[Biofuel] Questions of fraud raised by GMO-contaminated shipment of organic soybeans
Questions of fraud raised by GMO-contaminated shipment of organic soybeans The Organic Non-GMO Report, June www.non-gmoreport.com The Organic Non-GMO Report was recently alerted to a disturbing GMO contamination incident involving a shipment of organic soybeans to an organic processor. The names of both the processor and supplier have been kept confidential. The processor wanted to share his experience to emphasize the GMO challenges facing the organic industry. It's an organic processor's nightmare: a buyer calls to say that your organic product tested positive for genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The processor can't sell the product as organic and loses money. Such unfortunate contamination incidents are increasing in the organic industry. What makes the following incident even more troubling is the fact that a shipment of organic soybeans contained a high level of GM soy-much more than would have been caused by comingling with a small amount of GM soybeans or by cross-pollination. 20% contamination In mid-April, Chris, who owns a soy processing facility, received a call from a customer saying that his soy ingredient tested positive for GMOs. Chris was shocked. His processing facility is 100% organic. He thought, How could there be a problem? He then tried to trace the source of the contamination. He took samples from a railcar of organic soybeans sent from his supplier and sent them to a lab for testing. The lab results stunned him. The samples tested positive at 20%, an extraordinarily high level of GMOs. The contamination was so high that the lab said there must be almost a truckload of GM soybeans in the railcar, says Chris. He first reaction was that the result must be a mistake. This was the first time he had received a positive GMO test. I've had samples from China tested for GMOs, and they always tested clean, he says. Chris filed a complaint with his organic certifier who sent it to the supplier's certifier. The supplier then took his own samples from a different lot of soybeans, and they tested negative. Turned other railcars back Based on the supplier's negative tests, Chris believes they won't be found at fault. This has cost me my business and over $100,000, and the supplier is still selling his crop, he says. According to Chris, shortly after learning about the positive GMO tests on the railcar sample, the supplier turned back three more railcars of organic soybeans headed for Chris's facility. He then asked the supplier to ship soybeans to him by truck, but the supplier refused, saying they didn't want to do business with him again. Before the contamination problem, Chris says he had a great relationship with the supplier. He had previously purchased organic soybeans from China, but was happy to use a domestic supplier. That's all changed. Now Chris is planning to buy Chinese organic soybeans again. Doesn't feel right selling as organic Chris contacted his state organic certifier who assured him that the organic certification of his product was still valid even with the presence of GM material. My certifier said it was still an organic product, but my customer didn't want to buy it, and I don't feel right about selling it as organic, he says. Chris's certifier is wrong, says Jim Riddle, former chairman of the National Organic Standards Board. The National Organic Program prohibits the use of GMOs, but allows adventitious presence of GM material at the farm level only. For a processor to accept GMO-contaminated ingredients and use them in organic products would be a direct violation, since it would constitute the use of the products of an excluded method (GMO), he says. As a result, Riddle says products produced from the batch of GMO-contaminated soybeans should lose organic certification and be sold as conventional. But he also says Chris's processing facility would likely retain its organic certification, unless his certifier determines that his operation does not have the ability to prevent comingling or contamination. Chris ended up selling his product to the conventional food market at one-half the price of organic. I never had to sell a product to the conventional market before. It was not a pleasant experience, he says. No trust for anybody Chris has asked his certifier to file a complaint with the supplier's certifier and with the NOP, who told him they will act accordingly. But, his certifier has yet to send the paperwork one month after the incident, which angers Chris. Even after the complaint is filed, the NOP is not likely to take any action. Legal action is also not an option. If I pay attorneys I won't have enough to pay wages, says Chris. I'm in survival mode, trying to keep my employees. Chris describes his situation as a damned if I do, damned if I don't bind. He calls the GMO threat to organics a new frontier that the industry must address. We will need an organic police department.
