Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Friday, April 01, 2011
Your food, your future?
Your food, your future?
"The times they are a changing" Truer words could not have been spoken in the song by Bob Dylan in 1964. Today it's a different world. It's an ever growing competitive and demanding world at that.
Our current means of obtaining food and feeding our families could someday be in jeopardy. We need to see and prepare for the potential new realty. Most Americans eat from a box or a can. We nuke our foods and call it a home cooked meal. We eat on the run and at fast food outlets too often.
Today more than ever food manufactures are making packages smaller and prices higher. They say that food costs are skyrocketing and that things are only going to get worse. Higher prices are the result of higher fuel costs, transportation costs, manufacturing cost etc. Since profit is the driving force and demand continues to climb, the picture is getting uglier.
Do you agree that, we are less healthy as a society because we eat out of a box on a shelf? Do you feel that you pay more, work harder and it seems food prices are climbing?
Well maybe you shop at the organic market. Well, I am not convinced that "Organic “always means it's really pesticide free. For me it's organic if I grew it and I know what I sprayed on it, fertilized it with etc. Today many hard working farmers produce excellent organic produce. I am sure you know it's not cheap.
What if you could grow your own food and it was cost effective for you.
Here's an example: Three months ago I planted heirloom eggplant seedlings. Cost $2.49 cents for 12 seeds. Today I have harvested over 15 eggplants from just two full grown plants about three feet in height and four foot wide. I am doing it 100% organically in Florida soils. My friends can't believe how big and tasty they are. The same is true of tomatoes and other vegetables like beans.
We all may not be able to grow our food for several reasons. Our busy schedule, we live in apartments, we have no clue how to grow or maybe we just hate the idea of exercise, perspiration and dirty finger nails.
If you are one that prefers to let others grow your food, then here is a suggestion.
Join a CSA group (Community Supported Agriculture). A CSA teams up and buys in bulk from local farmers and the members take shares of food.
Or you could actually grow as much as you like yourself. My family grows some of our food in our backyard. We have set aside an area that is 30 feet x 4 feet and in this area grow tomatoes, corn, pumpkin, herbs and much more. You can do the same. Enjoy eggplant, Broccoli, strawberries and more. You can grow organically and never have to spray a synthetic pesticide. The difference in quality, taste and yield is magnificent. No need to break your back or get heavy equipment. You need no fossil fuels either. The secret is permaculture and its principles.
While you think about the vegetable garden, don't forget all the amazing nutritionally rich fruits you can grow as well.
Do a search for Permaculture on the Internet and study the basics of what it is all about. You, your friends and family do have control. Why not take control and begin to grow your own food?
Do it because it is healthier for you in so many ways. Do it to get some exercise, spend quality time with family, save money and learn that you can be self sufficient.
The world is a complicated place; you can choose to make it simple. Just get going and do it!
SALE: Grow your own food easily without breaking your back: Follow this link: http://www.pepesplants.com/vegetable-gardening.html
"The times they are a changing" Truer words could not have been spoken in the song by Bob Dylan in 1964. Today it's a different world. It's an ever growing competitive and demanding world at that.
Our current means of obtaining food and feeding our families could someday be in jeopardy. We need to see and prepare for the potential new realty. Most Americans eat from a box or a can. We nuke our foods and call it a home cooked meal. We eat on the run and at fast food outlets too often.
Today more than ever food manufactures are making packages smaller and prices higher. They say that food costs are skyrocketing and that things are only going to get worse. Higher prices are the result of higher fuel costs, transportation costs, manufacturing cost etc. Since profit is the driving force and demand continues to climb, the picture is getting uglier.
Do you agree that, we are less healthy as a society because we eat out of a box on a shelf? Do you feel that you pay more, work harder and it seems food prices are climbing?
Well maybe you shop at the organic market. Well, I am not convinced that "Organic “always means it's really pesticide free. For me it's organic if I grew it and I know what I sprayed on it, fertilized it with etc. Today many hard working farmers produce excellent organic produce. I am sure you know it's not cheap.
What if you could grow your own food and it was cost effective for you.
Here's an example: Three months ago I planted heirloom eggplant seedlings. Cost $2.49 cents for 12 seeds. Today I have harvested over 15 eggplants from just two full grown plants about three feet in height and four foot wide. I am doing it 100% organically in Florida soils. My friends can't believe how big and tasty they are. The same is true of tomatoes and other vegetables like beans.
We all may not be able to grow our food for several reasons. Our busy schedule, we live in apartments, we have no clue how to grow or maybe we just hate the idea of exercise, perspiration and dirty finger nails.
If you are one that prefers to let others grow your food, then here is a suggestion.
