Another interesting article.
Personally, I prefer to purchase locally. My super market purchases seem to
be mostly bottled water and paper products.
I have a small generator and make my own Colloidal Silver and/or EIS
(electrically isolated silver) with a silver source and distilled water.
What I make is generally about 12 ppm. I normally spray any raw foods with
this before eating.
Factory Farms are not just in California .. they are here in New Jersey and
every other state and country. This is truly a world wide problem.
ISE, a large chicken factory is located one town over from me and in the
fall and again in the spring, you can watch as huge dump trucks carry tons
of this factory farm, dis-ease filled droppings and spread it all over the
fields as fertilizer.
Over and above this is the sludge that's brought out from distant cities
that is also spread on fields prior to planting the food you eat. Loads
that are traveling to a dump need every load tested .. loads that are to be
spread on farmers fields are checked 1 out of 5 .. there have been some
deaths directly connected to this practice with very, very little news
coverage concerning it.
If you travel the highways and see the dump truck in front of you steaming,
you will usually be correct if you say it's carrying sludge destained for
the fields instead of the dump.
Mary Lynn
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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:39:04 -0800
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Post your comments to this on web site and also has anyone heard on
the news what caused this. Or is there a Media Blackout on the Cause to
protect the big boys
Friday, September 22 2006 @ 03:52 PM PDT
Contributed by: John Peck
Views: 332
When Tommy Thompson gave his farewell speech as outgoing Health and
Human Services Secretary under Pres Bush in Dec. 2004, he shocked many by
admitting he couldnt understand why terrorists had not attacked our food
supply yet, since it would be so easy to do. Little did he realize that the
worst threat to U.S. agriculture is homegrown. After a decade of repeated
outbreaks and warnings, vegetable growers in the Salinas Valley of CA are
now reaping a deadly harvest. Over 120 people nationwide have fallen victim
to the deadly O157:H7 strain of E. coli bacteria, with one death confirmed
in WI, and a voluntary recall of bagged spinach is now underway. While
distant DC officials say it is still OK to eat suspect spinach after cooking
at 160 degrees for 15 seconds, those CA health experts on the ground are
telling consumers to throw it all out.
After a decade of repeated outbreaks and warnings, vegetable growers
in the Salinas Valley of CA are now reaping a deadly harvest. Over 120
people nationwide have fallen victim to the deadly O157:H7 strain of E. coli
bacteria, with one death confirmed in WI, and a voluntary recall of bagged
spinach is now underway. While distant DC officials say it is still OK to
eat suspect spinach after cooking at 160 degrees for 15 seconds, those CA
health experts on the ground are telling consumers to throw it all out.
Recent budget and staff cuts at the federal level have left the majority of
food safety inspection and enforcement in the hands of city, county, and
state agencies. Ironically enough, the Bush administration is now trying to
railroad through Congress the National Uniformity for Food Act that would
takeaway this local control over food safety and labeling.
Infectious disease specialists such as Prof. Lee Riley at UC-Berkeley
are right on target when they remark that such food-borne outbreaks do not
occur in Africa or Asia since this type of disaster was basically created by
corporate agribusiness practices. Academic studies have shown time and again
that livestock force-fed grain in confinement have up to 300 times more
pathogenic bacteria in their system as compared to cows allowed to freely
graze on grass outdoors. And one of the dirty little secrets behind
Californias new found status as the number one dairy state is that it is
literally awash in factory farm manure, which enters as runoff into channels
designed to irrigate vegetables and blows as clouds of dust onto nearby
produce fields.
It was actually under Pres. Clinton that food safety began to take a
real nosedive in the U.S. as genuine public oversight shifted to ineffectual
feel-good self-policing programs. Demoralized federal inspectors derided the
new Hazardous Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) proposal as Have
a Cup of Coffee and Pray. Under Bush, this dangerous deregulation of our
food/farm system has only accelerated. Attempts by agribusiness lobbyists
and government insiders to downgrade federal organic standards to allow the
application of sewage sludge were only narrowly driven back by massive
grassroots outcry. Unfortunately, proper manure disposal rarely occurs in
largescale livestock confinement operations. The upshot is a nightmarish
landscape of leaking lagoons, tainted wells, fish kills, debilitated
farmworkers, and poisoned food - all too reminiscent of Upton Sinclairs the
Jungle written a century ago.
Whether it is bacteria lurking in the salad greens, genetically
contaminated long grain rice, or a T-bone steak with Mad Cow, sitting down
to dinner in the 21st century should not be such gauntlet. When consumers in
over twenty states get sick from spinach grown in just one California
county, it should serve as a wake up call that we all need to reclaim and
relocalize our food dollar by investing in sustainable small-scale
agriculture instead. The FDA and USDA deserve a reminder that their public
mandate is to safeguard our nations farming system and natural heritage -
not to guarantee agribusiness profit. As politicians debate the next farm
bill they should also reflect upon the lessons learned when one lavishes
subsidies on corporate agribusiness, ignores market consolidation, and
downgrades safety regulations to the detriment of family farmers and
consumers alike. Our entire agricultural system deserves a thorough
democratic cleansing with consumer right to know labeling, tough anti-trust
action, corporate liability measures, and serious incentives for viable
alternatives.
Consumers and farmers should be able to know, trust, and support one
another again, rather than having to dwell in fear of just what reckless
free trade and filthy factory farming will bring next.
Family Farm Defenders is a national grassroots organization based in
Madison, WI that works on issues of sustainable agriculture, fair trade,
consumer safety, farm workers rights, animal welfare, and food sovereignty.
Family Farm Defenders,
1019 Williamson St. #B, Madison, WI 53703 tel. 608-260-0900
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.familyfarmdefenders.org
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