I just checked my Amazon affiliate account, and someone ordered almost $300 worth of books, earning me almost $20 in affiliate commissions. Happily, one of the books is a title I had wanted a few years ago but didn’t order and then lost track of. What a happy coincidence.
Last month several people placed orders through this site earning me over $10 in commissions.
I am vehemently opposed to HR 2749, which would place unnecessary burdens on small farm operations. The federal government continues to seek power over our nation’s food supply, hampering and taxing the small farmer while ignoring the unhealthful practices of the industrial giants.
The FDA isn’t content raiding vitamin supplement companies and preventing churches from having bake sales because the pies weren’t baked in a certified kitchen. Now they want to raid the small farm and confiscate records, quarantine areas with little oversight, regulate how crops are grown, basically exercise unbounded control. This is just the FDA’s version of the USDA’s NAIS.
Health-conscious people are choosing to buy locally from small farms where they know the animals are cared for and the crops are grown without heavy chemical use. I have to drive about an hour from Erie to get pasture-raised eggs, and I’m already paying too much money for organic produce. And what will my Amish neighbors do when required to comply with electronic filing?
Who will pay for this? Taxpayers. Small farmers. The small farmers won’t survive it, and we taxpayers will have to subsist on HFCS, refined flours, and rancid fats until we all become customers of the pharmaceutical industry, the the bedfellow of the FDA.
I MOST STRONGLY OPPOSE HR 2749, a bill that will give the FDA far too much power over our food supply and small farm operations.
If you oppose the government’s complete control over the small farm producer, please sign the petition.
You Want These People Monitoring Your Food?
The FDA first learned of possible salmonella contamination at ConAgra four years ago —- two years before officials traced hundreds of illnesses to Peter Pan.
In early 2005, an anonymous tipster told the FDA that ConAgra’s internal testing had detected salmonella in a batch of peanut butter the previous October, agency records show. Company executives confirmed the test results to an FDA inspector but refused to turn over lab reports unless the agency requested them in writing. The inspector left the plant, records show, and never again requested the reports.
Congressional investigators later learned that FDA policy discouraged written document requests. Federal courts, the FDA said, had ruled that if manufacturers turned over material in response to a formal request from the government, those documents could not be used as evidence in a criminal prosecution against them. But in the vast majority of cases, investigator David Nelson told a House subcommittee in 2007, the FDA pursues neither documents nor criminal charges.
Nelson termed the agency’s actions “nonsensical.” –ajc.com
Mississippi Firm Recalls Pre-Packaged Meal Products Due To Possible Salmonella Contamination.
The problem was first discovered when USDA found Salmonella in a dairy product and alerted FDA, resulting in the FDA investigation and subsequent recall of the nonfat dry milk product by Plainview Milk Products Cooperative.
The products subject to recall include:
Boxes of “TRADITIONS MEAL [...]
I just read about HR 2749, Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 at the FA/RM (Free Agriculture Restore Markets) site. One of the FAQs is:
Q8: I am a raw milk consumer. Is it true that under HR 2749 would give FDA the power to institute a complete ban on the sale of raw milk?
A8: Yes, [...]
For years I advocated a plant-based diet as the healthiest. But I could never swing it myself despite several efforts. Now that I’m studying the paleolithic diet, I feel like I’m starting over with a mountain of information to climb. I haven’t been posting much because I’m reading, reading, reading. I’m reading even more than [...]
I was reading an article at the blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. titled Snake oil comes in all types of bottles wherein Michael comments on the placebo affect in science and medicine. He wrote about studies of weight loss diets in conjunction with injections of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) that showed it worked no [...]
Another blog linked to my Switching from Raw Vegan Diet to the Paleolithic Diet post, so I went there to see who it was and thank them.
I came across the following comment, which referred to that post, and I was taken aback. I was hurt by this person’s comment, because it was like I had [...]
Reprogram Your Genes for Effortless Weight Loss, Vibrant Health, and Boundless Energy by Mark Sisson
Ten laws for improving health and happiness
Our human DNA is the same as that of our hunter/gatherer ancestors who enjoyed good health and vitality before the agricultural revolution occurred 10,000 years ago. However, though agriculture has allowed us to dominate the [...]
The paleolithic diet is the diet our ancestors ate prior to the agricultural revolution that occurred roughly 10,000 years ago. Our species hunted and ate plants the land produced naturally.
I came across a great video that shows how simple and sensible the paleo diet is. Enjoy!
I enjoyed cooking the food I bought yesterday. Each meal took no more than 10 to 15 minutes to prepare. Here’s what I ate yesterday, and for me this seems like a lot of food:
Breakfast
1 small boneless porkchop
3 fried eggs
Snack
1 orange
5 litchi nuts
Lunch
Salad that included:
romaine, red leaf and mesculin mix
1 green onion
1/3 cucumber
2 stalks celery
2 [...]