Here's To Your Health

Monsanto wins again! save Sept 17 for Occupy Monsanto

Connecticut had the potential to become the first US state to require the labeling of genetically modified (GMO) foods.  But two days ago, the Governor stripped GMO labeling from a new bill that was supported by 90% of the residents of the state and a majority of the legislature on both sides of the aisle.

Representative Richard Roy, one of the bill’s original sponsors, says: 

“The labeling provision was eliminated from the bill due to fears that it opened the state up to a lawsuit. The attorneys for the leadership and Governor’s office felt the Constitutional rights of Monsanto gave them the power to successfully sue the state. Their main duty was to protect the welfare of the state.”

We’re not talking about banning GMO’s here.  We’re talking about labeling them.  Something that’s already been mandated in all 27 European Union nations, as well as Japan, Australia, Brazil, Russia and China.  

As Summit speaker Jeffrey Smith’s Institute for Responsible Technology said in an action alert: “Governor Malloy chose to put the interests of the monstrous biotech industry in front of the rights of the people of Connecticut.”

A Food Revolution is No Small Endeavor

We’re all swimming upstream much of the time.

Most of us live in an environment where eating junk food is considered normal, and eating healthy food is considered weird.  Where you can buy a candy bar at almost any store, but you sometimes have to travel for miles to get a fresh piece of spinach.

It’s not easy to be a food revolutionary.  But it has never been more important.

lezlow asked: whays the safest food to eat ?

All whole foods. I get meat and chickens from farmers that I know do not raise their animals, produce in harmful ways and buy organic when I can - particularly potatoes and apples.  Eggs should be non caged and again farmers who raise their chickens naturally are great resources. Cereals, breads, salad dressings, ice cream and all processed foods are generally filled with GMO’s and additives and even “good breads” often add too much gluten.  Basically eggs, vegetables, fruits, salads nuts, good oils, natural cheese, meats and chicken, wild caught sea food are the safest.  Organic if you can afford it, but getting to know local people who care about how they raise their animals and produce is a cheaper alternative and can give you an opportunity to learn more and support the local economy instead of the corporate agricultural scene. There are shopping guides on the Institute of Responsible Technology website.  Thanks for asking.

Ghostwriters write Tamiflu studies embedding messages

o magic bullet on the flu
January 15, 2012, Los Angeles Times
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/15/opinion/la-oe-finkelstein-tamiflu-20120115

In 2006 … the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and the World Health Organization in Geneva warned of the imminent onset of an avian flu “pandemic” of lethal proportions. The pandemic never occurred. After reviewing studies of Tamiflu during the avian flu scare, Dr. Tom Jefferson … had concluded in a 2006 report that the drug was effective. “But,” said the article, “several years later, another physician challenged that conclusion because 8 of 10 studies in a meta-analysis — a review of studies — that Jefferson relied on had never been published.” That prompted Jefferson to seek the raw data. “He was stymied when several authors and the manufacturer gave one excuse after another for why it couldn’t supply the actual data. Jefferson’s concern turned to outrage when two employees of a communications company … [revealed] they had been paid to ghostwrite some of the Tamiflu studies [and] had been given explicit instructions to ensure that a key message was embedded in the articles: Flu is a threat, and Tamiflu is the answer. “After reanalyzing the raw data finally made available (they still don’t have it all), Jefferson and his colleagues published their review [in December 2009], saying that once the unpublished studies were excluded, there was no proof that Tamiflu reduced serious flu complications like pneumonia or death.” In short, it appears the pharmaceutical companies had been as cunning in conning the public on matters of health as Wall Street had been on matters of wealth.

Note: For powerful media reports suggesting that both the Avian Flu and Swine Flu were incredibly manipulated to promote fear and boost pharmaceutical sales, click here. For lots more from reliable sources on pharmaceutical corruption, click here.

From the Food Revolution Summit

“Independent studies show that genetically engineered food has the ability to create new, unintended toxins and increase allergens and other health problems.  In a 2011 study out of Canada, researchers found that 93% of blood samples and 80% of fetal cord blood samples contain a toxic found in a genetically engineered corn, Bt corn, that produces its own pesticides.”