Yes Zahra...it is one to sign for sure.

Petition on Aspartame August 27, 2008 8:41 AM

Please take a minute of your time to sign the following petition & forward to as many people as you can:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/555759748

This petition is to ban aspartame from our food supply.  Aspartame is an artificial sweetener found in everything from diet sodas to children’s vitamins.

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This is an important one that people don't seem to believe...I've had countless arguments with people regarding artificial sweeteners and the harm some of these can cause.

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Greatly appreciated!

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Signed... Elena.

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Diana. And one for us:

Ban Terminator Technology in Canada

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Elena, I do widh the US citzens success with this petition. 

Note: Only US citizens can sign the petition.

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The Health Revolution Petition

This is the health freedom petition you've been waiting for! It's time that we stood together as free citizens and demanded the kind of revolutionary changes necessary to end the "sick care" system operating in America today.
http://www.care2.com/news/member/785880716/1061150

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This is from a friend of mine who has immigrated to my home town:

This is a petition asking Obama to appoint a "sustainable" choice as Secretary of Agriculture. Now, online petitions never work, but listen:

Michael Dimock, president of Roots of Change (a non-profit where I currently volunteer), was on a conference call with Obama's transition team last week. He says that they are aware of the petition and said that 25,000 endorsements would get their attention, and 50,000 could really influence Obama's pick.

It's currently at 42,000, and slowing down. Please take 15 seconds to sign, and a few moments to pass this along to your own networks. To reiterate: this petition has the attention of Obama's team, and they are expected to make their choice public very soon, so there are only a few days left to press for a reform-minded choice.

Go here to sign petition: http://www.fooddemocracynow.org
>> http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/

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 I am a member of this organization. They are fantastic for fighting for animal rights. They also teach and promote the vegan lifestyle. Thier founder and pres is Dr Neal Barnard. He lectures all over the United States. This group was instrumental in getting the 5 food groups changed. Please if you can help with this in anyway or know someone who can send this on to them. I know most of us are veg and so haven't brought hotdogs. But like me some may new to the veg/vegan lifestyle and be able to help, or know someone who can.

Julie Ann

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Urgent! 30-Day Comment Period on Irradiation

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Thank you for sharing that folder.  I am also very strongly opposed to artificial sweeteners.  I get so mad that they continue to put these products out there & many people are unaware of how bad they really are.

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Thank you Jeanne for bringing this here; I am so against any artificial sweeteners.  Many people have no idea of the dangers involved in consuming them.  See our folder Artificial Sweeteners!?!??

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Please take a minute of your time to sign the following petition & forward to as many people as you can:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/555759748

This petition is to ban aspartame from our food supply.  Aspartame is an artificial sweetener found in everything from diet sodas to children’s vitamins.

• It triggers brain tumors.

• It causes headaches, memory loss, seizures, vision loss, coma, and cancer and has been linked to fatalities.

• It appears to worsen or mimic the symptoms of such conditions as fibromyalgia, MS, lupus, ADD, diabetes, Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue, and depression.

• Used for people dieting, it actually makes you hungrier & fatter.

• It is unsafe for unborn children, yet the FDA refuses to issue warnings for pregnant woman.

• Labeled a carcinogen in Italy & banned from that country’s food supply.

• A member of the Parliament in the U.K. demanded it be banned citing, “compelling and reliable evidence for this carcinogenic substance to be banned from the UK food and drinks market altogether”

• The State of New Mexico has tried to ban it from entering their state.

• For 16 years, the FDA refused to declare it safe for the food supply.  It wasn’t until the influence of Donald Rumsfield, former CEO of Searle now owned by Monsanto I believe (the company that manufactures aspartame) that the FDA declared this substance safe for human consumption.

• There are over 5,000 products containing this product & the patent has expired – which means it will make it into more of our foods.

• This substance is especially harmful to people who have diabetes.

• The FDA would like you to believe this to be safe – that’s because the drug & chemical companies have very deep pockets.

• The FDA has received thousands of complaints from consumers about aspartame.

• Much disinformation has been put out on the internet about how all of the dangers associated with aspartame are a hoax.  Big corporations stand to lose a lot of money if this product is taken off the market. 

Please do your own research & if you find, as I have, that the dangers are overwhelming real, please sign the petition & forward to as many people as you can.  If we all become educated about these dangers & stop buying any products with this chemical artificial sweetener in it, they can no longer make money off of our naiveté & our health!

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I know ... they probably only asked the people working there!

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Thank you Elena for the heads up on this. I never buy anything from Kelloggs and after reading their response to Organics Consumer Association that seals it.

