this happened but the 17th century philosophers who promoted this view (resurrecting beliefs from the Golden Age of Greece) were devout Christians. It was according to Newton, that not only was the atom the indivisible one, like 1/1=1 and where numbers were the building blocks of nature but, to quote Newton, where “the atom was what God had made One on the first day of Creation.” This was a belief-directed vision that then took on the mantle of supposedly being objective or ‘scientific.”
• Universal Separation Symbols – What really is going on is that math symbols, being symbols or pointing tools for our minds, point abstractly or universally to how to separate all elements of consciousness. To separate universally is to most deeply and fully disintegrate. It is to map the course of things falling apart! Universal symbols of separation offer a misguidance.  If  everyone understood this, no one would adopt a math-based vision of nature – whose impact now is engulfing us because it is indeed being universally and deeply applied -  again from the inside out.
• Illogical and Irrational – It is impossible to best connect a vision, any vision let alone that of all of nature, by systematically and universally separating all of our consciousness of nature. This is why the vision is fails and cannot but fail us.  We glorify the Einstein’s of our times, while several Nobel-Prize-winning physicists have come down with Alzheimer’s disease. This is because the mathematical vision needs to be demythologized. It cannot integrally point to a deep and real understanding of the nature of our consciousness, nor of the depth essence of our world.  It is rather an illogical and irrational vision, one whose misguidance is powerfully dangerous.  As a final note, one can no better connect a vision of nature using the very highest (meaning the most universal) abstractions of separation than one can glue things together with one’s most high powered chainsaw.
• Machines Never Once  Occur  in Pristine Nature – Go to any forest, desert, ocean or mountain peak and you will never ever – not once – find a single machine in pristine terrains (human-untouched), not even a simple bicycle, unless planted there by man and as a biproduct of his internal math-led vision. It is man’s hubris that creates these unnatural creations to have power over nature, supposedly.  How can what never once occurs be the model for what everywhere and always occurs throughout our cosmos. It takes a certain insanity to believe that. Well, welcome to the modern world‘s insanity taken to be ultimate sanity. Its the same modern world where chemicals that cause cancer and yet are postured and used to supposedly cure cancer. Never mind that they fail 98+ percent of the time, as could be predicted. This pays homage to a diehard holding on to a bankrupt vision.Again the vision defies our senses, and logic, though we hypnotically continue to believe. When someday we will wake up from this bad cultural dream, we will see how it has shaped a world falling apart from the inside out. Then we can take responsibility for what we have created to chart a new course.

How to Get Beyond the “Core Religion” of Our Times

Conventional schooling brainwashes us not to question our teacher’s teachings. We compete to get A’s on tests by agreeing with rather than challenging our teacher’s beliefs.

The precepts of our basic sciences are given the aura of highest of high or unchallengeable truths.

We look to the invention of machines  (the ideological correspondence to that vision) for validation.  Don’t you love that Mustang, jet plane or cell phone? We mix up that fact that certain inventions can represent an aspect of nature, but not necessarily its soul.

Have you ever seen a periodic table of elements hung high in a science classroom? And like a religious icon to revere? This is even though it has long been proven by electron microscopes that a) atoms are not at all indivisible and b) the periodic table does not truly represent exact whole numbers of atomic masses!

What we really need is a different core view, something far less ideological and more rational, intelligent, and most of all integral. Then we can look to vision fruits that are not black and rotting.

How can we accomplish this?

I have outlined this in my many discussions and post as a math prodigy turned renegade – and about an alternative life-and -consciousness-centered understanding of our cosmos, and of all of nature.

This is a road map to the reconstruction of all the major paths of modern consciousness.

This re-understanding is the basis for a step higher global mind change.

It is a real turnaround that hopefully others will catch onto, our civilization from the inside out – and for me as the only real way it can effectively have an antidote to what makes modern living turn ill.

Unfortunately it is looming mass sufferings that trigger mass changes. I have seen this especially after I started an alternative cancer treatment center. Making a shift from a  diet of junk foods to quality foods tends to happen after a bout with serious illness or even being at the doorstep of death. We sometimes are not ready to make massive changes until we have suffered greatly or our life is nearly snuffed out.

Fast Forward to the 21^st Century

The signs major change on a societal or cultural level are nevertheless happening. It is both frightening from the suffering end and exciting at the same time from the liberating end.

We are waking up from a bad dream. It is the naive and blinded dream of unending progress fueled by a bankrupt 17th century understanding – and what has led us on this overall course.

Species Dying

We suddenly face an unprecedented, nature-destructive and non-sustainable world where already about 1/4 to 1/2 of all life forms are threatened with extinction.

But our world is falling apart at multiple seams – ecological, health, social, psychological (with an epidemic of mental and consciousness diseases) and political fronts.

And there is the pollution and disruption of our planet to the extent that now the whole eco-sphere of the globe is disturbed,  as with see with global weather crises rising each year in number and intensity.

Where the Clash of Vision and Reality is the Greatest

The arena where the signs of things in shambles are the greatest is the healing arts.

Why? This is because the healing arts involve our deepest connections to wholeness, and to use the most separative symbols to structure all of consciousness, including the healing arts, results in the most grossly anti-healing practices (exposing chronically ill patients to drugs, surgery and radiation) like using the most toxic chemicals that cause cancer to try to reverse cancer!

Like a religion whose faith is waning and falling apart, the faithful priests of that view (allopathic doctors, physicists, chemists, Wall Street traders and economic statisticians) may tend to refuse to face the reality of what is really happening.

It is heretics who may differentiate the shit from the toilet!

Shift in the Making

The exciting part is that we are privileged to see the closing of an era and the birth of a new one.

Now according to Mike Adams, there are now 14 signs that our modern world indeed is coming apart at the all major seams – and as we are living through a special time – the end of one era and the birth of a new one.

In the future, this will likely be called a momentous time. Here then are Mike’s 14 signs, largely unedited – along with subsequent comments.  We might have add a collapse of our educational system, geared to prepare our young for the commercial job market rather than living a higher consciousness, higher-aliveness, healthier and sustainable existence.

Also there is a looming collapse of our food delivery system, centered around supermarkets, Walmarts and the like.

All of this can be disturbing when one is not prepared for more sustainable solutions and alternatives.

So PLEASE  pass this blog post onto to friends and family.

It may be the most important post they will every read. We are living in changing times and don’t expect the support systems of the past to last.

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Mike Adams the Health Ranger’s

14 Signs that the collapse of our modern world has already begun;

#1 – Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis – At first it seemed like a fluke; but now it’s a pattern. The weather is becoming increasingly extreme. Over 120 tornadoes recently struck the U.S. Midwest. Texas is on fire and suffering through an extreme drought. And where there aren’t fires and droughts, there are floods. This is only the beginning… watch for more freak weather over the next 18 months.

#2 – The silence of the bees – Colony Collapse Disorder continues to accelerate across North America. We already know it’s being caused in part by chemical pesticides (and possibly worsened by GMOs), but the chemical industry is engaged in a full-on cover-up to deny this truth while the pollinators of our world suffer a devastating population collapse. (http://www.naturalnews.com/028218_p…)

#3 – The failure of nuclear science – The Fukushima catastrophe proves one thing: Scientists are dangerously arrogant in their planning of large-scale projects, and they fail to account for the awesome power of Mother Nature. Nuclear science promised us clean, green energy — but now it has delivered a silent, invisible poison that’s infecting our planet.

#4 – The vicious pursuit of Wikileaks – In an age of such rampant deceit, there is no room for the truth. So those who tell the truth (Wikileaks) are viciously pursued as if they were criminals.

#5 – The rise of the medical police state – The armed SWAT raids on Maryanne Godboldo in Detroit are only the beginning (http://www.naturalnews.com/032091_M…). The truth is that the medical system uses guns to force its vaccines and chemotherapy onto children and teens across America. The medical system has become so utterly useless, corrupt and dangerous that it must actually invoke guns in peoples’ faces just to “convince” people to take its medicine. This is a gunpoint-enforced medical monopoly that exists as a threat to our health and our freedoms.

#6 – The increasing frequency of food shortages and crop failures – Notice the spike in food prices? That’s just the beginning: Food prices will continue to skyrocket in the years ahead due to extreme weather, the loss of pollinators and the global contamination of crops by GMOs. Real food is becoming increasingly scarce in our world. You might want to think about starting a home garden…

#7 – The runaway destruction of the world by energy companies – The radioactive fallout from Fukushima isn’t the only way in which energy companies are destroying our world: Don’t forget about the Deepwater Horizon and the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — a spill that isn’t over, by the way. They’re still spraying Corexit in the Gulf one year later!

#8 – The continued GMO contamination of our planet – This may be the worst chapter in the coming collapse: The widespread genetic pollution of our planet through GMOs. This is a crime against nature and against humanity. It is a “gene spill” that may never be contained as it spreads its deadly DNA across the world’s food crops, leading to crop failures and starvation (http://www.naturalnews.com/032167_g…). The use of GMOs is the closest thing to “Satanic” that you’ll find in modern agriculture. The agenda behind this is pure evil.

#9 – The tyranny and criminal crackdowns targeting real food (raw milk) – When you can’t even sell honest farm food to your neighbors without being targeted and arrested by the cops, something is terribly wrong with the world. But this is happening today, all across America. Now the feds are even targeting the Amish! (http://www.naturalnews.com/029322_r…)

#10 – The escalation of the counterfeiting of the money supply – In a failed economic system approaching collapse, the moronic leaders can only think of “solutions” that actually accelerate their own downfall. The runaway counterfeiting of money by the Federal Reserve (with its “quantitative easing” and other counterfeit methods) is a classic sign that the end of our current system is fast approaching. The economic insanities are obvious to anyone who can still do math.

