Food

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."

Eating the Earth

Two Americas of Food: about the Farm Bill

Food and Water Watch

Safe Tables Our Priority

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.

Bad Sushi

Pollution (video)

The Food Crisis

Global Starvation Ignored by American Policy Elites

The food crisis begins to bite

Wheat Markets gone wild (2/16/2008)

Possible Food Rationing ?

Global Famine

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

About Rice

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.

Genetic Engineering

About GMOs

Regulators ties to industry.

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).

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