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Boycott Kellogg's: Monsanto GE Sugar Due to Hit Shelves
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, food, nutrition, consumers )

Roseann
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Bill C-51 Will:

Allow Government agents to:

Enter private property without a warrant Section 23.4

Confiscate your property at their discretion Section 23.2 a

Dispose of your property at their discretion />Section 23.3 c-

Seize your bank accounts without a warrant-Charge you for shipping and storage of your property Section 23.3a-b-

Store your property Indefinitely without paying you for damages Section 23.2 d-

Levy fines of up to $5,000,000.00 / 2 years in jail per offence. Section 31.1

Introduce new legislation that will:

-Allow laws to be created in Canada, behind closed doors, with the assistance of foreign governments, industrial and trade organizations Section 30.7

-Allow "Crack house style" of enforcement on natural health providers Section 23.1

-Allow enforcement to be considered on more than 70% of Canadians who use NHP'sHealth Canada Reference/>-Allow the minister, based on opinion, to shut down research without any scientific reason or evidence of risk or harm />Section 18.5

-Allow the minister, based on opinion, to allow or disallow market authorizations for Natural Health Products Section 18.7 (1)

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Forward to EVERYONE on your e-mail list. 

Anyone who uses natural health products and wants the freedom and right to choose, must phone the health minister’s office below and send a letter by e-mail AGAINST BILL C-51. 

Otherwise, we face a possible end to natural health product availability as we know it.  PLEASE PHONE AND E-MAIL NOW.

Get involved

• Tell everyone you know

· Sign the petition "Stop Bill C-51"… http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/StopC51

• Talk to your local Press

• Contact your local Member of Parliament www.parl.gc.ca

• Ask the leaders in your community to get involved

• Copy this and hand it out

• Attend a rally go to www.stopc51.com for a list of rallies across Canada More Info 1-888-878-3467

• Call Prime Minister Stephen Harper: (613) 992-4211 and (403) 253-7990 calgary@stephenharpermp.com

• Call Health Minister Tony Clement: (613) 944-7740 and (705) 746-9053  minister_ministre@hc-sc.gc.ca ***There is an underscore after minister***

• Write multiple letters to Members of Parliament (no postage required)

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Example letter:

Dear

I am strongly opposed to this bill as it infringes on my personal choice. I want access to natural health products protected as they have made a huge difference to my health in a positive way.
I am opposed to the police state powers in Bill C-51.

As a constituent in your area and a proud Canadian I want you to be my voice and vote against Bill C-51.

Adress to:

Stephen Harper
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6

Ok here is the final letter that I sent to a few so far. 

Dear

I am strongly opposed to this bill as it infringes on my personal choice for good health. 

I want access to natural health products protected as they have made a huge difference to my health in a positive way. The medical profession had no answers and the medications that were prescribed caused many side effects, often they would make me worse for weeks.  It was natural herbal formulas that actually gave me a life back so much so that after being on disability for 10 years I was able to come off disability. See my story www.wassickandtired.com

I have been well for 7 years and am happy to be creating my own income which means much in the way of personal freedom and feel very distressed at the possibility of the life giving herbal foods I have been consuming would be taken away.

I am opposed to the police state powers in Bill C-51. As a proud Canadian I want you to hear my voice and vote against Bill C-51.

Yours Sincerely,

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Great, thank you Diana.

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Bill C-517: Mandatory labelling of GE food:
Your turn to speak out!

http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/campaigns/ge/take-action/take-action-on-c517

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Go to the following article, read - and take action!  Do you have an Albertson's near you? 

Stop by the fish counter at  your local Albertsons grocery store and see if this mercury advisory sticker is displayed. (The sticker should be affixed to a plastic holder containing brochures about mercury in fish.)

Take Action: IS ALBERTSONS HOLDING UP THEIR END OF THE BARGAIN?

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Health & Wellness  (tags: protection )

Michael
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One year ago, WVE and women everywhere scored a huge victory when Albertsons, one of the largest supermarket chains in the nation, agreed to our demands to post mercury advisory stickers and brochures at their fish counters.

REPORT YOUR FINDINGS

Let us know if your local Albertsons has or has not displayed an advisory sticker and brochures.

Report your findings and receive a FREE magnet with safe consumption guidelines for tuna!

Your actions will help protect women nationwide from mercury exposure! Learn more about why mercury advisory signs are important.

To locate your local Albertsons or Albertsons' subsidiary, go to www.albertsons.com.

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1. The results of a scientific study tends to proove that the modified gene (anti-insect) of the Monsanto GMO corn has passed from the corn into the body of the earthworms, then there's obvious contamination, and we know that if Earthworms dies, the soil will die as well. This could be sufficient for the High authority to give a negative report on GMOs and convince French president Nicolas Sarkozy to ban GMOs culture on our soil.

That's the good news, now onto a very bad news.

2. The president of the major farmers Union (FNSEA), who fears for its profits, (I suspect he receives bribes from Monsanto) has declared this morning, that since the Justice doesn't punish the GMO commandos who mowed GMO (experimental, so they say) fields, he recommand to the farmers to buy GMO corn in Spain (where it's legal ) and cultivate it in France, posing it as civil disobedience.

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http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/saveCHN

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Diana - I don't drink much milk, and when I do it's always organic, and comes in a glass bottle which I return for refund at the health store!

PS: I took that picture last year around Xmas - hence no snow in the background!

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I am posting an email I received from my CSA (which included a PDF attachment that I will share if anyone is interested), and have since heard that it is being reconsidered due to negative feedback from residents here in PA.  Any state could be next.