#11 – The plummeting intelligence of the masses – One of the most disturbing signs that we’re already in the collapse is the great dumbing-down of the masses. The drooling, CNN-watching television zombies who dominate our landscape offer absolutely nothing of value to the world. They are the “mindless consumers” who get vaccinated, watch television and eat processed, pasteurized junk food. They’re on psychiatric meds and believe everything the government tells them. Most of these people, of course, won’t make it through the collapse.

#12 – The complete and utter fabrication of the mainstream news – Much of the mainstream news is now utterly and completely fabricated these days: The reporting on Obama’s long-form birth certificate; the news about the war in Libya; the coverage of the economy and the U.S. debt… it’s all so utterly false and unbelievable that an intelligent person watching the news can’t help but explode with laughter. It is a sign of this collapse that the information sources relied upon by the masses are unable to report the truth anymore and must resort to weaving politically expedient fictions on everything from health care and medicine to the fate of the U.S. dollar itself.

#13 – The ongoing pharmaceutical pollution of our world – Beyond the GMO contamination and the radiation contamination of our world, we are also experiencing the mass pharmaceutical contamination of our planet. It’s not just the pharma factories that dump their products into the rivers (http://www.naturalnews.com/025415_w…); it’s also the fact that well over half the population is now taking drugs almost daily, and those drugs pass right through their bodies and end up in the water supply where they contaminate the fish (http://www.naturalnews.com/025933.html). Even beyond that, the drugs end up in the human sewage sludge that’s packaged and sold as “organic soil!” (http://www.naturalnews.com/029504_o…)

#14 – The radioactive contamination of the global food supply – Here’s one that’s really insidious: The global food supply is now contaminated with the radioactive fallout from Fukushima. We’re told the levels are “low,” but we’re not told the truth of how radioactive cesium isotopes persist in the food supply for centuries. How is the human race going to survive its exposure to CT scans, radioactive food, chest X-rays, TSA body scanners and even the secret DHS mobile X-ray vans that can penetrate your body with X-rays as you’re walking into a football stadium? The total radiation burden on the human race is now reaching a point of mass infertility. That may be the whole idea, actually.

It’s accelerating, too

December, 2012 may be a useful date as some sort of mid-point in the crisis, or perhaps as a trigger date for some further acceleration of society’s rapid unraveling. But make no mistake: We are already living in the collapse of our modern world. And you have a front-row seat! (Exciting, huh?)

Think about what’s happening around you these days. These are the signs of the last, desperate clutches of a civilization built on utterly unsustainable practices that don’t value life on our world. These are the End Times of the corporate oligarchy; the monopolistic for-profit corporation machine that destroyed everything in our world in exchange for a slightly higher quarterly earnings report.

In the quest for more money, humanity has sacrificed its food supply, its pollinators, it’s oceans, forests and soils. Greed-driven humans have used other humans as medical experiments and cannon fodder. We have created wars to sell more bombs, and we’ve invented disease to sell psychiatric chemicals.

These are the practices of a failed civilization… and one whose days are numbered. Watching it all crumble is far more interesting than watching it continue its destructive ways, of course, because those of us paying attention realize a future civilization must rise up in the place of this one after the collapse.

Say goodbye to the false power of institutions

It would be nice if our future leaders remembered the importance of liberty and personal responsibility, of course. The answer to all the world’s problems, it turns out, is freedom — freedom in medicine, freedom in economics and freedom from government tyranny.

Because, let’s face it: The root cause of most these problems that are bringing down our world right now is bad government. It is bad government (Big Government) that approved the GMOs. Bad government enforced the medical monopoly and allowed the pesticides to kill the honeybees. Bad government drove us into inescapable debt and costly foreign wars. Bad government outlawed health freedom and protected the monopolistic practices of the food companies, drug companies and chemical companies.

The downfall of modern human civilization is, as you probably guessed, also the downfall of the very idea that Big Government creates a better society. Because if there’s one idea that needs to stay dead after the collapse, it’s the idea that We the People somehow need another group of people (government workers) to live off our hard work while hounding us with their false authority, directing every little detail of our lives.

What we need in our world isn’t more government, but more freedom. If we had freedom, integrity and personal responsibility, we wouldn’t even be facing the global collapse that has already begun. But alas, the human race is an infant species and it must learn some lessons the hard way, it seems.

This lesson should be long remembered: If you let the corporations, the banks and the governments run your economies, your farms and your lives, they will enslave you and steal your future while you sleep; they will inject silent poisons into the very world around you until you awaken one day to find that all you created has been destroyed. They will promise you paradise but deliver only death. Beware of any entity that is not a living person — no government, no institution, no corporation has a soul, nor a heart, nor a conscience. They are forces of organized destruction that decimate those things we hold dear while delivering to us things that will only enslave us or harm us.

Beware the corporation; the government; the non-profit institution working as a front group for private industry. Never allow yourself to be ruled over by any institution which exists only as a fictional construct organized from the projection of human greed.

And be ready for the acceleration of the collapse. Because if you are reading this, you are the future of the human race. You have a duty to stay alive, keep your genes intact, and be around to help create the Next Society after this one crumbles into history.

Keywords: collapse of the modern world, modern apocalypse

Based partly on an article by Mike Adams, Natural News

‘Natural’ breakfast

cereals loaded with

pesticides and GMOs -

explosive scorecard from Cornucopia reveals all

                         By Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Editor Healingtalks

(Healingtalks) Processed breakfast cereal companies have long carried out a deceptive campaign of labeling their products as supposedly “natural.” Consumers are thus misled by this term, believing it is free of chemicals and/or genetically engineered ingredients.

Cornucopia Investigation of Processed Breakfast Cereals

Cornucopia Institute (www.Cornucopia.org) conducted a study that revealed how the term “natural” was being misused and abused. This same group exposed the use of hexane solvents in soy protein. Their new study may send shock waves throughout the “natural” products industry by revealing that so-called “natural” foods contain high levels GMOs and toxic chemical pesticides.

Facts about GMOs

Before you view the Cornucopia’s test results below, three important facts are vital to know:

•  Widespread GMO contamination in Cereals

Even “non-GMO” foods contain trace levels (between .01% and 0.5%) of contamination. Some “natural” items tested by the Cornucopia Institute showed between 28% and 100 % contamination – meaning the primary source ingredients are GMOs.

• Various GMO Levels  

Foods that test for GMOs today may contain higher or lower levels at another time due to “you name it” – supply line errors, changes, contaminations, etc. Some manufacturers test for GMOs in every batch, but others take a “don’t ask don’t tell” approach.

• “Enrolled” vs. “Verified”

Foods “enrolled” in the Non-Gmo Project are on their way to becoming GMO free but still contain some traces.
Purer Gmo-free products are called  “verified.”

One thing is certain. Most “natural” breakfast cereals contain surprisingly high levels of genetically engineered ingredients. This is why it’s so important to shop for certified organic breakfast cereals. A list of reliable companies is at the bottom of this article.

All these concerns about GMOs don’t cover toxic pesticides traces in the grains used to produce “natural” breakfast cereals. The Cornucopia report cites extensive USDA testing of “natural” grain ingredients contaminated with chemical pesticides. Synthetic pesticides are banned in organic production so organic is again the way to go if you wish to avoid pesticide residues.

Test results

The Cornucopia Institute’s “Cereal Scorecard” (http://www.cornucopia.org/2011/10/n…) reveals some truly astonishing facts about what’s in our breakfast cereal:

• Kashi brand cereals (Kellogg’s) contains “high levels” of GMOs. A high level means the key ingredients are genetically engineered. 100% of the soy used in tested boxes of Kashi was genetically engineered soy. Non-organic grains used in Kashi cereals typically contain residues of all the following pesticides: phosmet, carbaryl, azinphos methyl, malathion, chlorpyrifos methyl, chlorpyrifos. (Note: This does not mean these Kashi cereals were tested for each of these chemicam but rather that they are typically in non-organic grains used in Kashi cereals).

• Mother’s brand cereals (PepsiCo) contains “high levels” of GMOs. Test results revealed 28% of the corn to be genetically engineered.

• Whole Foods’ 365 brand Corn Flakes contains “high levels” of GMOs (more than 50% GE corn). Barbara’s Bakery Puffins cereal was also shown to contain more than 50% genetically engineered corn. These two are “enrolled” in the Non-GMO Project.

• Nature’s Path has are all certified organic cereals, contained no significant GMO contamination and are made with entirely non-GMO ingredients.

• Kashi GoLean, Mother’s Bumpers, Nutritious Living Hi-Lo, and General Mills Kix  -“Natural” products contaminated with levels of GE ingredients, sometimes are at a 100%:.

• Quaker Oats (a unit of PepsiCo) states that it is an “all-natural” product. But Quaker Oats  manages a plant that emits roughly 19,000 pounds of sulfuryl fluoride yearly. Sulfuryl fluoride is a toxic greenhouse gas used to treat crops like oats in storage.

• “Natural” Peace Cereal Wild Berry Crisp is produced from conventional commodity ingredients containing the neurotoxin phosmet and the carcinogen captan in 11% and 55% of samples, respectively.

• Mom’s Best Naturals Raisin Bran cereal contains “natural” (non-GMO) ingr9edients that are commonly contaminated with malathion and phosmet chemicals, both of which are neurotoxins.

• Several Bear Naked and Kashi products contain conventional soy protein. Soy protein in this country is nearly all hexane-extracted. The “hexane bath” that the soybeans are immersed in consists of more than 50% n-hexane, which is a known neurotoxin.

