Anti-organic rider in bill removed

October 4, 2005

Forwarded from " Natural Solutions Foundation "

rima.laibow:

Anti-Organic Rider In Bill Removed

We asked you to send emails to Congress urging them to

preserve our Organic Standards instead of degrading them to

match the Codex Organic Standards. As we can expect them to

do when we make enough of a ruckus, CONGRESS BACKED OFF.

They postponed the issue to " study it further " .

Now our job is to make sure that the pressure continues.

Industry told us that " the fix was in " and there was no way

out of it: because mega-corporations are mega-corporations,

whether they make organic food or nutrients or drugs, the

(representing both small and medium sized idealistic

companies as well as organic production giants) came up with

the idea of diluting and degrading the organic standards to

allow synthetic materials, non-organic feed, using

antibiotics and other veterinary drugs and on organic

animals and then reclassifying them as organic again ALL

WITHOUT CONSUMER NOTIFICATION AND LABELING. After all, these

modifications make it possible to produce food which carries

at least a 25% premium over conventional foods more cheaply

and thus, maximize profit.

Please take a few minutes to make these clicks:

1. Protect Organic Standards, http://tinyurl.com/amau6

Tell your Congressional delegation that you value meaningful

organic standards greatly and do not want the National

Organic Standards Board circumvented or organic standards

weakened in any way.

Make your Congressmen/woman aware that you urge them to

oppose vigorously any bill that weakens DSHEA (click on each

bill to send a letter about each one. You can personalize

them if you like.)

3. Protect America's Health, http://tinyurl.com/c5jmw

Direct your Congressional employees to hold a Congressional

Codex Briefing. Tell them that you want the Natural

Solutions Foundation to be on the agenda.

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