Join a CSA group (Community Supported Agriculture). A CSA teams up and buys in bulk from local farmers and the members take shares of food.
Or you could actually grow as much as you like yourself. My family grows some of our food in our backyard. We have set aside an area that is 30 feet x 4 feet and in this area grow tomatoes, corn, pumpkin, herbs and much more. You can do the same. Enjoy eggplant, Broccoli, strawberries and more. You can grow organically and never have to spray a synthetic pesticide. The difference in quality, taste and yield is magnificent. No need to break your back or get heavy equipment. You need no fossil fuels either. The secret is permaculture and its principles.
While you think about the vegetable garden, don't forget all the amazing nutritionally rich fruits you can grow as well.
Do a search for Permaculture on the Internet and study the basics of what it is all about. You, your friends and family do have control. Why not take control and begin to grow your own food?
Do it because it is healthier for you in so many ways. Do it to get some exercise, spend quality time with family, save money and learn that you can be self sufficient.
The world is a complicated place; you can choose to make it simple. Just get going and do it!
SALE: Grow your own food easily without breaking your back: Follow this link: http://www.pepesplants.com/vegetable-gardening.html
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Thursday, January 06, 2011
We all want to be green! Right?
Really? What are we doing about it? The only way we will have organic pesticide free foods and save the planet is if we begin to grow our own food. Why not start right on our own 1/4 acre lots. When we begin to utilize sustainable practices we will reap huge rewards. Today very few farmers are offering organic produce. Most of what is grown is imported and usually not organic. Importing food is detrimental to our economy, national security and well being.
The world we live in is changing fast and if we have not gotten our wake up call yet then consider the phone ringing right now. "Ring"...... Hey it's me Pepe wake up!
Let's go folks start looking at land differently, realize that times they are a changing. The sooner we begin growing our own food the faster we will learn what works and the better our results will be. Our families will be eating food that is fresher and without pesticides. We can grow fruits and vegetables not found in grocery stores. Heirloom tomatoes like the Zapotec variety are more heat tolerant and less susceptible to insects, fungus etc. Do we see the picture yet?
The important thing we all should understand is this! The air, water and soil are critical components to our food supply and are directly related to our survival. So now let me tell you about permaculture and keep in mind that it is more than just organic growing.
Please note that I am no expert on permaculture. I do know and have practiced many of these concepts for years. My Grandfather and uncles learned these techniques as farmers and ranchers in Cuba, many years ago. Many of my family have passed on over the years but what they taught me lives on today in me and in my son. My hope is that more and more people practice and enjoy growing fruits, vegetables and raise livestock. The experience of growing your own food is rewarding and can bring people together in so many wonderful ways. I urge you to get involved.
This year my goal is to promote and begin to incorporate more and more the principals of permaculture. Permaculture is being practiced at home in the nursery and in our grove operations. I hope you take a closer look at permaculture and how it can make our world a better place. We may have no choice!
let's start tearing up the concrete and turn the city into a green sustainable place we can all nurture and enjoy.
Here are the permaculture guiding principles as I understand them. They are listed in order of most importance:
Earth Care
People Care
Fair Share
With this in mind I leave you to decide if this is for you or not.
Peace,
Pepe's Plants
The world we live in is changing fast and if we have not gotten our wake up call yet then consider the phone ringing right now. "Ring"...... Hey it's me Pepe wake up!
Let's go folks start looking at land differently, realize that times they are a changing. The sooner we begin growing our own food the faster we will learn what works and the better our results will be. Our families will be eating food that is fresher and without pesticides. We can grow fruits and vegetables not found in grocery stores. Heirloom tomatoes like the Zapotec variety are more heat tolerant and less susceptible to insects, fungus etc. Do we see the picture yet?
The important thing we all should understand is this! The air, water and soil are critical components to our food supply and are directly related to our survival. So now let me tell you about permaculture and keep in mind that it is more than just organic growing.
Please note that I am no expert on permaculture. I do know and have practiced many of these concepts for years. My Grandfather and uncles learned these techniques as farmers and ranchers in Cuba, many years ago. Many of my family have passed on over the years but what they taught me lives on today in me and in my son. My hope is that more and more people practice and enjoy growing fruits, vegetables and raise livestock. The experience of growing your own food is rewarding and can bring people together in so many wonderful ways. I urge you to get involved.
This year my goal is to promote and begin to incorporate more and more the principals of permaculture. Permaculture is being practiced at home in the nursery and in our grove operations. I hope you take a closer look at permaculture and how it can make our world a better place. We may have no choice!
let's start tearing up the concrete and turn the city into a green sustainable place we can all nurture and enjoy.