Learn more

Quick 4-minute video overview on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sw2…

Or view it on NaturalNews.TV at:
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=15C9C…

View the Scorecard page or download the PDF report:
http://www.cornucopia.org/2011/10/n…

Trusted cereal brands

• Nature’s path
• Kaia
• Laughing Giraffe
• Lydia’s Organics
• Two Moms In the Raw.

Questionable cereal brands

• Bear Naked
• Kashi
• Mom’s Best
• General Mills
• Barbara’s Bakery
• Health Valley
• Back to Nature
• Arrowhead Mills
• Bob’s Red Mill
• Post Natural.

Scorecard

See the scorecard yourself at:
http://www.cornucopia.org/2011/10/n…

Must See Video on Cereal Crimes by Cornucopia Institute

 Based on an article by Mike Adams, www.Naturalnews.com

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Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor

(Healingtalks) We are taught by deceptive media propaganda, intentionally serving huge commercial interests, that food doesn’t matter for our health and vitality (compared to drugs, surgery and radiation as MD prescribed) and nothing could be further from the truth.

So there is a mantra:

FOOD MATTERS             YES FOOD MATTERS           IT REALLY DOES

Getting the best nutrition is the way to go to live life to the fullest. Anything less is really foolish and succumbing to the propaganda of $ interests … serving to keep alive an  epidemically ill society.

This documentary called Food Matters is thus a must see!

ITS A MUST SEE

EVERYONE in America and worldwide should see this movie…and now, for this week, its FREE ON LINE…and  ONLY UNTIL October 8th.

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Ten Things To Know About Raw Milk

Based on an article by Chelsea Green‘s Makenna Goodman

(Healingtalks) In recent years, there’s been a crackdown on small dairies producing raw milk, designed as an obstacle to the growing legions of consumers demanding healthier and more flavorful milk. Raw milk has been deemed “unfit” for human consumption by the FDA and other government sting operations, and the public propagandized into fearing it. According to some fear-mongers, for example, raw milk causes rabies.

David Gumpert, author of popular blog The Complete Patient and forthcoming book Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America’s Emerging Battle Over Food Rights (Chelsea Green, Oct 2009), asks an important question: How much of the fear-mongering from the pro-pasteurization people is real, and how much is propaganda from Big Agribusiness? Gumpert says the anti-raw-milk campaign is just another governmental technique to sanitize the food supply—even in the face of ever-increasing rates of chronic disease like asthma, diabetes, and allergies.

Here are 10 things you should know about raw milk that the government won’t tell you:

• Raw milk is healthier: Pasteurized milk is accused of causing everything from allergies to heart disease to cancer, but back in the day, these diseases were rare. In fact, clean raw milk from grass-fed cows is chock full of healthy amino acids and beneficial enzymes, and was used as a cure.
• Raw milk does not make you sick: That is, if it is properly collected from cows fed good, clean grass. Grass-fed milk has natural antibiotic properties that help protect it from pathogenic bacteria. But it’s worth noting, if you’ve been using pasteurized dairy products, you might want to eat small amounts of yogurt or kefir for a week or so, for a dose of probiotics, just to be safe. I did, and it helped.
• Not all raw milk is the same: The cow’s diet, how and where it’s raised, and how the milk is collected are all factors in the safety and quality of raw milk. Cows pastured on organic green grass produce milk with good health benefits. It’s good to know where your milk is coming from.
• Pasteurization was instituted in the 1920s to combat TB, infant diarrhea, undulant fever and other diseases caused by poor animal nutrition and dirty production methods. But modern stainless steel tanks, milking machines, refrigerated trucks, and inspection are enough of a precaution, and pasteurization has become irrelevant.
• Pasteurization destroys enzymes, diminishes vitamin content, kills beneficial bacteria, promotes pathogens and is associated with allergies, increased tooth decay, colic in infants, growth problems in children, osteoporosis, arthritis, heart disease and cancer.
• Calves fed pasteurized milk don’t do very well, and many die before maturity. Scary, considering the milk originally came from their mom.
• Raw milk sours naturally but pasteurized milk turns putrid; processors must remove slime and pus from pasteurized milk by a process called centrifugal clarification. Gross.
• Inspection of dairy herds for disease is not required for pasteurized milk. This means, pasteurization is used as a nifty way to wash away all forms of bad bacteria that are allowed to flourish freely before the process. Imagine that for a second.
• Raw milk has more butterfat, which is rich in fatty acids that protect against disease and stimulate the immune system. Skim milk doesn’t necessarily mean it’s better for you, in other words.
• Pasteurization laws favor large, industrialized dairy operations and push out small farmers. When farmers have the right to sell raw milk directly to their consumers, they can make a decent living even with a small number of cows. Support small farmers!

Sources include: The Weston Price Foundation, RawMilkFacts.com, and The Complete Patient.

Monsanto Nation: Taking Down Goliath

Based on an article by Ronnie Cummins

(Healingtalks) “If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it.” says Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto, as quoted in the Kansas City Star, March 7, 1994

After two decades of biotech bullying and force-feeding unlabeled and hazardous genetically engineered (GE) foods to animals and humans — aided and abetted by the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations — it’s time to move beyond defensive measures and go on the offensive.

With organic farming, climate stability, and public health under the gun of the gene engineers and their partners in crime, it’s time to do more than complain. With over 1/3 of U.S. cropland already contaminated with Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), with mounting scientific evidence that GMOs cause cancer, birth defects, and serious food allergies
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/ and with new biotech mutants like alfalfa, lawn grass, ethanol-ready corn, 2,4 D-resistant crops, and genetically engineered trees and animals in the pipeline http://www.organicconsumers.org/mon… our time is running out.

No Such Thing As Coexistence With GMOs

Living in Monsanto Nation there can be no such thing as “coexistence.”

It is impossible to coexist with a reckless industry that endangers public health, bribes public officials, corrupts scientists, manipulates the media, destroys biodiversity, kills the soil, pollutes the environment, tortures and poisons animals, destabilizes the climate, and economically enslaves the world’s 1.5 billion seed-saving small farmers. It’s time to take down the Biotech Behemoth, before the living web of biodiversity is terminated.

But, to bring down Goliath and build an organic future, we need to be strategic, as well as bold. We must take the time to carefully analyze our strengths and weaknesses and critique our previous efforts. Then we must prepare to concentrate our forces where our adversary is weak, like a chess master, moving the field of battle from Monsanto’s currently impregnable territory into more favorable terrain. Given the near-dictatorial control of Monsanto, the Farm Bureau, and the Grocery Manufacturers Association over the Congress, the White House, regulatory agencies, and state legislators, we have no choice in the present moment but to revert to “asymmetrical” guerrilla tactics, to seek out the Achilles heel or fundamental weakness of the biotech industry.

Consumers Right to Know: Monsanto’s Achilles Heel

The Achilles heel of Monsanto and the biotech industry is consumers’ right to know. If GE-tainted foods are labeled in supermarkets and natural food stores, a massive rejection of chemical and GMO foods will take place, transforming the marketplace and supercharging the organic and local foods revolution. The biotech industry has been aware of their tremendous vulnerability in the United States ever since Monsanto forced their controversial recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone on the market in February 1994. In the wake of nationwide “Frankenfood” protests and milk dumps, industry made sure that no federal labeling or safety testing would be required. As the biotechnocrats understand full well, mandatory GE food labels will cripple the industry: consumers will not buy gene-altered foods, farmers will not plant them, restaurants and food processors will avoid them, and grocery stores will not sell them. How can we be certain about this? By looking at the experience of the European Union, the largest agricultural market in the world. In the EU there are almost no genetically engineered crops under cultivation or GE consumer food products on supermarket shelves. And why is this? Not because GE crops are automatically banned in Europe. But rather because under EU law, all foods containing genetically engineered ingredients must be labeled.

European consumers have the freedom to choose or not to choose GE foods; while farmers, food processors, and retailers have (at least legally) the right to lace foods with GMOs, as long as these gene-altered are safety-tested and labeled. Of course the EU food industry understands that consumers, for the most part, do not want to consume GE foods. European farmers and food companies, even junk food purveyors like McDonald’s and Wal-Mart, understand quite well the concept expressed by the Monsanto executive quoted above: “If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it.”

The biotech and food industry are acutely conscious of the fact that North American consumers, like their European counterparts, are wary and suspicious of GMO foods. Even without a PhD, consumers understand you don’t want your food safety or environmental sustainability decisions to be made by out-of-control chemical companies like Monsanto, Dow, or DuPont–the same people who brought you toxic pesticides and industrial chemicals, Agent Orange, carcinogenic food additives, PCBs, and now global warming. Industry leaders are definitely aware of the fact that every poll over the last 20 years has shown that 85-95% of American consumers want mandatory labels on genetically engineered foods. Why do consumers want labels? So that we can avoid buying these mutant foods, gene-spliced with viruses, bacteria, antibiotic- resistant marker genes and foreign DNA. Gene-altered foods have absolutely no benefits for consumers or the environment, only hazards. This is why Monsanto and their friends in the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations have prevented consumer GMO truth-in-labeling laws from ever getting a public discussion, much less coming to a vote, in Congress.

Congressional Legislation Will Not Rescue Us

Although Congressman Dennis Kucinich (Democrat, Ohio) perennially introduces a bill in Congress calling for mandatory labeling and safety testing for GE foods, don’t hold your breath for Congress to take a stand for truth-in-labeling. Especially since the 2010 Supreme Court decision in the so-called “Citizens United” case gave big corporations, millionaires, and billionaires the right to spend unlimited amounts of money (and remain anonymous, as they do so) to buy media coverage and elections, our chances of passing federal GMO labeling laws against the wishes of Monsanto and Food Inc. are all but non-existent.

