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Culture Club 101 “Real” Food Symposium!
Posted by Kevin Brown on April 21, 2012
The Third Annual “Real” Food Symposium is on May 6th!
Culture Club 101 is proud to announce our Third Annual “Real” Food Symposium! Click on the Flyer below to see all of the wonderful Workshops, Speakers, Demonstrations, Vendors and more! Register by April 22th (extended from the 16th) and save $25.00! Register Here
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Buy Farmageddon Online!
Posted by Kevin Brown on April 18, 2012
Just a quick note shamelessly promoting myself to my friends as Farmageddon is available today on Cable TV, internet providers such as ITunes, Hulu, Vudu, XBox, Playstation, and to buy on Amazon and from farm stores. The full carriage list is on my website, Farmageddonmovie.com under See the Movie and Purchase the DVD.
If you have seen the movie and would like to spend a minute writing a short review on Amazon, that would be very helpful. If I get a lot of good reviews, the movie will be more visible there. If you have friends or family that would like to see the movie, please let them know by email, tweet, linkedin, or FB, that they can download it on Itunes or Xfinity or any other provider they like to use for the movie.
The website is full of some action items that can be done about this situation, and will continue to be filled in the next few weeks with more.
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Judge Asked To Reconsider
Posted by Kevin Brown on April 13, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Judge Asked to Reconsider Dismissal of FDA Raw Milk Lawsuit
Falls Church, Virginia (April 11, 2012) (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On March 30 federal district judge Mark W. Bennett issued an order dismissing a lawsuit challenging the interstate commerce ban on raw milk for human consumption filed by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Along with six consumers, an agent for a buyers club, and a dairy farmer selling raw milk to out-of-state customers, the Legal Defense Fund filed suit in February 2010 over a federal regulation (21 CFR 1240.61). The regulation prohibits raw milk and raw milk products (other than raw cheese aged at least sixty days) from crossing state lines.
The Legal Defense Fund has filed a motion with Judge Bennett asking him to amend his judgment with respect to the buyers club agent and the dairy farmer.
Even though Judge Bennett dismissed the case, up to this point the lawsuit has accomplished several things:
(1) FDA is on public record promising that it will not take action against individual consumers crossing state lines to obtain raw milk. “Citizens can now purchase raw milk in any state, take it back to their state of residence and consume it without fear of any reprisal from FDA,” said Gary Cox, General Counsel for the Legal Defense Fund.
(2) Americans now know FDAs views on food freedom. In the course of the lawsuit, FDA made the following assertions:
“There is no absolute right to consume or feed children any particular food.”
There is no fundamental right to one’s “own bodily and physical health.”
People “do not have a fundamental right to obtain any food they wish.”
Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, Pete Kennedy explains, It is clear now that if people want their right to eat the foods of their choice to be respected, FDA must be reined in.
(3) FDA was forced to give its interpretation of how the agency would apply the law to an agent for consumers crossing state lines to obtain raw milk and to a farmer knowingly selling to out-of-state consumers and their agents.
The judge held that all plaintiffs lack standing to pursue the case since there was no “threat of injury in fact.” Bennett found that “the FDA has made abundantly clear that it has not and does not intend to enforce the regulations against any of the plaintiffs.”
We are disappointed that the court did not recognize how FDA is using the regulation to intimidate both farmers and consumers who are simply trying to have access to raw milk, stated Pete Kennedy, president of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund. While FDA has not brought an enforcement action against individual consumers, it has acted to enforce the regulation against several farmers and has inspected peoples private homes using this regulation.
In regard to consumer plaintiffs, the opinion noted a November 1, 2011 FDA press release stating, “With respect to the interstate sale and distribution of raw milk, the FDA has never taken, nor does it intend to take, enforcement action against an individual who purchased and transported raw milk across state lines solely for his or her own personal consumption.” The agency issued the press release in response to a rally held by the activist group, the Raw Milk Freedom Riders, at FDA headquarters in Silver Springs, Maryland. Earlier, FDA made a similar statement in answer to questions posed by the judge.
The buyers club agent in the case, Eric Wagoner, had over 100 gallons of raw milk embargoed by the Georgia Department of Agriculture in October 2009; shortly after, Wagoner and other members of the buyers club were forced to dump the milk in the presence of an FDA agent. Judge Bennett rejected Wagoner’s allegation that the FDA–rather than the state agency–”enforced” the embargo and destruction of the raw milk.
Wagoner stated in an affidavit submitted to the court that it was the FDA agent, Marybeth Willis, who ordered him to destroy the raw milk. In response to a question posed by the judge on FDAs interpretation of 21 CFR 1240.61, the agency had explained that while it would not likely bring an enforcement action if the agent were to purchase and make a single delivery of milk to an out of state consumer to the extent however, that the agent is engaged in the organized distribution of raw milk to multiple customers across state lines, this type of activity would be far more likely to attract regulatory scrutiny.
