FDA Means to Let Food Companies Off the Hook AGAIN
We hope you are having a wonderful holiday and get a chance to rest. Unfortunately, the FDA never ceases their shenanigans.
Below is a link to an article on the FDA's current redefining of "healthy" only using nutritional content for parameters. And then not enforcing it.
http://www.faegrebd.com/fda-to-redefine-healthy-claim-for-food-labeling
"While FDA is considering how to redefine the term “healthy” as a nutrient content claim, food manufacturers can continue to use the term “healthy” on foods that meet the current regulatory definition. FDA is also issuing a guidance document stating that FDA does not intend to enforce the regulatory requirements for products that use the term if certain criteria described in the guidance document are met"
This means by only classifying "healthy" under NUTRITIONAL content, they avoid GMO and pesticides, continuing to allow them in "healthy" food.
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Even Google knows better: If you search for "Healthy Foods" what shows up are whole foods on the left, not processed food such as Cheerios, on the right which has high residue levels of glyphosate.
Also the FDA's decision to "redefine healthy" successfully delays the outcome of any legal action against food companies,
"The FDA’s action on “healthy” may prove meaningful for food companies in a number of ways. For example, companies currently defending lawsuits challenging “healthy” on labels may consider seeking a stay of litigation pending FDA’s final action"
Outrageous! Their "final action" will takes YEARS. And even then, because the FDA won't enforce it, legally, it will be nearly impossible to hold food companies to account for their claims.
Please ask your supporters and friends to make comments here:
Please tell the FDA to DO THEIR JOB!
In the meantime, while our regulatory agencies stoop to new levels of low, irresponsibility, and corruption we once again assert that the women and moms who make 90% of the household choices are the ones that will turn this around.
The fact is that if we don't buy it, the food companies cannot sell it.
All we need to do is empower women and moms and we can transform the food system and the future of America
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With Love,
Zen and MAA Team
My comment to the FDA below:
Samsel on Widespread Glyphosate Contamination
If there was ever a time when I wanted to stick my fingers in my ears and go "LA la la la la la la...I can't hear yooooou!!!!"
It was when scientist Anthony Samsel said: "There are some 160 of our foods contaminated with glyphosate."(Listed below) Samsel is a chemist, retired Arthur D. Little Inventor and co author of the paper : "Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases." The Samsel-Seneff paper can be found at the journal-Entropy, ISSN 1099-4300 www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy
Glyphosate is the active chemical ingredient in Roundup, a registered trademark of Monsanto, the most widely used herbicide in the world. Hundreds of millions of pounds of this chemical are used each year. It is used on parks, school yards and city landscaping. It is sprayed on the soil prior to planting crops that are raised in a no-till non-organicproduction system. It is also used as a desiccant and applied preharvest on a wide number of crops destined for the food chain. Glyphosate based herbicides are sprayed directly GMO plants. GMO plants are genetically engineered to with stand glyphosate herbicide. The animals and the people that eat these crops that have absorbed glyphosate either through the soil or from being repeatedly sprayed with glyphosate are subjected to numerous health concerns.
Glyphosate is designed to kill all plants that it touches except those that are genetically designed to withstand it. It does this by chelating or "tying up " vital nutrients in the plant. It ties up; calcium, magnesium, manganese, zinc, iron, copper,nickel, cobalt, boron, molybdenum, selenium and potassium and makes them unavailable. Glyphosate also kills good microorganisms in the soil (that would normally protect the plant from disease) and causes a rapid growth of bad organisms that cause disease that kills the weeds. The weed dies because it essentially has a weakened defense system. As one scientist said "It basically gives the plant AIDS, weakens it's immune system".
We are now learning that glyphosate can do the same thing to us. By eating food that contains glyphosate residue we have glyphosate in our bodies. Glyphosate attacks the beneficial microorganisms in our digestive tract and triggers a host of varying health issues for us and our children.
Thankfully we now have the Samsel and Seneff scientific paper “Glyphosate and Modern Diseases” this 43 page peer reviewed scientific paper shows that glyphosate has "insidious" effects on the American population. Especially our children. .
Here is Anothny Samsel in his own words in an interview with Zen Honeycutt, Moms Across America:
EPA limits for glyphosate residues as published in the Federal Register.
§ 180.364 Glyphosate tolerances for residues.
(a) General. (1) Tolerances are established for residues of glyphosate, including its metabolites and degradates, in or on the commodities listed below resulting from the application of glyphosate, the isopropylamine salt of glyphosate, the ethanolamine salt of glyphosate, the dimethylamine salt of glyphosate, the ammonium salt of glyphosate, and the potassium salt of glyphosate. Compliance with the following tolerance levels is to be determined by measuring only glyphosate ( N- (phosphonomethyl)glycine).
