Post by ibzahp on Nov 20, 2008 22:38:15 GMT -5
USDA Pushing Through New Rule Giving Biotech Freedom From Regulation and Control Despite Signficant Dangers
In the waning days of the Bush Administration, the USDA is rushing to push through new regulations which are so lax that they amount to a total give-away of any regulatory oversight. The new rule surrenders any oversight of new GMO organisms, allowiing them to be grown outdoors without any precautions to prevent cross pollination of plants which produce food, drugs and industrial chemicals. The Biotech companies get to report to the USDA whether USDA needs to regulate their plants based on loose, subjective and highly imprecise criteria. These same companies would be allowed to introduce new GMO species without any testing or oversight in the future. This threatens the continued existence of both conventional and organic food supplies. This is a genie which cannot be put back into the bag once it is released. The Biotech industry knows this well.
The list goes on and on. In essence, during the White House lame duck period the food and feed stores are being given away to the Biotech industry. Although substantive last minute provisions have been added which should have triggered an extention period, the USDA has refused any extention to its comment period. We have only a few days before that comment period expires on November 23, 2008.
Please take urgent action now and notify your entire contact list to do the same. The proposed Secretary of Agriculture for the new administration is an enthusiastic friend of chemical and GMO farming so any ground gained now will stand us in better stead given that we may not have a pure food friend at the USDA. Loosing ground now just makes our battle harder later.]
Please join me in taking rapid action against this dangerous hand-over of our food supply to the very people who threaten it most.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundatiion
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
In the waning days of the Bush Administration, the USDA is rushing to push through new regulations which are so lax that they amount to a total give-away of any regulatory oversight. The new rule surrenders any oversight of new GMO organisms, allowiing them to be grown outdoors without any precautions to prevent cross pollination of plants which produce food, drugs and industrial chemicals. The Biotech companies get to report to the USDA whether USDA needs to regulate their plants based on loose, subjective and highly imprecise criteria. These same companies would be allowed to introduce new GMO species without any testing or oversight in the future. This threatens the continued existence of both conventional and organic food supplies. This is a genie which cannot be put back into the bag once it is released. The Biotech industry knows this well.
The list goes on and on. In essence, during the White House lame duck period the food and feed stores are being given away to the Biotech industry. Although substantive last minute provisions have been added which should have triggered an extention period, the USDA has refused any extention to its comment period. We have only a few days before that comment period expires on November 23, 2008.
Please take urgent action now and notify your entire contact list to do the same. The proposed Secretary of Agriculture for the new administration is an enthusiastic friend of chemical and GMO farming so any ground gained now will stand us in better stead given that we may not have a pure food friend at the USDA. Loosing ground now just makes our battle harder later.]
Please join me in taking rapid action against this dangerous hand-over of our food supply to the very people who threaten it most.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundatiion
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org