The judge’s opinion did not address the situation of Mike Buck, a South Carolina dairy farmer who sells raw milk on his farm and in local retail stores to residents of Georgia and North Carolina. In response to a question asked by the judge, FDA stated that to the extent a producer regularly sells raw milk that is ultimately transported across state lines, FDA would review the facts for possible regulatory action. The judge’s opinion was silent about FDA enforcement against agents for raw milk consumers and farmers selling raw milk to out of state customers. FDA has concentrated its enforcement efforts against distributors and producers of raw milk.
The Legal Defense Fund has filed a motion with the federal district court to amend the judgment, requesting that the claims made by Buck and Wagoner not be dismissed. The motion argues that Wagoner, acting as an agent, has already been the subject of an enforcement action by FDA and that Buck engages in exactly the kind of behavior that FDA stated could result in an enforcement action by the agency.
The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund suggests that citizens urge Congress to repeal the FDA ban on interstate transportation by passing HR 1830. With the court deciding at this time not to hear the merits of the case, its up to Congress to protect the rights of Americans to access the foods of their choice.
defends the rights and broadens the freedoms of family farms and protects consumer access to raw milk and nutrient-dense foods. Concerned citizens can support the FTCLDF, a U.S. based 501(c)(4) nonprofit, by joining or donating online at www.farmtoconsumer.org or by calling 703-208-FARM (3276).
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Farming Freedom
Posted by Kevin Brown on April 9, 2012
Michigan Agency Creates Hardship for Heritage Pig Farmers, Hunting Preserves say Legal Experts
Department of Natural Resources Starting to Enforce Controversial Swine Invasive Species Order
Washington, DC(April 5, 2012)–Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is using the state Invasive Species Act to expand its jurisdiction beyond hunting and fishing to farming operations. Their controversial Invasive Species Order (ISO) prohibits certain pigs the agency deems “feral.” The way it is enforcing the rule even domesticated pigs under human husbandry are suspect. Farmers, ranchers and game preserves with successful small businesses are now threatened with economic and criminal sanctions, based on the physical characteristics of their swine.
Implementation of the ISO, as of April 1st, not only takes private property without compensation it also denies farmers of fundamental private property rights and the right to make a living. It will reduce or eliminate customer access to heritage breed pork, a product that has become increasingly popular with health conscious consumers and restaurants across the state.
The ISO allows DNR to seize and destroy pigs raised by Michigan farmers; Michigan DNR has publicly stated they will not compensate farmers whose pigs are destroyed. Possession of prohibited swine after April 1, 2012 is a felony with penalties of up to two years in jail and $20,000 in fines.
Attorney Joseph O’Leary is suing the DNR on behalf of four of the aggrieved business owners. He explains, “Wildlife is owned by the state; it is the role of the DNR to regulate and control state property. Livestock on farms is privately owned and properly belongs in the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture. When a governmental agency blurs these lines, people had better wake up and take notice because at that point we are all in a lot of trouble.”
Game preserve owner, Greg Johnson, reports that these special interest groups find it easier to get their way by pressuring state employees, rather than representatives elected by the people. “The DNR is waging a propaganda campaign of outright lies, which has already driven many farmers out of business. We are not swimming in feral swine–there is no feral hog problem in Michigan.” Johnson reports his business has already dropped in half as a result of the state led smear effort, and the three dozen or so private hunting preserves have dwindled down to a handful.
The Michigan Pork Producers Association and other large agribusiness interests, as well as conservation groups have worked together with the DNR to push for the ruling to be implemented. For the factory pork breeders, this is about eliminating the competition. The ISO ensures consumers will only have the choice of pork raised in confinement, known as confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs).
For more than a decade, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has worked politically to drive private hunting preserves out of business. However, the Michigan state legislature repeatedly rebuffed their attempts. Elected officials recognize how important private property rights are, and they were unwilling to prohibit landowners to raise and harvest animals in open areas. Now, backed by large Agribusiness interests in the state, DNR has done an end run around participatory democracy and declared swine with certain characteristics “feral” which not only includes animals raised at hunting preserves but thousands of other small farms across the state.
“The DNR has strayed into the unfamiliar territory of agriculture regulation. Given the nebulous and open ended description by which pigs are targeted, farmers fear for their futures,” says Pete Kennedy, Esq., President of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund.
The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund defends the rights and broadens the freedoms of family farms and protects consumer access to raw milk and nutrient-dense foods. Concerned citizens can support the FTCLDF, a U.S. based 501(c)(4) nonprofit, by joining or donating online at www.farmtoconsumer.org or by calling 703-208-FARM (3276).
