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Vitality of natural food

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Energy of organic food

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Natural food and nutrition public exchange

... years or so we had no choice but to gather and hunt food. Recently, we supplemented gatherer hunting with growing and exchanging food. This public exchange is about exchanging natural food online. Natural health food should mean eating organic produce from organic farms.

Organic Farming, Organic Labeling, Organic Standards, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Farming

Organic food, including rising demand for organic meat, will be the hottest trend in 2003, according to Food Network's chefs and culinary staff.

Real Mealz, a chain of organic fast food restaurants, is being launched in the Netherlands and Germany, with the first outlet opening in Germany (Source: www.organicTS.com). Research may result in further organic production

The good news is that more and more people across the US-and the world-are turning to healthier and more ecologically and ethically responsible lifestyles. Organic and sustainable agriculture practices are sweeping the globe. At current rates of growth, most food sold at the grocery store level in the US, Canada, and Europe will be organic by 2020. Organic clothing, body care, and other products are also gaining momentum. Ecological medicine and holistic healing practices are being embraced by millions of people. As global awareness spreads, companies promoting Frankenfood and crops, like Monsanto, or junk food, like McDonald's, are losing ground. Companies trying to greenwash their exploitation of farm workers or garment workers, like Starbucks or Nike, are coming under increasing scrutiny. Hazardous technologies like industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, and nuclear energy are being questioned as never before, along with climate-disrupting energy and transportation policies. And of course, war, so-called free trade, and out-of-control corporate globalization, are under increasing fire.

The bad news is that the road to an organic, peaceful, and sustainable future is filled with formidable roadblocks, both political and economic, which extend all the way from Main Street and our local city councils to the White House, the global marketplace and the World Trade Organization. Many people have become discouraged, not even bothering to vote, either with their consumer dollars or their ballots. One of our primary tasks therefore, is not just to criticize what's obviously wrong with the status quo, but to sow the seeds of hope-to identify and support the marketplace and political alternatives which already exist, or which we can help to create with our friends, families, and neighbors.

The good news is that more and more people across the US-and the world-are turning to healthier and more ecologically and ethically responsible lifestyles. Organic and sustainable agriculture practices are sweeping the globe. At current rates of growth, most food sold at the grocery store level in the US, Canada, and Europe will be organic by 2020. Organic clothing, body care, and other products are also gaining momentum. Ecological medicine and holistic healing practices are being embraced by millions of people. As global awareness spreads, companies promoting Frankenfood and crops, like Monsanto, or junk food, like McDonald's, are losing ground. Companies trying to greenwash their exploitation of farm workers or garment workers, like Starbucks or Nike, are coming under increasing scrutiny. Hazardous technologies like industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, and nuclear energy are being questioned as never before, along with climate-disrupting energy and transportation policies. And of course, war, so-called free trade, and out-of-control corporate globalization, are under increasing fire.

What Everyone Needs To Know about Genetically Engineered Food

This is a handbook on everything you need to know. It is still being completed but there is enough there already to make this a really good read. So browse the contents ... and learn about the dangers of genetic engineering.

Introduction

Perhaps more than with any other modern technology, the public intuitively feels that genetic engineering of food has the potential for great danger. In public opinion surveys conducted all over the world, a majority of the population have expressed a need for strict controls, labelling, and in many cases a moratorium or a ban. Biotechnology companies have sought to change public opinion through educational programmes and have especially targeted schools and news media with exciting but often misleading promises of potential medical and environmental applications of genetic engineering.

Public disquiet has persisted and biotechnology companies have decided to adopt a low news profile on the release of genetically engineered food. This follows the advice of public relations firms that 'no news is good news' - what the mind doesn't know the heart can't grieve over. So very quietly genetically engineered food and additives are taking over as ingredients in processed food. Already 60% of supermarket food contain genetically engineered ingredients. World wide over 5,000 genetically engineered varieties are being developed to come on the market, but you seldom read about it and almost no food with genetically engineered ingredients are labelled as such.

