The main difference between EU Food Safety and USA is that EU uses Precautionary Principle and safety needs to be proven... USA assumes lack of evidence of harm is equal to safety so products that lack testing to show harm are approved. Think 90 day rat studies vs full safety test.
For two decades US Trade Rep and WTO have pressured EU to lower their food safety standards. Every GMO crop has been added to EU with lots of arm twisting see WikiLeaks for Sec of State Hillary Clinton's Monsanto lobbying. Power of megacorps in government is measured by toxins in food.
Maybe more shocking than food additives assumed to be safe in the absence of testing the same is true of chemicals.. welcome to Rockefeller-Gates world.
Scorecared - Global Authority for Chemical Safety
Basic Testing to Identify Chemical Hazards
If an industrial chemical is allowed by law to be released into the environment, most people assume that it must have been tested and evaluated for its potential risks. Unfortunately, this is simply not true. Keeping chemical hazards under control requires information about what kinds of hazards each chemical poses. If the basic tests to check on a chemical's toxicity haven't been conducted, or if the results aren't publicly available, current laws tend to treat that chemical as if it were perfectly safe.
Spot on! Same is true for RX drugs approved for marketing by the FDA. Studies are of short duration and only healthy people not on other meds included in studies. Goal to get the RX approved and then let the patients be the lab rats. Many harmful deadly drugs have been taken off the market, but around 500 still on the market with BLACK BOX WARNING. Implying death from the drug.
I think the question is silly. They WANT us sick. There is no reason to put flame retardants in clothes, mattresses, pajamas, no reason for dyes in foods and sugar drinks, no reason for sugar drinks, no reason for processed everything, no reason for so much 'food' in a can. No reason for crap bread, cereals, no reason for spraying fruits and veggies with toxins and plastics. No reason for chemicals in water, but good reason to oxygenate water. No reason for small servings in plastic since the plastic ends up in the ocean killing animals and fish. No reason for govco to interfere with free roaming cattle. NOT their land. No reason for corporate cramming of hundreds of thousands of chickens that never see sunlight or grass. No reason for hormones and antibiotics and mark my words they will start hiding conductive, and responsive to 5G--nano self-assembling things that include living DNA in small, very small amounts—just enough to get it started, foreign life embedded into our food chain. Precursor to the mark of the beast at some much later date. No, I am not nuts, either. One vid showed nano MOVING. That means DNA is in there.
War is money. Dis-ease is money. THEY have merged the military with the pharma with the govco. Skating through our lives on the blades of media, the media whores of babylon. The rest are far worse. And even more Evil. Fallen bloodlines.
Breanna has a point re the price of food. Speaking for myself, I have been guilty of buying the cheapest chips I can, regardless of the ingredients, because it's been the only thing I could afford to buy to feed myself for a journey that day.
There is a general trend towards food becoming more expensive. In New Zealand, the price of eggs went up after they banned battery farmed eggs. I never bought these on principle, but all other eggs have gone up in price as well. Now, with the H5N1 scare, 80,000 chickens are to be culled in Otago (NZ) alone, this will further drive up the price of food. Eggs are in so many manufactured foods as well.
For a person with little money, any food is better than no food, whether it is healthy or not. Perhaps a strategy could be investigating how to bring down the price of healthier food? Though in New Zealand, it is common for the really, really poor to have long periods of time with no electricity at home, so refrigeration and cooking is not possible for some people.
With all due respect, I don’t trust these food companies. I think food companies are poisoning us. I, for the most part, have given up on trying to find safe food. I thought my beef was safer buying directly from local farms, but when I see the chem trails being sprayed all over the cows’ grazing land, I don’t think it’s safe. I mentioned before, when I purchased a bag of Italian salad mix, when I opened the bag, all I smelled were chemicals. I believe they put those chemicals in there to preserve the products longer. We think we’re eating healthy when we’re in the organic vegetable section of the grocery store, but I don’t believe they don’t use pesticides. I do not trust their organic labels. When I see fruits and vegetables from Mexico or other countries, I don’t know what they’re doing. They’re allowed to use incomplete labeling.
What about the labeling process? Is the information deceitful? What if they send product here from Mexico to CA to be packaged here and therefore put on the label packaged in the USA and say nothing about Mexico?
