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Mary Lu Taylor <mlutaylor47@...> · New User?

Dear Mary Lu,

Visit www.nwveg.org. Not all raw information but a good network of people.
Best,
Donna

Hi Mary Lu and all other seekers -

There is a large community of raw foodists and resources in Portland. Aside
from rawportland.org, which lists information on monthly raw potlucks, there
is also the annual Raw & Living Spirit Retreat (I am on the core planning
team).Co-sponsored by Blossoming Lotus restaurant (in the Pearl District)
and the Tree of Life (Arizona), this year's retreat will again be held at
scenic Camp Adams in Molalla, Oregon (about 45 minutes outside of Portland)
from September 6-9. Please visit www.rawandlivingspirit.org for more details
and to register.

The retreat features 3 days of classes, workshops, and community building,
and the cost of $295 (if you register by June 1) includes lodging (tent or
cabin), all workshops, and all raw gourmet meals prepared by our fabulous
chefs and kitchen staff! This year, the featured chefs for our dinners are
Lillian and Eddie Butler of Raw Soul restaurant in Harlem, NYC; and local
chefs Bruce Horowitz and Blossoming Lotus. Featured speakers are Victoria
and Valya Boutenko, Gabriel Cousens, and Abeba Wright.

Additionally, both Blossoming Lotus and Share the Love Catering (creators of
the Raw and Living Spirit Retreat) will have raw food booths at Earth Day on
Saturday, April 21 at Woodlawn Park at NE 13th Ave and Dekum. NW VegFest is
on May 11-12, with John Robbins as a headlining speaker, and there will be a
ton of vendor booths, including an informational booth about the retreat. NW
VegFest is at Benson High School.

I hope this helps and we hope to see many local raw foodists at our 2nd
annual Raw and Living Spirit Retreat this year!

Blessings -
Virginia Morgan

Dear Bruce,

I also am interested in worms for a worm bin.  Are the
  worms red worms? What do you want as energy exchange
for the worms?

Thank you for your response to this.

PEACE ON EARTH!

Blessed are the Peacemakers.
Many Blessings,
Pamela Melcher

--- Chef Sprout <chef_sprout2001@...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have worm bin that's most likely full of baby
> worms that might enjoy  a new home.
>
> I also help people set up worm bins (I'm a certified
> gardener and composter educator.)
>
> Let me know if I can help
>
> Bruce
>
> check out my upcoming classes at
>
> www.thesunkitchen.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Hello folks,

There is a raw food presentation on April 20 @ People's co-op, info below.

The presentation will be given by Jameth Sheridan, who is one of my favorite
teachers!

Mike

TheRawDiet.com

----- Original Message ----
From: Sarah C.
www.peoples.coop

Hi People's Members,

We'd like to invite you to three cool things happening here in the next
week:

**�Cleansing and Healing with Raw Foods, Superfoods and Herbs lecture
People�s Co-op Community Room. Friday, April 20th, 7:00 PM, free!

In the lecture, Dr. Jameth Sheridan (N.D.), founder and formulator of
HealthForce Nutritionals, and creator, along with Mother Nature, of
Vitamineral Green, will share with you what he has found (after nearly
20 years of research and experience) to be the most effective way to
cleanse, nourish and heal the body.

Click here for more info:
http://www.peoples.coop/community/talk/public/0049/

**Come celebrate Earth Day with us! On Sunday April 22nd from 12 - 3pm
People's is offering tours of the Green Features of our building every
20 minutes: http://www.peoples.coop/store/greenfeatures/
We will also have a seed planting activity for kids and free energy
efficient light bulbs to give away to YOU.  See you there.

**Caf� Mam is coming to People�s this Saturday April 14th at 12 noon
Come to a presentation about the recent Cafe Mam (organic, fair trade
coffee distributers from Eugene) trip to Chiapas, Mexico. The talk will
highlight the region, the people, the beautiful cooperative structure
of ISMAM (their main coffee supplier), & some of the issues that are
facing ISMAM now.  Free, with delicious hot coffee of course.

Thanks for reading.