Here are the permaculture guiding principles as I understand them. They are listed in order of most importance:
Earth Care
People Care
Fair Share
With this in mind I leave you to decide if this is for you or not.
Peace,
Pepe's Plants
Saturday, December 25, 2010
The Miracle Fruit Plant
By Jason “Pepe”
12/24/2010
Synsepalum dulcificum
The Miracle Fruit Tree from West Africa is simply amazing. The natives enjoyed the benefits of the fruit for centuries. The local food supply was mostly very bland. These natives discovered that eating the small fruit made sour food taste sweet and improved other food and drinks.
Today more and more people are discovering and enjoying this fruit all over the world. From San Francisco to New York, Miami and most major cities around the world, flavor tripping has become all the rage.
A typical flavor tripping party involves groups of people tasting many sour and other bland or just plain foods. The fun begins when lemons taste sweet as lemonade. Some even say that tobasco sauce tastes like chocolate syrup. Well I can tell you it does not! It’s hot like hell, so don’t even think about it! Many other foods and drinks do improve and taste surprisingly better. Try a sip of balsamic vinegar or taste some goat cheese and be pleasantly surprised at how tasty the goat cheese becomes. I could go on and on but won’t ruin the fun for you. You have to taste it to believe it. The only caution I offer you is that you don’t overdo it. Eating a large quantity of sour foods may upset your stomach.
In the 1960s, an attempt was made to market the active ingredient in Miracle Fruit called miraculin. Mr. Robert Harvey, a biomedical postgraduate student, founded the Miralin Company to grow the berry in Jamaica and Puerto Rico. The plan was to extract the miraculin in his United States Laboratories. Mr. Harvey targeted his marketing to diabetics. He felt very strongly that miraculin had tremendous commercial value and was a safer alternative to other non sugar sweeteners. In his research he discovered that miraculin could make diet foods taste better and with no strong aftertaste.
For several years Mr. Harvey worked closely with the Food and Drug Administration, trying to get Miraculin on the market. In 1974 when miraculin was about to be launched into the market, the FDA pulled the plug on Mr. Harvey and his dream ofmaking miraculin available to consumers. The FDA ruled that miraculin would require additional years of testing if it was to allow miraculin as a food additive. This ruling effectively put the Miralin Company out of business.
It’s difficult to understand how a berry that has been consumed for centuries and now for many years all around the world could meet this fate. Could it be that special interest like the sugar lobby played a role in the demise of Mr. Harvey’s Company?
So how does the Miracle Fruit do its magic?
The miracle berry is small it’s about ¾ inch to 1 inch. The bright red long and oblong shaped berry contains several chemical properties. The most concentrated chemical is a glycoprotein named miraculin. Miraculin binds to taste receptors in the tongue, tricking them into sensing acidic tastes as sweet. Miraculins masking effect on taste buds is temporary, typically lasting 45 minutes to an hour in most cases. To experience the effect, you would scrape some of the pulp and seed away with your teeth and tongue as you chew it. Wait about twenty minutes and start tasting.
So everything tastes great, right?
Well, not everything. Some foods taste great, some are unaffected and others are a little nasty. Some like beer after eating the fruit and others hate it. Everyone is different and parties can be quite fun.
Grapefruit – candy
Honey Dew – brings out the soft subtle flavors
Granny Apple – best apple of your life
Broccoli – amazingly the cooked stems taste like artichoke
Plain yogurt tastes like a good fruit yogurt.
The miracle berry really is a miraculous, fun and amazing fruit tree to grow. Some day it may even turn out to be beneficial to both dieters and diabetics.
Can I grow a Miracle Fruit Plant?
Yes you can. Click here for more information, photos and more!
http://www.miraclefruit.info
12/24/2010
Synsepalum dulcificum
The Miracle Fruit Tree from West Africa is simply amazing. The natives enjoyed the benefits of the fruit for centuries. The local food supply was mostly very bland. These natives discovered that eating the small fruit made sour food taste sweet and improved other food and drinks.
Today more and more people are discovering and enjoying this fruit all over the world. From San Francisco to New York, Miami and most major cities around the world, flavor tripping has become all the rage.
A typical flavor tripping party involves groups of people tasting many sour and other bland or just plain foods. The fun begins when lemons taste sweet as lemonade. Some even say that tobasco sauce tastes like chocolate syrup. Well I can tell you it does not! It’s hot like hell, so don’t even think about it! Many other foods and drinks do improve and taste surprisingly better. Try a sip of balsamic vinegar or taste some goat cheese and be pleasantly surprised at how tasty the goat cheese becomes. I could go on and on but won’t ruin the fun for you. You have to taste it to believe it. The only caution I offer you is that you don’t overdo it. Eating a large quantity of sour foods may upset your stomach.