 Dear farm members and friends:

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Diana.

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Elena for posting that here; I sent my letter a while ago...do not know why I did not bring it here.

So as Elena says:  If you havent already done so, please take a moment to urge Stephen Harper to adopt Bill C-448 to ban Terminator seeds in Canada. 

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Update

Good News for Ban Terminator Campaign

RightOnCanada.ca has been campaigning for most of this year to halt Canada's promotion of genetically engineered food and related technologies. We have a lot of work ahead of us, but I wanted to let you know about two positive developments.

As you may know, Canada is one of the largest producers of Genetically Modified crops in the world. Canada has been called part of the "Axis of Evil" for its past efforts, at meetings under the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity,  to overthrow the international moratorium on Terminator seed.

Terminator seed is genetically engineered so as to become sterile after one harvest. It is part of a strategy by Monsanto and agribusiness to privatize the world's seed supply and require farmers to purchase GM seeds every year from agribusiness corporations. 1.4 billion people around the world depend on farmer-saved seeds, which are crucial for their food security and for the planet's biodiversity.

Here are two recent positive breakthroughs in the fight for food security and biodiversity:

1) The EU's Environment Commissioner, Savros Dimas, wants to ban two types of GM corn because they pose "unacceptable" risks for the environment (see article below). Separate studies have suggested that the GM plants' insecticide harms butterflies and gets into streams, where it poisons aquatic life. "This could and should be the beginning of the end for GM crops in Europe," says Clare Oxborrow, GM campaigner for Friends of the Earth.

2) 80% of British Columbians want mandatory labelling of GM foods. NDP MLA, Gregor Robertson, has just introduced "Right to Know" legislation, which would make BC the first province in Canada to require GM food to be labelled. Phone or email Premier Gordon Campbell telling him you want the "Right to Know" legislation passed (phone: 250 387-1715; email:premier@gov.bc.ca).

If you havent already done so, please take a moment to urge Stephen Harper to adopt Bill C-448 to ban Terminator seeds in Canada. 

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Lettuce Lady Says, 'Go Veg, Texas!'

Wearing only a cowboy hat and lettuce bikini, a sexy PETA supporter lays out her plan to help Texas shape up by going vegetarian In a video message (Shown here, guys!) to Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Texas dominates the list of fattest American cities. PLEASE NOTE, and Sign THEIR VEGETARIAN PETITION!and forward and  I’LL PERSONALLY MAIL A COPY TO CHENEY, ROVE, ETC!  Courage, Peace, etc. Bruce Combs 

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Today is the last day to get our voices heard.

I do believe we can make a difference...IF lots of voices speak up. Let's make sure we have RAW ALMOND RIGHTS!!!!!

 Diana

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Today is the last day to get our voices heard.

I do believe we can make a difference...IF lots of voices speak up. Let's make sure we have RAW ALMOND RIGHTS!!!!!

Take Action NOW!!!  http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_6747.cfm

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Work on the 2007 Farm Bill has begun, but the legislation is far from passed.  Negotiations are underway leading up to a final vote this fall—right now we have a window of opportunity to let Congress know local farms and healthy food cannot be ignored in favor of special interests.  

The farm bill isn't just about subsidies, it's time to put food back in the farm bill and support programs that meet the needs of farmers, ranchers, communities and consumers. Before the deals are made, sign your name to the 'No Farms, No Food' petition.

You can make a difference.  Help us gather 10,000 signatures before the 4th of July Congressional break. When you sign your name and forward on to five friends, we'll send you a 'No Farms, No Food' bumper sticker to show your support for a new direction in farm and food policy. 

By adding your name to the petition below, you’re letting Congress know it’s time to prioritize:

• Protecting working farms and ranches from sprawl
• Making local foods more available
• Encouraging healthy diets
• Ending hunger in America

Go To: http://action.farmland.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Action_NoFarmsNoFoodPetition

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Diana.

E-mail received from my MP - Peggy Nash:

Hello Elena,

Thank you for your letter. I agree, Terminator seed technology has the potential to be very dangerous and you can certainly count on my support to protect biodiversity and a farmer's right to harvest seeds.

I've included below the latest press release from my colleague  NDP Agriculture Critic Alex Atamanenko, regarding the NDP's opposition to terminator seeds. Thanks again for writing.

Peggy
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NDP Parliamentarians Work To Protect Farmers' Right To Save Seeds
 
Hundreds of letters flood PM's office in opening minutes of web campaign

OTTAWA – NDP Agriculture Critic Alex Atamanenko (British Columbia Southern Interior) says Stephen Harper’s office is being flooded with e-mails from across the country calling for the prime minister to do the right thing for people, farmers and the environment by making sure Bill C-448 becomes law.

These letters are being sent to the prime minister through www.rightoncanada.ca in response to Atamanenko’s Terminator Seed Ban Act - Bill C-448, tabled last week that would ban Variety Genetic Use Restriction Technology (GURT in Canada.