Commodity |
Parts per million |
Acerola |
0.2 |
Alfalfa, seed |
0.5 |
Almond, hulls |
25 |
Aloe vera |
0.5 |
Ambarella |
0.2 |
Animal feed, nongrass, group 18 |
400 |
Artichoke, globe |
0.2 |
Asparagus |
0.5 |
Atemoya |
0.2 |
Avocado |
0.2 |
Bamboo, shoots |
0.2 |
Banana |
0.2 |
Barley, bran |
30 |
Beet, sugar, dried pulp |
25 |
Beet, sugar, roots |
10 |
Beet, sugar, tops |
10 |
Berry and small fruit, group 13-07 |
0.20 |
Betelnut |
1.0 |
Biriba |
0.2 |
Blimbe |
0.2 |
Breadfruit |
0.2 |
Cacao bean, bean |
0.2 |
Cactus, fruit |
0.5 |
Cactus, pads |
0.5 |
Canistel |
0.2 |
Canola, seed |
20 |
Carrot |
5.0 |
Chaya |
1.0 |
Cherimoya |
0.2 |
Citrus, dried pulp |
1.5 |
Coconut |
0.1 |
Coffee, bean, green |
1.0 |
Corn, pop, grain |
0.1 |
Corn, sweet, kernel plus cob with husk removed |
3.5 |
Cotton, gin byproducts |
210 |
Custard apple |
0.2 |
Date, dried fruit |
0.2 |
Dokudami |
2.0 |
Durian |
0.2 |
Epazote |
1.3 |
Feijoa |
0.2 |
Fig |
0.2 |
Fish |
0.25 |
Fruit, citrus, group 10-10 |
0.50 |
Fruit, pome, group 11-10 |
0.20 |
Fruit, stone, group 12 |
0.2 |
Galangal, roots |
0.2 |
Ginger, white, flower |
0.2 |
Gourd, buffalo, seed |
0.1 |
Governor's plum |
0.2 |
Gow kee, leaves |
0.2 |
Grain, cereal, forage, fodder and straw, group 16, except field corn, forage and field corn, stover |
100 |
Grain, cereal, group 15 except field corn, popcorn, rice, sweet corn, and wild rice |
30 |
Grass, forage, fodder and hay, group 17 |
300 |
Guava |
0.2 |
Herbs subgroup 19A |
0.2 |
Hop, dried cones |
7.0 |
Ilama |
0.2 |
Imbe |
0.2 |
Imbu |
0.2 |
Jaboticaba |
0.2 |
Jackfruit |
0.2 |
Kava, roots |
0.2 |
Kenaf, forage |
200 |
Leucaena, forage |
200 |
Longan |
0.2 |
Lychee |
0.2 |
Mamey apple |
0.2 |
Mango |
0.2 |
Mangosteen |
0.2 |
Marmaladebox |
0.2 |
Mioga, flower |
0.2 |
Noni |
0.20 |
Nut, pine |
1.0 |
Nut, tree, group 14 |
1.0 |
Oilseeds, group 20, except canola |
40 |
Okra |
0.5 |
Olive |
0.2 |
Oregano, Mexican, leaves |
2.0 |
Palm heart |
0.2 |
Palm heart, leaves |
0.2 |
Palm, oil |
0.1 |
Papaya |
0.2 |
Papaya, mountain |
0.2 |
Passionfruit |
0.2 |
Pawpaw |
0.2 |
Pea, dry |
8.0 |
Peanut |
0.1 |
Peanut, hay |
0.5 |
Pepper leaf, fresh leaves |
0.2 |
Peppermint, tops |
200 |
Perilla, tops |
1.8 |
Persimmon |
0.2 |
Pineapple |
0.1 |
Pistachio |
1.0 |
Pomegranate |
0.2 |
Pulasan |
0.2 |
Quinoa, grain |
5.0 |
Rambutan |
0.2 |
Rice, grain |
0.1 |
Rice, wild, grain |
0.1 |
Rose apple |
0.2 |
Sapodilla |
0.2 |
Sapote, black |
0.2 |
Sapote, mamey |
0.2 |
Sapote, white |
0.2 |
Shellfish |
3.0 |
Soursop |
0.2 |
Spanish lime |
0.2 |
Spearmint, tops |
200 |
Spice subgroup 19B |
7.0 |
Star apple |
0.2 |
Starfruit |
0.2 |
Stevia, dried leaves |
1.0 |
Sugar apple |
0.2 |
Sugarcane, cane |
2.0 |
Sugarcane, molasses |
30 |
Surinam cherry |
0.2 |
Sweet potato |
3.0 |
Tamarind |
0.2 |
Tea, dried |
1.0 |
Tea, instant |
7.0 |
Teff, forage |
100 |
Teff, grain |
5.0 |
Teff, hay |
100 |
Ti, leaves |
0.2 |
Ti, roots |
0.2 |
Ugli fruit |
0.5 |
Vegetable, bulb, group 3-07 |
0.20 |
Vegetable, cucurbit, group 9 |
0.5 |
Vegetable, foliage of legume, subgroup 7A, except soybean |
0.2 |
Vegetable, fruiting, group 8-10 (except okra) |
0.10 |
Vegetable, leafy, brassica, group 5 |
0.2 |
Vegetable, leafy, except brassica, group 4 |
0.2 |
Vegetable, leaves of root and tuber, group 2, except sugar beet tops |
0.2 |
Vegetable, legume, group 6 except soybean and dry pea |
5.0 |
Vegetables, root and tuber, group 1, except carrot, sweet potato, and sugar beet |
0.20 |
Wasabi, roots |
0.2 |
Water spinach, tops |
0.2 |
Watercress, upland |
0.2 |
Wax jambu |
0.2 |
Yacon, tuber |
0.2 |