Perfectly dramatizing the “Revolving Door” between Monsanto and the Federal Government, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, formerly chief counsel for Monsanto, delivered one of the decisive votes in the Citizens United case, in effect giving Monsanto and other biotech bullies the right to buy the votes it needs in the U.S. Congress.

With biotech and industrial agriculture’s big money controlling Congress, the White House, and the corporate mass media, we have little choice but to shift our focus and our campaigning to more favorable terrain: the state level and the marketplace.

Besides boycotting non-organic foods likely containing GMOs (even those marketed as “natural”) and demanding that natural food stores adopt truth-in-labeling practices, we’ve got to push for mandatory GE food labeling laws in the legislatures of those few remaining states like Vermont where Monsanto and corporate agribusiness do not yet have total control. Of the 18 states where GE food labeling legislation has been introduced over the past two years, only in Vermont does our side seem to have the votes to push labeling through, as well as a Governor who will not cave in to Monsanto.

State Ballot Initiatives: Monsanto and Biotech’s Greatest Weakness

Although passing a mandatory GE foods labeling law in Vermont is a distinct possibility, and something we should all support, the most promising strategy for restoring consumers’ right to know lies in utilizing one of the most important remaining tools of direct citizen democracy, state ballot initiatives. A state ballot initiative is a means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can bring about a public vote on a proposed statute or constitutional amendment, in our case a law requiring mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods. Ballot initiatives are also called, depending on the state, “popular initiatives,” “voter initiatives,” “citizen initiatives” or just “initiatives.”
Twenty-four states, mainly west of the Mississippi, allow ballot initiatives. Each state has its own requirements for how many signatures are required, how many days can be spent collecting the signatures, and when petitions must be turned in. States also vary on the average amount of money spent by initiative committees to support or oppose ballot measures. http://www.organicconsumers.org/art…

The essential advantage of state ballot initiatives is that they enable the grassroots (in our case the 85-95% of consumers who want labels on GE-tainted foods) to bypass corrupt politicians, industry lobbyists, and special interest legislative practices. In addition, the very strategic point to keep in mind is that it will not be necessary to pass GMO labeling ballot initiatives in all 24 of these states. In fact passage in just one large state, for example California, where there is tremendous opposition to GE foods as well as a multi-billion dollar organic food industry, will likely have the same impact as a national labeling law.

If Vermont passes a state labeling law though its legislature in 2011, or California voters put a GMO labeling initiative on the ballot in 2012 and pass it, the biotech and food industry will face an intractable dilemma. Will they dare put labels on their branded food products in just one or two states, admitting these products contain genetically engineered ingredients, while still withholding label information in the other states? The answer is very likely no. Withholding important and controversial information in some states, while providing it to consumers in other states, would be a public relations disaster.

A clear precedent for this situation was established in California in 1986 when voters passed, over the strenuous opposition of industry, a ballot initiative called Proposition 65, which required consumer products with potential cancer-causing ingredient to bear warning labels. Rather than label their products sold in California as likely carcinogenic, most companies reformulated their product ingredients so as to avoid warning labels altogether, and they did this on a national scale, not just in California.

This same scenario will likely unfold if California voters pass a ballot initiative in 2012 requiring labels on food containing genetically engineered ingredients. Can you imagine Kellogg’s selling Corn Flakes breakfast cereal in California with a label that admits it contains genetically engineered corn? Or labeling their corn flakes as GE in California, but not divulging this same fact to consumers in the other 49 states or Canada? Of course not. How about Kraft Boca Burgers admitting that their soybean ingredients are genetically modified? How about the entire non-organic food industry (including many so-called “natural” brands) admitting that 75% of their products are GE-tainted? Once food manufacturers and supermarkets are forced to come clean and label genetically engineered products, they will likely remove all GE ingredients, to avoid the “skull and crossbones” effect, just like the food industry in the EU has done. In the wake of this development American farmers will convert millions of acres of GE crops to non-GMO or organic varieties.

The biotechnocrats and their allies have indeed used their vast resources to buy off Congress, the White House, and most state legislatures with campaign contributions. Monsanto, DuPont, and other corporate giants have used their enormous clout to send their lawyers and scientists through the revolving door into jobs as government regulators. Biotech’s financial power has polluted state and federal governments, along with trade associations, universities, research institutions, philanthropic organizations, and media outlets.

But there are two things Monsanto’s money can’t buy: Our trust, and our votes.

Polls Show Consumers Overwhelmingly Support GE Food Labels

Poll after poll has shown that most consumers want to know whether their food includes engineered ingredients.

The results of a recent MSNBC poll that posed the question, “Do you believe genetically modified foods should be labeled?” indicate that nearly all Americans believe that foods made with genetically modified organisms should indeed be labeled.

Of the more than 45,000 people who participated in the poll, over 96% answered “Yes. It’s an ethical issue — consumers should be informed so they can make a choice.”

It’s not news that most Americans support labeling of GMO foods. Since genetically modified foods were first introduced in mid-1990s, scores of public opinion polls have shown that the vast majority of consumers want mandatory labeling of all genetically modified foods. These include recent polls by CBS News/New York Times, NPR/Thomson Reuters and the Consumers Union. Unfortunately Congress and the White House have ignored these polls, accepting instead the claims of lobbyists and indentured scientists that genetically engineered foods are perfectly safe, and that uninformed and scientifically illiterate Americans must not be given the choice to buy or not to not GMOs, because they will reject them.

Monsanto spent more than $1 million on the 2010 election cycle, splitting its contributions evenly between state and federal candidates. It spends much more on lobbying — more than $8 million in each of the last three years. Monsanto’s money has bought it influence and allowed it to move its lawyers and scientists through the revolving door into roles within the regulatory agencies. The USDA, FDA and State Department are full of appointees with connections to Monsanto. Monsanto’s efforts have successfully stifled attempts in Congress and state legislatures to pass GMO labeling legislation.

The Slingshot that Can Bring Down Monsanto the Goliath

The most important advantage or weapon in a ballot initiative (or in a grassroots legislative lobbying campaign) is to have the overwhelming support of the people, especially registered voters. As poll after poll has shown, 85-95% of Americans support mandatory GE food labels. No matter how much money Monsanto and their allies spend to defeat a ballot initiative, it is very difficult to turn back overwhelming public sentiment. Monsanto has become one of the most hated corporations on earth.

The second requirement for a successful ballot initiative is to have the active support of a massive grassroots movement, like the growing anti-GE food movement and OCA’s Millions Against Monsanto campaign. This grassroots movement can gather petition signatures, mobilize public opinion, and get out the vote. No matter how much money Monsanto and their allies spend, it will be very difficult to defeat a volunteer grassroots army of organic consumers who enjoy the massive support of the public.

The third prerequisite for victory is to have the ability to raise significant sums of money. Not only do we have millions of organic consumers in the U.S. who are passionately opposed to GMOs, and willing to donate to a labeling campaign, but we also have a rapidly growing $30 billion organic food industry that depends upon keeping GMO contamination out of the organic sector. We probably won’t be able to raise enough money to outspend Monsanto, the Farm Bureau, and the Grocery Manufacturers Association, but we can raise enough money to defend our popular position and maintain majority support.

Just like everything in U.S. politics, ballot initiatives have a price tag.
According to the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center:

* “The chances of victory are directly correlated with the amount of money raised and are almost always proportional to the amount of money the opposition spends.”

* “People power is equally important to factor in. Particularly for Citizen-based ballot initiative efforts, it is imperative to have people on the ground across the state that are connected and invested in the initiative.”

Biotechnology or BioDemocracy

Restoring consumers’ right to know and driving genetically engineered foods off supermarket shelves are not going to solve all of the life and death issues that are currently staring us in the face: the climate crisis, endless wars, economic depression, corporate control over government, and the health crisis. But cutting Monsanto and the biotechnocrats down to size and restoring consumer choice are a good first step to move us toward sustainability and a healthy food and farming system. Just as important, in political terms, by defeating the Biotech Bullies and indentured politicians we can begin to restore the tattered self-confidence of the American body politic. A resounding victory by the organic community and OCA’s Millions Against Monsanto campaign will prove to ourselves and the currently demoralized public that we can indeed take back control over the institutions and public policies that determine our daily lives. Now is the time to move forward.

To support or join up with the Millions Against Monsanto Campaign, go to: http://www.organicconsumers.org/mon…

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HOW TO

AVOID GMOS

(Healingtalks) Consumers increasingly must take the lead in avoiding GMOs, or genetically modified organisms because our government is not doing the job, rather the bidding for large corporate interests.

These GMOs have been quietly introduced into our food stream on the promise of increasing food yields and creating super foods that would resist pests and offer many other benefits. Mounting evidence, contrary to what the FDA and food industry claims, shows that GM foods are not safe and harbor many hazards. Thus there are critical steps a consumer can take to avoid consuming such GMO foods.

Prevalence of GMO Foods

Currently 70% or more of food in the US are genetically modified. Children`s foods are the number one GMO containing products.

Many processed foods contain 90-100% GM ingredients. Most all non-organic breads and other baked goods contain GM ingredients. Most non-organic chocolate, sweets, candy, gum, etc. contain GM ingredients. Most non-organically raised animal (meat, dairy, eggs) products contain GM ingredients. These animals are typically fed a diet that is 90+ percent GMO. Most non-organic beverages (beer, wine, soft drinks, juices) contain GM ingredients.

Warnings About GMO Foods

In May of 2009, The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) sent out a press release that called for an immediate moratorium on GM foods. They asked physicians to educate their patients and provide educational material about the health risks associated with GM foods. They proposed that physicians consider the role of GM foods in their patients` disease processes.

