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23-01-2008, 09:49 AM
from the newsletter of Health Freedom:
Our Side Just Won Big on Two
Supposedly Impossible Fronts!
We, the People, can whisper, speak, insist and, when we believe in our own power, we can issue forth a mighty roar at which, literally, corporate and political tyrants tremble!This week that happened twice, once in France and once in the US ! We snatched two major "People's Victories" from the jaws of two of the mightiest forces in the world: the United States Government and the Biotech Industry. Take note and take heart: "They" are vulnerable to our awareness and conscious action. We CAN change outcomes from what they want because it serves the corporate interests to what we want because it preserves health and freedom. But the more isolated and impotent we feel, the stronger they get. Well, read on! We are clearly NOT impotent and, through your Natural Solutions community, we are certainly not isolated.
French Score: Consumers 1, BioTech 0
France has rescinded its approval of Monsanto's 810 Maize because the efforts of a small, but determined, group of activists!
Here is the simple press release which announces, in understated terms, the victory won by activists there who have uprooted GM fields, staged marches, educated the public and, finally gone on a hunger strike. Finally, in the midst of the uproar, France rescinded its approval of Monsanto 810 Maize for animal feed.
"Press Release - (Jakarta, 12 January 2008) La Via Campesina is happy to announce that José Bové and the 15 other anti-GMO hunger strikers won a major victory yesterday with the French government's decision to ban the GMO Monsanto maize "MON 810", the only variety authorized in the country so far.
"This significant decision was taken because of the risks this genetically modified variety poses on the environment.
"The 16 French activists launched a hunger strike of indeterminate length on January 3 in order to achieve the activation of the cautionary principle, permitted by European law that allows a country to edict a moratorium on the commercialization of a genetically modified seed if new scientific evidences show that it threatens the environment.
"The international peasant's movement La Via Campesina is a strong opponent of genetically modified crops. It considers the French government's decision as a strong signal to reconsider a total ban on GMO crops in Europe and in the world.
"For more information: Josie Riffaud and Paul Nicholson : +34636451566"
France has bent a vigorous battle ground against genetically modified (GM) foods. The international peasants' organization, "La Via Campensina" (literally, "Peasant Life") has been fighting GM crops vigorously in France and elsewhere. They have gone to jail for burning GM crops in France, organized marches, informed the public and brought court actions. Earlier this month, they organized a hunger strike in France. The only GM crop approved for use in France thus far has been Monsanto's Yield Guard Corn, 810 Maize, which is genetically modified to produce a pesticide similar to the one which the bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis produces. Although the compound produced by the GM corn Monsanto 810 is billed as identical to the natural pesticide product is not. The idea is to kill the corn borer by making the whole plant poisonous. Really poisonous. Um, people eat the plant even though it was approved for use as an animal feed. People also then eat the new DNA and it gets into our own DNA. Animals, insects and bacteria also eat the pant. Isn't there something wrong with this picture?
Codex established the methods of analysis, laying the groundwork for the global approval of Monsanto 810 Maize in the 24th Session of the Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling (CCMAS)/AD HOC Intergovernmental Task Force on Foods Derived From Biotechnology, Budapest, November 2002., ftp://ftp.fao.org/codex/ccmas24/ma02_08e.pdf.
That is, of course, not much of a surprise. Like the FDA, Codex apparently never met a GM food it did not love. There certainly is not much to love about this destructive food. Remember, the FDA does not look for safety when companies apply to bring their GM food to market. It does not even look AT safety data since it does not review or carry out safety studies. No, is a patent. And the FDA actively forbids labeling foods accurately if they contain GM components! Consumers would reject food if they knew that it was GM, said Dr. Barbara Schneeman of the FDA at last year's meeting of the Codex Working Group on the labeling of Foods Derived from Biotechnology. Therefore, she continued, when pressed to explain the US ban on accurate labeling, since the FDA has made the administrative decision that GM foods are the same as non GM ones, telling the public the truth would be "false and misleading"!
As far as Codex is concerned, the GM corn, Monsanto 810 Maize, which produces 1500-3000 times more Cry1AB toxin than the safe natural bacterial toxin, is perfectly fine for use. And, until this week when France basically used our Codex Two Step* approach, France had said it was fine, too!
Of course it is not safe for the livestock that eat it, the people that eat the livestock, the bacteria in the people's gut or in the soil, nor is it safe for insects. To read the outstanding and important letter which a group of New Zealand scientists sent to the Prime Minister of New Zealand in 2004 urging extreme caution in approving any GM foods in New Zealand, click here (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=500).
* The Codex Two Step is the legal strategy we developed that lets countries opt out of Codex restrictions. See www.globalhealthfreedom.org for details.
Every Victory Makes Us Stronger -
Here's Victory Number Two
In the American Spiritual, "Jacob's Ladder" the slaves told their masters through their song, "Every victory makes us stronger" and so it does. Although the fronts on which the health freedom battle is fought are many, the issues are always the same, "Who makes the decisions about what goes into MY SKIN? Is that my choice or is it the choice of some corporate-driven government bureaucrat or doctor?