“Carbon copies of these letters are being sent to my office so I can say with certainty that within minutes of the website being activated the prime minister had already received over 700 letters,” said Atamanenko. “The question is, how many more letters will it take to convince him to act?”

Atamanenko says the government’s stated position to assess Terminator on a case-by-case basis as they do for other genetically modifying technology is unacceptable. “Canadians do not want to have to monitor this issue for the next 20 years, repeating their concerns on a case-by-case basis. They need their government to protect them from Terminator technology today.”

“I am committed to working with Canadians from across the country, including the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, the National Farmers Union and The Rideau Institute who are deeply engaged in this issue,” said Atamanenko.

In 2005 the Canadian Patent Office granted the first patent on Terminator to Delta & Pine Land and the US Department of Agriculture who jointly own the technology.

“We know that Monsanto may soon conclude their second bid to buy Delta & Pine Land which will make them the owners of the most advanced Terminator research in the world,” says Atamanenko. “With that sale, Terminator seeds could be introduced in Canada without public debate or considerations of the social and economic impacts because Canadian regulations do not require this.”   

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Riccardo Filippone
Parliamentary Assistant / Adjoint Parlementaire Peggy Nash, M.P. / députée Parkdale-High Park Get Peggy's Newsletter:
http://www.peggynash.ca/phplist/?p=subscribe&id=3

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I sent the letter a minute ago!  Thank you Elena for keeping us posted.

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Good News! Terminator Seed Ban Act introduced and needs your support

Dear Elena,

I write to share with you the exciting news of our important victory in the battle to ban Terminator seeds in Canada. Thanks to the efforts of thousands of Canadians like you, Bill C-448, the Terminator Seed Ban Act, was tabled in the House of Commons on May 31, 2007. Bill C-448 is a Private Members Bill by NDP Member of Parliament and Agriculture Critic, Alex Atamanenko.

In recognizing our efforts, Mr. Atamanenko said that, judging by the 1,400 letters that my office has received, and which continue to arrive daily, Canadians are spelling it out loud and clear to this government “ BAN TERMINATOR!"

Next step is to ensure that it becomes law!

If enacted, this bill would prohibit any field-testing or commercial use of Terminator seed technology in Canada. This bill would be Canada's commitment to the world. But this will only happen with your help.

You can take instant action by going to our website and sending a letter to Prime Minister Harper and your Member of Parliament urging Mr. Harper to take concrete action to protect farmers in Canada and around the world by adopting as his own, Bill C-448 that enacts a national ban on Terminator seed technology.

Thank you for caring and especially, thank you for taking action.

In peace and with hope,

Kathleen Ruff

Senior Advisor to the Rideau Institute
and founder of RightOnCanada.ca

P.S. Learn more about Alex Atamanenko's Private Member's Bill to ban Terminator Technology from his web page:  http://www.atamanenko.ca/page/139

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Thank you Elena for bring this here....I signed!  Alert: EMAIL HARPER ETAL: NO HARMONIZING PESTICIDES WITH USA & MEXICO (SPP)

To get straight to the link quickly rather then all through Care2 go here:

Please take 60 seconds to send a message to Prime Minister Harper right now urging him to put the health of people and the environment first. You can make a difference.

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EMAIL HARPER ETAL: NO HARMONIZING PESTICIDES WITH USA & MEXICO (SPP) Health & Wellness  (tags: pesticides, integration, spp, canada, usa, mexico, harper, email )

Sunshine
- 40 seconds ago - care2.com

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Organic Food Quality Under Attack

A brief 7 day comment period has been permitted for the public to share its views on the proposed degradation of the quality of Organic Foods in the US. Under AMS-TM-07-0062, thirty eight changes are proposed which will severely compromise organic foods. Please take a moment to submit your comments to the USDA to protect your right to know what you are buying and the quality of what you eat.

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The FDA is planning on adding 38 ingredients to the Codex Law that is to go into effect on the 22nd of this month:

THAT"S TWO DAYS FROM NOW!! 

This will gut organic standards! Organic supplements will contain these substances adulterated by many objectionable ingredients...all without any consumer input, which is how they want it!

Please sign this petition:

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/healthfreedomusa/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=11431)

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At the last minute, the FDA is trying to sneak 38 allowable ingredients into Codex with only 7days before it goes into law...and we have 3 days left:

Please sign this petition:

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/healthfreedomusa/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=11431

Meat products with questionable sources, fish oil from any source, hops contaminated with pesticides in organic beer...just a few of the 38!

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ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY ATTENTION - NOW

If you have not yet participated, please visit this website to learn ALL you could possible need to know about the horrors of CODEX and how you can help END IT NOW. 

www.healthfreedomusa.org

Blissed be, Annie 

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Thank you Elsie E.    for bringing this here; I will sign it.