For more information go to www.farmtoconsumer.org/michigan-swine-iso.htm
Media Contact: Kim Hartke 703-860-2711 kim.hartke@gmail.com
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Drug Compromise
Posted by Kevin Brown on April 9, 2012
NEWS RELEASE
SURPRISE RACTOPAMINE MEETING AT CODEX
By Scott Tips, President, National Health Federation
April 5, 2012
Tipped off by the European Union delegation while at the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Foods meeting in Maastricht last week, I attended a very special session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission where the animal steroid drug Ractopamine was discussed. Held in Paris, France today, the meeting was another one of those special “facilitated” sessions where a facilitator – in this case the Codex Alimentarius Commission Chairman Mr. Sanjay Dave – somehow tries to bring two irreconcilable sides together so as to reach a compromise.
The compromise? To see if the 70% of the World who refuses to accept unhealthy, ractopamine-doped meat in its food supply from the other 30% who want to make more money by selling such unhealthy meat (pork, beef, turkey, etc.) can be convinced to yield to the 30%. Some compromise! Heads you lose, tails we win . . . .
Evidently, the Western Hemispheric countries (from Canada in the north down to Argentina and Chile in the south) want to sell their Arnold-Schwarzenegger animal meat with nary a thought for the adverse health effects (to humans or the animals), just so long as they can make a few dollars more per animal. So, I went to this meeting expecting the worst. Remember, the NHF had fought ractopamine-doped meat at Codex many times before (see http://www.thenhf.com/article.php?id=2945) and barely won at previous meetings, thanks really to the firm opposition of the European Union, China, Russia, and the others who actually, ironically, speak more for American and Canadian consumers than do those citizens’ own representatives! But NHF is well-known for being aggressively outspoken on these issues.
Today, I spoke out twice against this drug monstrosity. The second time followed Australia’s feeble attempt to justify poisoning the World with yet another dangerous chemical. “We either abide by our own rules or we don’t,” he intoned, building on his theme that since the Codex scientists had conducted three expert reviews that said a little of this poison in our meat supply was fine we should swallow the poison wholesale.
I spoke right after him and agreed that “We either abide by our own rules or we don’t. In this case, let’s just buy a big rubber stamp labeled ‘Approved,’ give it to the Secretariat, and from now on just let her rubber-stamp every decision given to Codex by the scientists. What need is there then for our review at the Commission level? It’s been proposed that just because JECFA [the scientists] issued an opinion and just because the underlying Committee accepted it, then we at the higher Commission level must automatically accept it. That’s wrong and the rules say that we can either accept or reject such decisions. The JECFA science is faulty, they are not perfect and we should not automatically accept bad science here. What we at NHF do not understand is when so much of the World’s population has substantial health concerns with a proposed standard and with the supposed science behind it, how could anyone justify forcing that unhealthy standard upon the majority? It will destroy the credibility of Codex, all for some commercial interests that want to push their ractopamine-doped meat on the rest of the World.”
The three-hour-long special meeting was not productive, the two sides’ irreconcilable positions were just restated for all to hear once again amidst calls for the Commission to abandon its attempt to set a Maximum Residue Level for ractopamine-doped meat in the food supply. But it shows how determined the United States, Canada, Brazil, and other New-World countries are to push their ill-health upon the rest of us. The issue will come up again at the Commission meeting in Rome this coming July.
The NHF’s position: How can you compromise with ill-health? You either have the poison in your food or you don’t. Anything in between is yielding to the poison, and accepting the concept that money is more important than good health. The NHF will continue being outspoken on this issue and will do whatever it can to stop our food from being poisoned.
Your support is critical to help us keep fighting this and other issues at Codex. We are Your Voice for Health Freedom! Help us be there for you. Go to www.thenhf.com and join us, donate, volunteer.
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Farmageddon Sale
Posted by Kevin Brown on March 30, 2012
Farmageddon DVD
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Together, let’s make this film a bestselling documentary while showing our support and appreciation for the family farmers who provide us with nutrient-dense food using sustainable practices.
ABOUT FARMAGEDDON
The film features the work of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund with interviews with board members Pete Kennedy, Esq., Sally Fallon Morell, Judith McGeary, Esq., and General Counsel, Gary Cox, Esq.
Check out the trailer – http://farmageddonmovie.com/
“Many of you have seen Food Inc. and Fresh. Now it’s time for the next level: Farmageddon. Everyone should see this documentary because it takes up where previous documentaries have ended by answering the question: Why is local food pricey and hard to find?