[Biofuel] Support Your Local Grower (ie Food...or otherwise?:))
Not meant to scare anyone, but to emphasize support of local, organic growers. To quote from the article, A more decentralized food system that supports local production and consumption would greatly limit the impact of broad-scale contamination. Hope this helps you meet your local grower! Mike http://www.minutemanmedia.org/HARKNESS%20053007.htm WORD COUNT 652 MAY 30, 2007 FIXING OUR BROKEN FOOD SYSTEM - by Jim Harkness The recent discovery of an industrial chemical in animal feed and pet food imported from China has added to the mounting criticism of U.S. food safety agencies. But this case represents much more than simply governmental incompetence. It exposes the inherent weaknesses of an industrial global food system designed to benefit multinational agribusiness companies at the expense of public health. Last year, the United States imported about $10 billion more in food, feed and beverages than it exported. Imports came from 175 different countries and represented a 60 percent jump over the last decade. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspectors were simply overwhelmed. They were only able to examine physically 1.3 percent of food imports last year, about three-quarters of the already minute portion examined in 2003. Our food system's increasing dependence on imports is no accident. Import dependency is a defining characteristic of an industrial food model driven by U.S. farm and trade policies over the last half century on behalf of agribusiness. U.S. farm policy has encouraged the mass production of only a few cheap crops largely used as food ingredients, animal feed and exports. U.S. trade policy has aggressively pushed for the removal of trade barriers paving the way for the global food trade. Missing from this industrial model is a national priority to produce healthy food to feed Americans. For example, most rural Midwest supermarkets, surrounded by farms, import nearly all their food from elsewhere in the country and around the world. Taken to an extreme, some chicken grown in the United States actually is sent to China to be processed and then re-exported back the United States! We have built a system of production and trade that treats food the same as computer parts. Cracks in this system manifest themselves in different ways, including the loss of family farms in the United States and worldwide, declining soil and water quality, and a rise in food-related health problems including obesity. But food safety dangers get most of the headlines, because these can be quickly fatal. The tainted animal feed case is a stark example of these vulnerabilities. Feed contamination in China found its way to the United States food supply through hogs in at least six states and at least 2.5 million chickens. Within the United States, food contamination incidents on one farm or processing plant have hit large parts of the country. E. coli-tainted spinach from a California farm affected people coast to coast, killing three and sickening nearly 200. Salmonella-contaminated peanut butter from a Georgia ConAgra plant sickened at least 329 people in 41 states. These breakdowns were accidental, but what about intentional contamination of food? As Tommy Thompson, former director of the Department of Health and Human Services, said in 2004, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply because it is so easy to do. In the near term, we must boost the number of food safety inspectors, employ cutting-edge inspection technology, and strengthen oversight to rely less on industry self-regulation. But systemic changes are just as badly needed. A more decentralized food system that supports local production and consumption would greatly limit the impact of broad-scale contamination. Quite simply, we should set policy priorities to produce more of our own food, both nationally and regionally. Consumers already endorse this approach. Locally grown products can be found on more and more store shelves. The number of farmers' markets around the country has skyrocketed. And many mainstream supermarkets are taking steps on their own to give consumers more information about where their food comes from. Congress is writing a new Farm Bill. It's an opportunity to accelerate the transition toward a more locally based food system by funding greater crop diversification, incentives for local purchasing in schools and other government institutions, and full implementation of country of origin labeling in 2008. It's time to put the public's interest ahead of agribusiness in setting our nation's food policy. -- Jim Harkness is the president of the Institute for
Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: [MCS-Canada] Fluoride can kill...................