Chemotherapy? Vaccination? Herbal treatments? GM Food? Biochemically effective supplements, pesticide-free food? "Organic" that means "clean and chemical free"? Health care professionals treating me the way we both agree they can treat me without the State interfering and criminalizing my health care provider? Truthful information about how food might be able to help me? The State taking my children away because it wants to drug or vaccinate them and I do not? The answers are plain to see if you love your health and you love your freedom. That means the victories are ours and for the hope of the future! Victory Number Two is about Freedom first and health second. The Real ID bill passed recently to the howls of outrage of freedom advocates (mine included) when we said that we did not want a national ID card (a prelude to control of movement within a country with huge historical precedent - like Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russian, Apartheid South Africa, for example). We also did not want an ID card with a Radio Frequency Identification Device or RFID embedded in it which could be read from afar, activated or turned off by the government or through malicious manipulation (again, from afar), encoded with all financial, medical and other personal information, etc. Bad idea. But the government seemed hell bent for leather to force us to carry these cards regardless of our desires as part of the "war on terror" (whose terror, of course, is never discussed).
But that is not the way things turned out.
"Real ID is dead in the water, and it is clear that no amount of money can save it," said ACLU Legislative Counsel Tim Sparapani." The only solution to Real ID is to scrap it, and Congress is catching on. "With seventeen states opposed to this program and the U.S. Senate standing behind them, this is the beginning of the end of Real ID..."
The Natural Solutions Foundation joined other NGO's (nongovernmental organizations or "civil society" as it is know elsewhere in the world) to educate Congress and decision makers about the dangers to health and freedom of programs like Real ID. But the program would not have been stopped but for a loud public outcry -- People Power!
This is a People's Power victory. Alone we may appear to be "voices in the wilderness" but together we are powerful!
We are heading toward a state of siege in which the "authorities" determine what you may, may not and must do with your body and your child's. This is what Dr. Ron Paul has decried as "soft Fascism." The issues at stake can be lumped together under the heading "Health Freedom" - The authority of the state ends at my skin!
In February, 2006 I published an article called "Whose Blood Sugar is it, Anyway?" (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/docs/blood_sugar.pdf)
about the fact that if you have your blood sugar drawn in New York City, your doctor will get a letter scolding him/her if the City does not like your lab results and so will you! Vermont had already enacted the same invasive laws. (Is there any "nanny state" nonsense intervention that our regulators would think too noxious for their bureaucratic attention?) Alas, we did not rise up then and stop the process of the State Regulators taking over our bodies. So they expanded their powers considerably. This time, the time is now to take back control of our own bodies. We ignore this warning at our peril.
Our Side Just Won Big on Two
Supposedly Impossible Fronts!
We, the People, can whisper, speak, insist and, when we believe in our own power, we can issue forth a mighty roar at which, literally, corporate and political tyrants tremble!This week that happened twice, once in France and once in the US ! We snatched two major "People's Victories" from the jaws of two of the mightiest forces in the world: the United States Government and the Biotech Industry. Take note and take heart: "They" are vulnerable to our awareness and conscious action. We CAN change outcomes from what they want because it serves the corporate interests to what we want because it preserves health and freedom. But the more isolated and impotent we feel, the stronger they get. Well, read on! We are clearly NOT impotent and, through your Natural Solutions community, we are certainly not isolated.
French Score: Consumers 1, BioTech 0
France has rescinded its approval of Monsanto's 810 Maize because the efforts of a small, but determined, group of activists!
Here is the simple press release which announces, in understated terms, the victory won by activists there who have uprooted GM fields, staged marches, educated the public and, finally gone on a hunger strike. Finally, in the midst of the uproar, France rescinded its approval of Monsanto 810 Maize for animal feed.
"Press Release - (Jakarta, 12 January 2008) La Via Campesina is happy to announce that José Bové and the 15 other anti-GMO hunger strikers won a major victory yesterday with the French government's decision to ban the GMO Monsanto maize "MON 810", the only variety authorized in the country so far.
"This significant decision was taken because of the risks this genetically modified variety poses on the environment.
"The 16 French activists launched a hunger strike of indeterminate length on January 3 in order to achieve the activation of the cautionary principle, permitted by European law that allows a country to edict a moratorium on the commercialization of a genetically modified seed if new scientific evidences show that it threatens the environment.
"The international peasant's movement La Via Campesina is a strong opponent of genetically modified crops. It considers the French government's decision as a strong signal to reconsider a total ban on GMO crops in Europe and in the world.
"For more information: Josie Riffaud and Paul Nicholson : +34636451566"
France has bent a vigorous battle ground against genetically modified (GM) foods. The international peasants' organization, "La Via Campensina" (literally, "Peasant Life") has been fighting GM crops vigorously in France and elsewhere. They have gone to jail for burning GM crops in France, organized marches, informed the public and brought court actions. Earlier this month, they organized a hunger strike in France. The only GM crop approved for use in France thus far has been Monsanto's Yield Guard Corn, 810 Maize, which is genetically modified to produce a pesticide similar to the one which the bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis produces. Although the compound produced by the GM corn Monsanto 810 is billed as identical to the natural pesticide product is not. The idea is to kill the corn borer by making the whole plant poisonous. Really poisonous. Um, people eat the plant even though it was approved for use as an animal feed. People also then eat the new DNA and it gets into our own DNA. Animals, insects and bacteria also eat the pant. Isn't there something wrong with this picture?