At the same time, there has been a concerted attempt to undermine the credibility of biotechnology critics. They have been labelled as uninformed or scare-mongers. In reality, many critics of genetically engineered food are well informed and well qualified scientists or medical experts. To counteract them, biotechnology companies have successfully lobbied government agencies to limit the composition of regulatory bodies governing the approval of novel food to biotechnology experts. Medical advisors, who would be more cautious with public health issues, are excluded from committees on the grounds that they are not 'up to date' with biotechnology research. In effect, only those already committed to biotech food have been empowered to regulate their introduction.

In reality, biotechnology researchers are poorly qualified to assess potential impact on public health. They lack an impartial viewpoint and they lack proper knowledge of medical risk assessment. The result has been the rapid of introduction of genetically engineered food without any long term testing of their effect on human health. Many medical doctors are appalled and realise that we are facing a public health crisis that will potentially dwarf any previous medical emergency. In Germany, the Žrztetag - the medical doctors association with 335,000 members - successfully called on the European Union to reconsider its initial decision to allow GE food to be introduced without labelling. In New Zealand, the environmental working party of the Royal College of New Zealand General Practitioners has called for mandatory labelling of GE food.

This book is to inform the public of the depth of scientific knowledge of those calling for a moratorium on the release of genetically engineered food. It will serve as an objective back-up to reinforce their intuitive opinion that we should be cautious with these novel food. In fact the evidence for caution is overwhelming. No biotechnology advocate could win any public debate when faced with the evidence. Natural Law Party representatives have debated with biotechnology proponents throughout New Zealand and all over the world at forums in universities and at public meetings with an independent chairman. After each speaker from opposing viewpoints has had the chance to talk and answer questions, the audience always supports the need for more caution.

Now biotechnology firms have started to refuse our invitations to debate. The are following their strategy - no news will be good news for them. The public will not be able to protest unless they are informed. However, if public intuition is armed with this objective evidence, we will be successful in protecting the public from health hazards. At the same time, the public will be able to inform their MPs of the objective reasons to be very cautious about novel food.

Unfortunately, our politicians have not taken the time to inform themselves properly on this issue. Therefore, they have tended to side with commercial interests who reassure them that everything will be OK with industry, as long as no restrictions to free trade or requirements for mandatory labelling are introduced. Without regulations, the truth is that the whole population will be exposed to unprecedented health risks. Once released, genetically engineered food are able to reproduce themselves and cross breed with their relatives. Inevitable mistakes will be passed on to all subsequent generations. Unlike nuclear or chemical pollution, genetic pollution can never be recalled from the environment. It will spread without limit.

This book provides all the evidence for health and environmental hazards and an in depth look at what we can do to avoid the disaster that is already taking shape. You can use the materials from this book to inform your local supermarket or your MP of the dangers. It tells you what food to avoid. The scientific references are there for you to refute the false promises of the biotechnology public relations machine. This book can be used by schools to provide a balanced view on a new technology that is already affecting us all.

After a hundred years of rising environmental pollution, pesticide use, and food mechanisation, we face an unprecedented epidemic of modern illness. For example, 48.2% of US men will get cancer at some time in their lives, while New Zealand has among the highest rates of breast cancer and asthma in the world. Genetic engineering is potentially more hazardous than anything we have faced to date. Governments have failed to protect their people. Therefore, the Natural Law Party addresses directly the question of how to improve our political system to make it responsive to the health and safety needs of the whole population and how to improve global conditions of trade. These are currently regulated by the World Health Organisation (WHO), whose Codex committee regulates food labelling, and by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), whose General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) has exposed countries to a greater influence from transnational corporations. The Natural Law Party holds that "life should not be sacrificed for economics". Regulation of world trade needs to protect life and the economic interests of all people.

Information, protest, scientific inquiry, or political change on their own will not result in reform sufficient to protect the population. All these methods have been applied throughout the twentieth century with little success. It is obvious that there is some knowledge that is lacking. Consciousness is the basis of knowledge. Therefore in Part One we present the most fundamental principles and understanding of consciousness and in Chapter 17, we present the technology of consciousness - the Maharishi Effect - to change the incoherent climate of collective consciousness that has allowed a dangerous new technology to develop almost unchecked and unregulated. The understanding of the Natural Law Party about consciousness is unique in its depth and wisdom. All thought and action is projected from the ground of consciousness. Therefore a technology of consciousness alone will be able to change the direction of increasing problems in the administration of society towards increasing orderliness, happiness, and integration of life.