Hey Zeke; With regard to the bottling company here is something for you to think about. Around here there has been a massive organization that has sprung up (no pun) against Nestle corp who are pulling millions of litres a day out of our aquifer and sending it out of the watershed on a convoy of trucks every day. This site; http://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/ Has details about it, why it is bad and why we should be putting a stop to it. If you think it is important ( and it is) you might want to use this site to model your own action group to protect your water. WATER IS THE COMMONS AND BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE NOT CORPORATIONS!! Joe Zeke Yewdall wrote: My town water is unchlorinated untreated water off some sort of of alpine glacier. They test the heck out of it for organics weekly and it's always come up good. People drive here from miles around to fill their drinking water containers. And one bottled water company uses town water as their source. However, there are alot of mines around here -- a federal superfund site about 3 miles below town, and according to some people, alot more that should be. I wonder how much heavy metals are leached into the drinking water -- most of the mines are below the source, but I don't know if ALL of them are. It would be interesting to send a sample in for testing. Z On 5/30/07, *Kirk McLoren* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the fluoride in our water isnt from treatment The well is toxic */Jason Mier [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: we finally got moved in to our house, and i never got any notices in the utility bill. my guess is that- given the fact i can see the town's well, tower, and pump shack from my driveway we dont get chemically treated water... From: Joe Street Reply-To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: [MCS-Canada] Fluoride can kill... Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:37:27 -0400 ROFL is it a waiver? LOL maybe one day that'll be the norm. They'll have another one when you register to vote. Waive your rights or you can't vote buddy. LOL Joe Kirk McLoren wrote: LOL yeah - when you sign up for water and trash you get a paper from the EPA. Kirk */Joe Street /* wrote: Huh? The city warns its people not to drink the water it provides for them? Now I've heard everything. How many people have sued for damages I wonder. That makes about as much sense as the notion of trusting officials we elect to represent our interests. Your explanation makes sense. Inhalation, not skin adsorption. Yes there's a lot of water going by and the heat helps liberate the disolved gas. Joe Kirk McLoren wrote: I think in the case of chlorine it is inhaled in the shower. The amount drunk is small in most peoples case as many people prefer bottled beverages be they juice or soda drinks. I know in Umatilla Oregon just drinking the water is enough to cause fluorosis. CIty water is 6ppm. They encourage pregnant women and children not to drink the water. Kirk */Joe Street /* wrote: Hey Kirk; It's this last bit that has got my attention; Kirk McLoren wrote: SNIP Lester was shattered. He couldn't understand it. Yet there was a reason. Despite taking care to drink only bottled water, Lester didn't know that *much more of the pollution-laced tap water is absorbed through the skin from bathing and washing clothes. * Poor Lester. *Although almost all exposure to waterborne contaminants is known to occur via dermal absorption, no studies have ever been done to determine the toxicity of pollution scrubber liquor the fluoride used in water fluoridation schemes. * Now I have heard this several times over the last little while with regard to chlorine in tap water. It doesn't make sense to me that my body would adsorb more chlorine (or flourine or any other toxin) from water through skin contact than by drinking it. When I drink water the entire amount goes inside and has to be processed before any of it comes out again. The internal linings have evolved to be highly adsorbing and I'm guessing that it is moreso than the skin. I'd like to see the proof about this claim. Joe ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org mailto:Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages):
Re: [Biofuel] Support Your Local Grower (ie Food...or otherwise?:))
MK DuPree wrote: Not meant to scare anyone, but to emphasize support of local, organic growers. Here in the US, (and probably Western Europe and Japan) this is easier than a lot of folks know. Here's a good place to start (for US folks); http://www.localharvest.org/ In short, join up and buy shares in your local CSA. This trend is strong and growing, and I just can't find a downside. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Support Your Local Grower (ie Food...or otherwise?:))
MK DuPree wrote: Not meant to scare anyone, but to emphasize support of local, organic growers. Here in the US, (and probably Western Europe and Japan) this is easier than a lot of folks know. Here's a good place to start (for US folks); http://www.localharvest.org/ In short, join up and buy shares in your local CSA. This trend is strong and growing, and I just can't find a downside. No downside. We have a wwebpage on CSAs: http://journeytoforever.org/farm_csa.html Community-supported farms Needs some updating - actually it didn't start in Japan, it started in Switzerland. (And some of the links are broken.) Best Keith ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: [MCS-Canada] Fluoride can kill...................