Codex established the methods of analysis, laying the groundwork for the global approval of Monsanto 810 Maize in the 24th Session of the Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling (CCMAS)/AD HOC Intergovernmental Task Force on Foods Derived From Biotechnology, Budapest, November 2002., ftp://ftp.fao.org/codex/ccmas24/ma02_08e.pdf.
That is, of course, not much of a surprise. Like the FDA, Codex apparently never met a GM food it did not love. There certainly is not much to love about this destructive food. Remember, the FDA does not look for safety when companies apply to bring their GM food to market. It does not even look AT safety data since it does not review or carry out safety studies. No, is a patent. And the FDA actively forbids labeling foods accurately if they contain GM components! Consumers would reject food if they knew that it was GM, said Dr. Barbara Schneeman of the FDA at last year's meeting of the Codex Working Group on the labeling of Foods Derived from Biotechnology. Therefore, she continued, when pressed to explain the US ban on accurate labeling, since the FDA has made the administrative decision that GM foods are the same as non GM ones, telling the public the truth would be "false and misleading"!
As far as Codex is concerned, the GM corn, Monsanto 810 Maize, which produces 1500-3000 times more Cry1AB toxin than the safe natural bacterial toxin, is perfectly fine for use. And, until this week when France basically used our Codex Two Step* approach, France had said it was fine, too!
Of course it is not safe for the livestock that eat it, the people that eat the livestock, the bacteria in the people's gut or in the soil, nor is it safe for insects. To read the outstanding and important letter which a group of New Zealand scientists sent to the Prime Minister of New Zealand in 2004 urging extreme caution in approving any GM foods in New Zealand, click here (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=500).
* The Codex Two Step is the legal strategy we developed that lets countries opt out of Codex restrictions. See www.globalhealthfreedom.org for details.
Every Victory Makes Us Stronger -
Here's Victory Number Two
In the American Spiritual, "Jacob's Ladder" the slaves told their masters through their song, "Every victory makes us stronger" and so it does. Although the fronts on which the health freedom battle is fought are many, the issues are always the same, "Who makes the decisions about what goes into MY SKIN? Is that my choice or is it the choice of some corporate-driven government bureaucrat or doctor?
Chemotherapy? Vaccination? Herbal treatments? GM Food? Biochemically effective supplements, pesticide-free food? "Organic" that means "clean and chemical free"? Health care professionals treating me the way we both agree they can treat me without the State interfering and criminalizing my health care provider? Truthful information about how food might be able to help me? The State taking my children away because it wants to drug or vaccinate them and I do not? The answers are plain to see if you love your health and you love your freedom. That means the victories are ours and for the hope of the future! Victory Number Two is about Freedom first and health second. The Real ID bill passed recently to the howls of outrage of freedom advocates (mine included) when we said that we did not want a national ID card (a prelude to control of movement within a country with huge historical precedent - like Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russian, Apartheid South Africa, for example). We also did not want an ID card with a Radio Frequency Identification Device or RFID embedded in it which could be read from afar, activated or turned off by the government or through malicious manipulation (again, from afar), encoded with all financial, medical and other personal information, etc. Bad idea. But the government seemed hell bent for leather to force us to carry these cards regardless of our desires as part of the "war on terror" (whose terror, of course, is never discussed).
But that is not the way things turned out.
"Real ID is dead in the water, and it is clear that no amount of money can save it," said ACLU Legislative Counsel Tim Sparapani." The only solution to Real ID is to scrap it, and Congress is catching on. "With seventeen states opposed to this program and the U.S. Senate standing behind them, this is the beginning of the end of Real ID..."
The Natural Solutions Foundation joined other NGO's (nongovernmental organizations or "civil society" as it is know elsewhere in the world) to educate Congress and decision makers about the dangers to health and freedom of programs like Real ID. But the program would not have been stopped but for a loud public outcry -- People Power!
This is a People's Power victory. Alone we may appear to be "voices in the wilderness" but together we are powerful!
We are heading toward a state of siege in which the "authorities" determine what you may, may not and must do with your body and your child's. This is what Dr. Ron Paul has decried as "soft Fascism." The issues at stake can be lumped together under the heading "Health Freedom" - The authority of the state ends at my skin!
In February, 2006 I published an article called "Whose Blood Sugar is it, Anyway?" (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/docs/blood_sugar.pdf)
about the fact that if you have your blood sugar drawn in New York City, your doctor will get a letter scolding him/her if the City does not like your lab results and so will you! Vermont had already enacted the same invasive laws. (Is there any "nanny state" nonsense intervention that our regulators would think too noxious for their bureaucratic attention?) Alas, we did not rise up then and stop the process of the State Regulators taking over our bodies. So they expanded their powers considerably. This time, the time is now to take back control of our own bodies. We ignore this warning at our peril.