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ThanksGiving Day, November 27, 2008
"Until We The People, Stand For Something, We Chance: Falling"
Dear All One Family:
I pray that all that have taken the time to see what it is that I write, rather today or in the future, feel the blessings that God holds for each and all that choose to accept Him as their King, such as myself.
On this glorious day that we offer up thanks and gratitude for all that we have and are about to receive in His Son/our brother Jesus Name and precious Holy Spirit, Amen...may you be truly blessed this and all days of your life...
May you also grow in understanding that without His Peace, Comfort and Joy, there will never be any peace to be found in your life or those that you love...for we are the guides to all those lost and trying to find their way in life...we lead by example.
Be Blessed always, all my loved ones
Now onto another matter I feel of grave importance...and that is the enclosed newspaper article from the New York Times.
So important is it to myself that I am a sending it to Dr. Phil's website for his son Jay who is the producer of the hit talk TV Show, "The Doctors," for something has to be done to resolve this crucial health issue, being the FDA is allowing this in my estimation to be okay of a food product, to be used in not only our food source yet that of our animals, especially if we decide to feed them our left overs...
Plus, we were already shown with the experiment of China in our pet foods, just what it can do to them as well as ourselves.
Remember also please, that China had several infants die from it being added to their formulas and I heard that two days ago, The Fayetteville Observer also carried an article about it being in our baby formulas as well...perhaps what is needed Mr. President Elect Barack Obama is a complete over haul of our FDA procedures as well, for they as well perhaps are being bought out by these high dollar corporations that are a putting all of us at health risk...we are fastly becoming a jobless nation, along with chemicals of all sorts just a hap hazardly a thrown at us.
My interest in Melamine goes back to the death of my toby cat, Baby. I decided to treat him with some of the specialty high dollar gourmet cat food...and before one knew it...he refused to eat and no longer was able to go to the bathroom at all and the next day...he passed.
This melamine product effects the kidneys and God knows whatever else organ associated with its functioning...perhaps the reason for such a large amount of individuals a now being seen having kidney stones...
Perhaps melamine pulls magnesium from our systems and thus the reason for the calcium salts in our body a calcifying into stones...something to think about don't you agree?
Magnesium is an element that is missing in our once fertile farming land...to begin with...it also helps with evacuating our eliminatory system and that as well is highly necessary for optimal health. For I believe that good health begins in the colon first and foremost after a swallowing our foods and liquids...just something to ponder...
Anyways, after reading the included news article...write your senators and congressmen and tell them to keep a watch on the FDA for it seems to those of us that are a paying their salaries that they aren't a working for our highest good in the land or abroad...especially since the FDA's witch hunt agains herbal, vitamin and mineral supplementations...for without them in our lives, we surely will be at the hands of the medical profession soley and to me...a chemical land is not what God had in mind for us all, especially since Scripture is filled with different passages that tell/remind us that "herbs, were to be our foods and medicine."
Just thinking out loud, on air time.
I love you all and please have a very blessed day and life.
Love, Light and Peace
Tonie
Our Home-Grown Melamine Problen
THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2008
By James E. McWilliams
AUSTIN, Tex.
James E. McWilliams, a history professor at Texas State University at San Marcos, he is the author of "American Pests: The Losing War on Insects From Colonial Times to DDT."
"Our Home Grown Melamine Problem"
"CHINA'S food supply appears to be awash in the industrial chemical melamine. Dangerous levels have been detected not only in milk and eggs, but also in chicken feed and wheat gluten, meaning that melamine is almost impossible to avoid in processed foods. Melamine in baby formula has killed at least four infants in China and sickened tens of thousands more.
In response, the United States has blasted lax Chinese regulations, while the Food and Drug Administration, in a rare move, announced last week that Chinese food products containing milk would be detained at the border until they were proved safe.
For all the outrage about Chinese melamine, what American consumers and government agencies have studiously failed to scrutinize is how much melamine has pervaded our own food system.
In casting stones, we've forgotten that our own house has more than
its share of exposed glass.
To be sure, in China some food manufacturers deliberately added melamine to products to increase profits. Makers of baby formula, for example, watered down their product, lowering the amount of protein and nutrients, then added melamine, which is cheap and fools tests measuring protein levels.
