Agreed. Glad you said it, Brigette; I debated whether to say
something similar and wondered if I was the only one to feel that way. If
a particular bill is before the state or federal legislature that has direct
bearing on how I farm or how I sell what I produce, bring on the specific
text and debate about implications. But this is vague alarmist
conspiracy theory, covering multiple topics in broad angry
brushstrokes. No thanks.
Kathryn Kerby
frogchorusfarm.com
Snohomish, WA
Ruminations - essays on the farming life at
frogchorusfarm.com/weblog.html
In a message dated 10/18/2011 7:26:48 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
afhg AT ctsmail.net writes:
Must we
tolerate these kinds of postings yet again? I for one don't need, nor
want, these postings! Brigette SW MI
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From: "ecoponderosa" <3cedarsfarm AT gmail.com> To:
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11:56 PM Subject: [Market-farming] Fwd: Sharks and the Food Safety Scam |
Food Freedom
> Sharks and the Food Safety Scam | Food
Freedom >
http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/sharks-and-the-food-safety-scam/ > >
← The Conscious Consumer Bill of Rights > Sharks and the Food Safety
Scam > Posted on October 17, 2011 by geobear7| Leave a
comment > > By Ben Michaelson > > The sharks are the
corporations. The blood in the water is from small > farms. The sharks
are swarming now, seeking an absolute end of > farming in the US, a plan
of theirs with the USDA since 1972. > > They were open about it
then, with their intent published by U.S. > House of Representatives:
”The Young Executives Plan to Liquidate > Farmers: Product of an
Official Committee Chaired by the Under > Secretary of Agriculture.”
Congressional Record. June 21, 1972, p. > H5907. > > Today,
they disguise it under “food safety.” Get rid of local farms > that are
producing safe food to have safe food. Welcome to free trade >
agreements that aren’t. Welcome to peace prizes for starting more >
wars. > > The corporations have used the Democrats to push through
a billion > dollar agency for a health threat that is miniscule. When
will people > see through the scam? The CDC citing 5000 deaths each year
from food > born illness was the urgent justification for a
massive > (pharmaceutical and agribusiness-driven) bill, dangerous to
farmers > and to US sovereignty over its own food (and food
supplements). Now > the figure being mentioned is 3000. It doesn’t even
make it onto most > list of health threats. But with the bill now law,
the FDA is already > using armed FBI attacks against small farms that
have safe food and is > doing nothing whatever about corporate
operations that producing > contaminated food in the millions of
pounds, > > While Occupy Wall Street or Boston or LA or DC groups
are protesting > nationwide what the corporations are stealing, they
have not noticed > that they are stealing away farms and food (survival
itself), based on > a phony fear tactic. Aspirin and Tylenol are a many
times greater > threat. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
cause more > than 16,000 deaths a year but are protected by the FDA.
The > multinational corporations even have ads on TV offering free
samples > and encouraging people to give them away to friends.
Properly > prescribed prescription drugs are the greatest killer in the
US. Why > is there not a massive new agency with politic state powers to
stop > the single leading cause of death in the US, outpacing all
diseases? > Why is media not pointing out this absurd discrepancy
between immense > power and expense for something that presents
virtually no threat (and > could present even less if people ate food
directly from clean local > farms)? > > The FDA is tasked
with protecting us from deadly drugs but the agency > is funded by
Pharma and refuses to pull drugs off the market that are > already
proven to kill, despite Congressional hearings into the heart > attacks
and deaths. Media is silent about the well over 100,000 > deaths a year
from pharmaceutical industry drugs and its own > complicity in taking
advertising dollars, promoting the drugs, and > promoting the fear
needed for selling them. The media doesn’t report > that food safety is
being used here and around the world to destroy > farmers and food
producers, while the FDA goes after food born > illness, one of the
least significant causes of death in the US. The > media doesn’t report
that Obama put a Monsanto executive in as Czar > over food safety – the
same man who designed the bill on behalf of > global corporate interests
– and he is literally attacking innocent > people doing the most
important jobs in the country, producing food. > > It is not an
exaggeration to say that Monsanto is using SWAT team > raids against
farmers and food coops for being an impediment to > absolute monopoly
over all US food, and through food, over control of > the US. For
existing. > > And the big meat packers, the ostensible target of
the new food safety > law because of its danger to the public? Take it
from an “E-coli > terrorist,” that the wrong folks are being slammed and
losing their > businesses, leaving the filthy packers with more power
than ever. > > Where is the agency and 1000s of inspectors for
those pharmaceutical > industry products? > > Agribusiness
and the drug companies (there is no difference at this > point) have
used “risk” to scare the public right into corporate traps > where there
is real danger, freedom and life and death danger. To > take in the
extent of the absurdity of all this, read about sharks and > peanuts. We
are not spending tax money on real risks at all but > government is
using it to clobber whomever the corporations choose, > and they are
clobbering those who protect our food and our health. > > The
sharks’ favorite game is disease because they can manufacture it > or
pump out media scare stories about it whenever they want. Through > it,
they make sure that things are risk-less get it in the neck, and > move
their endless teeth closer to chomping down on everything. >
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