We Deserve Healthy Food and a Healthy Environment
Every five years Congress decides how our food will be produced when they vote on the Food and Farm Bill. This bill should not only support healthy food, but modern farming practices that protect the foundations of our food supply.
Government policy should address the effects that some farm practices have on our health, such as antibiotic resistance caused by adding these drugs to the feed of animals that are not sick.
Such animals become cheap meat and the subsequent public health issues should be a concern to all of us.
And don't get me started on all the growth hormones fed to animals that wind up in our children as well. Girls as young as eleven getting their period. Acne out of control.
Enough.
Over the next few days, the Senate will debate this critical legislation that could drastically affect the future of our food supply. This is your chance to demand federal agricultural programs that are better for you, your children, and our planet.
Please write to your senator today!
posted by kate @ 11:45 AM
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I got my period when I was 11. That was 32 years ago.
Good luck.
You may find these books interesting:
"The Informant" - by Kurt
Eichenwald
"Rats in the Grain: The Dirty Tricks and Trials of Archer Daniels Midland, the Supermarket to the World" by James B. Lieber
You are talking about powerful money.
http://www.amazon.com/Informant-True-Story-Kurt-Eichenwald/dp/0767903277
Ya know-- I'm so, so tired of having to go to a health food store and extra for natural food--after all--it starts that way, doesn't it?
pam
oops--PAY extra
pam
Since I am bored I will add this:
As far back as Watergate, Andreas' political giving has thrust him into controversy. A Watergate-era investigation led to criminal charges that he had illegally contributed $100,000 to Humphrey's 1968 campaign for President, but Andreas was acquitted. And his $25,000 cash donation to President Nixon's re-election bid in 1972 became a focus of Watergate inquiry into abuses surrounding unreported campaign money. According to an investigative memo uncovered in 1992 that quotes President Nixon's personal secretary Rosemary Woods, Andreas delivered $100,000 in $100 bills to the White House shortly before the 1972 election. Woods stored the money in a basement safe for about a year, when the President had her return the cash to Andreas.
Andreas, who earns a $3.6 million salary, has continued donating generously to many Democratic and Republican candidates -- "tithing," he calls it. Over the years he has given money to Senator Bob Dole, President Clinton, President Bush, President Carter, Michael Dukakis, Jack Kemp, and Jesse Jackson, among others. Between 1981 and 1994, Senator Dole and his political foundations collected $178,000 in contributions from Andreas, members of Andreas' family and A.D.M. executives, according to Common Cause, a nonpartisan watchdog group in Washington. Andreas and A.D.M. have also given more than $2 million in "soft money" to the Democratic and Republican parties since 1991, according to federal records.
Meanwhile, Dole has become known to some as "Senator Ethanol" because of his longtime, staunch support of federal tax subsidies for corn-based ethanol, a gasoline additive. A.D.M., which produces sixty percent of all U.S. ethanol, has been a major beneficiary. Congressional fans of ethanol, many of them, like Dole, representatives of corn states, say it has helped ease US dependence on foreign oil. Others are not convinced. Recently New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley told The Boston Globe, "This billion-dollar tax break is nothing more than a gift to a single, politically connected industry." Andreas' critics link federal subsidies -- including sugar price supports and the ethanol tax break -- to the influence that they say his political dollars have bought him among elected officials. The sugar subsidy has the effect of raising the price of a corn syrup sweetner, another important A.D.M. product. In his stock reply to such charges, Andreas says, "We do not talk to any government official about our business."
Which was a complete lie. They were convicted of price fixing. READ THE BOOKS!
Makes one wonder about what gives Al Gore the winds beneath his wings.
If I could get the world to buy my product, I would be rich too.
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