Who Gave the FDA Snow White"s Apple?
"While USDA bureaucrats drag their feet on closing key loopholes in national organic organic standards, retailers, wholesalers and major "organic" brands are continuing to sell milk and dairy products labeled as "USDA Organic", even though most or all of their milk is coming from factory farm feedlots where the animals have been brought in from conventional farms and are kept in intensive confinement, with little or no access to pasture.
" - Organic Consumers Association Did you know that Bayer Corporation "accidentally" released a genetically modified strain of rice into the wild and infected the U.
S.
long grain rice supply?Well, that was a relatively recent occurrence so let's go with a golden oldie.
Did you know that Monsanto sells a growth hormone (rBGH) to dairy farmers that substantially increases milk production but causes mastitis in cows?Just in case you didn't know, mastitis in a cow means pus in the milk.
To counteract the pus, they load up the cows and the milk with antibiotics.
Mmmm yummy! Maybe it's just me but I find it impressive the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not think that I need protection from these kinds of events.
In the case of Bayer, since the genetic modification was not approved before it escaped, the FDA decided to rush it through the approval process.
The Japanese government thought it would be a better idea to ban it and they did.
No more long grain rice imports from the U.
S.
for Japan.
The European Union (EU) isn't too keen on our infected rice either and since the United States has refused to test for the infiltration voluntarily, the EU has made inspection a requirement upon arrival.
The world has 30 years of experience with rBGH under its collective belt.
The majority of the industrialized world has banned its use and consumption of products produced through its use, except the United States.
Our heroes at the FDA do not feel the negative data is conclusive enough to take that kind of radical action.
Fear not, as consumers we can always make decisions that allow us to avoid these hazards to our health.
The FDA requires companies to tell us all this information on the labeling...
right?Well, the latest and greatest in the cosmetics and food industry is nanotechnology and the FDA does not require anyone to tell you that they are using nanoparticles at all.
Despite testing indications from several studies dating as far back as 1997, the FDA position appears to dismiss the potential hazard to internal organs as still speculative.
When people start dropping dead, we can expect the jury to still be out.
Erich Pica, Domestic Campaigns Director of environmental watchdog group Friends of the Earth, says, "FDA has been sleeping at the wheel, while hundreds of sunscreen and cosmetics products have been placed on store shelves without adequate regulations and safety testing.
" Not to worry, you can avoid all this balderdash by buying organic right?Don't bet the farm on it.
Our sleepy defenders at the FDA and in Congress have been frantically working to relax the definitions of "organic" and "natural" in labeling.
In short, (I know it's a little late for that) we should all be making the frowny face by now.
We are our only line of defense.
Despite all the claims to the contrary, "Big Brother" is not protecting us because he is too busy with his harlot girlfriend "Big Business.
"I know there is just too much information out there to keep track of it all.
Find a special interest group and take an interest.
" - Organic Consumers Association Did you know that Bayer Corporation "accidentally" released a genetically modified strain of rice into the wild and infected the U.
S.
long grain rice supply?Well, that was a relatively recent occurrence so let's go with a golden oldie.
Did you know that Monsanto sells a growth hormone (rBGH) to dairy farmers that substantially increases milk production but causes mastitis in cows?Just in case you didn't know, mastitis in a cow means pus in the milk.
To counteract the pus, they load up the cows and the milk with antibiotics.
Mmmm yummy! Maybe it's just me but I find it impressive the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not think that I need protection from these kinds of events.
In the case of Bayer, since the genetic modification was not approved before it escaped, the FDA decided to rush it through the approval process.
The Japanese government thought it would be a better idea to ban it and they did.
No more long grain rice imports from the U.
S.
for Japan.
The European Union (EU) isn't too keen on our infected rice either and since the United States has refused to test for the infiltration voluntarily, the EU has made inspection a requirement upon arrival.
The world has 30 years of experience with rBGH under its collective belt.
The majority of the industrialized world has banned its use and consumption of products produced through its use, except the United States.
Our heroes at the FDA do not feel the negative data is conclusive enough to take that kind of radical action.
Fear not, as consumers we can always make decisions that allow us to avoid these hazards to our health.
The FDA requires companies to tell us all this information on the labeling...
right?Well, the latest and greatest in the cosmetics and food industry is nanotechnology and the FDA does not require anyone to tell you that they are using nanoparticles at all.
Despite testing indications from several studies dating as far back as 1997, the FDA position appears to dismiss the potential hazard to internal organs as still speculative.
When people start dropping dead, we can expect the jury to still be out.
Erich Pica, Domestic Campaigns Director of environmental watchdog group Friends of the Earth, says, "FDA has been sleeping at the wheel, while hundreds of sunscreen and cosmetics products have been placed on store shelves without adequate regulations and safety testing.
" Not to worry, you can avoid all this balderdash by buying organic right?Don't bet the farm on it.
Our sleepy defenders at the FDA and in Congress have been frantically working to relax the definitions of "organic" and "natural" in labeling.
In short, (I know it's a little late for that) we should all be making the frowny face by now.
We are our only line of defense.
Despite all the claims to the contrary, "Big Brother" is not protecting us because he is too busy with his harlot girlfriend "Big Business.
"I know there is just too much information out there to keep track of it all.
Find a special interest group and take an interest.