(2) Tolerances are established for residues of glyphosate, including its metabolites and degradates, in or on the commodities listed below resulting from the application of glyphosate, the isopropylamine salt of glyphosate, the ethanolamine salt of glyphosate, the dimethylamine salt of glyphosate, the ammonium salt of glyphosate, and the potassium salt of glyphosate. Compliance with the following tolerance levels is to be determined by measuring only glyphosate ( N- (phosphonomethyl)glycine) and its metabolite N- acetyl-glyphosate ( N- acetyl- N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine; calculated as the stoichiometric equivalent of glyphosate).
Commodity |
Parts per Million |
Cattle, meat byproducts |
5.0 |
Corn, field, forage |
13 |
Corn, field, grain |
5.0 |
Corn, field, stover |
100 |
Egg |
0.05 |
Goat, meat byproducts |
5.0 |
Grain aspirated fractions |
310.0 |
Hog, meat byproducts |
5.0 |
Horse, meat byproducts |
5.0 |
Poultry, meat |
0.10 |
Poultry, meat byproducts |
1.0 |
Sheep, meat byproducts |
5.0 |
Soybean, forage |
100.0 |
Soybean, hay |
200.0 |
Soybean, hulls |
120.0 |
Soybean, seed |
20.0 |
(b) Section 18 emergency exemptions. [Reserved]
(c) Tolerances with regional registrations. [Reserved]
(d) Indirect or inadvertent residues. [Reserved]
[45 FR 64911, Oct. 1, 1980]
Editorial Note: For Federal Register citations affecting § 180.364, see the List of CFR Sections Affected, which appears in the Finding Aids section of the printed volume and at www.fdsys.gov .
What can we do?
Eat organic. Budget. Cook from scratch. Cook in bulk and freeze. Bring your own food to parties and gatherings. Tell your Congress people about this. Grow your own. Share the food you grow with your neighbors and build community.
It's time to reconnect to our food. The future of the human race depends on the actions we take today.
Zen Honeycutt
* Study that show sthat Glyphosate causes breast cancer in the parts per trillion: Dr. Thongprakaisang: Glyphosate Induces Growth in Human Breast Cancer Cells; http://gmoevidence.com/dr-thongprakaisang-glyphosate-induces-growth-in-human-breast-cancer-cells/
How To Be a Speaker about GMO's
Last night, after doing a talk for 18 awesome Moms and Dads I was told I should train others. I thought I would share my response as a blog post for all the Moms who want to know how to share about about GMOs and just don't know where to start. Feel free to copy, paste and formulate your own outline or talk.
First of I want you to know one thing. There is no "right way" that I have or anyone else has. The way to do a talk in front of others is to trust yourself. You have everything it takes and all the love in the world to do a perfect talk in front of your best friends or in front of thousands. Now how can you say that? You might ask...you don't even know me...you don't know that I am shy, or soft spoken, or I just can't look people in the eye...I can't be a speaker. Phooey to that, is what I say.
I know you. You are a Mom. You love with ever fiber of your being where you don't even know there are fibers. Your commitment goes to unknowable depths and then some. You are more powerful and more clear and more moving than any fancy advertising or well oiled marketing report ever. When you are present to that love you have for your children, you can do anything. So my "training advice"is that you set aside any chatter in your head that you can't do this or don't know how and take a deep breath. Just think about how adorable your kids are and how you would like them to experience the profound love that you have for them, for their own child one day, that they created and birthed, and then get on with it.