Your link for the petition did not come through so here it is:

Petition

Stop TeenScreen's Unscientific and Experimental "Mental Health Screening" of American School Children

http://www.petitiononline.com/TScreen/petition.html

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Prescription
drugs are 16,400% more deadly than terrorists

U.S.
pharmaceutical companies and the FDA responsible for

100 times as many Americans deaths as terrorists Falsifying
Clinical TestsTeenScreen - Normal Kids
Labeled Mentally Ill  <<Please
sign Petition on this one. Stop TeenScreen's Unscientific and

Experimental "Mental Health
Screening" of American School

Children  Drug Experiments Still Happening to
Children in Foster Care

Children on Drugs are the ones who kill in school shootings.  This has a lot of information about the drugs
Pharma companies sell and how they are brought to market. It has a lot of
information everyone around the world should know. http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/357319

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Located this important petition. Please support this effort make FDA answer questions relating to Codex involvement.  Has about 10,460 signatures needs 20,000. Susanne

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/373269232

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The Almonds: 10368 Signatures Every day the numbers are soaring; it gives me hope. What really inspires and makes me proud is to see my friend's signatures on this petition....I know so many people who really care about good live food.

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Thank you Elena!

It is getting close to the 150,000....it is now 131,640

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Thanks Diane and Penny.  Love my organic veggies!

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Hope everyone will support this effort.  http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/379024757

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A "Care2 Healthy Menu" for McDonalds
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/469925376

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I have changed the order of this folder so that the most recent is on top.

Thank you Lillith; I signed.  Children should be looked after not used to make money!!!!!

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Stop Tricks for Cheaper Chocolate Treats
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/342669309

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Marking Vegetarian Products
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/737024543

Protect Animals, the Environment, and Your Health - Pledge to be Veg!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/227202257

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Ask Benihana to Protect Women & Children from Mercury in Seafood
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/356180083

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Please Provide Vegetarian and Vegan Menu Items at GHS
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/954955894

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Ask Benihana to Protect Women & Children from Mercury in Tuna & Swordfish

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Keep Tuna Safe for Our Families and for Dolphins
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/492975274

More than half of the tuna consumed by American families comes from non-U.S. producers. But some of these producers -- particularly in Ecuador and Mexico -- use practices that can hurt or kill dolphins and catch tuna with increased mercury levels.

In the Eastern Pacific Ocean, large, mature yellowfin tuna often swim with pods of dolphins -- a relationship that's exploited by some commercial fishers using purse-seine nets that ensnare tuna and dolphins alike. Since the late 1950s, approximately seven million dolphins have died from this practice.

The practice poses an obvious risk to dolphins, but the large tuna that swim with dolphins often contain the highest levels of mercury. So this practice not only harms dolphins, it also poses a risk to people who are unlucky enough to eat tuna caught in such a manner.

Send a message to the Environmental Protection Agency and Food and Drug Administration to improve mercury testing so we can keep tuna safe for our families and for dolphins.

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Protect your right to post in all groups free from abuse, personal attacks and name calling.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/655128941

Feel free to send via email and cross post on other groups. 

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Signed, thanks everyone!

Hugs, Susan

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Sharky C., Congre$$ let us down?  It's time for us to let all those politicians down and vote them out of office.

If they won't make OUR HEALTH A TOP PRIORITY, it's time for them to look for another job, they're not representing us, they're lining their own pocket$!!!

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Well, Congress let us down... it's now up to us to convince the Senate!

CONGRESS BLINDFOLDS CONSUMERS- REMOVING RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT'S IN YOUR FOOD

On March 8, despite massive public opposition, including 50,000 calls and letters from supporters of the Organic Consumers Association, the House of Representatives passed the controversial "national food uniformity" labeling law, which would eliminate over 200 state food safety labeling laws. The law basically takes away local government and states' power to require food safety labels such as those required in California and other states on foods or beverages that are likely to cause cancer, birth defects, allergic reactions, or mercury poisoning. The bill would also prevent local municipalities and states from passing laws requiring that genetically engineered foods and ingredients be labeled. Under the bill, hundreds of state laws and regulations would be eliminated, including those relating to the safety of milk, fish, and shellfish. In order to become law, the bill will now have to go to the Senate for a vote. Because of the enormous public backlash against the bill, Washington analysts believe the bill will have great difficulty passing in the Senate. OCA and other public interest organizations have vowed to go "all out" to stop this anti-democratic, anti-consumer bill in the Senate. Take action here: http://www.organicconsumers.org/rd/labeling.cfm

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Public demand is fueling the fast-growing increase in organic production and distribution, which may be seen as threatening to large-scale conventional farms and the enormous food processing industry.

They would like nothing better than to be able to call their products organic to “catch the wave” of this industry without having to be strict about the quality of their foods.

The only way to maintain real organic foods is to pressure the USDA to adopt high standards.

I suggest joining the Organic Consumers Association at www.organicconcumers.org

 and The Campaign to Label Genetically Modified Foods (www.thecampaign.org), as well as www.saveorganicfood.org.

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Tell your Congressman or Congresswoman to vote "No" on House of Representatives Bill H.R. 4167, the "National Uniformity for Food Act"

The House of Representatives will vote this week on a controversial "national food uniformity" labeling law that will take away local government and states' power to require food safety food labels such as those required in California and other states on foods or beverages that are likely to cause cancer, birth defects, allergic reactions, or mercury poisoning. This bill would also prevent citizens in local municipalities and states from passing laws requiring that genetically engineered foods and ingredients such as Monsanto's recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) be labeled.

