Why is the Food Industry Pumping Food Dyes that Cause Cancer into Our Food?

Other Words / By Michael Jacobson

Despite signs that they may cause cancer, food manufacturers continue to pour about millions of pounds of synthetic dyes into the American food supply every year.

Try pronouncing disodium 6-hydroxy-5-((2-methoxy-5-methyl-4-sulfophenyl) azo)-2-naphthalene-sulfonate.

It's not easy, right? That explains why this mouthful goes by its friendlier name, Red 40. It might sound innocent, but this ingredient and others like it are far from harmless. And they're in our food.

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Tax Cuts for the Rich Are Pure Theft

Campaign for America's Future / By Dave Johnson

The Reagan Revolution is stealing our future: a wealthy few are taking all of the benefits of our efforts for themselves.

Conservatives like to say that taxes are theft. In fact it is tax cuts that are theft because they break a long-standing contract.

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White button mushrooms enhance the immune system to fight infections and cancer

S. L. Baker, features writer

(NaturalNews) Scientists have long known that certain types of mushrooms have anti-tumor activity. But what about widely available, common white button mushrooms (WBMs)? Known by the botanical name Agaricus bisporus, they are a tasty addition to everything from salads to pizzas -- and, it turns out, they do have powerful health building properties. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) funded studies have shown white button mushrooms enhance the activity of critical cells in the body's immune system.

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FDA admits millions of patients prescribed illegal, unapproved medications by doctors

David Gutierrez, staff writer

(NaturalNews) In 2009 alone, more than four million prescriptions were written for nitroglycerin tablets that had not been approved by the FDA, the agency has said, representing 80 percent of all prescriptions written.

Nitroglycerin tablets are commonly prescribed to patients at high risk of heart attacks. When a patient feels chest pain or another early sign of a heart attack, the tablets are dissolved under the tongue. They cause blood vessels to dilate, and can prevent or stop a heart attack in up to 4 percent of cases.

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Vitaminwater revealed as non-healthy beverage by Coca-Cola's own lawyers (opinion)

Tuesday, August 10, 2010
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)

(NaturalNews) Do you ever wonder things like "Who is actually gullible enough to think that Vitaminwater is healthy?" Although that question may seem demeaning or even arrogant, it turns out that the Coca-Cola company (which owns the Vitaminwater brand) is essentially asking that exact question.

How so? In response to a recent lawsuit against Coca-Cola filed by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), Coke's attorneys replied in court briefings that, "...no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage."

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Michelle Obama Urged to Take Meat "Unfit for KFC" Out of School Lunch

TreeHugger / By Sami Grover

The poultry industry has been using their influence to peddle this meat to the national school lunch program.

Michelle Obama may have won the hearts of locavores everywhere with her expansion of the White House organic garden, her campaign against obesity, and even bringing bees into the White House garden. But campaigners are asking her to do more. Specifically calling for her to step up and demand that chicken meat from spent hens—meat that fast food chains like KFC reject as substandard—be removed from school lunches nationwide.

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The U.S. Ploy to Promote Genetically Engineered Seeds and Pesticides to Poor Mexican Farmers Is Impoverishing Their Communities

AlterNet / By Jill Richardson

The author takes a trip to Mexico to see the 'green revolution' firsthand -- and what she finds is shocking.

The Obama administration's Feed the Future initiative promises a second Green Revolution that will feed a planet of nine billion people by doubling crop yields by 2050. But considering that we produce enough food to feed the planet today and a billion people still go hungry, are yields really the problem? And if they are, are providing Green Revolution technologies like hybrid and genetically engineered seeds, chemical fertilizer and pesticides to subsistence farmers the best way to achieve them? I visited subsistence farmers in Mexico to find out.

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Days of Rage -- The Noxious Transformation of the Conservative Movement into a Rabid Fringe

Nation Books / By Max Blumenthal

Crusading to restore a holy social order, Tea Partiers have promoted disorder. Claiming to protect democracy, they smashed windows of elected representatives.

Editor's Note: The following is the new epilogue from Max Blumenthal's book, Republic Gomorrah, now out in paperback (Basic/Nation Books, 2009).

"He will tell you that he wants a strong authority to take from him the crushing responsibility of thinking for himself. Since the Republic is weak, he is led to break the law out of love for obedience. But is it really strong authority that he wish? In reality he demands rigorous order for others, and for himself disorder without responsibility." -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Anti-Semite and Jew"

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Senator: Put a "Hold" on Fake "Food Safety" Bill S.510!

Keep Fake "Food Safety" Bill S.510
On "Hold" in the Senate!

Tell Your Senators to Continue Stopping S510!
Ask them to Put a "Hold" on the Bill!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4252

Our friends in DC tell us the fake "Food Safety" bill about which we have warned has been "pushed back" again. We stopped it in November 2009 with a couple hundred thousand messages to the Senate HELP committe; we held it off through the July 4th weekend, a major goal achieved! If we can hold it off til the Augst recess, it is very unlikely to pass. See http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4608 for backgroud. Continue below for the latest Action Item we need you to take.

July 14, 2010 Update: The congressional majority leadership has issued its "short list" of bills it wants to push to passage before the August recess. The good news is: S.510 is NOT on the list! The bad news is that the bill's handers could "sneak it through" the Senate as a "unanimous consent" non-controversial matter! That is, unless opposing Senators put a "hold" on the bill, which means it cannot be treated as non-controversial. Please send the Action Item below to your Senators, demanding that the "hold" the bill! How does a Senator do that? The Senator has one of his or her staff members call the staff of the Senate Cloak Room (yes, there still is a Senate Cloak Room, but now it has a staff! Ah, bureaucracy! The staff is responsible for non-controversial, unanimous consent bills. That's where this bad bill stops!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4252

URGENT! Codex Commission Action Item: educate decision makers - demand that our voices be heard!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4279

To all supporters of food and health freedoms:

The Natural Solutions Foundation has attended 18 Codex Alimentarius Committee and Commission meeetings and US Codex meetings and submitted position papers and contributions to the Codex deliberations and debates.  We attend because you, as a food-affected stakeholders have asked us to do so on your behalf.  We have visited numerous Codex Contact Points and others around the world, and they have, and continue to, come to the Natural Solutions Center in pursuit of understanding and equitable food policy, preserving and protecting the interests of consumers, in keeping with the main purposes of Codex, as enumerated on the Codex website.

Despite this active contribution to the Codex process, or perhaps because the interests of consumer stakeholders are so different from the commercial interests which are heavily represented at Codex, the delegation fielded by our organization, made up of the Trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation, have been repeatedly, and increasingly met with unique discrimination and increasing difficulties as we attempt to represent your interests.

These abusive practices include assigning armed guards to them to keep us away from meetings, sequestering us in inappropriate areas during meetings to prevent us from reasonably observing the meeting or talking to delegates, and other humiliating and degrading treatment must stop.  The Natural Solutions Foundation is the largest health freedom organization in the world, representing the interests of food-effected stakeholders like you from the greed, dangerous non-food, corporate agendas and politics of the agenda as promulgated without their input. The current "Health Freedom Group" has a tiny membership and may purport to speak for you, but is not willing to cooperate with us, as the Codex rules would seem to require.

We trust the Natural Solutions Foundation has earned your respect and should be treated with the same respect by the Codex Alimentarius Commission. Please take the Action Item below and help educate decision makers about the need to grant formal Observer status to the Foundation at Codex meetings.