To be a speaker about GMOs:
America's GMO Movie Night March 30
If you are reading this you probably already know about GMOs, but you also probably have a lot of friends or family who either don't or seem like they don't want to. What if we shared with them in a FUN way and have GMO Movie Nights across America on Saturday night, March 30, in two weeks, with GMO Free snacks in the comfort of your own home?
Here's the thing. It's not up to someone else. They are not going to find out about GMOs from their grocery store, mainstream TV news or doctor. Those channels are all too heavily influenced by the drugs companies like Bayer, Astra Senca Syngenta and Phizer Pharmaceutical Upjohn ( parent company of Monsanto) which ALL make chemicals, herbicides and pesticides. Those very profitable chemicals are sprayed on our food that our livestock and we eat, and if we get sick they also make the very profitable drugs which they sell to "make us better" in our grocery stores, to our doctors and on TV ads in between Big Bang Theroy and the Nightly News. Almost no one from those channels are going to tell your friends about the health risks of GMOs. The few who have tried, for instance, two reporters from Fox News, were fired. ( see my Moms Across America You Tube Channel)
So it's up to us to share with them. And it's not hard. All it takes is sending out an email, or if you want to get fancy, an evite. If you really want it to be successful, call your friends. Say or write "I am inviting you to share a very special and important evening together. Please come and view a movie with me about food and health. This is the most important thing you can do."
Have ten people to your home and just show Robyn O'Brien's 18 minute Ted Talk " Patriotism on a Plate" if you just want to get their feet wet. Show the ten minute version of Genetic Roulette on YouTube if they want more. Or to go for the whole enchilada, show the full version of Genetic Roulette available at www.geneticroulette.com. When you have just 10 people over and show them this movie, they will get it. They will also be compelled to share with their family and friends. If they only share with 5 people and those 5 only share with 5 and all of those 5 only share with 5 people...you will be personally responsible for informing 1270 people about GMO's in your town!!! Most likely hundreds or thousands more!
Imagine if all across America we have GMO Movie night on Saturday March 30 and hundreds of thousands of people find out about GMOs?
Why March 30? It's two weeks away. Just enough time to invite people and have it be soon enough so that the time is now. You know what happens when we procrastinate...it just doesn't happen. It is also Easter weekend and alot of you will be with your family. Bring the movie, let them know "Hey Saturday night let's all get together and watch this movie about health that I have. I love you guys and it's really important that we watch this together." If they don't want to watch a whole movie , show Robyn O'Briens 18 minute version on YouTube. Insist on it in a loving way.
Also, I am hesitant to even say this, but honestly, my own personal side note is, its my birthday. There is nothing I want more than for hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people to find out about GMOs. A lot of people have sent me emails and thanked me for what I am doing to organize a national event to raise awareness about GMOs and get them labeled. Totally not necessary, but appreciated. The thing is, I am compelled, I will do this no matter what. But... you could thank me and express your support for this movement by hosting a movie night! YOU can do this! You can love on your family by hosting a movie night! You can form closer bonds with your friends by hosting a movie night! It really is fun.
I had a GMO Free Potluck Party and showed Robyn O'Briens video and Genetic Roulette ten minute version to 30 people. Everyone brought some food and met new people...you know that awesome feeling you have when your friend from forever meets your new friend and they hit it off like gang busters? It's just that all night long. People left with a whole new view, shocked but also inspired and empowered. Most importantly, they felt connected with people.
It really is easy. Buy some organic and NON GMO verified snacks, like Kettle Chips, Annie's organic bunnies, Cadia organic salsa, have a bowl of organic fruit out, serve some drinks without high fructose corn syrup, like Hansen's and keep all the packaging out so they can see where you got them.
Now, what you might be thinking is that people are going to think you are some weird radical activist. That it's not normal to have people over to watch a movie over about food or "issues". You are right it's not normal. But what is happening with our food is radical. We have a foreign protein in 70% of our food and most people don't know about it. If you can set aside your concern for what people are going to think about you and focus on your commitment to them, like..that they are healthy and that they are informed to make their own choice, if you come from that, than nothing you can say or do is weird. Inviting people over to watch a movie about health and food is one of the most loving things you can do. Most people see food as love. So have a conversation about food and love. The time is now. It doesn't matter what your house looks like or if you have a lot of snacks. They will be so moved, touched and inspired by what you show them that nothing else will matter except the love you share.
Will you host a GMO Movie night on March 30?
Send out an email or evite today!!! Comment Yes Below!
Thank you!
Zen Honeycutt