FW: FDA & Drug Safety/Organic Consumers/Other Orgs, more blatherings

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I've supported Organic Consumers for a long time and we are in the process

of registering some products as organic with their sister org. Butch is

absolutely right about checking out any organization, however. Some of them

have the exact opposite agenda as the one presented to the public.

 

Another newsletter that I to is from Consumers Union

http://www.consumersunion.org/ They cover a wide range of consumer issues

beyond the specific interests of our list here, including credit card fee

increases, cancellation fees, identity theft, fresh produce safety, and on

and on. They are a great resource. Below is my latest newsletter from

them, and I urge all of you to keep up with the current prescription drug

reform bill in Congress. . . we can't compete with the amount of money the

drug companies spend each year to persuade Congress and the FDA, but let's

remember . . . there are two super-powers in the world and one of them is

the people. Organized, determined and vocal enough, we can change things.

As a matter of fact, this is usually the only way that social/safety issues

change. Here's an interesting timeline covering the future

http://www.jrmooneyham.com/s2049.html

 

Don't have time for a separate post, but there is a new emerging theory

about the disappearing bees that has to do with cell phone towers (and cell

phones themselves) . . . conversations such as this

http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2007/04/08/322.aspx are going

on all over the blogosphere, including this from Daily Kos one of my

favorite blogs http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/15/113828/379

 

I've pinched a nerve in my shoulder/neck, so I'm trying to limit computer

time :-( . . . I miss not posting more. Thanks to yarrow/helichrysum crème,

rest and other body/mind therapies I'm getting through it. Think I might

need a trip to the orthopedic md to look at shoes/posture for the long term,

however.

 

Be Well,

Marcia Elston http://www.wingedseed.com

http://www.aromaconnection.org

" Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot. " Hausa Saying from

Nigeria

 

 

 

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Consumers Union [action]

Friday, April 20, 2007 9:19 AM

samara

Victory in U.S. Senate--let's finish the job!

 

 

 

 

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We need 100,000 letters to the Senate in the coming weeks!

 

<http://cu.convio.net/site/R?i=fsLEy2az65mJZtQROfnevg..> Tell your Senator

" Thanks " for a good vote and start the push for final passage!

 

Dear Marcia,

 

Thanks to help from thousands of you, your Senator this week voted YES for

real prescription drug reform. A " must pass " bill will give you and your

doctor more information about hazardous drug side effects--but the drug

industry is lobbying to strip off hard won safety provisions.

 

<http://cu.convio.net/site/R?i=INybkUEM38cG5XXzWMCxbw..> Take a moment

right now to say " Thanks! " for a good vote! This bill must pass the Senate

floor this spring--so the opportunity for real reform is huge.

 

Together we have already sent more than 43,000 messages just to Senators on

the key committee that voted this bill out yesterday. Now we need to

solidify support in the whole Senate--with a vote coming as soon as next

week. Let's get a hundred thousand more calls, letters and emails.

 

Your Senator has already shown leadership, but the drug companies haven't

left Washington. They will be out in force, visiting Senate offices and

trying to get drug safety protections stripped out of this bill. Drug

companies spent an average of $289,000 per member of Congress to create

stalemate in Washington between 2005 and 2006--and managed to defeat

Medicare drug price reforms on the floor of the Senate just this week.

 

<http://cu.convio.net/site/R?i=oQF-T7Bq1t0v8lDcR5g-Wg..> That's why its

critical that you tell your Senator right now " Thanks " and " Hang tough! "

 

Washington is broken, and the only fix is clear, persistent and direct

communication from you (alongside a hundred thousand others). Please help

us grow this campaign! Every Senator from every state needs to hear from us.

Please take a moment to forward this action to everyone you know, and when

they click through they will be able to tell their own Senators to support

reform, no matter where they live.

 

Thank you,

Liz Foley

PrescriptionForChange.org

A project of Consumers Union

101 Truman Avenue

Yonkers, NY 10703-1057

 

P.S. In another big victory for safer, lower cost health care,

<http://cu.convio.net/site/R?i=bCbxDY2Cfj5NjzTB1cXzNw..> Washington's state

legislature finally passed a strong hospital infection reporting bill after

three year's effort. Unless vetoed by the Governor, you will be able to find

out how well your local hospital prevents infection. This is a great

victory, thanks to Representative Campbell and you!

 

 

 

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