There are concerns regarding the safety of Apeel coated vegetables: heavy metal residues, trans fats, lack of transparency in ingredients. There has not been enough research to determine whether these products are safe. It’s invisible. It’s a Bill and Melinda Gates company called Apeel Sciences. The purpose is to extend shelf life. It’s on foods in over 65 countries, including U.S. organic vegetables and fruits. It’s used as a preserving agent and a pesticide.
Fast food, who supplies the fries? Are they GMO fries produced by Gates, who by the way purchased a large amount of farmland? Where does the meat come from, China, or some other country where we have no idea what their quality control standards are?
The FDA allows organic produce to have two-three pesticides, so is it really organic? I mentioned before they found arsenic in babies’ apple juice, and the rep from the National Fruit Growers Association stated that they follow FDA guidelines. We know how much we can trust the FDA. Even if they say a product such as apples is organic, there could still be residue arsenic remaining in the soil. When I trust the FSA, I’ll trust the information.
They ban our chicken in Europe because our poultry is treated with chlorine. U.S. corn is banned from most of the world because it’s sprayed with Atrazine because it’s known to cause cancer. Warning label on can of corn, WalMart: “Consuming this product can expose you to chemicals, including lead, which are known to the State of CA to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.”
Be careful when buying bananas!
!! We're sure you've noticed stickers on bananas at least once in your life. But have you ever wondered what they mean?
* If they have a 4-digit code on them that starts with the numbers 3 or 4, it means that the product was grown using the principle of intensive agriculture, which also implies the use of fertilizers and pesticides.
* If a product has a 5-digit code that starts with the number 9, it means that the product was grown in a conventional way, as it has been done for thousands of years. This method is now called "organic", in other words without the use of pesticides and fertilizers.
* If a product has a 5-digit code that starts with the number 8, it means that the product is genetically modified or commonly known as GMO.
The NIH is important to liberate the science. The science needs to be done and freely debated. The safety levels need to be based on science we can trust. There will never be a risk free food supply. Anybody that has tried to grow a garden knows all the threats to production. Insects, animals, diseases, weeds, poor soil. Any mass production almost certainly has to use chemicals that have risks. The task for regulators is to minimize the risks.
The main difference between EU Food Safety and USA is that EU uses Precautionary Principle and safety needs to be proven... USA assumes lack of evidence of harm is equal to safety so products that lack testing to show harm are approved. Think 90 day rat studies vs full safety test.
For two decades US Trade Rep and WTO have pressured EU to lower their food safety standards. Every GMO crop has been added to EU with lots of arm twisting see WikiLeaks for Sec of State Hillary Clinton's Monsanto lobbying. Power of megacorps in government is measured by toxins in food.
Maybe more shocking than food additives assumed to be safe in the absence of testing the same is true of chemicals.. welcome to Rockefeller-Gates world.
Scorecared - Global Authority for Chemical Safety
Basic Testing to Identify Chemical Hazards
If an industrial chemical is allowed by law to be released into the environment, most people assume that it must have been tested and evaluated for its potential risks. Unfortunately, this is simply not true. Keeping chemical hazards under control requires information about what kinds of hazards each chemical poses. If the basic tests to check on a chemical's toxicity haven't been conducted, or if the results aren't publicly available, current laws tend to treat that chemical as if it were perfectly safe.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120917041002/http://scorecard.goodguide.com/chemical-profiles/chems-profile-descriptions.tcl#safety_assessment
Spot on! Same is true for RX drugs approved for marketing by the FDA. Studies are of short duration and only healthy people not on other meds included in studies. Goal to get the RX approved and then let the patients be the lab rats. Many harmful deadly drugs have been taken off the market, but around 500 still on the market with BLACK BOX WARNING. Implying death from the drug.
I think the question is silly. They WANT us sick. There is no reason to put flame retardants in clothes, mattresses, pajamas, no reason for dyes in foods and sugar drinks, no reason for sugar drinks, no reason for processed everything, no reason for so much 'food' in a can. No reason for crap bread, cereals, no reason for spraying fruits and veggies with toxins and plastics. No reason for chemicals in water, but good reason to oxygenate water. No reason for small servings in plastic since the plastic ends up in the ocean killing animals and fish. No reason for govco to interfere with free roaming cattle. NOT their land. No reason for corporate cramming of hundreds of thousands of chickens that never see sunlight or grass. No reason for hormones and antibiotics and mark my words they will start hiding conductive, and responsive to 5G--nano self-assembling things that include living DNA in small, very small amounts—just enough to get it started, foreign life embedded into our food chain. Precursor to the mark of the beast at some much later date. No, I am not nuts, either. One vid showed nano MOVING. That means DNA is in there.
