Fw: Organic Standards Under Attack - Take Action Now

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- Holistic Healers Academy

Jerry and Bev Mlittelman

Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:58 AM

Fw: Organic Standards Under Attack - Take Action Now

 

 

- Ana Micka, Citizens for Health

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Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:44 PM

Organic Standards Under Attack - Take Action Now

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Say NO to Dangerous Organic Rider on Senate Appropriations Bill

Organic food standards are facing the largest challenge since the USDA's 1997 proposal to allow toxic sludge, genetically engineered organisms and irradiation on oragnic farms.

This week, the U.S. Senate, under pressure from large food processors, plans to attach a rider to the 2006 Agriculture Appropriation Bill that will weaken the integrity of organic standards. We urgently need natural health consumers like you to contact your Senator and demand that he or she oppose this rider.

Click Here to Take Action Today! Tell your Senators to keep organic organic.

Under this proposal the USDA may:

- permanently allow synthetic processing aids and food contactsubstances, including over 500 food contact substances, to be used inorganic foods without any type of public review for their safety andcompatibility with organic production and processing.

- leave unresolved whether young dairy cows could be treated withantibiotics and then converted to organic after twelve months;

- create a serious new loophole in which organic ingredients could besubstituted with non-organic ingredients without any consumer noticebased upon "emergency decrees."

Please take action NOW to protect organic standards.

Sincerely,Ana MickaPresident/CEOCitizens for Health

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Say NO to Dangerous Organic Rider on Senate Appropriations Bill

 

Organic food standards are facing the largest challenge since the USDA's

1997 proposal to allow toxic sludge, genetically engineered organisms and

irradiation on oragnic farms.

 

This week, the U.S. Senate, under pressure from large food processors,

plans to attach a rider to the 2006 Agriculture Appropriation Bill that will

weaken the integrity of organic standards. We urgently need natural health

consumers like you to contact your Senator and demand that he or she oppose this

rider.

 

Click Here to Take Action Today! Tell your Senators to keep organic

organic.

 

Under this proposal the USDA may:

 

- permanently allow synthetic processing aids and food contact

substances, including over 500 food contact substances, to be used in

organic foods without any type of public review for their safety and

compatibility with organic production and processing.

 

- leave unresolved whether young dairy cows could be treated with

antibiotics and then converted to organic after twelve months;

 

- create a serious new loophole in which organic ingredients could be

substituted with non-organic ingredients without any consumer notice

based upon " emergency decrees. "

 

Please take action NOW to protect organic standards.

 

Sincerely,

 

Ana Micka

President/CEO

Citizens for Health

 

INSTRUCTIONS TO RESPOND VIA THE WEB:

If you have access to a web browser, you can take action on this alert

by going to the following URL:

http://www.healthactioncenter.org/action/index.asp?step=2 & item=27854

 

 

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Organic Standards Under Attack - Take Action Now

 

 

 

 

 

Say NO to Dangerous Organic Rider on Senate Appropriations Bill

 

Organic food standards are facing the largest challenge since the USDA's

1997 proposal to allow toxic sludge, genetically engineered organisms and

irradiation on oragnic farms.

 

This week, the U.S. Senate, under pressure from large food processors,

plans to attach a rider to the 2006 Agriculture Appropriation Bill that will

weaken the integrity of organic standards. We urgently need natural health

consumers like you to contact your Senator and demand that he or she oppose this

rider.

 

Click Here to Take Action Today! Tell your Senators to keep organic

organic.

 

Under this proposal the USDA may:

 

- permanently allow synthetic processing aids and food contact

substances, including over 500 food contact substances, to be used in

organic foods without any type of public review for their safety and

compatibility with organic production and processing.

 

- leave unresolved whether young dairy cows could be treated with

antibiotics and then converted to organic after twelve months;

 

- create a serious new loophole in which organic ingredients could be

substituted with non-organic ingredients without any consumer notice

based upon " emergency decrees. "

 

Please take action NOW to protect organic standards.

 

Sincerely,

 

Ana Micka

President/CEO

Citizens for Health

 

INSTRUCTIONS TO RESPOND VIA THE WEB:

If you have access to a web browser, you can take action on this alert

by going to the following URL:

http://www.healthactioncenter.org/action/index.asp?step=2 & item=27854

 

 

We are committed to protecting your privacy, so your email address will

NEVER be sold or exchanged. If you would like to from this

newsletter, please reply to this message with " Remove " in the subject line.

 

 

 

 

 

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Please note the SOS Update near the bottom.

- John

 

Say NO to Dangerous Organic Rider on Senate Appropriations Bill

http://www.healthactioncenter.org/action/index.asp?step=2 & item=27854

 

Organic food standards are facing the largest challenge since the

USDA's 1997 proposal to allow toxic sludge, genetically engineered

organisms and irradiation on organic farms.

 

This week, the U.S. Senate, under pressure from large food processors,

plans to attach a rider to the 2006 Agriculture Appropriation Bill

that will weaken the integrity of organic standards. We urgently need

natural health consumers like you to contact your Senator and demand

that he or she oppose this rider.

 

Click Here to Take Action Today!

http://www.healthactioncenter.org/action/index.asp?step=2 & item=27854

Tell your Senators to keep organic organic.

 

The amendments could:

 

- permanently allow synthetic processing aids and food contact

substances, including over 500 food contact substances, to be used in

organic foods without any type of public review for their safety and

compatibility with organic production and processing.

 

- leave unresolved whether young dairy cows could be treated with

antibiotics and then converted to organic after twelve months;

 

- create a serious new loophole in which organic ingredients could be

substituted with non-organic ingredients without any consumer notice

based upon 'emergency decrees'.

 

Please take action NOW to protect organic standards.

 

Sincerely,

 

Ana Micka

President/CEO

Citizens for Health

 

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

SOS Update September 23, 2005

 

Over the past couple of days, Organic Consumers Association network

members have deluged the U.S. congress with over 45,000 emails and

10,000 telephone calls. Thank you for your support. This nearly

unprecedented grassroots upsurge has temporarily rattled Congress and

the industry, delaying the initial Sneak Attack in the Senate on

organic standards, resulting in a compromise amendment (H.R. 2744)

September 21 calling for " further study of the issue " .

 

Unfortunately we expect another, possibly even more serious, Sneak

Attack in the House/Senate Conference Committee over the next week as

Congress members put the final wording together for the 2006

Congressional Agriculture Appropriations Bill (for a list of committee

members and contact info, click here). Therefore OCA is now calling on

consumers and the organic community to apply pressure to their House

of Representatives members as well as their Senators to stop the

Conference Committee from degrading the standards. In addition we urge

everyone to start applying pressure to the *Organic Trade Association*,

who are unfortunately spearheading this Sneak Attack. We ask everyone

who has read our SOS Action Alert and signed our petition to Congress

to call your House of Representative member at this toll free number:

877-762-8762, as well as the OTA: 413-774-7511.