In their position paper, the AAEM sites several animal studies that indicate extreme health risks associated with GM foods. Some of the health risks include infertility, immune dysfunction, allergic reactions, accelerated aging, insulin dysregulation, organ malfunction and digestive dysfunction. AAEM further warned consumers:

“There is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects. There is causation, as defined by recognized scientific criteria. The strength of association and consistency between GM foods and disease is confirmed in several animal studies.”

Steps You Can Take To Avoid Purchasing GMO Foods:

• Buy organic , go organic
• Buy non-GMO - or foods with the Non-GMO Project seal
• Avoid non-organic  foods – especially those containing corn, soy, canola, cottonseed, peanut, alfalfa, safflower, tomatoes, zucchini, crookneck squash, sugar cane, beats, peppers & papayas.
• Avoid GMO offspring food ingredients – such as high fructose corn syrup, maltodextrin, soy lecithin, soy protein, etc.
• Avoid non-organic dairy products – and all other commercialized animal products.
• Grow your own – garden or purchase locally grown food – from those who do not use GM seeds and products in their local farms.
• Use a non-GMO shopping guide.http://www.raw-wisdom.com/50harmful
  http://articles.mercola.com/sites/a…
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneti…
  http://articles.mercola.com/sites/a…
  http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/groc…
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Names of government agents

who masterminded Rawesome Foods raid

Based on an investigatory post by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(Healingtalks) The proprietors at Rawesom Foods in California were recently arrested for the sale of raw milk and charged with multiple felonies (in a new development in America, the land of the free and the home of the brave). In some states you can get life in prison for three felonies. These charges were lodged even though raw milk is actually and really safer and healthier to drink than pasteurized milk.

To say otherwise is part of a huge government scam that has been going on for decades to protect large dairy operations, concerns that rely on pasteurization for extended shelf life. However, they produce an inferior product through high-heat denaturing of milk proteins. In the past the industry has just lied to the public and suppress raw milk sales.

Now they are trying to criminalize the competition. Welcome to the new food police state!

Nathan Batalion CTN

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The Rawesome Foods raid that took place August 3, 2011, is being publicly described by many as an act of “government terrorism” against innocents. And yet there has been very little information published about the names of the government instigators who masterminded these armed raids and oversaw the pillaging of Rawesome Foods and the destruction of tens of thousands of dollars worth of food.

Today, NaturalNews is publishing the names of five government agents who masterminded this raid and / or took part in the raid. This is all part of a campaign to protest these acts of government tyranny by sending emails, making phone calls, sending letters and otherwise making it very clear to these agents that We the People will not tolerate this kind of treatment.

As always, if you send emails to these people, keep the following important points in mind:

• Keep your emails civil. Be firm in your complaints but DO NOT make any threats or engage in illegal of threatening behavior against these individuals. NaturalNews does not condone acts or threats of violence.

• Remember that if you send them emails, they will have your email address, so in order to protect your privacy, it’s always better to send emails from anonymous email sources such as Hotmail, Gmail, etc. Absolutely DO NOT send emails from your work or office email account.

• If you send emails or faxes, be sure to clearly state WHY you oppose these government actions against Rawesome Foods. Be clear in your message: Do you think the government has gone too far? Are you opposed to the government destruction of valuable food? Are you offended by the use of gun-toting, SWAT-style police officers as part of these raids? What specifically do you oppose in all this?

Why these individuals represent truly BAD government

Here are the top government agents involved in this raid. It’s also worth noting that most of them have been waging a long-term WAR against raw milk over the past several years. Many of these government agents are the very same people responsible for campaigns of threats and intimidation against other raw dairy operations, both in California and around the country.

These people, in my opinion, represent the worst of runaway Big Government. They perfectly depict how government becomes an institution of evil that destroys private property, disrupts important resources in the food supply, denies infants and children important nutrition (raw goat’s milk) and operates with extreme arrogance as if they are untouchable.

Your job is the help remind these people that we know who they are, and we’re going to be keeping an eye on them from this point forward to make sure that they respect their role as servants of the People, not rulers over them.

It is crucial that government workers realize that when they are granted power by the People, they must exercise that power with discretion with the intention of serving the People, not conducting their own personal vendettas against individuals or small businesses they don’t like.

Government agent #1: Scarlett Treviso

Helped mastermind the first raid on Rawesome Foods, and has been heavily involved in intimidation tactics against raw dairy farmers across California for years.

Scarlett Treviso, Senior Special Investigator, California Dept. of Food and Agriculture
Milk and Dairy Food Safety division
Office phone: 949-716-8913
Email: streviso@cdfa.ca.gov

See the first Rawesome Foods raid warrant, signed by Scarlett Treviso:
http://uncheeseparty.files.wordpres…

Milk and Dairy Food Safety offices around California (with phone numbers):
http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/ahfss/AHFSS_…

General contact info for California Dept of Food and Agriculture:
http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Contact_Us.html

Google search on Scarlett Treviso:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Scar…

Government agent #2: Terrence Powell

Terrance Powell, Bureau Director, Specialized Surveillance & Enforcement Bureau of Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

Email: tpowell@ph.lacounty.gov
Workplace: 5050 Commerce Drive, Baldwin Park, CA 91706
Phone: (626) 430-5150
Fax: (626) 851-3758

General website: http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/

Government agent #3: Kelly Sakir

Kelly Sakir is the assistant DA of Los Angeles County.
http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/90012…
Phone: 213-582-3394

Kelly Sakir’s boss is Steve Cooley:
Phone: 213-974-3512

Government website:
http://da.co.la.ca.us/

Read the LA County’s collection of lies about raw milk — and their gloating over their armed raid on Rawesome Foods — at:
http://da.co.la.ca.us/mr/080311a.htm

Sandi Gibbons is the Public Information Officer for the LA County District Attorney’s Office. She would also be another good person to call with your protest:
Phone: 213-974-3525

Government agent #4: Siobhan DeLancey

FDA Press Officer, participated in the investigation of Rawesome, covers Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, including food recalls.

DeLancey has been caught spreading grossly misleading information about raw milk to the New York Times, including the fear-mongering claim that drinking raw milk causes children to become “paraplegics.” (Notice how she doesn’t say that taking FDA-approved medications can cause you to DIE?)

Phone: 301-796-4668
Email: siobhan.delancey@fda.hhs.gov

Government agent #5: Michelle LeCavalier

Michelle is an Environmental Health Specialist III at the Department Of Health Services:
1501 Capitol Avenue, Suite 6001
Sacramento, CA 95814-5005

We could not locate an email for LeCavalier. If you can find one, let us know and we’ll update this article with it.

Her boss is Jesus Urrutia, Chief EHS
6851 Lennox Ave. # 310
Van Nuys, CA 91405
(818) 902-4470

From this listing of district offices:
http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/eh…

The Director of Environmental Health for the County of Los Angeles is:
Angelo J. Bellomo
abellomo@ph.lacounty.gov
5050 Commerce Drive, Baldwin Park, CA 91706
Phone: (626) 430-5100
Fax: (626) 813-3000

You can also leave a message on the Environmental Health Emergency Hotline at (888) 700-9995

Or use their complaint form at:
http://admin.publichealth.lacounty….
(You can use this form to complain about Dept. of Public Health!)

Government mob boss: FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg

The real mastermind behind all this is, of course, the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a rogue government agency that’s widely engaged in acts of domestic terrorism against the American people (http://www.naturalnews.com/033280_F…).

The mastermind who plots the FDA’s war against innocents is none other than Margaret Hamburg, the FDA Commissioner.

Phone number for her office: 301-796-5000
Main FDA number: 888-463-6332
Email address #1: margaretahamburg@aol.com
Email address #2: Margaret.Hamburg@fda.hhs.gov

Be sure to send to both!

Thanks go to this website for providing the emails:
http://tekgnosis.typepad.com/tekgno…

Take action now: Send emails and call these numbers to voices your complaints!

Previous protests organized by NaturalNews have been hugely effective at challenging tyrants and reminding them that they actions are completely unacceptable to freedom-loving Americans.

Your phone calls and emails to officials of Oak Park, Michigan helped Julie Bass win her freedom from the tyrants operating there (http://www.naturalnews.com/033186_J…).

Your complaints have also been heard loudly in Detroit Michigan where Maryanne Godboldo is facing multiple felony charges for refusing to medicate her daughter with psychiatric drugs: http://www.naturalnews.com/033295_p…

Now, your voice can make a measurable impact against the government agents involved in these outrageous actions against Rawesome Foods.

Join us in sending emails and making phone calls to voice your complaints against these out-of-control government bureaucrats — people who I consider to be parasites on society who believe they rule by force (at the end of a gun) and run a totalitarianism dictatorship right here in America.

It’s time to put these people in their place and make sure they know we are watching and paying attention — and we will take action to protect our lives, our liberties and our pursuit of happiness, even in the face of total government oppression and intimidation.

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Truth About

Pasteurization – It Kills

Based on an article by Energy Drink Truth.com

(Healingtalks)  “Kill neither men, nor beasts, nor yet the food which goes into your mouth…For if you eat living food the same will quicken you. But if you kill your food the dead food will kill you also….”

“For life comes only from life, and from death comes always death. For everything which kills your foods, kills your bodies also. And your bodies become what your foods are…”

“Therefore eat not anything which fire, or frost, or water has destroyed. For burnt, frozen and rotted foods will burn, freeze and rot your body also. But be not like the foolish husbandman who sowed in his ground cooked and frozen seeds. And the autumn came, and his fields bore nothing. And great was his distress. But be like that husbandman who sowed in his field living seed, and whose field bore living ears of wheat, paying a hundredfold for the seeds which he planted. For I tell you truly, live by the fire of life, and prepare not your foods with the fire of death, which kills your foods, your bodies and your souls also.”