You deserve an answer, and this hard hitting video delivers. I can’t recommend it heartily enough. Who owns your body? What kind of terror do America’s food police inflict on heritage food providers? This is strong language, but we live in disturbing times. You owe it to your children to empower yourself with the truth about food safety and food choice.” – Joel Salatin
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Victory At Codex!
Posted by Kevin Brown on March 28, 2012
NEWS RELEASE
VICTORY AT CODEX ON THE MELAMINE ISSUE!
March 27, 2012
Scott Tips & CCCF Chairman Martijn Weijtens after melamine victory
At the first day’s meeting of the 6th Session of the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Food (CCCF) yesterday in Maastricht, the Netherlands, the Committee unanimously agreed to cancel the blank check previously written to the food-packaging industry that would have allowed them to contaminate liquid infant formula with melamine-based packaging without any limits imposed upon such contamination.
Melamine is a man-made, cumulative toxin used in food equipment and packaging, as well as in an herbicide, which has killed thousands of pets and babies in years past and still continues to be a pervasive background contaminant. At previous Committee meetings, the food-packaging industry had won an “open skies” exemption from the Maximum Permitted Upper Level of melamine contamination of liquid infant formulas. (Read about it at http://www.thenhf.com/article.php?id=2947.)
Scott Tips, NHF president and its Codex delegate, noted after yesterday’s victory,
“It has been a long journey – not in terms of time as much as in terms of support – to arrive at this result, and amazingly enough with no opposition at the end. Three years ago, when the National Health Federation (NHF) first began speaking out at CCCF against melamine contamination of our foods, NHF was the absolute lone voice at this Committee. I was looked at as if I were from the Moon. In 2010, NHF was again alone – not another delegation supported us. But by the 2011 CCCF meeting several important and outspoken delegations, such as Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Peru, had joined NHF in opposing melamine contamination. Over our most-vocal objections, though, the Committee adopted the standard, with the dangerous “sky’s the limit” exemption, and sent it to the Commission for final approval. Fortunately, a groundswell of opposition had coalesced by that point – some three months later – to cause the Codex Commission Chairwoman to send the melamine standard back down to the CCCF for reconsideration.”
At this week’s Committee meeting, the groundswell became unanimous as the handwriting was clearly on the wall that numerous delegations were going to fight hard to eliminate the melamine exemption. First, the powerful EU delegation privately agreed that the exemption had to go. The United States then joined in publicly, and even New Zealand – formerly a strong supporter of the food-packaging exemption – actually asked the Committee to remove the exemption. Costa Rica, Ghana, Korea, the Philippines, Nigeria, India, Kenya, Cameroon, Columbia, and of course the NHF all spoke out strongly in favor of removing the exemption, and it was, without dissent.
The standard now goes to the Commission meeting to be held in Rome this coming July, where it will almost certainly be adopted without the exemption. But for the NHF’s strong and determined stand all by itself in 2009 and 2010, this exemption would have passed unhindered and would have resulted in a huge loophole for food producers to poison infants with melamine from food packaging.
For those who claim that a difference cannot be made at Codex meetings, here is yet more proof that positive change has been made, and validation for NHF’s continuing efforts there as your voice for health freedom.
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Pollen Poisoning
Posted by Kevin Brown on March 18, 2012
What was killing all those honeybees in recent years? New research shows a link between an increase in the death of bees and insecticides,
specifically the chemicals used to coat corn seeds.
The study, titled “Assessment of the Environmental Exposure of Honeybees to Particulate Matter Containing Neonicotinoid Insecticides Coming from Corn Coated Seeds,” was published in the American Chemical Society’s Environmental Science & Technology journal, and provides insight into colony collapse disorder.
Colony collapse disorder, or the mass die-off of honeybees, has stumped researchers up to now. This new research may provide information that could lead to even more answers.
According to the new study, neonicotinoid insecticides “are among the most widely used in the world, popular because they kill insects by paralyzing nerves but have lower toxicity for other animals.”
Beekeepers immediately observed an increase in die-offs right around the time of corn planting using this particular kind of insecticide.
Pneumatic drilling machines suck the seeds in and spray them with the insecticide to create a coating before they are planted in the ground. Researchers suspected the mass die-offs could have been caused by the particles of insecticide that were released into the air by the machines when the chemicals are sprayed.
The researchers tested several methods to make the drilling machines safer for bees. However, they found that all variations that used the neonicotinoid insecticides continued to cause mass die-offs of bees.
Honeybees are critical for pollinating food crops. Scientists say the disruption of pollination could dramatically affect entire ecosystems. In addition, as the researchers wrote in the study, “In view of the currently increasing crop production, and also of corn as a renewable energy source, the correct use of these insecticides within sustainable agriculture is a cause of concern.”
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