This is causing problems all over the world. Keith Hey Zeke; With regard to the bottling company here is something for you to think about.Ý Around here there has been a massive organization that has sprung up (no pun) against Nestle corp who are pulling millions of litres a day out of our aquifer and sending it out of the watershed on a convoy of trucks every day. This site; http://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/http://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/ Has details about it, why it is bad and why we should be putting a stop to it.Ý If you think it is important ( and it is) you might want to use this site to model your own action group to protect your water. WATER IS THE COMMONS AND BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE NOT CORPORATIONS!! Joe Zeke Yewdall wrote: My town water is unchlorinated untreated water off some sort of of alpine glacier.Ý They test the heck out of it for organics weekly and it's always come up good.Ý People drive here from miles around to fill their drinking water containers. And one bottled water company uses town water as their source. However, there are alot of mines around here -- a federal superfund site about 3 miles below town, and according to some people, alot more that should be.ÝÝ I wonder how much heavy metals are leached into the drinking water -- most of the mines are below the source, but I don't know if ALL of them are.ÝÝ It would be interesting to send a sample in for testing. Z On 5/30/07, Kirk McLoren mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the fluoride in our water isnt from treatment The well is toxic Jason Mier mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we finally got moved in to our house, and i never got any notices in the utility bill. my guess is that- given the fact i can see the town's well, tower, and pump shack from my driveway we dont get chemically treated water... From: Joe Street Reply-To: mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.orgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org To: mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: [MCS-Canada] Fluoride can kill... Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:37:27 -0400 ROFL is it a waiver? LOL maybe one day that'll be the norm. They'll have another one when you register to vote. Waive your rights or you can't vote buddy. LOL Joe Kirk McLoren wrote: LOL yeah - when you sign up for water and trash you get a paper from the EPA. Kirk */Joe Street /* wrote: Huh? The city warns its people not to drink the water it provides for them? Now I've heard everything. How many people have sued for damages I wonder. That makes about as much sense as the notion of trusting officials we elect to represent our interests. Your explanation makes sense. Inhalation, not skin adsorption. Yes there's a lot of water going by and the heat helps liberate the disolved gas. Joe Kirk McLoren wrote: I think in the case of chlorine it is inhaled in the shower. The amount drunk is small in most peoples case as many people prefer bottled beverages be they juice or soda drinks. I know in Umatilla Oregon just drinking the water is enough to cause fluorosis. CIty water is 6ppm. They encourage pregnant women and children not to drink the water. Kirk */Joe Street /* wrote: Hey Kirk; It's this last bit that has got my attention; Kirk McLoren wrote: SNIP Lester was shattered. He couldn't understand it. Yet there was a reason. Despite taking care to drink only bottled water, Lester didn't know that *much more of the pollution-laced tap water is absorbed through the skin from bathing and washing clothes. * Poor Lester. *Although almost all exposure to waterborne contaminants is known to occur via dermal absorption, no studies have ever been done to determine the toxicity of pollution scrubber liquor the fluoride used in water fluoridation schemes. * Now I have heard this several times over the last little while with regard to chlorine in tap water. It doesn't make sense to me that my body would adsorb more chlorine (or flourine or any other toxin) from water through skin contact than by drinking it. When I drink water the entire amount goes inside and has to be processed before any of it comes out again. The internal linings have evolved to be highly adsorbing and I'm guessing that it is moreso than the skin. I'd like to see the proof about this claim. Joe ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Support Your Local Grower (ie Food...or otherwise?:))
Keith Addison a e'crit : No downside. We have a wwebpage on CSAs: http://journeytoforever.org/farm_csa.html Community-supported farms known as AMAP in France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-supported_agriculture http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_pour_le_maintien_d'une_agriculture_paysanne Needs some updating - actually it didn't start in Japan, it started in Switzerland. (And some of the links are broken.) Wikipedia says it started mid 60's in Japan, called Teikei frantz ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: [MCS-Canada] Fluoride can kill...................