-your co-op

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marketing & membership coordinator
People's Food Co-op
3029 SE 21st Avenue
Portland, OR 97202

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You can get some worms at my house. No Charge. You could also make a bin
directly on
the ground. If you build it they will come! Deb

--- In RawPortland@yahoogroups.com, "lilthund1" <lilthund1@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,  does anyone in Portland know where to get worms for my compost bin?  I
have
called
> many bait shops and nurseries, but the closest place I have found is in Sandy,
Oregon,
which
> is a bit far for me to drive.
>
> Thanks!!!!
>

Another variant on Deb's idea below, appropriate for
some situations, is to take a white plastic bucket and
drill 1/4 inch holes (mice can not get through holes
1/4' or less in diameter....information gleaned from
ship yards) every 2 inches in the bottom.  Put compost
in with some high carbon stuff (dry brown grass,
grocery bags, newspaper, leaves, etc.) mixed in and
just set it down someplace in the garden where shrubs
will hide it, put a cover on that mice can not get in.
  Deb is right, build it and they will come.  Oh, man
do they love the pulp from a juicer!!!!!!!!!  The
virtue of the red worms that you buy is that they eat
compost faster.  But if you have the space, you can
let the ones who come to volunteer be happy eating
your food at a leisurely pace. You  just let the worms
eat the remains of delicious meals and carry it down
and around into the soil.  You will be amazed at the
lushness of the growth around the bucket.  It would be
ideal for azaleas or rhodies to serve the same
function as a deep mulch.   Plus it is a sort of water
reservoir because it keeps sun from drying out the
soil nearby.  It can be virtually carefree.  Just add
stuff when the little bin gets low.  The worms just
thrive and you never hassle or tear at them moving
them around and such.  They really love it.  They get
sort of irridescent and look so very happy.  If you
keep the lid on tight, do not add cooked food or eggs,
and keep enough high carbon stuff in there it really
does not smell bad. I was surprised. A little musty
plus a little composty, but the smell stays in the
bucket and the neighbors don't even know it's there.
It is so totally win win.

Peace on Earth!
I love this yahoo group!
Pamela Melcher

--- dpxtn7 <paxtonz@...> wrote:

> You can get some worms at my house. No Charge. You
> could also make a bin directly on
> the ground. If you build it they will come! Deb
>
> --- In RawPortland@yahoogroups.com, "lilthund1"
> <lilthund1@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,  does anyone in Portland know where to get
> worms for my compost bin?  I have
> called
> > many bait shops and nurseries, but the closest
> place I have found is in Sandy, Oregon,
> which
> > is a bit far for me to drive.
> >
> > Thanks!!!!
> >
>
>
>

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Sneak attack!

Unless we all act now, within two weeks, FDA starts turning all or
supplements, herbs, juices, food, and oxy -supplements
  into "drugs" - removing all our remaining freedom of health choices.

NewsTarget.com  April 11, 2007 by: Mike Adams.

http://www.newstarg et.com/021789. html

When it comes to health freedom, this is the FDA's end game. A new
FDA "guidance" document, published on the FDA's website, reveals
plans to reclassify virtually all vitamins, supplements, herbs and
even vegetable juices as FDA-regulated drugs. Massage oils and
massage rocks will be classified as "medical devices" and require FDA
approval. The document is called Docket No. 2006D-0480. Draft
Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration.

The FDA is accepting public comments on the docket until April 30th.
They tried to sneak this under the radar, but word got out and now
the natural health community is up in arms over this rule. If you
wish to protect your access to nutritional supplements, herbs,
essential oils, homeopathic medicine or any other "complementary"
or "alternative" modality, it is crucial that you take action to post
your comments with the FDA right now and write your representatives
in Washington to put a stop to this outrageous effort to destroy
natural medicine. (And be sure to really write them. Just sending an
email has virtually no impact compared to writing a physical letter
in your own words.)

Click here for the direct link to the FDA's comment posting page for
this docket.

This move by the FDA is designed to once and for all destroy the 1994
DSHEA law that has made supplements "legal" while eliminating
nutritional supplements and natural medicine from the United States ,
ensuring monopoly profits and control by drug companies and the FDA.
It is the latest action item by the FDA / Big Pharma conspiracy that
will not stop until health freedom has been abolished, drug companies
rule the nation, and every citizen is diagnosed with a fictitious
disease and drugged up on monopoly-priced pharmaceuticals.

FDA "experts" will decide what's a drug or medical device

Under these proposed guidelines, FDA "experts" (the same corrupt
officials who re-approved Vioxx after it killed over 50,000
Americans) will decide whether herbs, supplements, vitamins or simple
devices like massage stones are to be regulated as drugs and medical
devices. If the FDA experts, in their infinite wisdom, decide that
these things are to be reclassified, they will essentially be
outlawed, stripped from the shelves, and regulated out of existence.
Anyone who dares to manufacture, promote or sell such products may be
branded a criminal and rounded up by armed FDA agents who have a well
established history of suppressing natural medicine.