In the 1960s, an attempt was made to market the active ingredient in Miracle Fruit called miraculin. Mr. Robert Harvey, a biomedical postgraduate student, founded the Miralin Company to grow the berry in Jamaica and Puerto Rico. The plan was to extract the miraculin in his United States Laboratories. Mr. Harvey targeted his marketing to diabetics. He felt very strongly that miraculin had tremendous commercial value and was a safer alternative to other non sugar sweeteners. In his research he discovered that miraculin could make diet foods taste better and with no strong aftertaste.
For several years Mr. Harvey worked closely with the Food and Drug Administration, trying to get Miraculin on the market. In 1974 when miraculin was about to be launched into the market, the FDA pulled the plug on Mr. Harvey and his dream ofmaking miraculin available to consumers. The FDA ruled that miraculin would require additional years of testing if it was to allow miraculin as a food additive. This ruling effectively put the Miralin Company out of business.
It’s difficult to understand how a berry that has been consumed for centuries and now for many years all around the world could meet this fate. Could it be that special interest like the sugar lobby played a role in the demise of Mr. Harvey’s Company?
So how does the Miracle Fruit do its magic?
The miracle berry is small it’s about ¾ inch to 1 inch. The bright red long and oblong shaped berry contains several chemical properties. The most concentrated chemical is a glycoprotein named miraculin. Miraculin binds to taste receptors in the tongue, tricking them into sensing acidic tastes as sweet. Miraculins masking effect on taste buds is temporary, typically lasting 45 minutes to an hour in most cases. To experience the effect, you would scrape some of the pulp and seed away with your teeth and tongue as you chew it. Wait about twenty minutes and start tasting.
So everything tastes great, right?
Well, not everything. Some foods taste great, some are unaffected and others are a little nasty. Some like beer after eating the fruit and others hate it. Everyone is different and parties can be quite fun.
Grapefruit – candy
Honey Dew – brings out the soft subtle flavors
Granny Apple – best apple of your life
Broccoli – amazingly the cooked stems taste like artichoke
Plain yogurt tastes like a good fruit yogurt.
The miracle berry really is a miraculous, fun and amazing fruit tree to grow. Some day it may even turn out to be beneficial to both dieters and diabetics.
Can I grow a Miracle Fruit Plant?
Yes you can. Click here for more information, photos and more!
http://www.miraclefruit.info
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
US Government to Outlaw Citizens right to Grow Food! - $100000
US Government to Outlaw Citizens right to Grow Food!
Dear friends I wanted to urgently share this information with you. I am not asking you to support any political party! All I ask is that you be aware of this and research it and decide for yourselves. Is this really being done for the public good? Please defend our right to grow our own food and to be able to either sell or share it with our fellow citizens.
Please do not flag this as spam or improperly placed advertising. This is important and I urge all of you that visit this section of Craigslist to help spread the word.
Your freedom and all of our children's futures are on the line and under attack.
We must get involved. Do something now before we loose our right to communicate and take action.
Thank You!
Jason "Pepe" Tormo
Pepe's Plants
Please spread the word and let's not allow the politicians take away any more rights from us!
For OpEdNews: Lora Chamberlain - Writer
Dear healthy food lovers,
Please pick up the phone and make the calls below against SB 510,
the so called Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010!!!
1-888-493-5443 is free to the Congressional operator
Below is a sample letter
Dear Congress(wo)man,
I am deeply concerned with your sponsorship of Senate Bill 510. That
bill represents another hideous attempt to place more power into the
hands of centralized government and robs individual citizens and
states. The greatest danger to mankind is that this bill allows
complete manipulation of America's food supply and threatens to strip
us of our freedoms to grow, sell, and buy food and make doing any of those natural things crimes punishable by imprisonment. It would be a crime to grow food and share it with my friends and neighbors. The act of generating and supporting this bill is in itself criminal to our
Constitution to which you are not immune. Not only remove your
sponsorship from Bill S510 but defeat it. Thank you.
Sincerely,
(your name)
Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) is the sponsor of this bill.
Co-sponsors are:
Lamar Alexander [R-TN]
Jeff Bingaman [D-NM]
Richard Burr [R-NC]
Roland Burris [D-IL]
Saxby Chambliss [R-GA]
Christopher Dodd [D-CT]
Michael Enzi [R-WY]
Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]
Judd Gregg [R-NH]
Thomas Harkin [D-IA]
Orrin Hatch [R-UT]
John Isakson [R-GA]
Edward Kennedy [D-MA]
Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]
Ben Nelson [D-NE]
Tom Udall [D-NM]
David Vitter [R-LA]
Write these senators today and tell them to revoke their support of
Senate Bill 510!