3.6 million a day. How much do you think they make on each bottle? Joe Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Zeke; With regard to the bottling company here is something for you to think about. Around here there has been a massive organization that has sprung up (no pun) against Nestle corp who are pulling millions of litres a day out of our aquifer and sending it out of the watershed on a convoy of trucks every day. This site; http://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/ Has details about it, why it is bad and why we should be putting a stop to it. If you think it is important ( and it is) you might want to use this site to model your own action group to protect your water. WATER IS THE COMMONS AND BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE NOT CORPORATIONS!! Joe Zeke Yewdall wrote: My town water is unchlorinated untreated water off some sort of of alpine glacier. They test the heck out of it for organics weekly and it's always come up good. People drive here from miles around to fill their drinking water containers. And one bottled water company uses town water as their source. However, there are alot of mines around here -- a federal superfund site about 3 miles below town, and according to some people, alot more that should be. I wonder how much heavy metals are leached into the drinking water -- most of the mines are below the source, but I don't know if ALL of them are. It would be interesting to send a sample in for testing. Z On 5/30/07, Kirk McLoren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the fluoride in our water isnt from treatment The well is toxic Jason Mier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we finally got moved in to our house, and i never got any notices in the utility bill. my guess is that- given the fact i can see the town's well, tower, and pump shack from my driveway we dont get chemically treated water... From: Joe Street Reply-To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: [MCS-Canada] Fluoride can kill... Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:37:27 -0400 ROFL is it a waiver? LOL maybe one day that'll be the norm. They'll have another one when you register to vote. Waive your rights or you can't vote buddy. LOL Joe Kirk McLoren wrote: LOL yeah - when you sign up for water and trash you get a paper from the EPA. Kirk */Joe Street /* wrote: Huh? The city warns its people not to drink the water it provides for them? Now I've heard everything. How many people have sued for damages I wonder. That makes about as much sense as the notion of trusting officials we elect to represent our interests. Your explanation makes sense. Inhalation, not skin adsorption. Yes there's a lot of water going by and the heat helps liberate the disolved gas. Joe Kirk McLoren wrote: I think in the case of chlorine it is inhaled in the shower. The amount drunk is small in most peoples case as many people prefer bottled beverages be they juice or soda drinks. I know in Umatilla Oregon just drinking the water is enough to cause fluorosis. CIty water is 6ppm. They encourage pregnant women and children not to drink the water. Kirk */Joe Street /* wrote: Hey Kirk; It's this last bit that has got my attention; Kirk McLoren wrote: SNIP Lester was shattered. He couldn't understand it. Yet there was a reason. Despite taking care to drink only bottled water, Lester didn't know that *much more of the pollution-laced tap water is absorbed through the skin from bathing and washing clothes. * Poor Lester. *Although almost all exposure to waterborne contaminants is known to occur via dermal absorption, no studies have ever been done to determine the toxicity of pollution scrubber liquor the fluoride used in water fluoridation schemes. * Now I have heard this several times over the last little while with regard to chlorine in tap water. It doesn't make sense to me that my body would adsorb more chlorine (or flourine or any other toxin) from water through skin contact than by drinking it. When I drink water the entire amount goes inside and has to be processed before any of it comes out again. The internal linings have evolved to be highly adsorbing and I'm guessing that it is moreso than the skin. I'd like to see the proof about this claim. Joe ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool.