The House will vote March 2, 2006 on a bill that would gut state food safety and labeling laws. H.R. 4167, the "National Uniformity for Food Act," lowers the bar on food safety by overturning state food safety laws that are not "identical" to federal law. Hundreds of state laws and regulations are at risk, including those governing the safety of milk, fish, and shellfish. The bill is being pushed by large supermarket chains and food manufacturers, spearheaded by the powerful Grocery Manufacturers of America.

Big food corporations and the biotech industry understand that consumers are more and more concerned about food safety, genetic engineering, and chemical-intensive agriculture, and are reading labels more closely. They understand that pesticide and mercury residues and hazardous technologies such as genetic engineering and food irradiation will be rejected if there are truthful labels required on food products. Industry-sponsored H.R. 4167 is gaining momentum and must be stopped! Act now! Preserve local and regional democracy and protect yourself and your family from unsafe food by sending an email or calling your Representative and urging them to vote "No" on H.R. 4167.

Please Take Action Now--Send a Message to Your Congress Member in the House of Representatives to Vote "No" on H.R. 4167

http://www.organicconsumers.org/

And please call your Congress Member at 202-224-3121

Regards & Solidarity,

Ronnie Cummins,
Organic Consumers Association

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Lax Oversight Found in Tests of Gene-Altered Crops
From: The New York Times
January 3, 2006
Lax Oversight Found in Tests of Gene-Altered Crops
By ANDREW POLLACK

The Department of Agriculture has failed to regulate field trials of
genetically engineered crops adequately, raising the risk of
unintended environmental consequences, according to a stinging report
issued by the department's own auditor.

The report, issued late last month by the department's Office of
Inspector General, found that biotechnology regulators did not always
notice violations of their own rules, did not inspect planting sites
when they should have and did not assure that the genetically
engineered crops were destroyed when the field trial was done.

In many cases, the report said, regulators did not even know the
locations of field trials for which they granted permits.

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Take action and sign the Food Agenda 2010 petition to Congress: http://www.organicconsumers.org/petition1.html

This petition calls on U.S. elected officials to:

place a moratorium on all genetically engineered foods & crops unless adequate safety-tested...

begin the phase-out of industrial agriculture's damaging practices by banning the most dangerous pesticides...

implement a long-term "transition to organic" program to shift agricultural production in the US from chemical-intensive, industrial farming to at least 30% organic by the year 2010

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me again

Hemp petition....

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/873190870

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Thanks Miss T, Deborah, and Diana

   ~natalie~

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To Natalie from Miss Tress

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Hey everyone! It’s my birthday Do you know what would be a great present? To get as many signatures as possible for my petition and to have it posted all over the world wide web ~natalie~

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Sign*http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/873190870

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Grief is still has my details on the page. Ugh! Please clear them and put yours in place of mine. I had cleared it too.

I really am having one of those days one way or another.

whaaaaa

Thanks Summerannie

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Hi Diana.... thats fine by me. ty for letting me know. I am happy.....well thrilled to read many who have contributed to the Artificial Sugar thread.

I have been truly concerned equally about CODEX and have signed the petition. I have been searching for one for ages, however, I wrote to them personally and here too in melbourne Australia. below is the quick link to sign about CODEX and vitamins etc.

Talk about silent. I feel that the pharacutical companies are very greedy but with the trend towards healthy living and life style i would suggest that they have seen the potential there or feel the pinch as many go across to an alternative medical way.

I approached my local health food shop which has a chain of them. they have on board naturapaths who will help you in the store. I asked if they had heard about the CODEX  issues and they had. Good on them for knowing...anyway she happened to pull out from under her counter three bottles of meds for three different customers who buy this particular product. She said they cant buy it and she isnt allow to sell it or big fines and she also mentioned that it will be difficult to buy even more products as they flex their muscles. This WILL BE true if we dont at least have a try. but with WHO and the other one...W?? are in bed sleeping with this huge company. Ugh.

This is one of the most serious that hardly anyone knows about or if they do they might shrug their shoulders and say..how can we make a difference? Well we can and I stand on my 'soap box and go rah rah rah' grrrrrr. This means that all Reiki people cant practice, Sharmans cant do their job, Tribal people cant do it too. And when you think about it there I would suggest there are more people doing it than wont. So although they say there will be stiff fines, how can they regulate it? Well naturapaths and the like WILL not be able to offer or sell Vitamins or certain homopathy meds or the like as they can only use them for their own person and cant sell or give them to anyone else and if they have to then they have to refer them to a GP or MD. OMG its ridiculous and someone is making huge money. If they are caught selling or giving their Vitamins, Oils or Meds to another, CODEX will take action and take them to court for ILLEGAL DRUG TRAFFICKING>>> OMG! It seems as I have read much about this that people who are 'into health and professionals' will be all trussed up and tied up and tossed out and some losing jobs etc. How DARE they impose such stuff...I d use a different word here!