Senate Bill 510 Will Make It Illegal to Grow, Share, Trade or Sell
Homegrown Food
S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-510, may be the
most dangerous bill in the history of the US.
"If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public's right to grow,
own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes. It will become the most offensive authority against the
cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products
of one's choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law
or, if you like, the will of God." It is similar to what India faced
with imposition of the salt tax during British rule, only S 510
extends control over all food in the US, violating the fundamental human right to food." ~ Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower.
Monsanto says it has no interest in the bill and would not benefit
from it, but Monsanto's Michael Taylor who gave us rBGH and unregulated genetically modified (GM) organisms, appears to have designed it and is waiting as an appointed Food Czar to the FDA (a position unapproved by Congress) to administer the agency it would create -- without judicial review -- if it passes.
S 510 would give Monsanto unlimited power over all US seed, food
supplements, food AND FARMING.
History
In the 1990s, Bill Clinton introduced HACCP (Hazardous Analysis
Critical Control Points) purportedly to deal with contamination in the meat industry. Clinton's HACCP delighted the offending corporate (WorldTrade Organization "WTO") meat packers since it allowed them to inspect themselves, eliminated thousands of local food processors (with no history of contamination), and centralized meat into their control. Monsanto promoted HACCP.
In 2008, Hillary Clinton, urged a powerful centralized food safety
agency as part of her campaign for president. Her advisor was Mark
Penn, CEO of Burson Marsteller*, a giant PR firm representing
Monsanto. Clinton lost, but Clinton friends such as Rosa DeLauro, whose husband's firm lists Monsanto as a progressive client and globalization as an area of expertise, introduced early versions of S 510.
S 510 fails on moral, social, economic, political, constitutional, and
hum an survival grounds.
1. It puts all US food and all US farms under Homeland Security and
the Department of Defense, in the event of contamination or an ill-defined emergency. It resembles the Kissinger Plan.
2. It would end US sovereignty over its own food supply by insisting
on compliance with the WTO, thus threatening national security. It would end the Uruguay Round Agreement Act of 1994, which put US sovereignty and US law under perfect protection. Instead, S 510 says:
COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS. Nothing in this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) shall be construed in a manner inconsistent with the agreement establishing the World Trade Organization or any other treaty or international agreement to which the United States is a party.
3. It would allow the government, under Maritime Law, to define the
introduction of any food into commerce (even direct sales between
individuals) as smuggling into "the United States." Since under
that law, the US is a corporate entity and not a location, "entry of food into the US" covers food produced anywhere within the land mass of this country and "entering into" it by virtue of being produced.
4. It imposes Codex Alimentarius on the US, a global system of
control over food. It allows the United Nations (UN), World Health
Organization (WHO), UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the WTO to take control of every food on earth and remove access to natural food supplements. Its bizarre history and its expected impact in limiting access to adequate nutrition (while mandating GM food, GM animals, pesticides, hormones, irradiation of food, etc.) threatens all safe and organic food and health itself, since the world knows now it needs vitamins to survive, not just to treat illnesses.
5. It would remove the right to clean, store and thus own seed in the
US, putting control of seeds in the hands of Monsanto and other
multinationals, threatening US security. See Seeds How to
criminalize them, for more details.
6. It includes NAIS, an animal traceability program that threatens
all small farmers and ranchers raising animals. The UN is participating
through the WHO, FAO, WTO, and World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) in allowing mass slaughter of even heritage breeds of animals and without proof of disease. Biodiversity in farm animals is being wiped out to substitute genetically engineered animals on which corporations hold patents. Animal diseases can be falsely declared. S 510 includes the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), despite its corrupt involvement in the H1N1 scandal, which is now said to have been concocted by the corporations.
7. It extends a failed and destructive HACCP to all food, thus
threatening to do to all local food production and farming what HACCP
did to meat production put it in corporate hands and worsen food
safety.
8. It deconstructs what is left of the American economy. It takes
agriculture and food, which are the cornerstone of all economies, out
of the hands of the citizenry, and puts them under the total control of
multinational corporations influencing the UN, WHO, FAO and WTO, with HHS, and CDC, acting as agents, with Homeland Security as the
enforcer.
The chance to rebuild the economy based on farming, ranching, gardens, food production, natural health, and all the jobs, tools and connected occupations would be eliminated.
9. It would allow the government to mandate antibiotics, hormones,
slaughterhouse waste, pesticides and GMOs. This would industrialize
every farm in the US, eliminate local organic farming, greatly
increase global warming from increased use of oil-based products and
long-distance delivery of foods, and make food even more unsafe. The five items listed -- the Five Pillars of Food Safety -- are precisely
the items in the food supply which are the primary source of its danger.
