FDA approves Crestor for people who have no health problem to correct

By Mike Adams
Natural News

Big Pharma has been trending this direction for a long time: marketing medicines to people who don’t need them and who have nothing wrong with their health. It’s all part of a ploy to position prescription drugs as nutrients — things you need to take on a regular basis in order to prevent disease.

The FDA recently gave its nod of approval on the matter, announcing that Crestor can now be advertised and prescribed as a “preventive” medicine. No longer does a patient need to have anything wrong with them to warrant this expensive prescription medication: They only need to remember the brand name of the drug from television ads.

NAIS Moves to the World Stage thru S 510

By Rady Ananda

Animal traceability is gaining governmental support in two key US beef markets, which may reinvigorate the US National Animal Identification System (NAIS), despite a recent funding cut. Japan and South Korea are now moving toward mandatory traceability on imports. South Korea plans to mandate animal monitoring by 2010, and Japan’s new prime minister vowed to mandate it for beef imports, according to a pro-NAIS report at Food Safety News.

The great orange juice scam

Yale University Press author Alissa Hamilton fields questions from CBC’s Nancy Wilson about her new book, “Squeezed: What You Don’t Know About Orange Juice”, and her research on the orange juice industry.

Wisconsin Raw Milk Rally and Court Date: Dec. 21

By Max Kane

Come to my Raw Milk court date and rally event in Viroqua, Wisconsin on December 21, 2009:

FTCLDF Files Suit over Raw Milk in Wisconsin

The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) has filed a complaint for declaratory judgment on behalf of Wisconsin farmers Kay and Wayne Craig and related entities against the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP).

The complaint seeks declarations that the Craigs,  the farm store they operate (GrassWay Organics Farm Store LLC), and GrassWay Organics Association and its members who have invested in the LLC are not engaging in the illegal sale of raw milk in violation of Wisconsin laws, and that the farm store does not need to obtain a “retail food establishment” license in order to operate.

FDA dupes Interpol to achieve illegal kidnapping and deportation of herbal formulator Greg Caton

By Mike Adams
Natural News

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today stands accused of taking part in the kidnapping and illegal extradition of a permanent resident of Ecuador, in violation of both international law and Ecuadorian law.

Greg Caton, owner and operator of Alpha Omega Labs (www.AltCancer.com), an herbal products company that sells anti-cancer herbal remedies made with Ecuadorian medicinal herbs, was arrested at gunpoint at a road checkpoint in Ecuador, then transported to an Ecuadorian holding facility to await a hearing on December 14, 2009. Caton was expected to be set free by the Ecuadorian judge at that hearing based on the facts of the case which indicated Caton’s permanent residency in Ecuador is legal and valid.

Bayer GMO contamination bites back

By Rady Ananda

A United States federal jury ruled this month that Bayer CropScience must pay $2 million to two Missouri farmers for contaminating their rice crops with illegal GMO rice. Farmers Ken Bell and Johnny Hunter, the first in a series of 1200 such litigants, lost sales overseas as a result.

Universal Environmental Rights: In Honor of the 2009 UN Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change

By Diane Perlman

On December 10, 2009:

• It will be the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human RIghts, spearheaded by Eleanor Roosevelt in the aftermath of World War II;
• President Barack Obama will be receiving his Nobel Peace Prize;
• It will be the fourth day of the UN 2009 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, with 240 NGO events and 2,000 other events scheduled during the two week conference; and
• The streets in Copenhagen and around the world will be filled with people, in the biggest demonstration of global unity calling for a sound treaty and global actions to remedy the greatest crisis ever faced by humanity.

As the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change coincides with Human Rights Day, let’s consider whether our 2009 world calls for amending the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and whether it is appropriate to elevate our basic needs for survival to the level of universal human rights.

Here is a draft proposal to amend the UDHR in honor of Copenhagen. Suggestions, endorsements or strategies for its use are most welcome in comments.

The Food Sovereignty Movement in Venezuela

Food sovereignty is a relatively new concept, originally coined and defined by the international peasant movement, La Via Campesina, in 1993. This report is an in-depth study of how Venezuela is transforming its economy and empowering its citizens thru nine distinct features of Social Production Enterprises – the antidote to neoliberalism. Also see Cuba’s agroecology movement: Sustainable peasant agriculture and food sovereignty

By Anna Isaacs, Basil Weiner, Grace Bell, Courtney Frantz and Katie Bowen

Food and Water Watch: Help Us Push Monsanto’s Bill!!

By Not-So-Gullible

Irradiated and Chemically Treated Foods on Your Plate?

Contact Your Senators

Would you feel safer about your dinner if it had been zapped with a dose of radiation?  [Oh dear!  Not that!]  How about if it had been rinsed with chemicals before being sent to your store? [Oh, no!  Not chemicals, too!]  A new bill in the senate proposes to irradiate and chemically treat more of our food in the name of “food safety.” [Horrors, what shall I do?  Please tell me!]   Can you tell your senators to oppose it?

A Modest Proposal for the New Economy

By Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

America is shifting. Most view the present trends in the market as destructive and with good cause. Banks are closing, sometimes several in a single day. Businesses going bankrupt are leaving the main streets of many American cities and towns mottled with boarded up store fronts. Families and individuals are canceling vacations, reusing items that formerly they would have replaced, shopping in department stores is down, replaced by shopping used stores and garage sales.