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Second Opinion Health Alert

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May 17, 2006

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Organic Food Is Under Attack Again

 

Once again, the special interests have pressured the

government to relax organic standards. Under the U.S.

Department of Agriculture's new proposed rules, so-called

organic dairy feed lots will be able to import calves

from conventional farms.

 

Conventional farms often wean calves on blood, dose them

with antibiotics, and feed them genetically engineered

grains and slaughterhouse waste. And the USDA, which

regulates all meat and dairy products, wants to allow

farmers to market the products from these animals as

organic. The new rules will also allow over 500 artificial

substances in organic processed food without review or

prior scrutiny by the Organic Standards Board.

 

Do you want your dairy or meat labeled organic when it

could have come from contaminated animals? I sure wouldn't.

 

If we let these rules become law, we will soon see genetically

modified foods grown on organic soil labeled organic.

 

The USDA has announced a very short public comment period

on these proposed new federal regulations. So you need

to speak out immediately!

 

You can take action by visiting this website:

http://www.organicconsumers.org/sos.cfm. Or you

can send a letter directly to the following address:

Mark A. Bradley, Associate Deputy Administer

Transportation and Marketing Programs, National Organic

Program, 1400 Independence Ave., SW, Room 4008-So.,

Ag Stop 0268, Washington, DC 20250

 

Write your representatives

 

Please don't put this off. Act now, while you are still

sitting at your computer. Your health and the health

of future generations depends on it.