I've documented much of the criminal history of the FDA in my recent
book, Natural Health Solutions and the Conspiracy to Keep You From
Knowing About Them, which suddenly seems even more relevant today
than when I wrote it. In that book, I documented the FDA ordered book
burnings, the raids on vitamin shops, the kidnapping of natural
health practitioners, the threats, intimidation and oppression
tactics that have been used to suppress natural medicine for nearly a
hundred years now. And now, with this CAM Products Regulation effort,
the FDA is about to deal a final, fatal blow to the alternative
medicine industry, outlawing nutritional supplements, functional
foods, homeopathy and natural therapies all at once.

This is not a drill. It really is time to be alarmed. Nothing else
I've written about this year is as important as this sinister plot to
destroy natural medicine and force the American population to resort
to dangerous prescription medications sold at monopoly prices under a
system of medical tyranny.

Your access to vitamins, supplements, herbs, and even energy medicine
modalities is now directly threatened, and you have until April 30 to
make your voice heard.

Action items

First, read the document yourself. Click here for the PDF version.

Take special care to notice the following text, taken directly from
the FDA's own document: (italicized text is from the FDA, with my own
translation following)

"...a product used in a CAM therapy or practice may be subject to
regulation as a biological product, cosmetic, drug, device, or food
(including food additives and dietary supplements) under the act or
the PHS Act. Second, neither the act nor the PHS Act exempts CAM
products from regulation."

Translation: Anything used in any system of medicine may now be
regulated as a drug or medical device by the FDA. This includes a
biofeedback machine, acupuncture needles, a cup of herbal tea,
massage oil, a glass of vegetable juice or even a bottle of water.

"...if a person decides to produce and sell raw vegetable juice for
use in juice therapy to promote optimal health... [and] if the juice
therapy is intended for use as part of a disease treatment regimen
instead of for the general wellness, the vegetable juice would also
be subject to regulation as a drug under the Act."

Translation: Raw vegetable juice will be regulated as a drug and must
be FDA approved as a drug if it has any health effect whatsoever.
Handing a cup of raw vegetable juice to someone and telling them it's
good for the detoxification of their liver will get you arrested for
practicing medicine without a license and promoting an "unapproved
drug."

..."biologically based practices" includes, but is not limited to,
botanicals, animal-derived extracts, vitamins, minerals, fatty acids,
amino acids, proteins, prebiotics and probiotics: whole diets,
and "functional foods". ...a botanical product intended for use in
treating a disease would generally be regulated as a
drug." ..."functional foods" may be subject to FDA regulation as
foods, dietary supplements, or drugs under the Act.

Translation: All foods, supplements, super-foods and functional foods
may be reclassified as drugs by the FDA, then regulated off the
market.

If... the manipulative and body-based practices involve the use of
equipment (such as massage devices) or the application of a product
(such as a lotion, cream, or oil) to the skin or other parts of the
body, those products may be subject to regulation under the Act."

Translation: Massage oils and creams will be regulated as "drugs" and
acupuncture needles as "medical devices." Taking this absurdity one
step further, massage therapists who use their fingers to touch
patients may have their fingers regulated as "medical devices" and be
accused of practicing medicine for merely touching patients.

Things that will be regulated out of existence

It is very clear that the FDA is intending to regulate and ultimately
destroy the entire CAM industry (Complementary and Alternative
Medicine). Based on the explanations in the FDA's own document, the
following things are likely to occur:

All vitamins, nutritional supplements and functional foods will be
stripped of their structure & function claims, reducing them to empty
labels where virtually nothing at all is allowed to be stated.
Vegetable juice will be regulated as a drug. Raw juice retreats will
be raided or shut down.
Growing and selling common garden herbs will get you arrested as a
drug dealer.
Massage oils and handheld massagers will be regulated as "medical
devices."
Yoga props, pilates machines and weight machines will be regulated
as "medical devices" and require FDA approval before being sold or
used.
Raw sprouts and other anti-cancer foods will be regulated as drugs.
Bottled water that "treats" dehydration will be regulated as a drug.
Massage therapists who use hot rocks as part of their therapy will
have the ROCKS regulated as medical devices! (It's true. The FDA will
actually look at a pile of rocks and declare, "Those are medical
devices!")
Functional foods, supplements, vitamins and homeopathic remedies will
disappear from store shelves, pending FDA "review." (The only things
remaining will be processed junk foods and pharmaceuticals, which is
exactly what Big Business wants.)
Therapeutic tea products, such as green tea, will be outlawed and
confiscated.
Vitamin store owners will be arrested and prosecuted for "practicing
medicine without a license."
Citizens owning personal inventories of "unapproved drugs" (vitamins
and herbs) may have their homes raided at gunpoint and their
inventories confiscated by armed law enforcement agents.
The importation of herbs and functional foods from all countries may
be banned.
Keep in mind that the FDA is the same agency that:

Wants to label irradiated foods as "pasteurized. "
Voted to put the deadly drug Vioxx back on the market after tens of
thousands of deaths, even after its own manufacurer pulled it from
pharmacies.
Raided a church at gunpoint, confiscating biofeedback machines and
charging that they were "practicing medicine" by counseling church
members on issues like depression.
Openly allows corrupt, "on the take" experts to vote on new drug
approvals, even when those experts are taking money from the same
companies impacted by their votes.
Refuses to legalize stevia, the safe, natural herbal sweetener that's
used virtually everywhere else in the world. The agenda? Protect the
profits of aspartame and other chemical sweeteners.
Openly allows the mass poisoning of the public with cancer-causing
food additives such as sodium nitrite.
Refuses to enforce its own laws regarding unsafe chemical toxins in
personal care products, allowing perfume and lotion companies to
continue poisoning the public with cancer-causing chemicals that
don't even have to be listed on the label, nor proven safe.
Ordered the destruction of recipe books that mentioned stevia. (A
campaign to keep the public ignorant of the herb.)
Does everything in its power to protect drug company profits,
including discrediting herbs, supplements and alternative medicine.
Does anyone honestly believe that this criminal organization has any
capacity whatsoever to act in the public interest? Even many Senators
are fed up with the FDA's unprecedented level of corruption and
criminal behavior.

Action items, continued...

Read Jon Barron's comments on this rule at the JonBarron.org website

Next, lodge your complaint against the FDA by commenting on this
docket through the FDA's docket comment form.

And finally, write your Senator or Congressperson about this issue
and let them know, in blatant language, that you will not stand by
and allow the criminals running medicine today to take away your
access to vitamins, supplements, herbs and homeopathic medicine.
Write the letter in your own words, even if it's just two sentences.
Individual letters have a hundred times the impact of form letters.

Medical wasteland USA
Everything is at stake here. If the FDA gets its way, the United
States will become a medical wasteland, dominated by corporate drug
company interests, where the naturopaths are imprisoned and their
products destroyed. Supplements and herbs will become contraband, and
gardeners who grow their own medicinal herbs may be raided and
arrested by DEA agents wielding assault rifles. Simply selling dried
broccoli sprouts as being "good anti-cancer foods" may land you in
prison, and running a vitamin shop could result in you being arrested
for "practicing medicine."

Imagine a nation where Whole Foods stores are stripped of all herbs
and supplements, where vitamin shops are emptied and abandoned, where
books that promote herbs are bulldozed into large piles and burned,
where natural healers are rounded up and "disappeared" into
incarceration centers. This is the future that will become reality if
the FDA has its way. The plan has been explained to us in plain
language. Any agency that openly states "vegetable juice will be
regulated as a drug" has quite simply lost its marbles. We are now
clearly being regulated by clinically insane bureaucrats.

With this desperate proposal by the FDA -- clearly designed as a last-
ditch effort to save the failing conventional medical industry from a
massive public shift towards natural medicine -- the war against
health freedom has reached our shores, and the FDA is plotting a 9/11-
style attack to bring down the towers of health freedom in one swift
motion.

This is the same agency that currently represents the greatest threat
to the health and safety of the American people, far outweighing the
threat of real terrorism. This agency, we have seen, will do ANYTHING
to protect the profits and power of drug companies. It will lie,
steal, accept bribes, hide scientific evidence, distort statistics,
commit scientific fraud, break federal laws, threaten its own drug
safety scientists, conspire with drug company executives, intimidate
American citizens and use terror-style tactics to achieve its goals
of complete domination over foods, drugs and health.

Why do Americans tolerate terrorism in their own government?