                                                                            Jesus – Essene Gospel of Peace

COMMENTS

(Healingtalks) The life force in our foods is best carried in the fluids of living plants and animals, including in  our own bloodstream. This is because at the root foundation of life is “consciousness” – the universal relationship of connection” which also makes living nature ultimately One. The opposite of connection is separation. Only in fluids do separate drops of liquid connect optimally connected as One. This is why fluids physically display how consciousness, at the root of life, works. It  is via liquids, from living sources, the life is best carried into and throughout our bodies. However, the rest of the universe also wants that same connected living energy, so once a liquid is extracted and exposed it spoils most quickly of all foods. For that life force cannot be selfishly preserved when a fruit or vegetable is cut open or even milk and blood are likewise exposed to the air.

The truth about pasteurization is that it kills this same living force in order to make a more commercially viable product. The reasons for pasteurization, which is subjecting foods to the killing force of fire, are all economic. The end result is a actually and very really a health-harmful product.

Given the epidemics of arthritis and arteriosclerosis in our society, from which millions suffer and are harmed, and fed by countless devitalized foods – such as pasteurized milk and pasteurized juices  – this is what really and massively threatens our collective  health  and should by all reason and seriously be outlawed or made illegal.

In an ideal society, the  sale of pasteurized foods ought to be criminalized because of their immense and widespread harm…. if only we lived in a more enlightened and less unconscious society – which we do not.

Our core spiritual worldview, the mathematical/mechanical of the 17th century, has long make a diabolical marriage with commerce, with capitalism, to preserve and deaden our foods for financial reasons – and thus to deaden our lives, our bodies, our spirits and our souls – as ancient wisdom knew too well, especially in the light-filled words of the Essene Gospel of Peace.

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Gross Naivete of Pasteur

Louis Pasteur may have had something else in mind when he came up with the process of pasteurization back in the 1880′s (said to be created for purposes of preventing sickness from consumption of milk and wine).

But today, past all the government and industry lies and deceptions, the process of pasteurization is solely for killing the life force (enzymes) in a living food.

Killing Our Foods Living Enzymes

Nature puts enzymes in all raw and living foods, including milk. Certain enzymes are responsible for causing the food to naturally spoil or go bad. This is why you see fruit naturally fall from a tree in Nature when unpicked. The fruit will automatically spoil, shrivel up, and fall to the Earth and biodegrade.

Raw milk will naturally spoil after a few days. So will orange juice. So how do companies get milk and orange juice and other beverages to remain unspoiled in caskets (cans, jars, boxes, etc.) for periods of weeks and months at a time?

Again, pasteurization!

Pasteurizing the food (or beverage) kills the enzymes, including those that cause spoiling. Then, so that the food won’t spoil, preservatives are added to preserve the shelf life of the so-called food. Now the food (beverage) can sit on a supercasket, oops, I mean ‘supermarket,’ shelf for a few weeks if necessary and no one has to worry about the product spoiling.

The simple fact that preservatives are added to certain foods and beverages should let us know that the thing that contains preservatives and that we are about to consume, is DEAD! After all, you only preserve that which is dead, right? Of course? You don’t have to preserve that which is alive. Dead human bodies are preserved with embalming fluid (formaldehyde) to keep them from spoiling (rotting, decaying) before the funeral. Well, when you add preservatives to food and beverages, you’re basically embalming the thing (food) because it too is dead. Only dead things are embalmed (preserved).

Anytime you see the word ‘preservative’ on something you are about to consume, it is a sign that the product is DEAD! For more detail about preservatives, see the article “Half Dead” which you can find at www.dherbs.com/articles.

Now you know that that pasteurized milk (liquidized cow snot and pus) and fruit juice (i.e. orange juice, apple juice) in your fridge is not pasteurized to kill bacteria, but to keep it in a casket (carton) for a few weeks for purposes of profit.

Truth About Flash Pasteurized

That ‘flash pasteurized’ orange juice or apple juice is flash pasteurized to keep the dead juice in the casket (jar or carton) for a few weeks as well.

Flash pasteurized is nothing but a fancy name that still implies the thing has been heated up to kill enzymes or enzymatic activity in it. Pasteurization has to be at least 145 degrees to be effective but living foods are killed at temperatures beyond 118 degrees, so 145 degrees clearly kills all life in a natural food, be it fruit, vegetables, or animal milk (which humans really should not be drinking by the way).

Truth About UHT – Ultra High Temperature Milk

And what about UHT (ultra-high-temperature) milk?

This stuff is completely DEAD!

UHT milk is sold off the shelf at room temperature. However, UHT milk is ultra-pasteurized at 280 degrees. Now you know anything processed with this much heat is really dead. This is why UHT milk will keep up to six months unrefrigerated.

Like I tell people: consumption of processed foods will most certainly process you in the process of unwisely consuming them, at least in the long run.

To process means ‘to change’ and you will most certainly change (for the worse) from consuming all this processed so-called food (and beverage) out here today.

Pasteurization Equals Dead Products

Pasteurization is a code word for ‘dead products.’

Don’t be fooled by such terms (usually serving as suffixes) such as ‘ultra’ and ‘flash.’ If the word ‘pasteurization’ follows these terms, it still denotes pasteurization has taken place, and thus the killing of the thing food has also taken place.

Ultra simply means ‘high high’ and ‘flash’ means ‘quickly processed.”

Remember people in the United States are controlled with and by words. Americans are a word-controlled people and this is the major reason why Americans are kept dumb downed, functioning mentally on a 2nd grade level as far as reading, comprehension, and communicating. If you can’t read, then you can’t decipher and understand the words being used to control you.

Pasteurization is a word used in order to deceptively carry the prestige of a famous scientist, and thus the prestige and authority of science as such. But actually pasteurization equals dead foods that harm.

Evidence in Health Pandemics

• Arthritis – Few people know that “dairy farmers tend to suffer from arthritis more than any other sector in agriculture.” See Farmworldonline for the source of this quote. Living in a dairy farming region I know this first hand. Dead products equal health pandemics. This primarily occurs with the drinking of pasteurized milk.  Altogether about 50 million Americans alone suffer from arthritis according to the CDC - the very corrupt organization involved in trying to ban raw milk.
• Osteoporosis – The same applies to osteoporosis, as brought out by a report of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.  As our bones die, so also do our arteries fed with dead liquids rather than living food.  In the US, over 12 million people over the age of 50 have osteoporosis, and about 200 million around the globe suffer from this illness – according to the International Osteoporosis Foundation.
• Cardiovascular Diseases - Finally, and what what needs no reference as it  is so widely known, cardiovascular diseases rival cancer as the leading causes of death in the US.

Remember the words of the Essence Gospel

From life comes life and from death…. death.

What You Can Do

Transform your own diet to a living, raw, local, whole food diet.

See our groundbreaking article  Investigative Reporting: Decades of Suppressing and Now Criminalizing of Raw Milk Sales which list the many further actions you can take

Also activists for real public health, and in view of the recent thrust of the FDA, CDC, and Department of Agriculture to criminalize the sale of raw milk, please distribute this article and  link to it -  to help this information go viral.

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Raid of Rawesome Foods

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Decades of Suppressing

Raw Milk Sales

Leading to Criminalization

First they came after the raw milk producers
and I didn’t speak out because I drank no raw milk.

Then they came after the non-GMO farmers
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a farmer.

When they came for natural food supplement manufacturers and health food retailers I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a manufacturer or store owner.

When they arrested naturopaths and natural healers, I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a doctor or healer.

When they hauled away organic home gardeners
I didn’t speak out because I grew no gardens.

When they handcuffed and jailed breast-feeding women who refused to pasteurize their own milk, I didn’t speak out because I had no children

Finally when they came for me there was no one left to speak for me.

A rephrasing of the “First they came for the communists...” statement about Germans refusing to take a stand against the Nazis. Inspired by a recent variation of this posted on RealFoodRights.com

(Healingtalks) Back in April of 2010 the FDA conducted an armed pre-dawn raid on a gentle Amish farmer selling his raw milk from a couple dozen cows and to a few faithful customers. This, and dozens of similar incidences, have set the stage for a more recent and second armed raid of Rawesome Foods in Venice California where, for the first time, the  government upped the ante. Not only did the FDA, in a joint raid with other corrupt government agencies,  thwart the sale of raw milk and confiscate the proprietors’ inventory and cash, they now want to criminalize the sale of raw milk with multiple pending felony charges – and in a state where raw milk is legal to sell!

This is a critical turning point in the whole establishment of a food police state, sending a very frightening, chilling message to all other raw milk farms, distributors and retailers in our entire nation and all along our food chain supply channels.

All the while the government is becoming ever more militant in its campaign and armed raids on small local farmers. According to Gary Cox of the Farm-To-Consumer Legal Defense Fund: “I’ve seen numerous search warrants being carried out; I’ve even seen it where a SWAT team would come into a family’s home in Northern Ohio and hold the family including the children at gunpoint for six hours while the agents searched the home for food,” says Gary.

The incident with the gentle Amish farmer in Pennsylvania, and actually dozens of others, have long set the stage for the creation of a heinous “food police state” and this has been brewing  for over two decades – at least since the FDA regulatory ban of raw milk interstate sales in the late 1980′s

Every reader should be informed, alerted and rightly alarmed that this  process is now accelerating.

The sample Amish incident, preceded by a year and a half sting operation, ended in a lawsuit  in 2011 attempting to prevent the Amish farmer from selling his raw milk to his small faithful cadre of customers across state lines.

PA Undercover Raw Milk Sting

The agency began its investigation of Mr. Daniel Allgyer’s farm (Rainbow Acres Farm in  Kinzers, PA) in  2009. This was when an undercover FDA agent in Baltimore  placed an order under an assumed name to sign up for the Yahoo user group tied to Allgyer’s Rainbow Acres.

