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RIMA E. LAIBOW, MD – THE DR. RIMA INSTITUTE
THE NATURAL SOLUTIONS CENTER
VOLCAN, CHIRIQUÍ, PANAMA
Index: Action Item – Open Letter – Dr. Rima Video
Open letter to Michelle Obama from Dr. Rima
I am writing to you because you are a mother, a champion of childhood health and the wife of the current President of the United States. One of your first acts upon assuming the third of those roles, as First Lady, was to install an organic garden on the White House grounds. We applaud that demonstration of intent.
Although there were problems — (the EPA said that the ground in which the garden was planted was too toxic for human agricultural use because of the chemicals used on it previously, in order to manicure the lawn) — and opposition (the pesticide industry felt – correctly – that your decision to grow an organic garden indicated that chemical-free food was healthier than food produced using those chemicals). Thus, your decision to plant an organic garden was an act of wise, even courageous, leadership.
We note your background interest in wholesome food and decry the much-weakened, but still unacceptable mis-named “Food Safety” bill, passed [after being passed back and forth between House and Senate, like the hot-potato is was].
This new law industrializes food production in the United States. The weak local farm distribution exemptions are, in fact, nearly meaningless and the playing field is sharply tilted against the only source of clean food in the United States: the small grower who might, until the implementation of this bill, have chosen to grow clean, unadulterated food, but now will find ever more expensive barriers against continuing in business.
To be truly clean food it must be free of chemicals, genetic modification and odious secret regulations by the Department of Homeland Security. That locally produced and distributed clean food is, in fact, a food source which has NEVER produced a single major outbreak of food borne illness, while commercial, industrialized, GMO and chemically gown “phactory phud” [“It taste something like real food, but it ain’t.”] is responsible for every single episode of such illness.
Not counted in the statistics on food borne illness, however, is what the World Health Organization and the Food and Agricultural Organization list in their joint 2003 publication (http://www.who.int/hpr/NPH/docs/who_fao_expert_report.pdf) as PREVENTABLE, NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASES OF UNDER-NUTRITION: cancer, cardiovascular disease and stroke, diabetes and obesity.
These are also food borne diseases, Mrs. Obama, and they are killing us, and our children, at increasing rates because the oversight of the FDA, now newly empowered by this new legislation with 4000 new agents intruding on small farmers to bring their practices into “compliance” with those of the same agribiz operations which are killing us by damaging our food. This will not improve food safety!
Secret regulations (permitted in section 104) promulgated by the most inefficient and non-transparent organ of the US Government will not improve food safety. Relying on local inspectors with local interests, and on local producer organizations would continue the best food safety record in the world, from which our localities already benefit. If this bill is signed into law, the regulations issued under the new law will determine whether local production and distribution can continue to meet consumer needs. These regulations need to protect important interests, including:
a. Implementing the exemption for local production and distribution in the least burdensome way.
b. Assuring that Section 104’s “in the interest of national security” clause is not used to create secret regulations favoring Big AgBiz and,
c. No “back-door” HARMonization of our food freedoms with international Codex Alimentarius restrictions.
What will improve food safety is for the President of the United States, who, like you, is a parent, and who eats food which either makes him sick or promotes his health, to veto this bill. That would be the best outcome for the People, but not for Big AgBiz.
The industrialization of the food supply, which this bill accelerates, has brought the US epidemic degenerative, preventable, tragic and costly disease. The acceleration of this process through this unnecessary and profoundly unwise bill will aid the pharmaceutical companies and their agricultural/biotech arms, but will hasten and intensify the incidence and prevalence of the preventable illness and death, including the epidemics of diabetes, obesity, cancer and cardiovascular diseases killing us at younger and younger ages.
Mrs. Obama, I urge you in your capacities as wife, mother and First Lady, to bend every effort to urge President Obama to veto this legislation and bend his every effort to create true food safety in the United States by supporting clean agriculture, banning the use of GMO foods in the United States and restoring health to the American people by preserving their Food Freedom — restoring clean food on their tables.