10. It uses food crimes as the entry into police state power and
control. The bill postpones defining all the regulations to be
imposed, postpones defining crimes to be punished, postpones defining penalties to be applied. It removes fundamental constitutional protections from all citizens in the country, making them subject to a corporate tribunal with unlimited power and penalties, and without judicial review.
For further information go to;
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_21293.cfm
, the Organic Consumers Assoc. does not support S510 as it is currently written. Please read the article from the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance for a good overview of the issues.
Also watch these videos:
Food Laws Forcing people to globalize?
Corporate Rule?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PwqUQ_HIlg&feature=related
Reclaiming Economies?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXoJHG-er7A&feature=related
Thanks for passing this email along to your friends,
Dr.Lora in Chicago
Take action -- click here to contact your local newspaper or congress people:
Call your member of Congress - say "NO!" to SB510!
Click here to see the most recent messages sent to congressional reps and local newspapers
Dr. Lora Chamberlain is a voting activist in the Pacific Northwest.
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Please do not flag this as spam or improperly placed advertising. This is important and I urge all of you that visit this section of Craigslist to help spread the word.
Your freedom and all of our children's futures are on the line and under attack.
We must get involved. Do something now before we loose our right to communicate and take action.
Thank You!
Jason "Pepe" Tormo
Pepe's Plants
Please spread the word and let's not allow the politicians take away any more rights from us!
For OpEdNews: Lora Chamberlain - Writer
Dear healthy food lovers,
Please pick up the phone and make the calls below against SB 510,
the so called Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010!!!
1-888-493-5443 is free to the Congressional operator
Below is a sample letter
Dear Congress(wo)man,
I am deeply concerned with your sponsorship of Senate Bill 510. That
bill represents another hideous attempt to place more power into the
hands of centralized government and robs individual citizens and
states. The greatest danger to mankind is that this bill allows
complete manipulation of America's food supply and threatens to strip
us of our freedoms to grow, sell, and buy food and make doing any of those natural things crimes punishable by imprisonment. It would be a crime to grow food and share it with my friends and neighbors. The act of generating and supporting this bill is in itself criminal to our
Constitution to which you are not immune. Not only remove your
sponsorship from Bill S510 but defeat it. Thank you.
Sincerely,
(your name)
Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) is the sponsor of this bill.
Co-sponsors are:
Lamar Alexander [R-TN]
Jeff Bingaman [D-NM]
Richard Burr [R-NC]
Roland Burris [D-IL]
Saxby Chambliss [R-GA]
Christopher Dodd [D-CT]
Michael Enzi [R-WY]
Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]
Judd Gregg [R-NH]
Thomas Harkin [D-IA]
Orrin Hatch [R-UT]
John Isakson [R-GA]
Edward Kennedy [D-MA]
Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]
Ben Nelson [D-NE]
Tom Udall [D-NM]
David Vitter [R-LA]
Write these senators today and tell them to revoke their support of
Senate Bill 510!
Senate Bill 510 Will Make It Illegal to Grow, Share, Trade or Sell
Homegrown Food
S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-510, may be the
most dangerous bill in the history of the US.
"If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public's right to grow,
own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes. It will become the most offensive authority against the
cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products
of one's choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law
or, if you like, the will of God." It is similar to what India faced
with imposition of the salt tax during British rule, only S 510
extends control over all food in the US, violating the fundamental human right to food." ~ Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower.
Monsanto says it has no interest in the bill and would not benefit
from it, but Monsanto's Michael Taylor who gave us rBGH and unregulated genetically modified (GM) organisms, appears to have designed it and is waiting as an appointed Food Czar to the FDA (a position unapproved by Congress) to administer the agency it would create -- without judicial review -- if it passes.
S 510 would give Monsanto unlimited power over all US seed, food
supplements, food AND FARMING.
History
In the 1990s, Bill Clinton introduced HACCP (Hazardous Analysis
Critical Control Points) purportedly to deal with contamination in the meat industry. Clinton's HACCP delighted the offending corporate (WorldTrade Organization "WTO") meat packers since it allowed them to inspect themselves, eliminated thousands of local food processors (with no history of contamination), and centralized meat into their control. Monsanto promoted HACCP.
In 2008, Hillary Clinton, urged a powerful centralized food safety
agency as part of her campaign for president. Her advisor was Mark
Penn, CEO of Burson Marsteller*, a giant PR firm representing
Monsanto. Clinton lost, but Clinton friends such as Rosa DeLauro, whose husband's firm lists Monsanto as a progressive client and globalization as an area of expertise, introduced early versions of S 510.