War is money. Dis-ease is money. THEY have merged the military with the pharma with the govco. Skating through our lives on the blades of media, the media whores of babylon. The rest are far worse. And even more Evil. Fallen bloodlines.
Breanna has a point re the price of food. Speaking for myself, I have been guilty of buying the cheapest chips I can, regardless of the ingredients, because it's been the only thing I could afford to buy to feed myself for a journey that day.
There is a general trend towards food becoming more expensive. In New Zealand, the price of eggs went up after they banned battery farmed eggs. I never bought these on principle, but all other eggs have gone up in price as well. Now, with the H5N1 scare, 80,000 chickens are to be culled in Otago (NZ) alone, this will further drive up the price of food. Eggs are in so many manufactured foods as well.
For a person with little money, any food is better than no food, whether it is healthy or not. Perhaps a strategy could be investigating how to bring down the price of healthier food? Though in New Zealand, it is common for the really, really poor to have long periods of time with no electricity at home, so refrigeration and cooking is not possible for some people.
We also have to fight for RFK, Jr. Go to govtrack.us to get your reps’ email addresses, phone numbers and let them know how you feel.
With all due respect, I don’t trust these food companies. I think food companies are poisoning us. I, for the most part, have given up on trying to find safe food. I thought my beef was safer buying directly from local farms, but when I see the chem trails being sprayed all over the cows’ grazing land, I don’t think it’s safe. I mentioned before, when I purchased a bag of Italian salad mix, when I opened the bag, all I smelled were chemicals. I believe they put those chemicals in there to preserve the products longer. We think we’re eating healthy when we’re in the organic vegetable section of the grocery store, but I don’t believe they don’t use pesticides. I do not trust their organic labels. When I see fruits and vegetables from Mexico or other countries, I don’t know what they’re doing. They’re allowed to use incomplete labeling.
What about the labeling process? Is the information deceitful? What if they send product here from Mexico to CA to be packaged here and therefore put on the label packaged in the USA and say nothing about Mexico?
There are concerns regarding the safety of Apeel coated vegetables: heavy metal residues, trans fats, lack of transparency in ingredients. There has not been enough research to determine whether these products are safe. It’s invisible. It’s a Bill and Melinda Gates company called Apeel Sciences. The purpose is to extend shelf life. It’s on foods in over 65 countries, including U.S. organic vegetables and fruits. It’s used as a preserving agent and a pesticide.
Fast food, who supplies the fries? Are they GMO fries produced by Gates, who by the way purchased a large amount of farmland? Where does the meat come from, China, or some other country where we have no idea what their quality control standards are?
The FDA allows organic produce to have two-three pesticides, so is it really organic? I mentioned before they found arsenic in babies’ apple juice, and the rep from the National Fruit Growers Association stated that they follow FDA guidelines. We know how much we can trust the FDA. Even if they say a product such as apples is organic, there could still be residue arsenic remaining in the soil. When I trust the FSA, I’ll trust the information.
They ban our chicken in Europe because our poultry is treated with chlorine. U.S. corn is banned from most of the world because it’s sprayed with Atrazine because it’s known to cause cancer. Warning label on can of corn, WalMart: “Consuming this product can expose you to chemicals, including lead, which are known to the State of CA to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.”
Be careful when buying bananas!
!! We're sure you've noticed stickers on bananas at least once in your life. But have you ever wondered what they mean?
* If they have a 4-digit code on them that starts with the numbers 3 or 4, it means that the product was grown using the principle of intensive agriculture, which also implies the use of fertilizers and pesticides.
* If a product has a 5-digit code that starts with the number 9, it means that the product was grown in a conventional way, as it has been done for thousands of years. This method is now called "organic", in other words without the use of pesticides and fertilizers.
* If a product has a 5-digit code that starts with the number 8, it means that the product is genetically modified or commonly known as GMO.
The NIH is important to liberate the science. The science needs to be done and freely debated. The safety levels need to be based on science we can trust. There will never be a risk free food supply. Anybody that has tried to grow a garden knows all the threats to production. Insects, animals, diseases, weeds, poor soil. Any mass production almost certainly has to use chemicals that have risks. The task for regulators is to minimize the risks.