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Texas Republican Party calls for mandatory GMO labeling, legalized raw milk, complete elimination of TSA
Posted by TheRedPillGuide in Control Grid, GMOs, News, TSA, War On Food & Supplements on July 18, 2012
via: NaturalNews
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
By: Jonathan Benson
[NaturalNews] Delegates from the Texas Republican Party recently gathered in Fort Worth to iron out their party’s official 2012 platform. And in the official platform document, it is spelled out that the Texas Republican Party is in full support of mandatory labeling of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), legalized raw milk, and the complete elimination of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
The 22-page report outlining the party’s platform contains a section titled Empowering Families to Direct their Health Care that promotes freedom of choice in food and medicine, including the freedom not to vaccinate. The Texas Republican Party also opposes all efforts to restrict access to vitamins, herbs, and other supplements, and also takes a stance in support of natural, unprocessed foods, including legalized access for all to raw milk.
You can read the full report here: http://www.scribd.com
The same section of the report calls for the passage of real health care reform that will allow all Texans to choose the health care of their choice. The Texas Republican Party specifically endorses a truly “market-based, competitive, and transparent health care system” that is not controlled by Big Pharma and other special interests, but rather serves the health needs of individuals.
Later on in a section titled Promoting Individual Freedom and Personal Safety, the party calls for mandatory labeling of all GMOs “in a uniform and recognizable fashion.” The party also opposes the mandated use of “Smart Meters,” which can be used by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other government agencies to spy on individuals. (http://www.naturalnews.com/035355_CIA_television_surveillance.html)
Though the Texas Republican Party still endorses the use of war to fight so-called terrorism, the party has called for the elimination of policies that allow for the indefinite detention of American citizens without due process, and in violation of the U.S. Constitution. This platform position presumably implies opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which directly violates both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. (http://www.naturalnews.com)
Along these same lines, the Texas Republican Party is calling for the complete elimination of the TSA, including the agency’s ridiculous naked body scanners and invasive, full-body pat downs. Airport security should be handled by state and local law enforcement, according to the party, which are far less prone to constitutional abuses.
Though not perfect, the Texas Republican Party’s 2012 platform supports many important positions that aim to protect health freedom and oppose government tyranny. You can read the party’s full platform here: http://www.scribd.com
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Activist mom launches national movement boycotting GMOs
Posted by TheRedPillGuide in Big Agriculture & Big Biotechnology, GMOs, Health, Monsanto, News on July 10, 2012
via: NaturaNews
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
by: PF Louis
[NaturalNews] Occasionally, an outraged citizen turns on the establishment and starts a grass roots national campaign. One such citizen is Connecticut mother Diana Reeves. She quit her promising career with an upscale accounting firm to take care of her young son with cancer, who died before turning five.
With her other two children suffering from health problems, Diana channeled her grief into researching food and its relationship to health, including the effect on health from GMOs.
Her concern and curiosity eventually led her to getting involved with local activist groups NonGMO Hartford and the Connecticut Right to Know group which was pushing for state mandated GMO labeling.
Working with those groups, Diana vigorously campaigned with emails and leaflet handouts to get Connecticut citizens behind that state’s proposed congressional bill HB 5117, which included a provision requiring GMO labeling in Connecticut.
The Connecticut Right to Know campaign had garnered overwhelming public support for the provision to label GMOs, and they were certain the provision would be a slam dunk in the State’s House of Representitives.
But at the eleventh hour, the GMO labeling provision was taken out of the bill.
How Diana dealt with her state legislators’ cave-in
Connecticut legislators went down the same path as Vermont’s state legislation by caving in to “industry pressures” that are supported by pro-biotech industry friendly federal legislators, federal agency members, and high court judges.
Industry pressures included the threat of getting sued by the extremely litigious Monsanto, who have left a trail of ruined farmers and farms from frivolous lawsuits rivaled only by General Sherman’s scorched earth march through the South during the Civil War.
That’s when an outraged Diana took the bull by horns. The lead bull for the stampeding GMO biotech industry is Monsanto, of course, voted by Natural News overwhelmingly in a readers’ 2011 readers’ poll as the most evil corporation (http://www.naturalnews.com/030967_Monsanto_evil.html).
Diana’s story and burgeoning grass roots emailing campaign was featured in a recent Organic Consumers’ Association (OCA) newsletter. It is called GMO Free USA. She intends to gather 5,000 or more who oppose GMOs in the food supply to initiate emails directly at food manufacturers.