His milk orders went to a residence in Maryland where the milk could be picked up.

By crossing state lines the milk became part of “interstate commerce” and thus presumably subject to the FDA’s regulatory ban on the sales of raw milk. The court papers noted that the jugs of milk were not labeled – forming a second violation of FDA regulations. FDA investigators then came to the farm in February 2010, when Mr. Allgyer turned them away from his farm.

The armed encounter and harassment was documented by Ellen Marie, also privately interviewing the Allgyer’s family about the trespassing involved.  She reported that other dairy farms and their families in the area had similarly been subjected to FDA intimidation. In April the FDA sent a warning letter from the Philadelphia district, signed by Kirk Sooter, the director, telling Allgyer to essentially cease and desist or they might face an injunction as well as the seizure of his property.  This warning letter can be found on the FDA website.

How FDA Got Such Orwellian/Nazi Police State Powers

The FDA now has immensely expanded new powers due to the so-called Food Safety and Modernization Act approved by Congress last year and signed by President Obama in January, 2011.

Starting July 3, 2011 the agency gained the ability to confiscate any food at any farm that it deems s0-called “unsafe or mislabeled.”

This is what has tipped the scale for far more aggressive and unconstitutional FDA actions – in the spirit of Bush’s Patriot Act. It essentially treats farmers in the same way terrorists might be treated in the Patriot Act, and with no rights at detention centers across the world.

The Saga Continues

FDA agents thus returned in April of 2010 to Allgyer’s farm with a warrant  submitted by Joshua Schafer, the FDA investigator) and then U.S. marshals and a state police trooper made a pre-dawn raw milk raid (at 5 am) but which the FDA called a “lawful inspection.”

The FDA claimed they spotted coolers labeled with Maryland town names, and with dairy products. The inspection again led to a letter dated 04/20/2010 from FDA informing Mr. Allgyer that he had to stop selling across state lines.

Mr, Allgyer instead formed a private club where members could be shareholders in the farm’s produce, paying only for the farmer’s labor. This was to avoid the FDA’s regulation of “commerce.” The FDA investigators continued to take shipments and in April of 2011 week filed suit in Federal Court to stop Allgyer’s sale of raw milk.

Allgyer has refused official media requests for interviews and is said to be reluctant even to hire a lawyer to defend himself – all out of a religious belief in nonviolence.

Latest Development

The FDA this year filed for a legal  injunction against Allgyer and accused him of “contributing to the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases” at his farm where he tends just three dozen cows and sells their raw milk to a very small buyers’ club in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.

For decades there has never been any real evidence whatsoever that raw-milk forms a health hazard.

Not an Isolated Incidence and Prelude to Criminalizing

There is a list available on the Web of 20 small farms and enterprises, especially dairy farms and their  distributors,  who have been raided by federal agents since 2004 and in eight different states in US.  This includes a previous gunpoint raid on Rawesome Foods in 2010. likewise confiscating their property. The list also gives ample details of many other unconstitutional, horrific and intimidating actions of the FDA.

Interestingly the initial seller of raw milk on that list is Organic Pastures Dairy, raided in the spring of 2004. At the time the agents even illegally went through customer files and photographed them.

Organic pastures is no small operation to be targeted. In fact, it is the largest dairy operation subject to FDA intimidation. Mark McAfee, owner of Organic Pastures Dairy in Fresno, sells raw milk to 50,000 customers a week and through 400 stores in the Bay Area and the rest of the state. He endured a long undercover investigation. All the while  “they refuse to acknowledge raw milk can be done in a safe manner,” McAfee stated. “The state of California is very effectively doing that… There is no recorded evidence anywhere, any place – the Centers for Disease Control, the Food and Drug Administration, anybody – that shows anybody has ever died from raw milk in California.”

What’s Really Behind the Raw Milk Suppression – $$$

Despite raw milk’s tiny market share, McAfee (owner of Organic Pastures Dairies) stated that  milk processors are behind efforts to ban raw milk because they see the product as a competitive threat. He said demand for pasteurized milk is falling about 1 percent a year, and farmers can earn as much as 10 times more for raw milk than they do selling to processors. The processors then denature the milk via pasteurization and in order to extend shelf-life. They don’t want the public to know they are denaturing the milk to create an inferior product because it would be a death-knoll and financial disaster.

Furthermore when milk is in the raw state, not all the milk is the same, pooled from different farms. Some of the milk will lose its fresh taste more quickly than others – sometimes in as little as a week. Unlike eggs, meat and fish, dairy milk can’t be refrigerated or frozen for months without adulterating its taste. Without pasteurization of pooled milk, there is a loss of control of shelf-life.  This equates to a loss of control of the market as such.

Pasteurization is critically necessary and must be justified at all costs, and through all possible info-wars or mind-deceits of the public – even if it means fabricating health scares or all kinds of fear-mongering about raw milk… all of which is scientifically indefensible. The very survival of large dairies depends on maintaining this consumer infowar deceit.  Thus they solicit corrupt government and scientific support.

A careful study of pasteurization shows it truly denatures the milk.

See my article on Pasteurization – http://www.healingtalks.com/health/the-truth-about-pasteurization-it-kills/.

It makes milk significantly deficient. Pasteurized dairy consumption leads to long-term arteriosclerosis, osteoporosis and arthritis, all of which are among the most common diseases in aging dairy farmers who drink pasteurized milk for decades. Among farming populations, dairy farmers have the highest rates of arthritis.

There is also short-term allergenic or lactose-intolerance reactions to pasteurized milk. This is because the pasteurized milk simply becomes heat-harmed and dead food. Our bodies require living foods for optimal health. Like chemically-preserved staples deadened to increase shelf-life, the end result is the true health-hazard at the altar of making more money.

If the public knew all of this, it would fatally threaten billions of dollars of conventional dairy sales. These are maintained only via this huge market deceptions. In the meantime, illnesses like arteriosclerosis, osteoporosis and arthritis are pandemic. Statistics show these three ailments affect literally hundreds of millions of people over the age of 50, which then helps allopathic medical and pharmaceutical industries thrive.

Dairy Industry’s Thrust Toward Total Market Control

“The fluid milk markets are already dying on the vine because people can’t digest , it’s too allergenic and it’s got lactose intolerance,” McAfee continued by saying “Raw milk is an out-of-control milk. It’s by the farmer directly to the consumer, so all the dairy industry people are upset that they are losing control of the market.”

Reactions to the Raw Milk Sting

Coming back to our example of the Pennsylvania-Amish dairy sting operation by the FDA, one of the customers, Liz Reitzig, president of the Maryland Independent Consumers and Farmers Association, said she started looking into raw milk because her oldest daughter showed signs of not tolerating pasteurized milk. Thus she sought out what they call  “cow sharing” or where a group of people buy shares in owning a cow, and pay a farmer to board and milk the cow.

But Maryland outlawed that practice and so she turned to Mr. Allgyer’s farm.

“We like the way they farm, we love their product, it’s super-high-quality, they’re wonderful. It’s just a wonderful arrangement,” she said. ” The FDA really has no idea what they’re talking about when they’re talking about fresh milk. They have no concept – they really don’t understand what it’s like for people like me who have friends and family who can’t drink conventional milk,” Ms. Reitzig said.

Other customers were likewise furious, especially those from the District of Columbia and Maryland.

“I look at this as the FDA is in cahoots with the large milk producers,” said Karin Edgett, a D.C. resident who buys directly from Rainbow Acres. “I don’t want the FDA and my tax dollars to go to shut down a farm that hasn’t had any complaints against it. They’re producing good food, and the consumers are extremely happy with it.”

Members of the Grassfed on the Hill  group reacted by planning a rally in Washington DC, raw-milking a cow as pictured below with the Capitol building in the background.

Former Sen. Fred Thompson,Tennessee Republican, took to Twitter to blast the raid, calling it a waste of time and resources and mockingly saying the FDA would do better to shut down “unlicensed lemonade stands” at gunpoint around the country.

Author David Gumpert, writing for the website Grist, wondered whether those who took part in the raid felt “remorse or shame” in an “official effort to deprive people of food.”

Action Center:

What Readers Can Do

Bill to Stop the FDA from Banning Raw Milk

On May 11, Rep. Ron Paul, Texas Republican, introduced H.R. 1830, the Unpasteurized Milk Bill, which would end the FDA’s ban and permit the sale of raw milk across state lines. This would reverse the mandate given in 1987 FDA regulation to ban interstate commerce in raw milk.

Suit Against FDA  in Iowa

Pete Kennedy, president of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, said undercover stings are a matter of course. “It happens quite a bit. It’s almost like they treat raw milk as crack. It happened in a number of states, and at the federal level,” he said. His organization has now sued to try to halt FDA enforcement, and the case is pending in federal court in Iowa.

Getting Raw Milk Locally

One way support raw milk for real optimal health is to seek out a local raw dairy. A new resource called Finding Your Safe Local Raw Milk  offers an instantly downloadable $7 ePaper to help you find such dairies in your area quickly. Read more about the $7 ePaper

Helping Friends and Allies

• NICFA (National Independent Consumers and Farmers Association
• Fresh (website for award-winning film that supports non-industrial farming)
• The Complete Patient  (blog of David E. Gumpert, with an intense coverage of the issue)
• Farm to Family Bus (farm to city distribution collective)
• Truth Farmer (political blog focusing on farming issues)
• Campaign for Liberty (political liberties site lead by John Tate)
• Weston A. Price Foundation (nutrition education foundation)
• www.RealFoodRights.com (coalition supporting farm to consumers ecosystems)
• www.FTCLDF.org (Consumer Legal Defense Fund)

For further coverage of this story:

• http://www.infowars.com/raw-food-ra…  
• www.healingtalks.com
• www.RealFoodRights.com

Make contributions to Rawesome’s Legal Defense Fund

• http://realfoodrights.com/donate.html

Take back control of your health and well-being. Don’t let our government  destroy your collective health rights through fear-mongering mind-control efforts and food police state tactics – all pursued to serve profit interests of consolidated corporate behemoths.

