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Some people tell me off for this page and say I am too political.  I bark back that if they choose not to vote or show any interest then they deserve all the crap that government, big business and the media shove at them.  Complaining about those of us who take an interest just shows their ignorance. If you want to  sit back and do nothing - that's fine - but do NOT complain about those of us - the billions around the world  who demand change from the corrupt systems, the lying media and the manipulative and deceitful politicians, corporate giants and banks.






 




 

Hi, 

The food we eat is killing us - because it lacks the proper nutrition. This year alone over 2 million people will die as a result of being obese and over 2 million children will die from undernutrition. 

That’s just insane. 

In just a matter of weeks, world leaders are meeting and we have the chance to make a difference. Let’s make sure they don’t just talk, but they act. 

It’s time for a food revolution. It’s time to save millions of lives. Will you join me in signing the petition? 

HERE 

 

Thanks,

Figuring out the extent of the horsemeat mislabeling scandal

is only the first step. The EU needs stronger regulations to prevent another

scandal before it starts.

 

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  A February 13th meeting of the European Union addressed concerns related to the recent scandal in which horsemeat was sold as beef. As more countries are testing beef samples for traces of horsemeat, they find that the problem has been spreading.
  
  Nations most affected by the horsemeat scandal called for more intensive testing in March. Their proposal includes testing 6,500 beef samples for traces of horsemeat and Bute, a harmful equine medicine.
  
  Some European nations aren't sensitive about eating horsemeat, but mislabeled meat is unacceptable nonetheless. Please sign the petition to support tighter regulations and prevent similar scandals from happening in the future.
  
  
  Horsemeat has been found in frozen lasagna sold in supermarkets in the U.K., Ireland, France and Sweden. Some weeks ago, it was first reported that products labelled as beef patties or burgers actually contained horsemeat and testing revealed that some contained from 30 to 100 percent horsemeat.
  
   

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  The horsemeat scandal has become an object lesson in how our food supply can be literally corrupted, with no one less than organized crime and the Italian and Polish mafia in particular, pointed to. Horsemeat could carry traces of phenylbutazone or “bute,” a drug given to racehorses to relieve pain and treat fevers, so consumers may have gotten a sprinkling of something besides oregano in their frozen entrees.
  
  As a result, a number of European supermarkets have withdrawn products containing processed meat from their shelves. European Union agricultural ministers are meeting in Brussels to address what has become a growing scandal. French public health officials have called in representatives from the meat industry for crisis talks. Both U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and Environment Secretary Owen Paterson have both said that nothing less than the “full force of the law” will be visited upon any British business found to have defrauded the public by selling horse meat labelled as beef.
  
  Indeed, police and officials from the Food Standards Agency raided two British meat companies earlier this week and all abattoirs in the U.K. are to be audited. Officials in Romania have been up in arms after an initial investigation linked the horse meat to them (so far, they say that an investigation of two slaughterhouses outside Bucharest has cleared them of being the source of the horse meat burgers).
  
  For all this, public health officials contend that eating horse meat carries no real risks to health. Indeed, Paterson has emphasized that the horse meat scandal is, most of all, about fraud in the form of deceptive packaging of food products.
  
  But there is some minimal risk, as Robin McKie writes in the Observer:
  
  The problem is that bute can have side effects in human beings. It was once given to men and women to tackle conditions such as gout and arthritis until it was discovered that in some cases the chemical can trigger a serious blood disorder known as aplastic anaemia. Those who become affected by the condition suffer from loss of red and white blood cells and, without prompt treatment, it is considered to be life-threatening. As a result, phenylbutazone was banned as a medication for humans by drug authorities on both sides of the Atlantic several decades ago.
  
  Food safety professor Chris Elliott of Queens University, Belfast, emphasizes that, from eating any of the suspected items, one is only going to get one-millionth of the amount of phenylbutazone that a horse injected with the medication would. The real health hazard is, he points out, from the amount of fats and salt in the processed food products found to contain horse meat.
  
  This is true; processed foods from the freezer case prepared somewhere else are about as far as you can get from meals from fresh, local ingredients. The horse meat scandal has not only become an object lesson in the endemic problems of today’s food industry. Like recent reports about horses slaughtered before each others’ eyes in British abattoirs, Europe’s horse meat scandal is an indictment of public health agencies who talk about standards while still allowing the wrong substances to get into the food chain
  
  One positive side-effect has been that local butchers and vegetarian suppliers have reported a rise in business. Pity that it took “horsemeatgate” and corrupted lasagna to make such happen.
   

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/horsemeat-lasagne-who-responsible.html#ixzz2MBptZdd


 

This is where the humnan race is going



if it does not get its act together in many ways. 


 

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