“The more people who join this consumer email initiative, the more powerful the campaign will be,” she asserts. So here’s a chance for many of us to contribute to a concerted effort without demonstrating in the streets and risking injury or incarceration while being ignored by the main stream press.
You can find out more and get involved with Diana’s GMO Free USA effort via https://www.facebook.com/groups/378850855494732/ or yahoo: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GMOFreeUSA/
Why every anti-GMO effort is important
It’s amazing how many food consumers are still clueless about GMOs and their ramifications that endanger the future of our food supply in addition to their immediate health.
If you visit Diana’s GMO Free USA facebook page or their Yahoo Group, you’ll see that part of her effort is to educate more in addition to flood food producers and legislators with emails.
Not sure if you should contribute to the cause? Did you know that GMO contamination is rampant and the USDA’s National Organics Program (NOP) cannot guarantee there’s no contamination of certified organic foods? (GMO contamination … farmwars Source below)
The non-profit private group Non-GMO Project is trying to do something about that. (Source below)
Jeffrey Smith, international activist, author of Seeds of Deception and founder of the Institute for Responsible Technology was recently interviewed by Health Ranger Mike Adams – very interesting video here (http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=D170A7C686A2BB810D5D9F3FC8473B7A).
Here’s a reason to be concerned about GMOs’ immediate dangers as well as the disastrous long term consequences mentioned by Mike and Jeffrey in the interview (http://www.naturalnews.com/031742_GMOs_dangers.html#ixzz206O4KWaZ).
Sources for this article include
OCA source on this article http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_25635.cfm
Intro to Non-GMO Project http://www.nongmoproject.org/
GMO contamination not part of USDA NOP labeling http://farmwars.info/?p=5426
Institute of Responsible Technology coverage of Monsanto’s Bt corn and cotton http://responsibletechnology.org/gmo-dangers/65-health-risks/1notes
Newsletter of biotech atrocity news http://www.warmwell.com/gm.html
Monsanto’s sordid chemical history http://www.citywatchla.com
Monsanto Launches Massive Campaign to Stop GMO Labeling
Posted by TheRedPillGuide in Big Agriculture & Big Biotechnology, Control Grid, GMOs, Health, Monsanto, News on July 8, 2012
via: NaturalSociety
by: Lisa Garber
July 8, 2012
We’ve gone on at great lengths discussing the dangers of genetic modification. Monsanto’s GMO corn has been linked to weight gain and organ function disruption, while GMO crops and pesticides destroy our farmland and environment. According to the Alliance of Natural Health, the grandchildren of rats fed GMO corn were born sterile. GMO is just one of those things to avoid, but with our own government in bed with Monsanto, it’s not easily done. Monsanto has recently launched a proverbial war against the open labeling of genetically modified foods, and only through activism and awareness can it be overcome.
The People Versus GMO
In February of this year, Vermont contemplated the Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act. The proposed bill prohibits GMO food producers from using keywords like “natural,” “naturally made,” “naturally grown,” and “all natural” to describe GMO ingredients and products. In the same month, the National Conference of State Legislatures reported that nearly 20 states were considering similar programs. Public surveys and studies also show a whopping 90 percent of the U.S. in favor of such practices.
In theory, this should make California’s GMO labeling initiative, which would require all foods within the state made with GM ingredients to carry a label stating so, a shoo-in. But let’s not get so hasty.
Leaders in the disinformation campaign launched against the labeling initiative cry out that it would be—like the infamous Proposition 65, “The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986”—a way for bounty-hunting trial lawyers to file suits against even natural food companies for supposedly selling products containing undisclosed GMOs. Of course, GMO’s ally StopCostlyFoodLabeling.com receives funding from the Council for Biotechnology Information. It should be no surprise that the likes of Monsanto and Dow count themselves members of the said organization.
More Efficient than Prop 65
James C. Cooper, PhD in economics from Emory University, dismisses the comparison between California’s initiative and Proposition 65. In his report, he delineates the key differences between the two programs:
- The Label GMO initiative allows producers 7 years to reduce GMO exposure of products from under 5 percent to zero.
- Producers are immune from suit if they can provide a statement from their supplier or an independent organization that the food is certified organic and/or GMO-free.
- Producers have 30 days to rectify violations with no liability.
- Whereas plaintiffs keep “bounties” of 25 percent of civil penalties in Prop 65, the labeling initiative provides none.
It hasn’t been long since the Food and Drug Administration deleted 1 million signatures and comments from the “Just Label It” campaign calling for the labeling of GM foods, even after 55 politicians offered support for the initiative. It only shows that the fight against GMOs won’t be easy (or cheap).
Still, it’s worth fighting.
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