How Dictatorial??!!!!!

my blood is rapidly boiling over this, HOW DARE THEY! So spread the word and get people aware to sign this as its really a silent issue. Meaning its rather hush hush.

http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/healthfreedomusa/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1165&t=campaigns.dwt

If you are a practicing health practitioner or a reiki teacher or an owner of a health food shop, aromotherapist, holistic doctor and the like or just take vitamin supplements from over the counter or anything to do with HEALTH holistically. you and I and we are in jeopody.

please sign the above link ..thanks blood boiling summerannie

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Summerannie, I posted the same link above you which is fine to say it again but the new folder for it will have to be deleted keeping with the format of this group.

Sugar Free- Are you at Risk
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/898223443

Thank you, Diana!

You signed this petition at:
5:19 PM PDT, Sep 27, 2005

I am truly surprised to see how few signatures are going on this one. 

Go to this folder for more information Artificial Sweeteners!?!??  

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I am sorry if this is annoying, but I am going to be bumping this a lot. We need the signatures. Please do whatever you are able to help. Thanks again

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Dear Friends,
I have just read and signed the petition:
Sugar Free- Are you at Risk
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/898223443
Please help by signing this petition. It takes 30 seconds and will really help.  Please follow this link:
The system centralizes signature collection to provide consolidated, useful reports for petition authors and targets. Please forward this email to others you believe share your concern. To view additional petitions, please click here:
http://www.thePetitionSite.com
Thank you

Total Signatures: 588
The most recent signatures*  as of 5:30 AM PST Dec 04, 2005

# 588   12/04/05  5:30 AM   Summerannie Moon, Malvern EAst, NU, au
# 587   11/30/05  9:11 PM   Denise Palmer, Tucson, AZ, us
# 586   11/30/05  7:25 PM   Anonymous, Castleford, AA, gb
# 585   11/29/05  10:44 PM   Michele Long, Louisville, KY, us
# 584   11/29/05  12:01 PM   Lawrence Smith, BA, Saint Simons Island, GA, us
# 583   11/29/05  9:06 AM   Brenda Schenk, Hoquiam, WA, us
# 582   11/28/05  5:50 PM   Ariel Wilyer, Albuquerque, NM, us
# 581   11/28/05  10:14 AM   Stoyka Chipchakova, Sofia, NU, bg
# 580   11/27/05  9:58 PM   Anonymous, Poughkeepsie, NY, us
# 579   11/20/05  12:04 AM   Irene Karman, Cornubia, AA, au
# 578   11/19/05  3:52 AM   Anonymous, Austell, GA, us
# 577   11/15/05  1:54 PM   Diane Martini, Denver, CO, us
# 576   11/13/05  9:52 PM   Kat Rudd, South San Francisco, CA, us
# 575   11/10/05  11:51 AM   Michele Peterson, Lakeville, MN, us
# 574   11/10/05  11:15 AM   Ms Zentura, Casper, WY, us
# 573   11/08/05  11:12 AM   Lina Bishara, Dallas, TX, us
# 572   11/07/05  10:21 PM   Denise Gradin, Pawtucket, RI, us
# 571   11/05/05  10:30 AM   Debbie Maddox, Dallas, TX, us
# 570   11/04/05  5:22 PM   Regina Knapp, Santa Ana, CA, us
# 569   10/31/05  12:18 PM   Abdul Salam, Rawalpindi, NU, pk
# 568   10/30/05  3:52 PM   T Neixon, Mont, TX, us
# 567   10/28/05  8:58 AM   Julie McLaughlin, Naples, FL, us
# 566   10/27/05  2:43 PM   Bill Wood, Cape Elizabethe, ME, us
# 565   10/17/05  10:16 AM   Alicia Campbell, Manhattan Beach, CA, us
# 564   10/15/05  9:59 PM   Anonymous, Columbus, OH, us

To add your name to this petition go to:

   http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/898223443

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There are 377507 Members in this group. The 10,000 signature goal would only need a small fraction of you to sign. Please help Then, please post in other groups, on other sites, on your "my space", everywhere you can. We need all the signatures we can get. Thanks in advance for your support!!!

~natalie~

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Industrial hemp CAN’T get you "high." Hemp is used for food, fuel, paper, fabric, cosmetics & rope, & is better for the environment than leading sources of these products. Hemp is a MAJOR CASH CROP and can SAVE OUR PLANET! Please support Bill H.R. 3037 IH and let the government know that the American people support industrial hemp.

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I have signed the petitions and sent someone an email about the organic products.  But I would need to beg to differ on the petition about the false sugar.

I have been drinking diet sugar for quite a while because I'm on a diet.  Sugar has not being recommended through I do use it sometimes.  So what I'm being told or what I think I'm being told is that I cannot use false sugar either.

So through I have signed the petition, it was not for me.  It would be for the others who have suffered from the diet sugar.

I will continue sticking to "Sweet n' Low" and "Splenda" because I have no intention of going off my diet.

