Wanna Know What's In It? –Update

Do you want to know what's in the food you eat? Do the makers have obligation to tell you?

UPDATE –As of today You still have Right to know, your state still in charge: Thursday House of Rep. put off Vote to gut food label laws after Congress received Thousands of protests. But lobbyists for Food Industry threw so much money around, Congress still refuses to hold hearing and only postponed Vote until next week. Want to know if chicken for dinner has arsenic –if neighborhood cafe is clean –heavy metals in milk –toxins in water? Want Food label laws 'fixed' the way this Administration 'fixed' Iraq WMD search, Energy 'policy,' Welfare for Wealthy, Medi-Care, Treasury Balance, Iraq invasion, Prison management, “Patriot” Spying, Gas prices, Job exporting, New Orleans hurricane relief? Congress is listening.

Read it here: CONSUMER ALERT http://www.organicconsumers.org/foodsafety/speech060301.cfm
here: NEW YORK TIMES http://www.organicconsumers.org/foodsafety/eliminate060303.cfm
Then send a message to your Rep.

03 March - 911: Food Alert
The people in charge responded to Sept. 11 attack –with “disappearance” of $9 Billion bucks –Money Give-Away to drug houses –strict new bankruptcy laws –seven days of hurricane inaction –“secured” Ports with give-away to foreign country.

Now –food supply. If you like the way Oval Office Occupant & Co have responded, no reason to read on.

If your view is otherwise: the people charged with providing security and safety –the ones you expect to look out for you, the country –are about to gut the laws in your state –to help food industry.

While the media is abandoning their responsibility and disrespecting you to 'look out' for the Oscars with “news” of the free clothing the self-absorbed will wear and other drivel –If you want food protection and accurate labeling –don’t want to eat contaminated shellfish –irradiated vegetables –genetically altered produce you need to know:

HR4167 Will eliminate any food safety laws in your state that are stronger than federal laws; state laws will be voided.

Originator of this Bill? Folks who grease election wheels: lobbyists –for food industry. Public Hearings? Zip –not even one.

Thousands of people get sick from eating contaminated food every year and many die. We have a right to clean safe food–that's why your local and state government passed food safety laws. If you don’t want to eat lethal oysters: send message to your federal Reps –they work for YOU.

The vote will be next week –and will pass –unless those who represent you hear from you and every one you know –before the Vote.

Action:
-Find your Representative in the House here:

•Your House Rep

Send fax or e-mail or call

-Send message through those fighting this under-the-radar Bill at National Resource Defense Council here:

•NRDC.org

Organization that challenges government laws which harm environment and planet. Example: sued EPA over use of CFCs, which burned the hole in the ozone, and won, other countries also discontinued use of CFCs. Example Hudson River, NY: forced clean up of chemical waste, PCBs, toxic dumping; restored to pristine condition; many other projects in twenty-five+ year history.

Action: TODAY
See the Bill at: NRDC.org
Consider a donation to NRDC

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send a message to your Rep.

Hair Loss? What to Eat Pt IV: Beef

Hair loss –thinning –balding –bald? Loosing hair –but not from ‘chemo’ treatment? Think that’s ‘natural’ progression –believe you inherited a gene, from your mother?

Maybe. Maybe not…. Ever look at paintings, photos of people from past centuries? Not only are not all bald, not all wearing wigs.

So: ‘best’–cream –drug –herb –procedure –treatment for hair loss? You can not treat Symptoms of hair loss. You need to look for Source –cause –reason for loss. First Best place to look: what are you eating that’s eating you?

Eating beef? Beef story goes like this: in this country cattle are speed-fed grain. Translation: cattle put in pens, force-fed corn. Why? Americans’ reputation: ‘we want what we want and we want it NOW.’ Cattlemen are like that too. If cows are restricted from moving around, they fatten quickly, slaughtered quickly, turn into cash fast. But on the way: cows are allergic to “grain” it makes them sick; then given antibiotics to “cure” them which makes them weak which gets them hormones, steroids, other drugs –chemicals. When they get to slaughter house: those chaps also in a hurry. Changes? When thousands died from eating beef laced with E. coli, written about in famous book, published in 1906, Americans were outraged and demanded changes. Congress held extensive hearings on those practices. Response? So they butcher in ways that haven’t changed since their practices turn of last century. No finer lobbyist group than those that represent beef industry.

Proof? Recall the children who died from eating McDonald’s burgers, 1980s? The main changes: speed-feeding cattle –with toxins. –How else did you think fast-made cheap food joints –could Afford to sell burgers for a buck and still make a profit? If you have noticed hair loss –diagnosed with immunity to antibiotics –male ‘pattern balding’ –watching hair brush with trepidation, concern about heart –breast –prostate, consider:

Remedy –If you absolutely positively HAVE to eat beef
1. Buy beef raised naturally: cattle allowed to roam, grazed grass only
2. No hormones, no drugs, no steroids, no chemicals added
3. Best quality possible: “grass-finished” –few weeks before slaughter, not
4. Cut consumption to twice a month; at most: once a week
5. Size? Heard about the tradition of teams playing in the Rose Bowl eating Lawry's Prime Rib plate-sized beef the week of the big game so –Bigger is better? Look at your palm: a piece that will fit inside palm of your hand is all the protein needed –more is worse.
6. Eating a junk burger once or so a year won’t kill your body, but when that stuff is consumed ALL of its ingredients are unknown; at least: do not allow small children to eat it, their body is highly sensitive, that’s why toddler’s died of E. coli-laced beef that did not kill parents.

That’s connection: politicians need money to run election campaigns. Beef industry “needs” no snooping inspectors, changes, oversight or rigid laws; happy to help politicians who help them. Latest “help” –pumping gas into beef for ‘eye-appeal’ then stretch-wrapping old product. You pay.

Tags: Beef, organic beef, grass-fed beef, hair loss, thinning hair, balding, speed slaughter, natural organic beef practices, family ranch, hormone-free, growth hormone-free, free-range cattle, small portion

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