Sincerely,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
www.DrRima.net
Natural Solutions Foundation
Your Voice of Global Health & Food Freedom™
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
“So this is how liberty dies… with thunderous applause.” Senator Amidala (Star Wars)
Everyone who worked so hard to hold off the massive increase in Federal food control represented by the fake “food safety” bill passed by the House [4:50 PM 12.21.10] deserves our sincerest thanks. Now it’s time to tell the White House to VETO this bad bill! Let the new House Speaker know: DO NOT FUND THIS BILL!
Veto Action Item to the White House & the House Speaker: “Michelle, please intervene… Boehner, don’t fund this bill!”
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5421
Dr. Rima’s Open Letter to Michelle Obama
https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=7879
What we gained although we lost…
While we ultimately may not have stopped this Federal power-grab in the Congress, the law that was adopted is a different creature than we would have faced had we not opposed it every step of the way. Recall, the first version of the bill that passed the House in July ’09 had severe penalties and no exemption for local production and distribution. The version that passed the Senate at the end of November 2010 not only had no such severe penalties, but did have a rather weak exemption for some local production and distribution.
It also did not have, as it might have, without our Push Back, provisions from two draconian bills that had been introduced in the Senate to prepare the way to add their terms to the final “food safety” bill; these were Sen. McCain’s discredited S.3002 which would have brought Dietary Supplements under even greater Federal control and the “criminalization of speech about food claims” bill, S.3767, introduced by the majority party “leadership” late in the session. The criminal penalty bill, while remaining a future risk, went nowhere, after over a hundred thousand messages of opposition. Opposition to McCain’s attempt to legislate Codex compliance was so great that he withdrew his own support from his own bill a month and a day after introducing it in February 2010. And the final bill adopted in December has a stronger local food exemption, with an inflation escalation clause, so the exemption may become somewhat meaningful, depending on how the final regulations are written.
Barack Should Veto Food Control Bill
Lame-ducks feathering their nests…
This is what happened in the House, after the GOP Senators turned their back on us (see: http://timyurl.com/GOPbetrayal) letting the majority party have its way late Sunday night, 12.19.10: the House gave cursory consideration to the matter and our representatives were given a few minutes to cast their votes, today, Tuesday. The vote was 216 to 144 with many Republicans failing to even vote “No!” to show their support for Food Freedom. A few brave Democrats also stood with the voters in voting against 4,000 new FDA inspectors; secret regulations; effective Federal take-over of State food inspection agencies; HARMonization with Codex Alimentarius’ restrictions one step closer…
Of course, we cannot allow this to stand. What are our next steps?
1. We are starting a campaign asking Michelle Obama, as an organic gardener, to help veto the bill and for the White House to intervene in the FDA regulation-making process to make sure that certain concerns get addressed ifthe bill is not vetoed:
a. Implementing the exemption for local production and distribution in the least burdensome way.
b. Assuring that Section 104’s “in the interest of national security” clause is not used to create secret regulations favoring Big AgBiz and,
c. No “back-door” HARMonization of our food freedoms with international Codex Alimentarius restrictions.
2. We will seek to prevent any funding for this increase in Federal power in the new Congress.
3. We continue to urge families to develop their own square foot gardens and become as independent as possible from the attempt to control our food to restrict our freedoms. See: www.FoodFreedomeJournal.org.
We are so deeply grateful for the support that the Health and Food Freedom Movement received from so many individuals and organizations across the educational/political/civic spectrum. Groups as diverse as Organic Consumers, Farmers and Gardeners; family ranch, dairy and farm groups; major Tea Party alliances, including Tea Party Patriots; Freedom Advocates (like Campaign for Liberty, Downsize DC) joined with health freedom groups such as Health Freedom USA, Natural News and Citizens for Health. There are other significant issues about which members of this transpartisan coalition will no doubt work together over the next months and years. This is an inestimable benefit in the long struggle for Liberty…
The struggle for Health and Food Freedom is far from over!