Re: [Biofuel] Support Your Local Grower (ie Food...or otherwise?:))
Trailer for the movie coming out this summer The Real Dirt on Farmer John http://youtube.com/watch?v=sqP1SC5Tr7U I want to see it! doug swanson frantz DESPREZ wrote: Keith Addison a e'crit : No downside. We have a wwebpage on CSAs: http://journeytoforever.org/farm_csa.html Community-supported farms known as AMAP in France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-supported_agriculture http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_pour_le_maintien_d'une_agriculture_paysanne Needs some updating - actually it didn't start in Japan, it started in Switzerland. (And some of the links are broken.) Wikipedia says it started mid 60's in Japan, called Teikei frantz ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- Contentment comes not from having more, but from wanting less. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * All generalizations are false. Including this one. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This email is constructed entirely with OpenSource Software. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Tainted livestock feed in U.S.!!!
Looks like the China scare caught this in the dragnet Kirk Tainted livestock feed in U.S. Company added melamine RICK WEISS; The Washington Post Published: May 31st, 2007 01:00 AM WASHINGTON An Ohio company has long been adding the industrial toxin melamine to animal feed ingredients, and those feeds have been consumed by livestock and fish meant for human consumption, officials with the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday. The FDAs announcement was the first indication that a U.S. company had used melamine as an animal feed ingredient. Previously, the problem of melamine in animal feed was thought to be contained to China, where manufacturers had added it to wheat gluten. The Ohio company was adding the chemical as a binding agent to hold feed granules in pellet form, in contrast to the recent pet food scandal, which involved imported ingredients that were spiked with melamine to provide a false measure of protein content, officials said. But as with the pet food scandal, they said, the levels of melamine involved appear to be too low to pose a health hazard to any humans who might have eaten animals that consumed the tainted feed. The company, Tembec BTLSR Inc. of Toledo, sold the melamine-laden feed ingredients to Uniscope Inc. of Johnstown, Colo., which used them to make three finished food products one for cattle, sheep and goats, and two meant for fish and shrimp. The contamination came to the FDAs attention May 18 after officials from Uniscope tested for melamine in the feed components they were buying something the FDA has been encouraging food producers to do. The FDA began an investigation the next working day, officials said. As the culmination of that process, officials said, Tembec initiated a formal recall Wednesday of its products, and the company has stopped adding the chemical. It remains unclear why Tembec did not stop the practice of using melamine months ago given the intense publicity generated by the pet food scandal, during which officials repeatedly made it clear that melamine is not an approved additive for human or animal food. What they knew and didnt know before will be part of the investigation as it unfolds, said David Acheson, the FDAs assistant commissioner for food protection, during a telephone news conference Wednesday. Officials said they didnt know how many animals might have eaten the food or how long the practice of making the pellets with melamine has been going on. But the presumption, Acheson said, is that its a longstanding practice. Melamine levels in the companies livestock feed were so low as to not pose any risk to the animals, much less to consumers, Acheson said. Levels in the fish and shrimp feed were high enough to raise some concerns about those animals health, but are still very unlikely to pose a human health risk, he added. Acheson said that the two fish feed products that Uniscope made from Tembecs tainted ingredients were exported to other countries. The FDA is trying to track the amounts and destinations of the feed. The Associated Press contributed to this report. - You snooze, you lose. Get messages ASAP with AutoCheck in the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Support Your Local Grower (ie Food...or otherwise?:))
Thanks Doug...a million times. If this is anything like the trailer, hope it gets spread around the world. I'll do my part and send it on to others. Mike DuPree - Original Message - From: doug swanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:26 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Support Your Local Grower (ie Food...or otherwise?:)) Trailer for the movie coming out this summer The Real Dirt on Farmer John http://youtube.com/watch?v=sqP1SC5Tr7U I want to see it! doug swanson frantz DESPREZ wrote: Keith Addison a e'crit : No downside. We have a wwebpage on CSAs: http://journeytoforever.org/farm_csa.html Community-supported farms known as AMAP in France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-supported_agriculture http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_pour_le_maintien_d'une_agriculture_paysanne Needs some updating - actually it didn't start in Japan, it started in Switzerland. (And some of the links are broken.) Wikipedia says it started mid 60's in Japan, called Teikei frantz ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- Contentment comes not from having more, but from wanting less. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * All generalizations are false. Including this one. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This email is constructed entirely with OpenSource Software. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Parent of Spelling Bee Finalist Quote