But melamine is also integral to the material life Of any industrialized society. It's a common ingredient in cleaning products, waterproof plywood, plastic compounds, cement, ink and fire-retardant paint.
Chemical plants throughout the United States produce millions of pounds of melamine a year.
Given the pervasiveness of melamine, it's always possible that trace elements will end up in food. The F.D.A. thus sets the legal limit for melamine in food at 2.5 parts per million. This amount is indeed minuscule, a couple of sand grains in an expanse of desert that pose no real threat to public health. Moreover, the 2.5 p.p.m. figure is calculated for a person weighing 132 pounds — a cautious benchmark given that the average adult weighs 150 to 180 pounds.But these figures obscure more than they reveal.
First, while adults eat about one-fortieth of their weight every day, toddlers consume closer to one-tenth. Although scientists haven't measured the differential impact of melamine on infants versus adults, its likely that this level intensified ratio would at least double (if not quadruple) the impact of legal limits of melamine on toddlers.
This doubled exposure might not land a toddler in the hospital, but it could certainly contribute to long term kidney and liver problems that we know are caused by chronic exposure to melamine.
On a more concrete note, melamine not only has widespread industrial applications, but is also used to buttress...the foundation of American agriculture.
We should worry about
American food, not just
Chinese imports.
Regulations might be lax when it comes to animal feed and fertilizer in China, but take a closer look at similar regulations in the United States and it becomes clear that they're vague enough to allow industries to "recycle" much of their waste into fertilizer and other products that form the basis of our domestic food supply.
As a result, toxic chemicals routinely enter our agricultural system through the back channels of this under-explored but insidious relationship.
So, sure, let's keep the heat on China. And, yes, let's take with a big dose of skepticism the Chinese government's assurances that they're improving the food supply.
Fertilizer companies commonly add melamine to their products because it helps control the rate at which nitrogen seeps into soil, thereby allowing the farmer to get more nutrient bang for the fertilizer buck. But the government doesn't regulate how much melamine is applied to the soil. This melamine accumulates as salt crystals in the ground, tainting the soil through which American food sucks up American nutrients.
A related area of agricultural concern is animal feed. Chinese eggs seized last month in Hong Kong, for instance, contained elevated levels of melamine because of the melamine-laden wheat gluten-used in the feed for the chickens that produced the eggs.
To think American consumers are immune to this unscrupulous behavior is to ignore the Byzantine reality of the global gluten trade. Tracking the flow of wheat gluten around the world, much less evaluating its quality, is like trying to contain a drop of dye in a churning whirlpool.
More ominous, the United States imports most of its wheat gluten. Last year, for instance, the F.D.A. reported that millions of Americans had eaten chicken fattened on feed with melamine-tainted gluten imported from China. Around the same time, Tyson Foods slaughtered and processed hogs that had eaten melamine-contaminated feed. The government decided not to recall the meat.
Only a week earlier, however, the F.D.A. had announced that thousands of cats and dogs had died from melamine-laden pet food. This high-profile pet scandal did not prove to be a spur to reform so much as a red herring. Our attention was diverted to Fido and away from the animals we happen to kill and eat rather than spoil.
Frightening as this all sounds, the concerned consumer is not completely helpless. We can seek out organic foods, which are grown with fertilizer without melamine — unless that fertilizer was composted with manure from animals fed melamine-laden feed (always possible, as the Tyson example suggests).
We could further protect ourselves by choosing meat from grass-fed or truly free-range animals, assuming the grass was not fertilized with a conventional product (something that's also very hard to know).
But assail the caveats above indicate, these precautions will only go so far. Melaminej after all, points to the much larger relationship between industrial waste and American Food Production.
Regulations might be lax when it comes to animal feed and fertilizer in China, but take a closer look at similar regulations in the United States and it becomes clear that they are vague enough to allow industries to recycle much of their waste into fertilizer and other products that form the basis of our food supply.
As a result toxic chemicals routinely enter our agriculture system through the back channels of this under explored but insidious relationship.
So, sure let's keep the heat on China.
And, yes, let's take with a big dose of skepticism the China government's assurance that they're improving the food supply.
At the same time, though, instead of delivering righteous condemnation, the United States should seize upon the melamine scandalas an opportunity to pass federal fertilizer standards backed by consistent testing for this compound which could very well be hidden in plain sight."
Rev. Tonie C. Wallace Dream-Founder and Director
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