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Good idea.

If this passes, it will destroy the entire Almond industry in the US. Almost all Amercian Almonds come from California. It IS scary. And I too will cease to buy these Almonds, and my Healthfood Cafe orders over 20 pounds a month.

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Doc

 

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DocShillington

Thursday, April 19, 2007 3:15 PM

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why don't we all go to this handler list, and send our letters of displeasure to each of these suppliers? i'm going to let them know that i won't be buyin almonds "raw or pasturized" if they do this. will probably not buy "any" almonds.http://www.almondboard.com/Applications/FindHandlerApp/HandlerList.cfm"You, as a almond grower, are being sold down the river by the Almond Board of California, the FDA, the USDA/FTC, in that you will by lying to the consumer as to your product being "raw". this is morally wrong, and also illegal. I, and those in the sphere of my influence, will not buy "any" California almonds if this charade goes through.The Almond Board of California, which oversees virtually 100 percent of the almonds grown and consumed in the United States and Canada, is now implementing plans to pasteurize all almonds at temperatures up to 158 degrees (F) and yet have them intentionally and falsely labeled as "raw." The decision was made following the 2001 and 2004 outbreaks of salmonella in almonds, and is based on the intention of the Almond Board of California to provide a "safe, nutritious product to consumers" but not, it seems, an accurately labeled food product to consumers.In this important way, it deprives us of our basic rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is a serious incursion of rights for a trivial and preventable reason, this being that the [past] contamination of the almonds was from a single source."With this decision, the Almond Board of California seems surprisingly out of touch with the California lifestyle, which is significantly based on fresh, raw food products like limes, avocados and almonds. The living foods / raw foods movement in the United States is largely a product of the natural California lifestyle, and yet the Almond Board seems to have no hesitation in intentionally mislabeling its cooked almond products as raw, misleading consumers into thinking they're buying live almonds when they aren't.