To paraphrase one of the parents of one of the finalists in the National Spelling Bee... There's a part of parenting that you guide and direct, and then there's another part that you sit back and enjoy the show. God bless all you parents Mike___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Support Your Local Grower (ie Food...or otherwise?:))
Hello Frantz Keith Addison a e'crit : No downside. We have a wwebpage on CSAs: http://journeytoforever.org/farm_csa.html Community-supported farms known as AMAP in France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-supported_agriculture http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_pour_le_maintien_d'une_agric ulture_paysanne Thankyou. Needs some updating - actually it didn't start in Japan, it started in Switzerland. (And some of the links are broken.) Wikipedia says it started mid 60's in Japan, called Teikei That's the myth, but Wikipedia's wrong, as it quite often is. This is an email I received from one of the founders of the movement in the US: Hi Keith, I enjoy your website immensely and it is a real service to the small farming community. We are a CSA farm and have been since 1990. Sarah Milstein was one of our early members ( the one who wrote the Mother Jones Article). I am writing you as I realize that your introduction of the history of CSA is copied from the book co-written by Elizabeth Henderson. While I respect Elizabeth enormously and regard her as one of my friends, I continue to disagree with her choice of re-writing the history of CSA. I think it is a disservice to anyone with a true interest in the matter. While the Teikei model in Japan has its merits I am sure it had little or nothing to do with the development of CSA. I can assure you as I was there, in the mid to late eighties when the first two CSA farms started up. Actually the first CSA farm was not really in the US but in Dornach, Switzerland. Dornach is where the Anthroposophical society has their headquarters. From there, the idea was brought back with a man named Jan vanderTuin. He told the story to Robyn vanEn (the other co-writer of Sharing the Harvest who has since passed away) of South Egremont, Massachusetts, who then involved some local Anthroposophists to launch this model on her farm. She herself was a Waldorf teacher with firm rooting in the ideas of Rudolf Steiner. Robyn and her partners started with selling cider shares from her old orchard and when a biodynamic farmer (Hugh Radcliff) joined the project, they started included vegetables. At the same time Trauger Groh, a biodynamic farmer from Germany, decided to re-settle in Temple Wilton New Hampshire. He married Alice Groh, and became involved with the local community of Biodynamic farmers. He introduced them and the people of Temple Wilton to an idea he called Community Supported Agriculture / Agriculture Supported Community, and it resonated. I visited Trauger in 1986, and the CSA was just getting some momentum. Other farmers like Ian and Nicki Robb, from Brookfield Farm (Biodynamic) in Belchertown Mass. adopted the same model to help bring their farm away from wholesaling. The CSA movement was at first adopted on many Biodynamic farms while it only later became more mainstream. The first years the annual CSA conferences were hosted by the Biodynamic Association in Kimberton PA. As others felt the need to break away from the BDA as a parent, the BDA felt no need to continue its stewardship of the ideas (ideas are in the public domain and everyone has the freedom to pick it up and run with it in its own fashion). Nevertheless we do owe those early pioneers some due respect, while it might inspire someone to read up on the social ideas of Rudolf Steiner that set the stage for this innovation. Jean-Paul Courtens http://www.roxburyfarm.com Actually I didn't copy the Teikei origin story from Sharing the Harvest, it was more second-hand than that, combined with other information on Teikei here in Japan. I should have known better. In 1984 I met some Swiss organic farmers who ran CSAs in Switzerland and told me something about the movement. The Teikei movement started independently in Japan in the 1970s (not the 1960s), but it didn't influence the start of the CSA movement in Europe and the US, where it arose from Steiner's ideas on community. See: http://www.joaa.net/English/teikei.htm Teikei: Japan Organic Agriculture Association Best Keith frantz ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
