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Food. Inc.This is a movie everyone should see! How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families? In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry,...exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of e coli -- the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 of Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.
Food, Inc.
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Interesting note from the CDC web site While the prevalence of smoking has decreased dramatically over the past three decades, the trends in incidences of lung cancer have not been as positive. In 1975, nearly 43 percent of males and 32 percent of females were cigarette smokers. Those numbers dropped to nearly 23 percent for males and 17 percent for females in 2005. During that same time period, 1975 to 2005, the rate of lung cancer incidence in males went from 89 per 100,000 to 74 per 100,000. The incidence of lung cancer in females during that same time period has doubled, increasing from approximately 25 per 100,000 to just over 50 per 100,000.
Excerpt From The New York Times 08/29/2009:Alarmed that genetically engineered crops may be finding their way into organic and natural foods, an industry group has begun a campaign to test products and label those that are largely free of biotech ingredients. A campaign hopes to back up claims some food makers are already making.
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A New Bill In Town - H.R. 2749In the United States labeling laws are being initiated and as usual they can't seem to get it quite right. Yes, big corporate farms should have a place of origin labeling, they should have GMO labeling and quit polluting for profit. But now they are putting the small family farm and organic farms in the mix. What is wrong with these people?? Where is the common sense to go with the college degree? Let's take a look at the new bill on the table... This Bill Has Passed The House And Is On The Floor Of The Senate As You Read This - Please Write Each And Every Senator and Tell Them What You Think!A list of all of the US Senate e-mails are in the side bar on this page.Please go to the bottom of this page and watch Finally People Are Waking Up!In The past 10 years many of us have been called everything from conspiracy theorist to just plain nut jobs when we try to tell the world that big corporations (with our governments blessings) have been inserting poisons, insect and animal DNA into our food supply. The promise of Genetically Modified Food is that farmers will have less weeds, disease and insect problems with a GMO crop. The problem is that these crops were never tested and studied like a pharmaceutical. What happened to double blind studies. In an excerpt from a FDA report (On Genetically Modified Foods below) look at the last sentence in the summery, "What seems certain, however, is that the ultimate contribution of agricultural biotechnology will depend on our ability to IDENTIFY AND MEASURE ITS POTENTIAL BENEFITS AND RISK".I would think that at least the "POTENTIAL BENIFITS AND RISK" would have been studied in a laboratory Not on unsuspecting citizens who think this is all just a fairy tail!Videos On The End Of The Family Farm During the 1970s and 1980s The American Government strengthened the intellectual property rights (IPR) which is like a copy right on a product. Because of the stronger IPR laws which protected a companies product (in this case seed and plants) the move to genetic modification grew as the great corporations had visions of having a type of ownership of the countries (not to mention the worlds) food supply. In the 1990's it hit a fever pitch in the midwest with companies like Monsanto suing farmers that had their crops contaminated by Monsanto's pollen with the giant corporation calming ownership of all crops that had their GM component. Most of these law suits went for the most part unreported by the mainstream media and suits were settled in and out of court. By early April 2005, nearly 11,600 applications had been received by Since 1987 more than 10,700 applications (92 percent) had been approved.
Let's look at a few charts that I have found interesting Let's Look At Obesity
This one is really interesting - look at 1974 to 1980 there is almost no change in overweight children. Now look at the difference in 1980 to 1994 and continual climb to 2004 - Wow - What could be causing this. Have you ever heard "You are what you eat" _________________________________________________________ Increasing Infertility
Above is a chart on- Declining reproductive health. It looks like there was a decrease from 1982 to 1988 and then the chart sores for every age group. Did you know that the government had passed laws in the 1970's to introduce privately owned seed rights (IPR)? If you knew would you have even thought of GMO's? List of 2003 Companies that sold GMO foods Below is a film that you and everyone you know should watch! FALL OF THE REPUBLIC DO IT NOW!Write Your Senator and all of the Senators and tell them you do not want this bill as it is. Laws get passed and when they are acted on it is to late. This bill was shown on several network stations and it is as big as two cinder blocks put together. Food safety is important but the biggest offenders are big corporate farms. LEAVE THE SMALL FARMERS ALONE! We have a vote coming up next year. We will use our votes and every time the establishment takes advantage of the American citizen we will vote them out!!! I can't even imagine what is going to happen if we let it get to the point that our votes don't count. Will we just bend over and take it? Will there be violence in the streets? Will the people rise against the government or will it be the next
holocaust
? Please ask your senators to vote down the HR 2749 bill until it excludes all family farms and includes only big mono corporate farms that are the culprits in the farming industry. Ask for plan English bills that are not thousands and thousands of pages. If ignorance is no excuse for the law make the laws where the average citizen can understand it. We all know that there are many that do not want us to understand the laws that are being passed - if you don't believe that look at your local referendums on the next ballot. Links below will open a new page!
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