Thank you all,
Maj Gen Bert Stubblebine (US Army ret), President
Rima E. Laibow MD, Medical Director
Ralph Fucetola JD, Counsel
Health Freedom USA Trustees
PS – We discuss and review Health and Food Freedom issues on the Dr. Rima Reports, Sundays 9 to noon, Central time- www.HealthFreedomPortal.org
PS #2 – Continuing the struggle, as we will, requires ever more resources… please help us by donating here:
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“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty…”
“No one’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=7853
Please forward this link; help make it “go viral” – http://tinyurl.com/GOPbetrayal
12.20.10 – Revised Action item:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5395
The betrayal Sunday 12.19.10 of the Health and Food Freedom movement [and the Tea Party, Liberty, Farm/Ranch/Garden groups working with us] by the GOP Senators in passing S.510/HR.2751 back to the House with an unrecorded Unanimous Consent vote is unacceptable. We condemn the GOP for this betrayal.
12.21.10 – Update: Ron Paul’s office says the vote on HR.2751 will probably happen this afternoon or early evening. The word is that the vote will be very close (the food control bill last passed the House 212-206 with 17 not voting).
Follow the action in the House: http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/
Clerk’s Floor Summary: http://clerk.house.gov/floorsummary/floor.html
According to The Hill:
12.20.10 – “The Senate unexpectedly approved food safety legislation by unanimous consent Sunday evening, rescuing a bill that floated in limbo for weeks because of a clerical error.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/food-safety/134447-in-sunday-evening-surprise-senate-passes-food-safety-bill-by-unanimous-consent
Our so-called friends in the Senate had assured us they would object to any effort to pass S.510, the fake “food safety” (really, “food control”) in the last days of the lame-duck congressional session. We feel betrayed. We pledge not to forget! S.510 has been attached to HR.2751 and has the unconstitutional revenue raising clause removed.
The office of Sen Coburn, who failed to live up to his pledge to refuse any unanimous consent, tells us the majority party had enough GOP support to close off debate and force the bill through anyway. We say, that’s no excuse! Sorry Senator, the GOP has lost our trust. By making a dirty deal to avoid a recorded vote the GOP failed the test of transparency.
THE HOUSE NEXT MEETS TUESDAY… HOURS TO SAVE FOOD FREEDOM!
“Why,” one writer asked us, “did you say betrayed as though the GOP Senators were traitors to the cause of Freedom?” Why? Because that is the truth and we always seek to speak truth to power! We didn’t expect protection for our Liberties from the majority party, but the wimp-out by the GOP, which promised us so much, is not acceptable. We will not forget!
Please use this Action Item over and over again this morning and all day!
ONLY YOUR PUSH BACK CAN SAVE US NOW!
KEEP ON PUSHING BACK!
PLEASE USE THE NEW ACTION ITEM EVERY DAY…
OFTEN! And Forward It to Your Contacts!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5395
A message from General Bert:
“The sweet smell of victory… or the stench of defeat… which is in the air? We must encourage the faint-of-heart to persevere. By the end of any battle, both sides are exhausted, but the side that perseveres just a little longer… wins! That is where we are now, and that is why massive Push Back is more important now than before! We are flooding the lame-duck Congress with a clear message: “No Food Control Bill! Strip S.510/HR.2751 out of any pending bill!” Keep at it! Victory is within our reach. Keep pressing forward while you recruit your contacts to act with you now!”
Natural Solutions’ Trustee Ralph Fucetola JD’s personal take on this:
http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2010/12/senate-gop-betrayal-on-s510-personal.html
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LATE BREAKING NEWS: OMNIBUS WITH FOOD CONTROL DONE FOR!
If We continue to Push Back!
