"Organic" Food Rule Could Have Up
to 38 Loopholes
by Scott J. Wilson, LA Times
With the "USDA Organic" seal
stamped on its label, Anheuser-Busch calls its Wild Hop Lager
"the perfect organic experience."
But many beer drinkers may not
know Anheuser-Busch got the organic blessing from federal
regulators even though Wild Hop Lager uses hops grown with
chemical fertilizers and sprayed with pesticides.
A deadline of midnight Friday to
come up with a new list of nonorganic ingredients allowed in
USDA-certified organic products passed without action from the
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), leaving uncertain whether
some foods currently labeled "USDA organic" would continue to be
produced.
The agency is considering a
proposal to allow 38 nonorganic ingredients to be used in
organic foods. Because of the broad uses of these ingredients —
as spices, colorings, and flavorings for example — almost any
type of manufactured organic food could be affected, including
organic milk, cereal, sausages, bread and beer.
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FDA Announces Plan
to Eliminate Vitamin Companies
by
Byron J. Richards, CCN
The FDA, emboldened by its
transformation into a
drug
company, has embarked upon an anti-American plan of
interfering with business and intentionally eliminating various
dietary supplement companies from the market. The FDA
announcement came on Friday, June 22, 2007 under the guise of a
final rule for dietary supplement good manufacturing practices (CGMPs).
Within this
800 page
rule the FDA states, “We find that this final rule will have
a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small
entities.... Establishments with above average costs, and even
establishments with average costs, could be hard pressed to
continue to operate. Some of these may decide it is too costly
and either change product lines or go out of business.... 140
very small [less than 20 employees] and 32 small dietary
supplement manufacturers [less than 500 employees] will be at
risk of going out of business.... costs per establishment are
proportionally higher for very small than for large
establishments....The regulatory costs of this final rule will
also discourage new small businesses from entering the
industry.”
Independent analysis of this FDA
rule has placed cost of compliance at 10 fold what the FDA
estimates with as many as 50% of small companies unable to
comply.
The gutless cowards of Congress, a
majority of whom are on the Big Pharma payroll or will be on it
once they leave Congress, have delegated their lawmaking powers
granted by the U.S. Constitution to a bunch of Big Pharma-friendly
unelected bureaucrats at the FDA, who are in turn using this
power to undermine free commerce and help Big Pharma eliminate
competition from the market. This is the behavior of a
government in tyranny, inviting a revolution by the people. It
is noteworthy that
fascist governments of the past have eliminated health
freedom and health options as a necessary condition to enslave
and brainwash a population. Congress has delegated its
responsibility to the people to such an extent that over half
the laws in this country are now concocted by unelected
bureaucrats with vested interests...
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Can Carnivores, Herbivores, Break
Bread Together?
by Haley Edwards, Seattle Times
Thekla Astrup marks each of her
prepackaged frozen dinners with a fluorescent yellow garage-sale
sticker. 50 cents. 10 cents. A dollar.
The prices are irrelevant — they
just happened to be the brightest stickers Astrup could find —
but they serve an important role in her strictly vegetarian
household: They brand anything that contains meat, so her vegan
fiancé doesn't accidentally eat it.
That makes sense. But hang on: Did
she say her vegan fiancé?
She relishes a cheeseburger. He
doesn't even eat cheese. How are they ever going to get along?
Histrionics aside, Astrup and
David Richter personify the delicate culinary dance that many of
us mince out, with varying degrees of grace, on a daily basis...
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10 Ways To Make
You Feel Happy
by
Ab Van Deemter,
NY Wellness Guide
It is a known fact that our health
is being effected by the degree of happiness we feel inside of
us. We know that the happier we are, the healthier we become.
The more we can avoid a stressful life and live happy the more
disease resistant we are.
If we go through turbulent times
in our lives most of us are able to find peace in the idea that
bad times will pass eventually.
However it is important for us to
realize that we have the power to change if we choose to.
If we want to feel happy our
social environment is of course of the utmost importance.
Therefore we must learn to be less judgmental about the people
we care for and learn to accept them the way they are. After all
we are all unique individuals.
So, make the decision to be a
happy person and follow the self motivation tips here under. Use
them as self motivation exercise in order to acquire the
necessary self motivation skills, which will help you to become
a much more happy and healthy person...
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Mysterious Clouds
Creeping Out of the Arctic
by Bob Condor, Seattle P-I
The researchers and cultural
anthropologists at The Hartman Group, a Seattle-based consulting
and market-research firm, are no doubt ambitious. Their latest
study, about 150 pages, tackles the enormous question about
quality of life in America.
A thumbnail answer: We feel most
positive about the quality of life in our own households. We
feel sorta-kinda good about our local communities, state and
country. The big drop-off comes when people are asked about the
world.
People are worried about the
globe. Roughly 10 percent of Americans rate the quality of life
in the world as between 8 to 10 on a 10-point scale. In
contrast, more than half of us identify our household quality of
life as an 8, 9 or 10.
The brand-new report is focused on
sustainability, a somewhat elusive concept to U.S. consumers.
But sustainability and going "green" is on the minds of the
food, clothing and auto manufacturers and retailers who populate
the Hartman client list...
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Stem Cells Made
From Eggs, Not Embryos
The Associated Pressr
Scientists say they've created
embryonic stem cells by stimulating unfertilized eggs, a
significant step toward producing transplant tissue that's
genetically matched to women.
The advance suggests that someday,
a woman who wants a transplant to treat a condition like
diabetes or a spinal cord injury could provide eggs to a lab,
which in turn could create tissue that her body wouldn't reject.
Ethicists disagreed on whether the
strategy would avoid the long-standing ethical objections to
creating embryonic stem cells by other means.
Such cells can develop into
virtually any tissue of the body, and scientists hope to harness
them for producing specialized tissues like nerve cells or
pancreas cells to treat a range of illnesses. But the process of
harvesting the stem cells destroys embryos, which many people
oppose.
To create tissues that genetically
match a patient, some scientists are trying to develop a process
called therapeutic cloning, in which DNA from the patient is
inserted into an unfertilized egg, an embryo is produced and
stem cells are harvested. But nobody has made that work in
humans...
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