Betreff: How About Some Pesticides in Your Organic Food? No? Act NOW! |
Von: Natural Solutions Foundation |
Datum: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 23:32:32 -0500 (CDT) |
– Will Rogers
Tell
Congress to protect our Organic Standards:
Defeat
the
Draft Amendment to the Agricultural Appropriations Bill
Call Congress
877-762-8762 toll free
202-225-3121
Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me! Where have I heard this before?
Degrading
organic standards and making adulterated food the
only food available. Wait, wait! Where have I heard that before?
Hmmmmm.... Why does that have a familiar ring? Where have we
heard that
before? Oh yes, Codex!
·
Give
farmers the right to use veterinary drugs and calling the resulting
meat and
milk organic.
·
Allowe
dangerous pesticides and hormones to be used on organic animals.
·
Require
the irradiation of all food.
·
Convert
crops and herds back and forth from organic to non organic and back
again.
Hmmmmmm.....
Why does that
sound familiar, too? Right! Codex. But the Codex Coma people tell us
that we have nothing to
worry about because we have all these protective laws and regulations
here in
the
Here's the
game: whether it
is legislative
assault on DSHEA or OFPA,
or the EPA decision to ban the wildly dangerous pesticides forbidden by
the
Stockholm Convention but brought back by Codex,
each and every
protective standard here in the US is being attacked to clear the way
for
"HARMonization" with Codex.
Here's
the latest: Our hard-won
Organic Standards are being diluted, polluted and destroyed by the US
Congress
with the help of major food companies like Kraft, Wal-Mart, Dean Foods
an,
disappointingly, the very active assistance of USDA and the Organic Trade
Association.
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is in charge of Organic Food Standards with the ongoing advice of the National Organic Standards Board. Like the FDA, controlled by Big Pharma, the USDA is deeply influenced by corporate food interests. And, like Big Pharma, they are, with very rare exceptions, focused sharply on the bottom line and nothing else. So there has been continuing pressure for decades to degrade and eliminate meaningful organic standards. Remember when the USDA was prepared to allow the use of toxic sludge containing heavy metals and other deadly toxins for the fertilization of food? Well, they are at it again.
Claiming that the Harvey v. Veneman
case and
its appeal verdict (in
which the USDA was required
to bring its rules into conformity with the Organic Foods
Production Act [OFPA,
1990]), the USDA and its commercial allies now claim illogically that
this case
requires a weakening
of those rules (!)
Not surprisingly, the House/Senate Conference Committee is set to accept Draft Amendments currently being circulated which do not accurately respond to the requirements of the Federal Court Decision and its appeal, but contain wording which will:
How
convenient that
these changes in the intent and content of OFPA just happen to conform
to the
international trade regulations promugated by Codex on Organic
foods! And
how convenient that unless the regulations and laws of a country permit
them to
apply, Codex standards, we are told, do not apply.
"Stealth Regulation" is an old, unfortunate and very serious problem in the US Congress. Food is big, big business and our food regulations come both from the FDA and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Last week, the House/Senate Conference Committee put the final wording together for the 2006 Congressional Agriculture Appropriations Bill. And, if you want to keep on buying organic food that means anything at all, it's time to get activated to stop the next atrocity.
If the large corporations involved here, like Kraft, Wal-Mart, & Dean Foods with the very active help of the USDA, have their way, the Conference Committee will carry out their will and degrade the organic standards so that they no longer offer a meaningful alternative to genetically modified, pesticide and toxin-rich produce and veggies, meat, milk and poultry which has not been treated with drugs and hormones and products free of synthetics.
Now, large corporations are moving to lower organic standards allowing Bush appointees in the USDA National Organic Program to approve a broad list of synthetic ingredients and processing aids that would be allowed in organic production:”. Even worse, according to the Organic Consumers Association, "these proposed regulatory changes will reduce future public discussion and input and take away the National Organic Standards Board’s (NOSB) traditional lead jurisdiction in setting standards. What this means, in blunt terms is that USDA bureaucrats and industry lobbyists, not consumers, will have near total control over what can go into organic foods and products."
Send a letter to Congress NOW!
The U.S. Congress will be vigorously lobbied by industry over the next week to vote on a rider in the House/Senate Conference Committee to the 2006 Agriculture Appropriations Bill that could remove organic standards from the National Standards Board to USDA bureaucrats in the USDA who proposed in 1997-98 to approve that genetic engineering, toxic sludge, and food irradiation on organic farms. Those same USDA bureaucrats proposed in 2004 that previously banned pesticides, hormones, tainted feeds, and animal drugs be allowed in organic food
By now, this should
have a distressingly
familiar ring. Recall that Codex pertains to every food or
beverage that
can be put into your mouth legally. Everything. And then recall
that
Congress remains ignorant about Codex so they do not realize that these
assaults on various regulations and laws are part of a program to sweep
away
all of our protections and leave us open to Codex when it comes around
for
global implementation on December 31, 2009.
Remember,
in
the weird algebra of Congress, a single email, fax or phone call is
equal to
the opinion of 13,000 voting
constituents!
Your voice counts -- 13,000 times!
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