Today the issue is the sale of raw milk.

Tomorrow the issue is the sale of all the rest of our food supply, and ever more artificially processed, bio-engineered and thus denatured for profit.

First they came after the raw milk producers
and I didn’t speak out because I drank no raw milk.

Then they came after the non-GMO farmers
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a farmer.

When they came for natural food supplement manufacturers and health food retailers I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a manufacturer or store owner.

When they arrested naturopaths and natural healers, I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a doctor or healer.

When they hauled away organic home gardeners
I didn’t speak out because I grew no gardens.

When they handcuffed and jailed breast-feeding women who refused to pasteurize their own milk, I didn’t speak out because I had no children

Finally when they came for me there was no one left to speak for me.

A rephrasing of the “First they came for the communists…” statement about Germans refusing to take a stand against the Nazis. Inspired by a recent variation of this posted on RealFoodRights.com

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Against US Raids

On Raw Milk

Based on an article from Naturalnews

Government Data Proves

Raw Milk Is

Safe and Healthy

(Healingtalks) Thanks to a recent survey by the Centers for Disease control, we have the numbers to determine the statistical safety of drinking raw milk. Turns out, raw milk really is safer than just about any other food out there — including spinach, peanut butter, and eggs. The risk of contracting an illness from contaminated raw milk is ridiculously tiny, particularly when you consider the amount of resources the federal government is pouring into undercover investigations of raw milk farmers, raids of buying clubs and co-ops, and creating an anti raw milk campaign.

For years, we’ve known exactly how many people in the U.S. get sick from drinking raw milk (an average of 42 per year). What’s been missing is the baseline — the number of raw milk drinkers in the U.S.

Government Data Supporting Raw Milk’s Safety

In 2007, the CDC conducted a survey to determine the number of raw milk drinkers.

To summarize the results, a recent press release by the Weston A. Price Foundation stated:

“At last we have access to the numbers we need to determine the risk of consuming raw milk on a per-person basis,” says Sally Fallon Morell, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a non-profit nutrition education foundation that provides information on the health benefits of raw, whole milk from pastured cows.

The key figure that permits a calculation of raw milk illnesses on a per-person basis comes from a 2007 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) FoodNet survey, which found that 3.04 percent of the population consumes raw milk, about 9.4 million people, based on the 2010 census. This number may in fact be larger in 2011 as raw milk is growing in popularity. For example, sales of raw milk increased 25 percent in California in 2010, while sales of pasteurized milk declined 3 percent.

Rarer than Rare Raw Milk-Tied Ailments

In addition, Dr. Beals has compiled published reports of illness attributed to raw milk from 1999 to 2010. During the eleven-year period, illnesses attributed to raw milk averaged 42 per year.

“Using government figures for foodborne illness for the entire population, Dr. Beals has shown that you are about thirty-five thousand times more likely to get sick from other foods than you are from raw milk,” says Fallon Morell. “And with good management practices in small grass-based dairies offering fresh unprocessed whole milk for direct human consumption, we may be able to reduce the risk even further.”

“It is irresponsible for senior national government officials to oppose raw milk, claiming that it is inherently hazardous,” says Dr. Beals. “There is no justification for opposing the sale of raw milk or warning against its inclusion in the diets of children and adults.”

FDA’s Hidden Agenda and Distortions

According to Pete Kennedy, president of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, “Where raw milk is concerned, the FDA has an agenda that is not about protecting the public health. They want to restrict and discourage the sale of unprocessed dairy products. This will have the effect of denying freedom of choice.”  In short, there are economic to support large corporate dairy operations tied to GMO feeding lots, and which has nothing to do with real health reasons.

“Every time there is a possible connection between illness and raw milk, government officials issue dire press releases and call for bans on raw milk sales,” says Fallon Morell. “However, these numbers fail to justify the government opposition and prove what we’ve known all along, that raw milk is a safe and healthy food.”

Raw Milk Is Actually Super Safe and Healthier

Raw milk is not just SAFE but SAFER. Put cows out to pasture. Let them eat rapidly growing green grasses. Keep milking facilities well-cleaned and sanitized. Use modern refrigeration and stainless steel holding tanks. Keep milk cold while transporting it. If you choose to drink raw milk, only drink this “good stuff.”

Don’t drink raw milk that’s been intended for pasteurization (this usually comes from confinement dairies, and isn’t particularly healthful or clean.) Why is milk then pasteurized? Perhaps to protect the interests of large non-organic corporate dairies have pus-filled milk that need to be neutralized as well as stored for long periods of time or while in transit for thousands of miles. According to Wikipedia, pasteurization is the main means to extend shelf-life. The bottom-line then is greater profits and not the health of consumers. Usually chemicals denature and devitalize food to create longer shelf-life. With milk, just high-heat is enough.

The only important missing ingredient is to convince consumers to buy this devitalized food so that the Corporate dairies continue to make higher profit margins.

Local organic dairies don’t so need to so deaden their food as the food is delivered virtually “straight from the cow, goat or sheep.”  The profit motive can then take a second place to providing what is honestly healthiest for their customers.

How Best To Deceive the Public

So what’s the absolute best way to maintain the fraud perpetrated by large dairies onto their consumers that milk needs to be pasteurized to be safe.

Convince the public that raw milk is dangerous!

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Raw Organic Food Co-op

Raided in California

Baed on an article by IAN LOVETT in the NYT

Raw food enthusiasts fit right in here, in the earthy, health-conscious beach communities of Venice and Santa Monica, along with the farmers’ markets, health food stores and vegan restaurants.

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(Healingtalks) This is a breaking story from Naturalnews.

First the FDA tries to outlaw the most nutritious supplements on the market to help Big-Pharma.

Then agents come to arrest the employees and owners of distributors/retailers of raw, organic, non-GMO wholesome foods, and at machine-gun gunpoint. Next and no doubt they put these  long-haired “food criminals” in jail to then reform them, to feed them grub straight from McDonalds.

Welcome to the New

Food Police State!

Multi-agency armed raid hits Rawesome Foods, Healthy Family Farms for selling raw milk and cheese

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

Police State Raid

A multi-agency SWAT-style armed raid was conducted this morning by helmet-wearing, gun-carrying enforcement agents from the LA County Sheriff’s Office, the FDA, the Dept. of Agriculture and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control). This story is now being followed and widely reported on InfoWars (www.InfoWars.com) and the Drudge Report (www.DrudgeReport.com). See updates below…

Rawesome Foods, a private buying club offering wholesome, natural raw milk and raw cheese products (among other wholesome foods) is founded by James Stewart, a pioneer in bringing wholesome raw foods directly to consumers through a buying club. James was followed from his private residence by law enforcement, and when he entered his store, the raid was launched.

Law enforcement demanded that all customers (members) of the store vacate the premises, then they demanded to know how much cash James had at the store. When James explained the amount of cash he had at the store — which is used to purchase product for selling there — agents demanded to know why he had such an amount of cash and where it came from.

James was handcuffed, was never read his rights and was stuffed into an unmarked car. While agents said they would leave behind a warrant, no one has yet had any opportunity to even see if such a warrant exists or if it is a complete warrant.

Law enforcement then proceeded to destroy the inventory of the story by pouring the milk down the drain and / or confiscating raw cheese and fresh produce for destruction. Video now posted at NaturalNews.TV: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A…

Note to NaturalNews readers: We believe this was an ILLEGAL raid being conducted mob-style by government thugs who respect no law and no rights. This is an all-out war by the government against people who try to promote healthy raw and living foods.

James is now being held at the Pacific division police department at Centinela and Culver in Los Angeles. He is being held at $123,000 bail with no possibility of using bail bonds. Law enforcement has demanded that if he comes up with the money to cover bail, he must disclose to them all the sources of that money. (This is an illegal demand!)

Public Protest and Funds Needed

Massive public protests are needed to teach these criminal law enforcement agencies that they cannot illegally arrest and persecute individuals merely for buying and selling raw milk and cheese. We are organizing a public protest day in cooperation with James. Please watch NaturalNews for an announcement of that. Story is developing…

Right now, James needs help raising money with his legal defense needs. Our non-profit Consumer Wellness Center is currently serving as the collection point for donations. You may donate right now at www.ConsumerWellness.org (100% of the donations go directly to James’ legal defense needs, the Consumer Wellness Center keeps nothing).

See this video of James Stewart talking about his farm:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foKg…

Story on InfoWars.com:
http://www.infowars.com/raw-food-ra…

Info on Healthy Family Farms in Santa Paula, California

Here’s background on Healthy Family Farms which was also targeted in the raid:

“Healthy Family Farms is a sustainable, pasture-based farming operation. We raise all our livestock on pasture. We raise all of our animals from birth. We do not feed any of our animals soy, choosing instead to feed animals as they are designed to be fed. This results in healthy, sturdy animals needing no hormones, antibiotics, or other artificial “enhancements.” We harvest our animals humanely by hand before they are delivered to the farmers markets. We never freeze our products. In addition to farmer’s markets sales, we have an active CSA, which offers discounts to our valued members.”

Are You Fed Up Too?

We are fed up with these illegal mob-style raids against the raw foods community! It is time to protest and fight back against tyranny!

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