S 510 fails on moral, social, economic, political, constitutional, and
hum an survival grounds.
1. It puts all US food and all US farms under Homeland Security and
the Department of Defense, in the event of contamination or an ill-defined emergency. It resembles the Kissinger Plan.
2. It would end US sovereignty over its own food supply by insisting
on compliance with the WTO, thus threatening national security. It would end the Uruguay Round Agreement Act of 1994, which put US sovereignty and US law under perfect protection. Instead, S 510 says:
COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS. Nothing in this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) shall be construed in a manner inconsistent with the agreement establishing the World Trade Organization or any other treaty or international agreement to which the United States is a party.
3. It would allow the government, under Maritime Law, to define the
introduction of any food into commerce (even direct sales between
individuals) as smuggling into "the United States." Since under
that law, the US is a corporate entity and not a location, "entry of food into the US" covers food produced anywhere within the land mass of this country and "entering into" it by virtue of being produced.
4. It imposes Codex Alimentarius on the US, a global system of
control over food. It allows the United Nations (UN), World Health
Organization (WHO), UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the WTO to take control of every food on earth and remove access to natural food supplements. Its bizarre history and its expected impact in limiting access to adequate nutrition (while mandating GM food, GM animals, pesticides, hormones, irradiation of food, etc.) threatens all safe and organic food and health itself, since the world knows now it needs vitamins to survive, not just to treat illnesses.
5. It would remove the right to clean, store and thus own seed in the
US, putting control of seeds in the hands of Monsanto and other
multinationals, threatening US security. See Seeds How to
criminalize them, for more details.
6. It includes NAIS, an animal traceability program that threatens
all small farmers and ranchers raising animals. The UN is participating
through the WHO, FAO, WTO, and World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) in allowing mass slaughter of even heritage breeds of animals and without proof of disease. Biodiversity in farm animals is being wiped out to substitute genetically engineered animals on which corporations hold patents. Animal diseases can be falsely declared. S 510 includes the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), despite its corrupt involvement in the H1N1 scandal, which is now said to have been concocted by the corporations.
7. It extends a failed and destructive HACCP to all food, thus
threatening to do to all local food production and farming what HACCP
did to meat production put it in corporate hands and worsen food
safety.
8. It deconstructs what is left of the American economy. It takes
agriculture and food, which are the cornerstone of all economies, out
of the hands of the citizenry, and puts them under the total control of
multinational corporations influencing the UN, WHO, FAO and WTO, with HHS, and CDC, acting as agents, with Homeland Security as the
enforcer.
The chance to rebuild the economy based on farming, ranching, gardens, food production, natural health, and all the jobs, tools and connected occupations would be eliminated.
9. It would allow the government to mandate antibiotics, hormones,
slaughterhouse waste, pesticides and GMOs. This would industrialize
every farm in the US, eliminate local organic farming, greatly
increase global warming from increased use of oil-based products and
long-distance delivery of foods, and make food even more unsafe. The five items listed -- the Five Pillars of Food Safety -- are precisely
the items in the food supply which are the primary source of its danger.
10. It uses food crimes as the entry into police state power and
control. The bill postpones defining all the regulations to be
imposed, postpones defining crimes to be punished, postpones defining penalties to be applied. It removes fundamental constitutional protections from all citizens in the country, making them subject to a corporate tribunal with unlimited power and penalties, and without judicial review.
For further information go to;
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_21293.cfm
, the Organic Consumers Assoc. does not support S510 as it is currently written. Please read the article from the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance for a good overview of the issues.
Also watch these videos:
Food Laws Forcing people to globalize?
Corporate Rule?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PwqUQ_HIlg&feature=related
Reclaiming Economies?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXoJHG-er7A&feature=related
Thanks for passing this email along to your friends,
Dr.Lora in Chicago
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Monday, September 27, 2010
Ideas for living a healthier and environmentally responsible lifestyle
Ideas for living a healthier and environmentally responsible lifestyle
Can you imagine how beautiful it would be if we all had plenty of fruits and vegetables within our reach locally? Today more and more people are rethinking just about everything and local food production is high on the list.
Once upon a time almost every person had food from the garden at their fingertips. Today we go to supermarkets and basically eat out of a box. Look at the size of the supermarkets fresh fruit and veggies section. How big is that area compared to the rest of the buildings square footage? It’s really small when you think about it.
Now I know that we can’t all be farmers, but is it that hard to plant a few food producing trees and shrubs? No it’s really not! The joy of eating fresh healthy produce right from your home or sharing some with your neighbors is truly worthwhile.
