On November 5th, thousands will close their accounts with the big banks and move to small community banks and credit unions. To learn more about this event, please visit the Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=281139538577206 along with the official Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/Nov.Fifth.

You’re taking massive amounts
of antibiotics every day —
and don’t even know it

You probably already know that antibiotics aren’t perfect. Yes, they kill deadly bacteria and save lives. We can’t underestimate that. But we also know that bacteria can develop resistance to antibiotics. For this reason, taking too many antibiotics can seriously endanger your health. And now there’s news that you may be getting a huge dose of antibiotics every day without knowing it.

You don’t have to look any further than your dinner plate for the source. The FDA has recently released its first ever report on antibiotics fed to livestock. Cattle lots fed an astounding 29 million pounds – yes, pounds … not milligrams – to American livestock in 2009 alone. This is a catastrophe in the making on two counts.

First, this exposes you to an incredibly high dose of antibiotics. This, of course, increases the likelihood that you’ll catch a bug that’s resistant to antibiotics. If you do catch one of these bugs, it could be deadly.

Second, the bugs in the livestock become resistant as well. This makes the meat you buy at the store more likely to carry drug-resistant bacteria. If you don’t cook the meat properly, or you handle contaminated meat with your bare hands before cooking kills all the germs on it, these bugs can attack you.

Factory farms give their animals huge doses of antibiotics. They keep the animals alive in stressful, unsanitary conditions. If you don’t think this is serious, consider a new study from the University of Iowa. In this study, the researchers found that 64% of workers, along with 70% of the hogs at a factory farm carried the MRSA bug. MRSA is the deadly staph germ that’s resistant to common antibiotics. Clearly, the germ is spreading from animals to humans.

Action to take: You and I are hardly likely to bring down the horrific and entrenched well-funded factory farm practices destroying our health. But you can take steps to protect yourself. Buy grass-fed organic meats. These animals won’t have antibiotics, hormones, or pesticides in their meat. If enough Americans do this, the factory farms will eventually change their cruel and ignorant methods.

Yours for better health and medical freedom,

Robert J. Rowen, MD

Ref:
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/ForIndustry/UserFees/AnimalDrugUserFeeActADUFA
/UCM231851.pdf

http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/january/012309mrsa_study.html

Soundview Communication, Inc.

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Last week the Center for Food Safety filed a formal legal petition with FDA demanding that the agency require the labeling of genetically engineered foods.  The petition was the result of many months of legal work and raises several arguments showing why FDA must change its current policy and require labeling.  Now, we are spearheading a drive with over 350 other organizations and businesses in the Just Label It! Campaign, to direct one million comments to the FDA in support of our petition.

Unsuspecting consumers by the tens of millions are being allowed to purchase and consume unlabeled genetically engineered foods, despite the fact that FDA undertakes no testing of its own, instead relying only on a voluntary consultation with industry and confidential industry data to assure safety.  Internal FDA documents discovered in prior CFS litigation actually indicated the foods could pose serious risks, but those views were overruled.

Currently, up to 85 percent of U.S. corn is genetically engineered, as are 91 percent of soybeans and 88 percent of cotton (cottonseed oil is often used in food products). According to industry, up to 95% of sugar beets are now GE, although the decision to commercialize GE sugar is currently under legal challenge by CFS.  It has been estimated that upwards of 70 percent of processed foods on supermarket shelves–from soda to soup, crackers to condiments–contain genetically engineered ingredients.

Genetically engineered foods are required to be labeled in the 15 European Union nations, Russia, Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand, and many other countries around the world. The United States is one of the only countries in the world that doesn’t require labeling of GE food!

In America, we pride ourselves on having choices and making informed decisions. Under current FDA regulations, we don’t have that choice when it comes to GE ingredients in the foods we purchase and feed our families.  In fact, a recent poll released by ABC News found that 93 percent of the American public wants the federal government to require mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods. As ABC News stated, “Such near-unanimity in public opinion is rare.”

Americans have been asking Congress to pass a labeling law for more than 10 years, to no avail.  It’s time to take the fight back to FDA—bigger and louder than ever before.

Please send your comment to FDA in support of CFS’s petition and to President Obama in support of mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods!

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