All About Where Vitamin Supplements Come From
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All About Where Vitamin Supplements Come From
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Monday, June 13, 2011
Supreme Court decision on GMO Alfalfa a victory for Center for Food Safety and farmers
I found this and thought that everyone should know what is going on with our food.
The United States Supreme Court announced its decision today in Monsanto v. Geerston Farms, the first genetically modified crop case ever brought before the Supreme Court. Although the High Court decision reverses parts of the lower courts’ rulings, the judgment holds that the ban on planting Roundup Ready Alfalfa still stands until and unless future deregulation by the Agency occurs. This is a major victory for the Center for Food Safety and the Farmers and Consumers it represents!
In the majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito, the Court held: “In sum…the vacatur of APHIS’s deregulation decision means that virtually no RRA (Roundup Ready Alfalfa) can be grown or sold until such time as a new deregulation decision is in place, and we also know that any party aggrieved by a hypothetical future deregulation decision will have ample opportunity to challenge it, and to seek appropriate preliminary relief, if and when such a decision is made.” (Opinion at p. 22).
The Court also held that:
- Any further attempt to commercialize RRA even in part may require an EIS subject to legal challenge.
- The Court further recognized that the threat of transgenic contamination is harmful and onerous to organic and conventional farmers and that the injury allows them to challenge future biotech crop commercializations in court.
USDA indicated at the Supreme Court argument that full deregulation is about a year away and that they will not pursue a partial deregulation in the interim. Any new attempt at deregulation in full or part will still be subject to legal challenge.
Many of you may have read press this morning reporting that the 7-1 decision announced by the Supreme Court today went entirely in Monsanto's favor. Not to our surprise, Monsanto’s PR machine is working hard to overpower the truth in today's decision in the first-ever Supreme Court case on genetically engineered crops (Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms). While the decision is complicated, this Court opinion is in many ways a victory for CFS and a defeat against Monsanto—especially given that it is still illegal to sell or plant GMO alfalfa.
CFS’s Executive Director, Andrew Kimbrell authored an article in today's Huffington Post
Despite what Monsanto is claiming—and what many mainstream media outlets reported earlier this morning—today’s ruling isn’t even close to the victory they were hoping for. Generally speaking, Monsanto asked the Supreme Court to rule on three main issues: (1) to lift the injunction on GMO alfalfa; (2) to allow the planting and sale of GMO alfalfa; (3) to rule that contamination from GMO crops not be considered irreparable harm.
In fact, the court only ruled on the first request which it did affirm by stating that the injunction was overly broad and should be overturned. However, the Court ruled in CFS's favor on the other two issues, which in many ways are more important as the fact remains that the planting and sale of GMO alfalfa remains illegal. The Supreme Court ruled that an injunction against planting was simply unnecessary since, under lower courts’ rulings, Roundup Ready Alfalfa became a regulated item and illegal to plant. In other words, the injunction was “overkill’ because our victory in lower federal court determined that USDA violated the National Environmental Protection Act and other environmental laws when it approved Roundup Ready alfalfa. The court felt that voiding the USDA’s decision to make the crop legally available for sale was enough.
The Center is victorious in this case in several other ways: most importantly, the High Court did not rule on several arguments presented by Monsanto about the application of federal environmental law. As a result, the Court did not make any ruling that could have been hurtful to National Environmental Policy Act or any other environmental laws. In addition, the Court opinion supported the Center’s argument that gene flow is a serious environmental and economic threat. This means that genetic contamination from GMOs can still be considered harm under the law, both from an environmental and economic perspective, another huge victory for CFS.
We could not have gone all the way to the Supreme Court without your support—thank you!Your letters, phone calls and donations have been invaluable in the efforts to ban GE alfalfa. We will keep you updated on any Agency attempts to deregulate GE alfalfa and on the ongoing EIS process. In the meantime, if you have not already done so, please take a moment to contact your Congressional representatives and ask them to sign the “Dear Colleague” letter circulating in the U.S. House and Senate urging USDA to ban GE alfalfa.
Further background information on the history of this case and scientific studies are available athttp://truefoodnow.org/
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Soothe Spring Allergies: 10 Food and Herb Fixes for Allergy Relief
Soothe Spring Allergies: 10 Food and Herb Fixes for Allergy Relief
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What we see we Eat
Fast Fact of the Week (New Feature): 60% of Americans
think that they are getting enough whole grains in
their diet, but only 5% actually are.
think that they are getting enough whole grains in
their diet, but only 5% actually are.
peer-reviewed scientific journals. But, occasionally I
come across an article in the popular literature that I
just can't resist sharing with you.
The article "Under the Influence" in the May 2011 issue
of Nutrition Action is a perfect example.
It is an interview with Dr. Brian Wansink, who has
devoted his career to studying how external clues
influence our eating patterns.
Here are some examples of his studies:
- He gave moviegoers who had just eaten dinner either a
big bag or a small bag of stale popcorn. Those given
the big bag ate 34% more.
- He put clear glass dishes of candy either on a
secretaries desk or 6 feet away on a cabinet. The
secretaries consumed 125 more calories from candy when
it was on their desk.
- He was asked to consult for a cafeteria serving
health food because they weren't attracting enough
customers. He just advised them to change the names of
their menu items (eg "Succulent Tuscany Pasta" instead
of "Italian Pasta"). Sales increased by 27%.
- When he used a refillable soup bowl (it never goes
below half full) people ate 73% more soup than those
given a regular bowl of soup. When he asked the people
with the refillable bowl if they were full, they
replied "How could I be. I only ate half a bowl of
soup".
- When he took a batch of trail mix and labeled some as
"low fat" and some as "regular" people ate 21% to 46%
more calories of the "low fat" trail mix.
- When he showed people an Italian sandwich and told
them that it was from either "Jim's Hearty Sandwich
Shop" or from "Good Karma Healthy Foods", people
estimated the calories as 24% lower if they thought it
came from Good Karma.
- When he took students on a walk around a lake before
dinner, they ate more calories at dinner if they were
told that it was an exercise walk than if they were
told that it was a sight-seeing walk - and most of the
extra calories came from dessert.
And the fascinating thing is that it doesn't matter how
intelligent or well informed you are.
- He did a study with 60 graduate students. Just before
winter break he gave them a lecture on external eating
cues in which he specifically told them that they would
eat more from a big bowl of Chex Mix than from a small
bowl. The students then spent 90 minutes in small group
exercises designed to show them how to overcome
external eating cues.
After winter break he invited those same students to a
Super Bowl party in which he divided them into two
rooms and gave them, you guessed it, either large or
small bowls of Chex Mix. The ones given the large bowls
ate 53% more!
- He gave the same lecture to a meeting of The American
Diabetes Association (Those are the experts) and then
repeated the same experiment with them - and they still
ate more from the large bowls.
So now you know that overeating is mindlessly dependent
on external eating cues, AND that you can't avoid being
influenced by those external clues even if you are
intelligent and motivated!
So what can you do?
Dr. Wansink recommends planning ahead.
- Serve your food on small plates and don't leave food
lying around where you can see it or get to it easily.
- If you bring home a box or bag of snack food
(hopefully healthy snack food), divide it up into
healthy portion sizes as soon as you bring it home.
- Put the healthy food choices in the front of your
refrigerator or cupboard where you will see them easily
and hide the unhealthy foods in the back (or don't
bring them home to begin with).
To Your Health!
Dr. Stephen Chaney
Thursday, June 2, 2011
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