I posted on this last week, but somehow or another, the post has disappeared.  My comment was Thank Goodness we have people out there not only watching the FDA, but able to interpret their legalese and alert us to the real threat underlying the obscure phrases. THIS IS A VERY REAL THREAT!  READ ON.

Who would have thought that "Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration" meant:

Thanks to Mike Adams at Newstarget.com for the list.

The regulation is open to comment until April 30th, and boy, do we need to comment!

GO HERE TO DO SO, and please pass this on to your friends who have the same concerns

I love word play, as you may have gathered!  But I think I will have to explain that "lolly", in British slang, means money.

You may remember the post about Monsanto patenting the Pig: sounds incredible, but the consequence would be, if such patents were granted, that Monsanto could legally prevent breeders and farmers from breeding pigs whose characteristics were described in the patent claims. And after all, how many unique characteristics could a pig have??

Now this kind of Universal Control is becoming even more Orwelllian, and there's plenty of lolly at stake:

Quote:

The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office will use a patent on broccoli (EP 1069819) for a fundamental ruling, on whether or not conventional plants are patentable. The broccoli in question was merely diagnosed using marker assisted breeding methods to identify its natural occurring genes. The genes were not modified. All other broccoli plants with similar genes are considered as "technical inventions“ by the patent. Thus even their use for breeding and the plants themselves are monopolized. Through this the provision which prohibits the patenting of "essentially biological processes" is to be undermined. The EPO has already granted similar patents: e.g.: only recently the company Enza Zaden Beheer received a patents on pathogen resistant lettuce ( EP1179089B1)

Should the Enlarged Board of Appeal uphold the patent, then this decision (case T0083/05) will be binding for all other pending patent applications and even for animals and their offspring.

In a joint letter to the Enlarged Board of Appeal the organizers of No Patents on Seeds and numerous farmers' organizations from around the globe restate their opposition to patents on conventional seeds and animals.

Text of Global Appeal

I have to file this in the Department of "it definitely couldn't happen here."

I can just hear someone saying "What??  It's the LOGICAL solution!"

Obese in Rio de Janeiro treated like horses

There once was a man named Bowdler, who gave his name to the word bowdlerization.  This means subsituting an inoffensive word for one that might offend.  The example from Shakespeare that sticks in my mind after all these years, is his changing of the phrase "Thy mistress has played  the strumpet in my bed" to "Thy mistress has played the trumpet in my bed."

At least Bowdler did not intend to mislead but, however mistakenly, to protect.

The same cannot be said of the FDA.  It is obvious that agencies we expect to protect us, do not have that concern as their primary agenda

FDA urges laxer labeling on irradiated foods

Agency proposes admittedly misleading use of term ‘pasteurized’

Once again:  if it is in a package - don't buy it!  Only buy actual food, and you will save yourself a world of grief.   Even better, grow it yourself.  Consider canning and freezing in season.  !