Food
HR 875 Is Not About Food safety, It's About Genocide of Agricultural Biodiversity
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The 6 Weirdest, Scariest Processed Foods |
Hidden Dangers in Kids' Meals: Genetically Engineered Foods
Fish species you should avoid eating.
Join the campaign for GMO labelling.
Check nutrition info for restaurant chains
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Links
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Institute For Responsible Technology
make our food safer (www.notinmyfood.org an initiative of Consumer Reports.)
The Future of Food (2004 film. See the trailer)
on BGH.
Eating Well (magazine)
USDA
Eat Wild
Eating Liberally
EcoFriendly Foods
Get Vegan
Grassland Beef
Homestead Healthy Foods
Lasater Grasslands Beef
Local Harvest
TransFair USA
TransFreeAmerica
Recipes
epicurious online home of Gourmet and Bon Appetit.
Michael Pollan on Food
Five Things you need to know about food safety
1. Only 1% of imported food is inspected. Because the federal government refuses to implement a country-of-origin labeling program for meat and produce, consumers don’t have the facts they need to avoid low-quality food from overseas.
2. Despite new research that shows that artificial hormones may contribute to a five-fold increase in twin pregnancies for American women, the federal government still allows them in dairy products. They are banned in Canada and Europe.
3. Instead of forcing meat producers to fix serious sanitation problems at factory farms and slaughterhouses, the federal government allows them to take dangerous shortcuts like pumping livestock full of antibiotics, dipping carcasses in toxic disinfectants, and irradiating meat.
4. Although mad cow disease presents a lethal threat to public health, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has blocked meatpackers from implementing their own mad cow testing programs.
5. The Bush Administration and its allies in Congress want to weaken the Safe Water Drinking Act, which may lead to more cancer and disease-causing contaminants in the tap water of millions of Americans.
From Food & Water Watch!
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Beware Food Imports From China
Milk products manufactured in China and tainted with melamine, an industrial chemical, killed and injured thousands of children this year.
If you live in the US, you need to know that your government is not protecting you from these products.
The original story posted yesterday is here:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/460.html
My additional research is posted here:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/462.html
Policy
The New York Times | Politics and Hunger
http://www.truthout.org/article/politics-and-hunger
The New York Times writes, "One might expect that food riots in Egypt and Haiti
would convince the world's wealthy nations of the need to do more to feed the
world's poorest. If not, maybe the threat of 100 million more people falling
into poverty due to soaring food prices would spur them to help. Yet at last
week's United Nations food summit, the world's more-developed nations proved,
once again, that domestic politics trumps both humanitarian concerns and sound
strategic calculations."
Two Americas of Food: about the Farm Bill
Check this link about the FDA.
Center for Science in the Public Interest says
"Unsafe foods cause an estimated 76 million illnesses and 5,000 deaths each year in the United States. Although people from all walks of life can develop food borne illness, those who are most at risk include the elderly, young children, pregnant women and their fetuses, and the immunocompromised. While most illnesses occur as isolated cases, outbreaks of foodborne illness are clusters of illness that result from ingestion of a common contaminated food. A single outbreak can affect hundreds, or even thousands, of people. From Outbreak Alert.
Pollution (video)
The Food Crisis
Breadline USA: Why People Are Going Hungry in the Land of Plenty By Sasha Abramsky, PoliPoint Press. Posted July 4, 2009.
Global Starvation Ignored by American Policy Elites
The food crisis begins to bite
Wheat Markets gone wild (2/16/2008)
Study of GM foods indicates danger.
"If genetically modified foods can't be excluded from Europe, those who object to them want full disclosure of the genetically modified content of these foods - labeling, so that consumers can choose what they want to buy. But the United States - normally a believer in free trade and consumer choice -has in this case taken the position that full disclosure would be a trade barrier. A large proportion of America's agricultural exports contains a genetically modified ingredient; America correctly worries that, given the level of concern about genetically modified foods, European consumers would stop buying many American-produced foods. The United States is putting its right to export above European consumers' right to know what they are eating." Joseph Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work, pg 129
Prince Charles: GM crops causing disaster
Against the grain: 'Economics, not common sense, drives GM crops'
Monsanto's Harvest of Fear Vanity Fair 5/2008
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele write for Vanity Fair, "Monsanto already
dominates America's food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has
targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation's tactics -
ruthless legal battles against small farmers - is its decades-long history of
toxic contamination."
Dr Michael Antoniou argues that genetically modified crops are dangerous and
unnecessary
Interview by Nick Jackson
The Independent, 27 September 2007
_http://news.independent.co.uk/education/higher/article2999527.ece_
(http://news.independent.co.uk/education/higher/article2999527.ece)
Europe requires labeling of Genetically Modified foods. The US does not.
References from: Monsanto: Visionary or Architect of Bioserfdom? A Global Socio-Economic Examination of Genetically Modified Organisms - Andrew Hund 10dec99
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0522-03.htm
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0108-01.htm
Frankenwine? Wines made with GMO yeast hit the market this year 20 Dec 2006 The United States' first wines made using a genetically modified wine yeast will be released this year, but critics say the GM yeast has not been properly safety tested and could contaminate non-GM wine crops.
Bibliography
Natural Causes: Dan Hurley
Seeds of Deception: Jeffrey Smith
Diet For A Poisoned Planet: David Steinman
Safe Shopper's Bible: David Steinman and Samuel S. Epstein, M.D
The End of Food Paul Roberts
Future of Food (Film).