It is time we put a stop to this home-grown tyranny. We have fought
too hard for freedom in the United States to allow us all to be
steamrolled by a criminal front group covertly working for Big
Pharma. The FDA has declared war on natural medicine and the American
people, and we will lose our family members, children, brothers and
sisters as casualties of this war if we don't stand up now and demand
radical changes. It's time to stop this terrorist organization from
destroying the lives of yet more U.S. citizens.

Make your voice heard now, or forever surrender your access to
supplements, herbs, superfoods and functional foods. By the time the
FDA is done with this country, we'll all be eating medication for
breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Action reminders:

1. Lodge a complaint with the FDA by clicking here. MAKE SURE you
include the docket number 2006D-0480. But don't trust this to be
enough. The FDA will probably simply delete half the complaints it
receives, so don't trust your complaint to actually count. It's
important to continue...

2. Send a strongly-worded letter to your representatives in
Washington . Be sure to cite Docket No. 2006D-0480. Draft Guidance
for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and
Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration. Tell them you
support open access to vitamins, herbs, and supplements, and you do
not want CAM to be regulated by the FDA.

3. Send this story to everyone you know. Spread the word. Raise the
alarm. With enough public support, the FDA will be forced to back off
this insane proposal.

And stay tuned to NewsTarget for more news, analysis and action
alerts on health freedom. Even though we're under constant attack by
criminal organizations trying to disrupt our servers and take us off
line, we're still here, beating the drum for health freedom, and
hoping that we have enough sane-minded Americans remaining to save
this country from its government.

Actual FDA quote is gobbledygook

Here's an actual FDA statement from the CAM Guidance report:

For example, naturopathic cranberry tablets might be labeled for use
to maintain the health of the urinary tract. In this example, the
cranberry tablets generally would be regulated as "dietary
supplements" ...if they were labeled for use to "maintain the health
of the urinary tract" rather than "prevent urinary tract infections."
The cranberry tablets would be regulated as "drugs" ...if they were
labeled for use to "treat urinary tract infections" even if they were
labeled as dietary supplements.

Additional phone numbers as listed in the FDA document

Sheryl Lard-Whiteford at
Daniel Nguyen at
Ted Stevens at
Wayne Amchin at

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Hi,
I have two raw kids, Cora (2) and Dillan (4). I nursed both as long
as possible, Cora is still being nursed 50% of the time.

I did not keep them from food, to insisted nursing, but just followed
along with their natural food instincts.

As for what food you should feed your baby. Blending in a blender is
a great way to make baby food, and pre-chew their foods. Especially
greens can be made palatable that way. Lots of fruit and then a third
of greens in a blender, and voila, perfect baby food.

I would stay away from nuts and grains until at least 1 1/2 years
old, they are harder to digest, than fruits and veggies.

I didn't get into blending until I read Victoria Boutenko's 'Green
For Life' book. My son started out eating avocados, bananas and any
soft ripe fruit we could get our hands on.

Please message me, if you have more questions, or just want to chat.

Karin

--- In RawPortland@yahoogroups.com, "Jenna Stephens" <kayakjen@...>
wrote:
>
> I'm wondering if anybody could tell me how they went about feeding
their babies a raw diet. It seems like a no-brainer, but so
many 'first' foods are cooked, I'm not sure what to do exactly. I
have a 7 month old who's ready to eat, we've given her avocado and a
few other fruits and are interested in any experiences others have
had.
> Thanks!
> Jenna
>

Dear Friends,

The Food and Drug Administration is poised to
DRASTICALLY limit our access to preventive medicine
unless we PROTEST LOUD AND WIDELY BY APRIL 30, 2007
(Yes, in 11 days.)

THIS IS FOR REAL!

This information comes to me from (except for my inner
listening to God's guidance) the person i trust most
on this earth, Dr. Gabriel Cousens, M.D.

I truly believe this is the most serious threat to our
safety that i know of.

Follow this link and you will find a leaflet that you
can print and pass out, as well as further
information.

  http://www.treeoflife.nu/dl/onepagehealthfreedom.pdf

For further information, you can go to the website of
Dr. Gabriel Cousens:  www.treeoflife.nu/healthrights

I believe we can stop this, but we do not have a
minute to lose.

I and your and my descendents thank you.

PEACE ON EARTH!

Blessed are the Peacemakers.
Many Blessings.
Pamela Melcher

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> Dear Friends,

   There is in this email a link to a
> very well thought out and worded petition which can
> be easily sent to the FDA to help ensure our freedon
> to choose our means of supporting our health. Just
> scroll down in this excellent introductory letter.
>
   Thank you for your attention to this.