Here are some ideas:
Plant valuable trees on your property and encourage friends and family to do the same. What are valuable trees? Well, fruit trees can be a great investment that helps feed your family and also helps the environment. Trees are our friends and our world could not exist as we know it without them.
An old friend used to say I should remember that there is strength in numbers. More people planting more food producing trees and shrubs can make a huge impact on our local supplies.
Some folks around the country are actually growing and selling fresh fruits, veggies, herbs and more right from small urban yards of about one quarter acre. One family in Pasadena California has been doing it for over ten years.
Buying local is not easy, but with time it will be. Our environment and our health can improve dramatically with new thinking and real action.
Having locally grown food offers us fresher food and less dependence on fossil fuels and that’s a good thing, don’t you think? Why should we be eating mangoes from Mexico in Florida, it just makes no sense does it?
Let’s help buying locally become a reality, get involved in your community and start community gardens. A healthier lifestyle and cleaner environment begins with each and every one of us.
http://www.pepesplants.info
Jason “Pepe”
Can you imagine how beautiful it would be if we all had plenty of fruits and vegetables within our reach locally? Today more and more people are rethinking just about everything and local food production is high on the list.
Once upon a time almost every person had food from the garden at their fingertips. Today we go to supermarkets and basically eat out of a box. Look at the size of the supermarkets fresh fruit and veggies section. How big is that area compared to the rest of the buildings square footage? It’s really small when you think about it.
Now I know that we can’t all be farmers, but is it that hard to plant a few food producing trees and shrubs? No it’s really not! The joy of eating fresh healthy produce right from your home or sharing some with your neighbors is truly worthwhile.
Here are some ideas:
Plant valuable trees on your property and encourage friends and family to do the same. What are valuable trees? Well, fruit trees can be a great investment that helps feed your family and also helps the environment. Trees are our friends and our world could not exist as we know it without them.
An old friend used to say I should remember that there is strength in numbers. More people planting more food producing trees and shrubs can make a huge impact on our local supplies.
Some folks around the country are actually growing and selling fresh fruits, veggies, herbs and more right from small urban yards of about one quarter acre. One family in Pasadena California has been doing it for over ten years.
Buying local is not easy, but with time it will be. Our environment and our health can improve dramatically with new thinking and real action.
Having locally grown food offers us fresher food and less dependence on fossil fuels and that’s a good thing, don’t you think? Why should we be eating mangoes from Mexico in Florida, it just makes no sense does it?
Let’s help buying locally become a reality, get involved in your community and start community gardens. A healthier lifestyle and cleaner environment begins with each and every one of us.
http://www.pepesplants.info
Jason “Pepe”
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Dragon fruit
One of the most delicious fruits I have ever tasted!
I have several plants for sale.
Makisupa, Delight, Natural Mystic, Vodoo Child, Physical Graffiti, Cosmic Charlie and others.
Visit my site: http://www.pepesplants.weebly.com
I have several plants for sale.
Makisupa, Delight, Natural Mystic, Vodoo Child, Physical Graffiti, Cosmic Charlie and others.
Visit my site: http://www.pepesplants.weebly.com
Friday, July 02, 2010
Drink Dragon fruit wine with Pepe's
Dragon Fruit and Muscadine wine, delicious! You can grow lots of exotic fruits in Florida. Why not enjoy a slice of paradise. Florida living means fresh fruit right from your tree! Pepe's Plants delivers grafted high quality Fruit Trees to your home or business everyday! We invite you to visit our website to learn more. http://www.pepesplants.weebly.com
Fruit trees grafted 3 gal just $30.00 at the Yellow Green Market in Hollywood.
Many 7 gal varieties available and often 5 plus feet tall planted!
Call Pepe today and discover why we deliver quality!
954-740-4070
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Fruit trees grafted 3 gal just $30.00 at the Yellow Green Market in Hollywood.
Many 7 gal varieties available and often 5 plus feet tall planted!
Call Pepe today and discover why we deliver quality!
954-740-4070
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Green and Yellow Farmers Market
Avocado, Mango, Lychee, Jackfruit, Caimito, Longan, Peach, Muscadine, Papaya, Mamey, Sapote, Miracle Fruit, Bay, Guava, Sousop, Atemoya, Tamarind, Dragon Fruit, Nispero
When buying fruit trees be sure to get grafted and not seed
propagated trees. Grafting insures consistent quality trees that offer you the
finest fruit. Trees are grafted with proven named cultivars so you get excellent
production, disease resistance and so much more. Call and we can explain all the
benefits of purchasing grafted trees!
Call Pepe at 954-740-4070
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Sunday, June 06, 2010
Pepe's Specialty Plants
Come and visit us Thursdays, Saturday and Sunday at the Green and Yellow Farmers Market.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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