Natural Solutions Foundation
Your Voice of Global Health & Food Freedom™
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org –
The various attempts by Big AgraBiz and DC Politicians to force the fake “food safety” bill, actually the food control bill, through the Congress is failing because hundreds of thousands of messges are flooding the “lame-duck” Congress from citizens demanding: Don’t Adopt Any Bill that Includes S.510!
The counterpoint rumor is that Sen. Harry Reid is desperate to add S.510 into one of several more bills that may reach the floor of the Senate before adjourning for the Holidays…
New Action Item: Support Simple C.R.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5395
Lame Duck Congress
From the Senate Calendar: “Thursday, Dec 16, 2010 – The Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 8:36 p.m. No record votes were taken.”
From Breitbart: “Democrats controlling the Senate have abandoned a 1,924-page catchall spending measure that’s laced with homestate pet projects known as earmarks and that would have provided another $158 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan”
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9K5BA5O0&show_article=1
“Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) touts his one-page continuing resolution that would “simply continue the government through February 18th.”
From RealClearPolitics: “I would hope that it would make sense on a bipartisan basis, this one-page continuing resolution on Feb 18th as an alternative to this 2,000-page monstrosity that spends a half a billion dollars a page,” McConnell said on the Senate floor.”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/12/16/mcconnell_dems_using_christmas_break_as_an_inducement_to_pass_omnibus.htm
Congratulations Mouse Warriors!
This message from Health Freedom USA’s President, Gen. Stubblebine: “The smell of victory is in the air… we must encourage the faint-of-heart Senators to persevere. And get ready to blast ‘em if they turn-tail to run! By the end of any battle, both sides are exhausted, but the side that perseveres just a little longer… wins! That is where we are now, and that is why massive Push Back is more important now than before! We are flooding the Congress with a clear message: No New Programs in the Continuing Resolution; Strip S.510 out of any funding bill! Keep at it! Victory is within our reach. Keep pressing forward while you recruit your contacts to act with you now!”
Health Freedom USA
www.HealthFreedomPortal.org
Dr. Rima Reports: Sunday 9 to Noon, Central
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5303
In addition to the Continuing Resolution, sent to the Senate after being passed by the House (HR. 3082, which had the fake “food safety” bill S.510 hidden in it) the Senate “leadership” is considering an omnibus budget bill, crabbing together all of the 12 sectional budget bills Congress failed to pass, and putting S.510’s new food-control bureaucracy into the witches’ brew for good measure!
Opposition to the Omnibus Bill is running about 1,500 people an hour through the Health Freedom USA educate-decision-makers, easy to use, email system; just put in your zip code and a bit more info, and your emails are on their way to your Senators and the White House. Various patriot and civic groups are urging their supporters to express opposition, so the total PUSH BACK is even stronger.
The Continuing Resolution or Omnibus Bill can only pass over the minority’s objection if the majority forces the issue through cloture (limiting debate). Since the majority party lost its 60 vote super-majority, needed to invoke cloture, the only way either bill will pass is if certain faint-of-heart members of the minority party support it! It took several Senators — including Massachusetts’ new Sen. Scott Brown who was elected with Tea Party support — to pass S.510 the first time in the Senate. If these Senators hold firm, this will not happen again! If they side with the majority party, we expect the voters will remember. And even six years from now Sen. Brown will be held to the promises he ignored!
The email system’s action item against the Omnibus Budget-Busting Bill with S.510’s fake “food safety” bureaucracy tucked into it, is here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5303
Says General Stubblebine, President of Natural Solutions Foundation:
“The smell of victory is in the air… we must encourage the faint-of-heart Senators to persevere. And get ready to blast ’em if they turn-tail to run! By the end of any battle, both sides are exhausted, but the side that perseveres just a little longer… wins! That is where we are now, and that is why massive Push Back is more important now than before! We are flooding the Senate with a clear message: No New Programs in the Continuing Resolution or Omnibus Bill; Strip S.510 out of any funding bill! Keep at it! Victory is within our reach. Keep pressing forward while you recruit your contacts to act with you now!”