But do thank you for listening and I am glad to be of help.

(sorry about the vents)

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I went through http://www.panna.org already and signed their petition on Organic Standards before I actually joined Care2

Have a great day.

Anna

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The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) needs your immediate help to stop Congress and the Bush administration from seriously degrading organic standards. After 35 years of hard work, the U.S. organic community has built up a multi-billion dollar alternative to industrial agriculture, based upon strict organic standards and organic community control over modification to these standards.

Now, large corporations such as Kraft, Wal-Mart, & Dean Foods--aided and abetted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are moving to lower organic standards by allowing a Bush appointee to create a list of synthetic ingredients that would be allowed organic production. Even worse these proposed regulatory changes will reduce future public discussion and input and take away the National Organic Standards Board’s (NOSB ) traditional lead jurisdiction in setting standards. What this means, in blunt terms. is that USDA bureaucrats and industry lobbyists, not consumers, will now have more control over what can go into organic foods and products. (Send a quick letter to your Congressperson online here: http://www.organicconsumers.org/sos.cfm)

Tomorrow, Tuesday, Sept. 20, acting in haste and near-total secrecy, the U.S. Senate will vote on a “rider” to the 2006 Agriculture Appropriations Bill that will reduce control over organic standards from the National Standards Board and put this control in the hands of federal bureaucrats in the USDA (remember the USDA proposal in 1997-98 that said that genetic engineering, toxic sludge, and food irradiation would be OK on organic farms, or USDA suggestions in 2004 that heretofore banned pesticides, hormones, tainted feeds, and animal drugs would be OK?).

For the past week in Washington, OCA has been urging members of the Senate not to reopen and subvert the federal statute that governs U.S. Organic standards (the Organic Food Production Act—OFPA), but rather to let the organic community and the National Organic Standards resolve our differences over issues like synthetics and animal feed internally, and then proceed to a open public comment period. Unfortunately most Senators seem to be listening to industry lobbyists more closely than to us. We need to raise our voices. (Send a quick letter to your Congressperson online here: http://www.organicconsumers.org/sos.cfm)

In the past, grassroots mobilization and mass pressure by organic consumers have been able to stop the USDA and Congress from degrading organic standards. This time Washington insiders tell us that the “fix is already in.” So we must take decisive action now. We need you to call your U.S. Senators today. We need you to sign the following petition and send it to everyone you know. We also desperately need funds to head off this attack in the weeks and months to come. Thank you for your support. Together we will take back citizen control over organic standards and preserve organic integrity.

For more information go to the SOS section on our website
Click here to donate money to OCA’s SOS—Save Organic Standards—Campaign
Call the Capital Switchboard here: 877-762-8762
Send a quick letter to your Congressperson online here:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/sos.cfm
Thanks,

ORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION
6771 South Silver Hill Drive
Finland, MN 55603
Phone: (218)-353-7454 Fax: (218) 353-7652

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I had a close cousin in Canada who died a horrible death from Mad Cow Disease.  You BETCHA I signed this petition!!!

Linda M.

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Stop dogs from being separated - signed

Toxic Salmon - signed

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Hi everyone!  I share an interest in healthy cooking.  I also eat a lot of nutritious organic food.   I thought you all would be interested in taking action against Codex, in case you haven't already.  Please read about it below.  Codex threatens healthy food!  Please also help spread the word about Codex.  Your help is needed!  It's urgent!  Feel free to copy and paste the text below. Thank you!!! 

-Charis Rose

Supplements (Vitamins, Minerals, and Herbs)

and Organic Food THREATENED!!!

Your help is urgently needed! Protect your health freedom from CODEX!

ü  Please act now!  Go to www.HealthFreedomUSA.org/congress-stop-codex

to “Tell Congress to Compel the U.S. CODEX Office to Obey U.S. Law.”

ü  Please also complete the “6 Easy Steps to Protecting Health Freedom” by visiting www.healthfreedomusa.org/action/

ü  Visit the Codex Blog at http://codexblog.healthfreedomusa.org/ and subscribe to the "CODEX Action Alert" Mailing List to stay informed of the most recent developments.

The U.S. delegation to the UN and WTO-backed Codex Alimentarius Commission, which will meet in Rome July 4-9 (early next month),

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**********PLEASE FORWARD TO FRIENDS***********

Dear Friends,

I have just read and signed the petition: "Stop Dogs From Being Separated From Their Owners!" 

We are trying to reach 1000 signatures, and we need YOUR HELP!

Please help by signing this petition. It only takes 30 seconds and will really help.  Please follow this link:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/778821216

Once you have signed, help even more, by telling your friends
and family to sign as well!

Thank you,

Nick Joshua K Karean

Activist in Animal Rights for P.E.T.A - USA

website: http://www.peta.org

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated" - Mahatma Gandhi

"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well being of a person or an animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way..."

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed" - Mahatma Gandhi

 Care2 make the world greener!

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There are so many petitions that deserve our attention and I would like to keep the group for recipes and tips.

So here is a place to post them.

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