   Pamela Melcher
>
> There is a crisis in health freedom.  On April 30,
> 2007 the FDA will close the public comment period on
> a "Guidance" which will classify every alternative
> practice as medicine so that only licensed
> physicians can carry out the procedure AND vitamins,
> minerals, herbs, etc., will suddenly become
> "untested drugs" which will be forbidden.
>
> Bad?  Real Bad!  But public outcry can stop this
> assault on your health and your freedom.
>
> Spread the word!  Tell everyone in your Circle of
> Influence, professionals, alternative practitioners,
> nutrient and herb companies, everyone!  Let them
> know how important their participation is to make
> sure the FDA backs off from this repressive course.
>
> Please share this link with them and urge them to
> take action: http://tinyurl.com/2u7ghc
>
> Yours in health and freedom,
>
> Rima E. Laibow, MD
> Medical Director
> Natural Solutions Foundation
> www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
>
>
>

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Can anyone recommend a slow cooker/crock pot that has excellent low setting/temp
control
to make soups that are still enzymatically intact?  Basically, an excellent
warmer.  Also, one
that does not have a non-stick coating or other questionable material coating
the ceramic.  I
have been investigating various ones online and reading reviews, but not finding
the answers
only another raw foodist can give.

Thanks!

--- Citizens for Health <info@...> wrote:

> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:23:12 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Citizens for Health <info@...>
> To: dancingcedar@...
> Subject: ACTION ALERT: Stop Meat and Milk from
> Cloned Animals - Deadline for
>  Comments Extended to May 3
>
> Dear Pamela:
>
> The Period for Comments on the FDA Proposal to Allow
> Foods from Cloned Animals Has Been Extended to May
> 3.
>
> Tell the FDA to halt further action on meat and milk
> from cloned animals! DEMAND A NATIONAL DISCUSSION -
> go to
>
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/Citizens/campaign.jsp?camp\
aign_KEY=5938
>
> Some background:
>
> WASHINGTON, April, 2007- The Food and Drug
> Administration first proposed that it might permit
> the sale of milk and meat from cloned animals in
> 2003, resulting in public reaction that has run the
> gamut from interest to horror. Now the FDA, citing
> new data, expects to give its final stamp of
> approval very soon!
>
> This is set to happen despite the fact that more
> than 60 percent of the U.S. population is
> uncomfortable with the idea of animal cloning for
> food and milk.
>
> Stephen F. Sundlof, the FDA's chief of veterinary
> medicine responsible for the agency's risk
> assessment, maintains that "food from cloned animals
> is as safe as the food we eat every day." But the
> FDA has never published the complete scientific
> studies it says support that claim.
>
> The Washington-based Center for Food Safety has
> filed a petition with the FDA asking that cloned
> animals be classified the same as "transgenic
> animals" - animals that have been engineered by
> adding specific genes. Citizens for Health supports
> the petition, which asserts cloned animals should be
> regulated the same way as new pharmaceuticals, under
> a category called "New Animal Drugs".
>
> The deadline for comments on this issue has been
> extended to May3. Go to
>
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/Citizens/campaign.jsp?camp\
aign_KEY=5938
> to make your voice heard!
>
> Here are the facts you will want to tell the FDA (or
> you may use the form letter provided through the
> links in this email):
>
> --A majority of the American public is against using
> food from cloned animals.
> --Having cloned cows produce more milk won't reduce
> milk prices.
> --Genetic changes seen in some clones may alter the
> very nutritional nature of meat and milk.
> --Approval for cloned meat and milk raises ethical
> issues beyond the FDA's expertise.
> --If food from cloned animals is approved after all,
> they must be labeled as such so that consumers can
> make an informed choice.
>
> The FDA must not sacrifice the safety of millions of
> Americans under pressure from genetic research
> corporations and special interests. We at Citizens
> for Health believe the issue of cloned animals for
> food needs to be approached with the utmost caution,
> and that a national discussion should be initiated
> to consider the wisdom of creating cloned and
> transgenic animals.
>
> The FDA has a responsibility to respect the concerns
> of of consumers and to protect public health.
>
> HOLD THE FDA ACCOUNTABLE - go to
>
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/Citizens/campaign.jsp?camp\
aign_KEY=5938
>
> Thanks for taking action,
>
> The Citizens for Health Team
>
>
>
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